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;Warform:
{{quote|Warform is worn for battle and reign,<br><!--
-->Claimed by the gods, given to kill.<br><!--
-->Unknown, unseen, but vital to gain.<br><!--
-->It comes to those with the will.
Warform gives listeners an armor-like carapace; it also seems to give them advanced physical capabilities, although it severely hampers artistic ability and is not equipped to handle abstractions. Most [[Parshendi]] that interact with the Alethi are in warform.
;Workform:
{{quote|Workform worn for strength and care.<br><!--
-->Whispering spren breathe at your ear.<br><!--
-->Seek first this form, its mysteries to bear.<br><!--
-->Found here is freedom from fear.
Workform also endows significant physical strength, although without the armor of the warform; those in work form also have thinner fingers. While in workform, the Parshendi find it difficult to commit violence and did not like confrontation.
;Mateform:
{{quote|Mateform meek, for love to share,<br><!--
-->Given to life, it brings us joy.<br><!--
-->To find this form, one must care.<br><!--
-->True empathy, one must employ.
|5th stanza of the [[Song of Listing]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|14}}}}
Mateform is used for reproductive purposes. A few listeners maintain mating form constantly, although most enter it only briefly in order to reproduce with a partner; if these partners later entered war form they became a warpair. It is a distracting form which makes productive work difficult.
;Dullform:
{{quote|Dullform dread, with the mind most lost.<br><!--
-->The lowest, and one not bright.<br><!--
-->To find this form, one needs banish cost.<br><!--
-->It finds you and brings you to blight.
|final stanza of the [[Song of Listing]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|17}}}}
Dullform is an older form which was rarely used after the discovery of the newer forms. Those in dull form are not very intelligent.
;Nimbleform:
{{quote|Nimbleform has a delicate touch.<br><!--
-->Gave the gods this form to many,<br><!--
-->Tho' once defied, by the gods they were crushed.<br><!--
-->This form craves precision and plenty.
|27th stanza of the [[Song of Listing]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|16}}}}
Nimbleform is a form used by the Parshendi scholars because they do not know the correct spren to bond with for scholarform. It does not impede the mind and the fingers are delicate enough for recording their findings. It grows long hair without any carapace to block it and yeilds delicate swirling patterns in their skin, along with a thinner facial structure.
;Scholarform:
{{quote|Scholarform shown for patience and thought.<br><!--
-->Beware its ambitions innate.<br><!--
-->Though study and diligence bring the reward,<br><!--
-->Loss of innocence may be one's fate.
|69th stanza of the [[Song of Listing]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|18}}}}
;Artform:
{{quote|Artform applied for beauty and hue.<br><!--
-->One yearns for the songs it creates.<br><!--
-->Most misunderstood by the artist it's true,<br><!--
-->Come the spren to foundation's fates.
|90th stanza of the [[Song of Listing]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|20}}}}
{{quote|Artform for colors beyond our ken;<br><!--
-->For its grand songs we yearn.<br><!--
-->We must attract creationspren;<br><!--
▲These songs suffice 'til we learn.|279th stanza of the [[Song of Revision]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|29}}}}
-->These songs suffice 'til we learn.
|279th stanza of the [[Song of Revision]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|29}}}}
;Mediationform:
{{quote|Meditationform made for peace, it's said.<br><!--
-->Form of teaching and consolation.<br><!--
-->When used by the gods, it became instead<br><!--
-->Form of lies and desolation.
|33rd stanza of the [[Song of Listing]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|21}}}}
;Nightform:
{{quote|Nightform predicting what will be,<br><!--
-->The form of shadows, mind to forsee.<br><!--
-->As the gods did leave, the nightform whispered.<br><!--
-->A new storm will come, someday to break.<br><!--
-->A new storm a new world to make.<br><!--
-->A new storm a new path to take, the nightform listens.
|17th stanza of the [[Song of Secrets]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|23}}}}
;Decayform:
{{quote|Decayform destroys the souls of dreams.<br><!--
-->A form of gods, to avoid it seems.<br><!--
-->Seek not its touch, nor beckon its screams, deny it.<br><!--
-->Watch where you walk, your toes to tread.<br><!--
-->O'er hill or rocky riverbed<br><!--
-->Hold dear to fears that fill your head, defy it.
|27th stanza of the [[Song of Secrets]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|24}}}}
;Smokeform:
{{quote|Smokeform for hiding and slipping between men.<br><!--
-->A form of power, like human Surges.<br><!--
-->Bring it 'round again.<br><!--
-->Though crafted of gods,<br><!--
-->It was by Unmade hand.<br><!--
-->Leaves its force to be but one of foe or friend.
|127th stanza of the [[Song of Histories]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|25}}}}
{{quote|Smokeform for hiding and slipping 'tween men.<br><!--
-->A form of power—like Surges of spren<br><!--
-->Crafted of gods, this form we fear.<br><!--
-->By Unmade touch its curse to bear,<br><!--
▲Formed from shadow—and death is near. It lies.|51st stanza of the [[Song of Secrets]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|31}}}}
-->Formed from shadow—and death is near. It lies.
|51st stanza of the [[Song of Secrets]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|31}}}}
;Stormform:
{{quote|Stormform is said to cause<br><!--
-->A tempest of winds and showers,<br><!--
-->Beware its powers, beware its powers.<br><!--
-->Though its coming brings the gods their night,<br><!--
-->It obliges a bloodred spren.<br><!--
-->Beware its end, beware its end.
|4th stanza of the [[Song of Winds]]{{epigraph ref|sa2|22}}}}
Storm form is a newer form re-discovered during the [[War of Reckoning]]. Little is known about it.
===Slave form (Parshmen)===
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