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===The Last Legion and Abandoning of the Gods===
{{quote|Long are the days since we knew the dark home,” Mother sang softly to one of the Rhythms of Remembrance. “The Last Legion, that was our name then. Warriors who had been set to fight in the farthest plains, this place that had once been a nation and was now rubble. Dead was the freedom of most people. The forms, unknown, were forced upon us. Forms of power, yes, but also forms of obedience. The gods commanded, and we did obey, always. Always.
|[[Eshonai's mother]] to [[Eshonai]]{{book ref|sa2|I-4}}}}
The listeners were originally called the '''Last Legion''',{{book ref|sa2|I-4}} and like other [[singer]]s in the [[Voidbringer]] army, they followed the commands of the [[Fused]], who were the listeners
Since the listeners recall this story about throwing off the Fused, this event must have occurred prior to or around the time of [[Aharietiam]], the Last Desolation, as Fused been trapped in [[Damnation]] for four and a half millennia after that point.
===Alethi Discovery===
To modern humans, the listeners were originally discovered by Alethi [[Gavilar|King Gavilar]]'s brother [[Dalinar Kholin]] during a hunting trip.{{book ref|sa1|28}}{{book ref|sa1|45}} Dalinar was scouting in a forest
The Alethi made a treaty with the listeners to secure trade routes.{{cite}} <!--Where is it stated that this was the purpose of the treaty?--> Due to a translation error, the Alethi
But
The assassination led to the formation of the Alethi [[Vengeance Pact]] and caused the [[War of Reckoning]], a prolonged war between the listeners and the Alethi on the Shattered Plains.
During the war, these listeners moved their population to [[Narak]] from the western edge of the Shattered Plains, where the Alethi warcamps are now situated, though hundreds of thousands of listeners had lived scattered across the entirety of the Plains.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}}{{book ref|sa2|i|4}} The war of attrition lasted for six years, and their population slowly dwindled.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
Eventually, [[Venli]] persuaded [[Eshonai]] that they would die unless they did something drastic. Venli had discovered [[stormform]], one of the forms of power
At the [[Battle of Narak]], where Highprince [[Dalinar Kholin]] led an expedition to end the [[War of Reckoning]], the listeners in stormform, sung a terrible song. It formed the [[Everstorm]] and with it, the [[True Desolation]] began.
===The True Desolation===
Shortly after the [[Battle of Narak]], the Fused began to Return in the [[Everstorm]] and took over former listener's bodies and killing them in the process. [[Venli]] nearly sucuumbed to this, until [[Odium]] stopped a Fused from entering her. Venli instead received [[envoyform]].{{book ref|sa3|i-7}}
Odium used Venli to tell the story of the listeners to try and inspire the newly restored singers to fight.
Male listeners grew beards, which they thread through beads infused with [[Stormlight]].
The listeners learned how to capture spren in gemstones by watching humans, then working out the process for themselves. This allowed them to
Gavilar believed the humans stole the parshmen's ability transform by capturing "an ancient, ''crucial'' spren" in a gemstone.{{book ref|sa3|Prologue}}
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