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'''Parshendi''' (<small>Alethi pronunciation:</small> [[Wikipedia:Help:IPA|[paɹˈʃɛn·di]]] [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia: Pronunciation_respelling_key|''par-'''<small>SHEN</small>'''-dee'']]
Prior to the [[True Desolation]], they lived on eastern Roshar, near the [[Shattered Plains]]. During the [[War of Reckoning]], they inhabited the city of [[Narak]].
== History ==
=== The Last Legion and Abandoning of the Gods ===
{{quote
| [[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' gods. The listeners lived in somewhere called the '''dark home''' (but this might have been metaphorical for being under [[Odium]]'s influence, and not an actual place). The Last Legion was sent to fight in the farthest plains, probably the plains of [[Natanatan]] and the [[Shattered Plains]].{{book ref|sa2|I-4}}
The listeners were much less unified than they are when seen during the [[War of Reckoning]]. They were once split into a number of separate tribes, with raids and assassinations as a relatively frequent occurrence. This is reflected in the listeners having enough cultural experience with assassination to have norms as to how an assassinations ought to be carried out.{{wob ref|4530}}
=== 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 that wasn't on any maps. In a valley south of the [[Shattered Plains]] and about two weeks' march from the [[Drying Sea]], Dalinar saw the first listener camped on the other side of a tributary of the [[Deathbend River]]. [[Eshonai]] was one of these camped listeners.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} The Alethi called the listeners the "Parshendi," or "intelligent parshmen."{{cite}}
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.
=== War of Reckoning ===
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}}
After the battle, [[Rlain]] laments that with the listeners taking up stormform, the listeners no longer exist.{{book ref|sa2|87}}
=== 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.
== Other ==
Male listeners grew beards, which they thread through beads infused with [[Stormlight]].
{{for|:Category:Parshendi|a full list of listeners|Category: Parshendi}}
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* [[Eshonai]]
* [[Klade]]
* [[Devi]]
* [[Varanis]]
* [[Venli]]
* [[Demid]]
* [[Rlain]]
}}
==See Also==▼
*[[Singer]]s▼
*[[Fused]]▼
*[[Voidbringer]]s▼
== Notes ==
{{wob ref|date=2013-02-22|4530|Parshendi once dis-unified}}
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|date=2012-11-03
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VzSSSYKK6w&t=6m16s
|text=Brandon saying "Parshendi" at a reading
|site=YouTube
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▲* [[Singer]]s
▲* [[Fused]]
▲* [[Voidbringer]]s
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