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{{image|Parshendi Army.jpg|side=right|width=500px|A Listener army}}
=== War of Reckoning ===
During the war,
In the meantime, Venli worked to discover stormform. When cutting gemhearts to make them brighter, her scholars secretly saved pieces of the gemstones to store spren. The main problem Venli was trying to solve was how to draw the stormspren to the [[Physical Realm]].{{book ref|sa4|86}} She eventually discovered that lightning pulls the spren through, and managed to trap the spren.{{book ref|sa4|88}} Venli brought the form to the Five, and they agreed, though Eshonai insisted she should be the one to try the form, because Venli was too valuable with her knowledge of the forms.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
Eshonai took the form, and when she returned to the Five, she proposed to transform every listener to stormform, to summon a storm against the Alethi. However, [[Zuln]] didn't agree, and she convinced [[Abronai]] to disagree as well. So, Eshonai went to the listeners and proclaimed that the Five could not forbid someone from taking a form if they wished to, and that she would take everyone who wished and transform them into stormform. She gathered the people that refused to transform, and put Thude to guard them. They fled into the chasms, and Eshonai let them, because they would be killed in the next highstorm.{{book ref|sa4|i|11}}
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. ▼
▲At the [[Battle of Narak]], where Highprince [[Dalinar Kholin]] led an expedition to end the [[War of Reckoning]], the listeners in stormform
After the battle, [[Rlain]] laments that with the listeners taking up stormform, the listeners no longer exist.{{book ref|sa2|87}}
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