Difference between revisions of "Listener"

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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]].

 

 

 

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}}

 

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.

 

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}}

 

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]].

 

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== Notes ==

{{wob ref|date=2013-02-22|4530|Parshendi once dis-unified}}

 

 

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