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There is also "slaveform," which is not a true form, but the lack of a bond with a spren or lack of a form. What humanity called for millennia '''parshmen''' are actually singers in slaveform.
Physically, slaveslaveform form listenerssingers are strong enough to perform physical labor.{{book ref|sa1|55}} Their skin has either a marbled pattern of black and red or white and red, although the white and red is more common in Alethkar.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}}{{book ref|sa1|72}} Slaveform looks similar enough to dullform that humans could confuse the two.
They care about and are protective of their dead, usually objecting to anyone other than one of themselves tending to them.{{book ref|sa1|26}} This care for the dead presumably extended to corpses of other singers as well.{{book ref|sa1|55}} They also mated and formed nuclear families if humans didn't disrupt them. {{book ref|sa3|17}}
SlaveformsSlaveform singers lived among humans (notably the [[AlethiAlethkar]] but also in [[Jah Keved]] and [[Kharbranth]]{{book ref|sa1|3}}) and generally function as servants.{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} Barely of intelligence,{{book ref|sa1|55}} it is said that these people, if left in the woods, would stand around amiably until someone comes along to tell them what to do.{{book ref|sa1|28}}{{book ref|sa1|36}} Generally, a slaveform would take orders without any objection.{{book ref|sa1|3}} They could speak but rarely did so.{{book ref|sa1|7}} Humans bred parshmen who demonstrated they could successfully birth healthy children, splitting up families to do so.{{book ref|sa3|17}} Slaveform is described by Sah, a singer who had previously been trapped in the form, as "living in a fog...knowing deep in your soul that something is profoundly wrong...[but] not being able to say a single word to stop it." {{book ref|sa3|17}}
The [[Everstorm]] healed all slaveform singers by restoring Connection and Identity, and so this "form" no longer exists during the [[True Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|17}}
== Rhythms ==
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