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=== Era of Solitude ===
[[File:Battle of Narak.jpeg|thumb|right|350px|The plateaus near Narak as they looked during the [[War of Reckoning]] ]]
Though [[listeners]] have lived on the [[Shattered Plains]] since before the [[Aharietiam]], they made their home at the collapsed domes. It was only following the assassination of the [[Alethi]] king, [[Gavilar Kholin]], that they moved to Narak, as its remote location made it a better defensive position. Over the next five years, the listeners transformed Narak into a functioning city, building on top of the old structures.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Though they might've been more spread out at the start, at the very end of the [[War of Reckoning]], their entire nation lived there.{{wob ref|6513}}
It was during that time that [[Jasnah Kholin]] began her research into [[Urithiru]]. Eventually, she pinpointed ancient Stormseat as a possible access point into the city, and though she seemingly perished in the attack on her ship, her [[ward]] [[Shallan Davar]] contined her research.{{book ref|sa2|60}} Eventually, Shallan managed to pinpoint the rough location of Stormseat and convinced [[Dalinar Kholin]] to organize an expedition to find it, and the Oathgate it held.{{book ref|sa2|78}}
=== True Desolation ===
The surviving [[stormform]] [[listener]]s did not return to Narak after the arrival of the [[Everstorm]]. Rather, they searched the surrounding [[chasm]]s for anything of note, and then left for plateaus further away, whereupon most of them gave up their bodies for the [[Fused]].{{book ref|sa3|i|3}}{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} Likewise, those who hadn't taken a form didn't come back to the city, rather making their way further east, into the floodplains at the very edge of the [[Shattered Plains]].{{wob ref|11880}}
In the listeners' absence, the [[Alethi]] claimed the city for themselves. In the following days, eight of their ten armies travelled through there on their way to [[Urithiru]].{{book ref|sa3|8}} Later, they began to turn Narak into a fortress, both to protect the [[Oathgate]] and to secure the route between it and the warcamps.{{book ref|sa3|46}} Many of the city's structures were repurposed - most houses became barracks, and the tower of the [[Council of Five|Five]] was turned a watchpost.{{book ref|sa3|55}} Groups of [[Windrunner]] squires and possible squires, as well as regular soldiers, would often practice there.{{book ref|sa3|46}}{{book ref|sa3|55}} However, [[Dalinar]] worried whether the city afforded sufficient protection to the long road between the camps and the Oathgate.{{book ref|sa3|50}}
== Trivia ==
* It has been postulated that [[Feverstone Keep]] might've been part of Stormseat, although Brandon has called that extremely unlikely.{{wob ref|6229}}
== Notes ==
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