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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Singers''', known to humans as the '''parshmen''' in their dormant form and as the '''Parshendi''' or '''listeners''' among those who regained their will, are the native people of [[Roshar]], a sapient species with carapace-armored bodies who change their physical forms by bonding different [[Spren]]. They are central to the history and conflict of [[The Stormlight Archive]], and their fate is bound up with the [[Voidbringers]] and the [[The Fused|Fused]].<br />
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== Description ==<br />
Singers have skin marbled in patterns of red, black, and white, and bodies partly armored with chitin-like carapace. Their defining trait is the ability to take on different '''forms''' by bonding particular [[Spren]] -- each form granting different physical attributes, capabilities, and even degrees of intelligence and emotion. They can sing and hum the Rhythms, internal songs tied to their emotions and to the [[Spren]] they bond.<br />
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== Forms ==<br />
Among the singer forms are dullform, workform, mateform, warform, and others, each suited to a purpose. Crucially, the docile '''slaveform''' or the dull state of the [[parshmen]] is a deformity -- singers cut off from spren and stripped of their will, used as mindless labor by humans across Roshar for centuries without realizing they were an enslaved people. The dangerous '''stormform''' and related powered forms, bonded to spren of [[Odium]], turn singers into [[Voidbringers]].<br />
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== The Listeners ==<br />
The [[The Shattered Plains|Shattered Plains]] Parshendi were '''listeners''' -- singers who had broken free of [[Odium]]'s influence and regained their own minds, carefully choosing their forms to avoid the powered forms that would deliver them back to their god. Their assassination of King [[Gavilar Kholin|Gavilar]] set the war of the early Archive in motion. [[Eshonai]] and [[Venli]] are among the prominent listeners.<br />
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== History and Significance ==<br />
The singers were Roshar's original people, displaced and later enslaved in the long aftermath of the ancient wars. The coming of the [[The Everstorm|Everstorm]] awakens the [[parshmen]] across Roshar, restoring forms and, with the [[The Fused|Fused]], reigniting the war. Their tragic history complicates the simple tale of humans versus [[Voidbringers]] and lies at the moral heart of [[The Stormlight Archive]].<br />
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