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  1. Hey all! I’ve had this for a while but I finally went and recreated it digitally! Attached below is an unofficial script/language/alphabet that I created for the singer and listener people + a “user manual” because I made it far more complicated than necessary. I don’t know if we have any evidence of them having written language but I decided to make one regardless, and I wanted to share with you. Enjoy!
  2. I'm rereading Stormlight Archive (WoR, I-11, so far)'. I love each Brandon's paragraph. Only a review (I hope it to be constructive). I find difficult to read parshendi POV chapters. I feel the style slow and less "nimble" than chapters with human POV, with so 'attuning', 'humming' and 'speaking to the rhythms'. Perhaps the Spanish translation, where these words are quite longer ('armonizar, 'canturrear' y 'hablar al ritmo', respectively) doesn't help. I had the same feeling the first time I read it. I thought that it was for that the first time I read it, but the second I feel the same. Even more. It is difficult for me to feel empathy for these characters. Things become better in RoW, though. By the way, I can't figure out how all those rythms and songs would be performed in a series or a movie.
  3. I'm rereading Stormlight Archive. I find difficult to read parshendi POV chapters. I feel the style slow and less "nimble" than chapters with human POV. Perhaps is for the Spanish translation. I had the same feeling the first time I read it. But thought that it was for that the first time I read it, but the second I feel the same. Even more.
  4. A bit more scientific than previous questions: I love how Venli, when overcome with emotion such as anxiety or elation, mentions Timbre pulsing in her gemheart, similar to a human heart beating faster. This made me think: singers don’t have a muscular heart that can contract to pump blood. So, how does singer blood work? Either there is a separate heart pumping system that singers just don’t call a heart, or the blood acts like the lymphatic system, which relies on gradient flow rather than a pumping mechanism.
  5. S. Stormy

    El

    From the album: Shallan Stormblessed's not incredible art!

    It is the mighty, slightly terrifying El! The metal carapace took me a while to figure out.
  6. I just noticed that the Parshendi conducting military operation in their warpairs is vaguely similar to how the Alethi family unit operates during war. I wonder if there is a common cultural or societal ancestor to the phenomena with the Alethi diverging as the separate spheres ideology was pushed to the extreme. Or maybe I’m just making connection where none was intended.
  7. Ok Kandra consumes and emulates a Parshendi. Would they still need to take a spren into their gem heart to change forms? Or would the spike that gives the Kandra sentients prevent a spren from Bonding with the Kandra in any way? Sorry if this has been brought up somewhere else already.
  8. I’m honestly really confused. Have finished the books but I’m more of a casual reader so feel like I might have misunderstood/completely missed the answer. Why did the Parshendi want Gavilar dead? I think he wanted the return of the Parshendi Gods so the Heralds would be forced to return. Gavilar assumed the Parshendi would be happy with them bringing the Unmade back but they weren’t? Was this because Parshendi/council of five feared the Unmade? Or did they know it would lead to another desolation? Why would they not want their own Gods to return?
  9. From the album: Parshendi AI Portrait

    A bit back, there was this website where you could submit a picture of yourself and the computer would paint it into a portrait. Last Halloween, I dressed up as a parshendi. I submitted a photo of myself and the results were pretty creepy.
  10. From the album: Stormlight Archive general fanart

    Venli holding a glowing Timbre in her cupped hands. Charcoal on tone paper.
  11. There are now 8 works in the Rhythms of Desire Collection! All these fics feature singers, listeners, and/or Fused in situations that range from romantic to explicit. Please be kind to yourself and everyone around you - beware the ratings and the tags! The Rhythm of the Lost - Rated Teen, 1100 words Dul and Mazish gain sapience and take Mateform together. The Rhythm of Tension - Rated Mature, 3000 words Several months into their relationship, Renarin and Rlain visit the Listeners together. Renarin is looking forward to getting to know Rlain's childhood friends a little better. Five Rhythms - Rated Mature, 6500 words A series of five interrelated vignettes, exploring Renarin and Rlain's relationship through Rlain's forms - Scholarform, Mateform - and through rhythms - Anticipation, Mourning, Victory. Felled By You, Held By You - Rated Mature, 6000 words (new!) During their research, the tension and curiosity between Navani and Raboniel grows until neither of them can (or want to) deny it. If We Have Each Other - Rated Mature, 15,000 words A couple weeks into Mateform, Rlain and Renarin struggle with the conflict between Rlain's desire for touch and Renarin's aversion to it. Research - Rated Mature, 2000 words Raboniel and Navani discover the Rhythm of War, which leads to an entirely different avenue of research. Sexy Sociology - Rated Mature, 9200 words Set in a future Roshar AU, Rlain is an exchange student in Kharbranth, where Renarin is a classmate in Dr. Sja Anat's Sociology class. Pegged for Destruction - Rated Explicit, 2200 words Lezian the Pursuer is on the hunt for his latest target. Leshwi has taken an interest in the same target and will not allow Lezian to complete his horrible goal.
  12. What’s the difference between malen/femalen and male/female? Just because there a different race doesn't mean we need to use different words.
  13. From the album: Memes!

    This is basically everyone's plan in Oathbringer.
  14. Very mild spoilers for The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance It is mentioned that the Parshendi had multiple Shardbearer, but during the War of Reckoning they lost all but one. At least one of them was defeated by Dalinar, but do we know more? Either from the text or from other sources? P.S. I am 300+ pages in to Rhythm of War and I don't expect to be illuminated by the rest of the book in this matter, but if there's an answer for this in that book just throw me a RAFO
  15. This line of thought springs from Leshwi's reaction to finding out about Venli's bond to her spren. The relationship between Singers/Listeners was never explained in depth beyond the fact that Singers/Listeners can trap them in their gemhearts to switch between different forms. In the listeners' songs, there is mention of a betrayal from the spren, but the information has been passed down verbally for many generations, and is therefore very unreliable. In Rhythm of War, Venli reveals her bond and Leshwi's reaction is to wonder whether they have been forgiven for their betrayal. That of course raises the question: What betrayal? Was their bonding with Odium some kind of betrayal? What was their relationship to sentient spren?
  16. Now that we know that gravityspren = workform, which spren do you think go with the rest of the forms? Presumably creationspren cause artform, and passionspren, mateform. Scholarform is probably logicspren. Nimbleform is, I dunno... *pulls random spren out of a hat* ...anticipationspren? I'm going to say anticipationspren. Warform... where did I put that hat? Okay, flamespren, gonna go with that. Assuming they can find flamespren in the middle of a Highstorm.
  17. From the album: Some sort of fan art

    I was re-reading WoR and was paying more attention to the Parshendi. Around the same time I was playing with some concrete and pigments and I think my subconscious took some inspiration from my read
  18. From the album: Natural History of Roshar

    Meet Arkto! Arc-too This is how I imagine the Listener Art Form. So far we have seen a boat ton of War Form, and I thought, that’s boring. They don’t do much beyond smash and break. The Art(isan) Form, now that’s more fun, because they can do a lot more stuff! But what do they look like, if not in full carapace armor of War Form? I don’t want them to look like human. That make no sense for a species that evolved on another, crustacean-based planet! But the more I add non-human parts, the more they look animalistic instead of civilized. Wait! I know! 4 arms! I often wish I have 4 arms when making stuff - extra arm to catch my-I-mean-their easel and painting from flying off in gale-force gusts, to stop that furnace door from swinging back onto their elbow while carefully keeping the molten glass spinning, to hold up that sun-brella so their brain stops boiling while sketching outside during mid-day, and to sand and chisel simultaneously for instant look at how things are turning out... etc... so many possibilities... For a world that is so wet and stormy, I figure most of their art would be water resistant like stone sculpture, oil paint, and since they aren’t short on crem, ceramics. You know what Art Form would play on a piano if they have 4 arms? Woogie Boogie. And of course they wear skyeel leather as part of their clothing. I don’t see chull shells make comfortable anything other than Klompen :P
  19. FelCandy

    Venli

    From the album: SA Fanart by FelCandy

    Sketched this on my phone today, haven't really nailed down my vision of her or Eshonai, but it is a good start.
  20. In Ch 17 of Oathbringer Syl says that the On Scandrial (Mistborn) there is a Feurchemal power to store Identity and while you are storing it you loose your Identity. Would this make you similar to a Parshman while you are storing Identity? I dont know what it would look like when you pull out the extra Identity you've stored.
  21. So I’ve been reading through TWoK and I remember reading a passage that said the bridge men would often run without hesitation or never slack simply because of the fact that there was always a small hope that one could run fast enough to simply get there before the parshendi could get to and secure a plateau for fire upon the bridge men. How often does this actually happen?
  22. So I keep feeling very curious about the nonhuman people of Roshar. Dysian Aimians and their violet blood make some sense, as we know Rosharan creatures from greatshells to cremlings bleed violet blood. Humans make sense in that their human, and obviously share red blood with other Yolish (non-Fain) life, like pigs, horses, chickens, etc. But does anything else on Roshar, besides the Parshendi, have orange blood? I just don't know what to make of it! I'm trying to read up on info, but while biology is a strong subject for me, chemistry is not. I'd love to see if anyone else has thoughts or insights about this. In any case, here's a link to an article about the many variations of blood in real life critters here on Earth.
  23. So in my reread of Oathbringer, I noticed that when, in the flashbacks, Dalinar feels the Thrill, it says on a few occasions that he almost hears a beat or rhythm. I wonder if this has anything to do with the Singers' rhythms? My theory is that he's hearing one of the Rhythms of power faintly, because the Unmade are spren of Odium and Odium's spren are what grant the new Rhythms. Being under the influence of such a powerful, giant spren, especially for someone like Dalinar who's spirit web has to be a little broken to be a nascent Radiant, creates a mindset or almost a Connection to the Singers in a way not yet explored.
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