Photos of a Parshendi

[SOM1else he/him]

So I was reading in the Way of Kings and realized that Parshendi/Parshmen are nothing like I imagined them. I kinda pictured them like humans with some tribal like tattoos on their faces and such but then I saw that that is nothing like how they are described. I was then determined to find out exactly what they looked like. Luckily it is a little known fact that I have world hopping abilities much like Hoid's. So I grabbed my camera and world hopped to Roshar and here is the picture that I took of a Parshendi warrior that tried to kill me.

once I realized that Darth Maul from Star Wars is a Parshendi they got x1000 more terrifying. How in the world could someone keep a Parshman as a servant

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

This is a revelation! A Force sensitive Parshendi could provide incredible insight into the world of Special Ability Appreciation!

[CrazyRioter she/her]

I kind of pictured them looking like the Dremora from the Elder Scrolls series of games. Only without the horns. Dremora have red/black skin, and there's even a fan-theory that they grow their armour, because you can't loot it from them.

Which, given Jasnah's revelations about the parshman/Parsehendi possibly being Voidbringers, becomes scarily appropriate.

Edited May 18, 2011 by CrazyRioter

[leinton]

Zabraks in the cosmere?!

[Truthless he/him]

Brandon always describes them as "marbled", so I've been picturing like some fancy marble floor with the stones kind of organically alternating colors. Altogether, a bit hard to imagine. I'm hoping they get featured on a cover sometime.

[SOM1else he/him]

well we don't need them on the cover now remember I used my Hoid-like world hopping abilities to go to Roshar and take a photograph. That Parshendi photo is legit. Oh and CrazyRioter, some looked like dremora but the armor was completely different than what it looks like in the ES games. I would put up a picture of the more Dremora like ones but none of those pics turned out, I took them by pointing the camera over my shoulder and snaping a few pics while the Darth Maul Guy was chasing me. None of them even remotely came out good.

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

It's important to note that while most of the servant class parshmen were black and red, a few were white and red, and among the Parshendi, the distribution is far more even between these two. Could this have some significance?

[KChan she/her]

It could be. Perhaps a mark of age? It's not sexual dimorphism, I think; otherwise the male-female pairs would probably have been a lot more noticeable.