The Endangered Parshendi(spoilers)

[shinintendo]

We know some Parshendi escaped from being transformed, do you think they survived the Everstorm?

Did they warn the rest of their people(spys) still in hiding inside the towns?

Can they hide underground or high enough mountain to escape the storm and the changing this way?

 

Dullform, one of those forms, looks a lot like a parshman. Hiding among them is easy.”

 

So the Dullform looks like Parshman it isn't in fact one, so will the storm effect the Parshman the same as the Parshendi? if not, there may not be so many of voidbringers around(I expect the effect is the same though).

 

 

“Don’t be sorry,” she said, “until we see how much I can salvage. The storm has come already? The parshmen have transformed?”

“Yes and no,” Wit said. “The storm should hit Shinovar tonight, then work its way across the land. I believe that the storm will bring the transformation.”

Jasnah stopped in place. “That’s not how it happened in the past. I have learned things on the other side.”

“You are correct. It is different this time.”

Jasnah said that "parshmen have transformed?” does in the past there were no Parshendi?did the parshmen transform and not the Parshendi like this time?

I think she meant that In the past every parshmen transform at once or at least the storm is not bringing the transformation.

 

[Xavien]

I think Jasnah is referring to the direction of the storm.  She references the storm and transformation then Wit talks about it hitting Shinovar first.  There has never been a west to east storm before this one.

 

As for the missing Parshendi, I thought they were going to meet up with Dalinar at some point and seek asylum.  It might still happen later but for now I think they escaped and are hiding out in the mountains.  They have to be out in the high storm during a specific point in order to change forms (at least for the old storms) so I would think being under any shelter should prevent the transformation.

 

We know that the Parshendi have forms that do not involve Odium (non red eyed forms) and that they have forgotten many of the forms they did have.  Need to find the references and flesh this into a full theory but I think there are forms that they have forgotten from before the time of humans and that Shen will be the one to find them again and give them to the missing Parshendi. 

[harry31j97 he/him]

I don't think being present at specific time & place is a requirement in case of the Everstorm, otherwise there would be no panic as obviously during the Everstorm everyone incl parshmen would be taking shelter like they do during highstorm. Don't know how Brandon is going to transform parshmen while preserving rebel parshendi, cause obviously if one group can be saved from being transformed so can be other.

[dyring]

the slave form parshendi dont have much of a will of their own, and the stormspren is persuasive.

 

The nimbleform/mateform/workform/warform and even dullform parshendi got a will, and have just seen examples of what the stormform does.

[taveren he/him]

parsdendi have spren already i'm thinking the everstorm can only force a spren in to the empty Parshman

guess we will have to wait and see

[junior]

Rhial managed to survive the storm without transforming.  So it's possible for a Parshendi to avoid the transformation.

[xbauks he/him]

I'm guessing a parshman just has to avoid getting into the everstorm. However since they are so connected to the cognitive realm, they can be easily persuaded to come out into the storm. The rebel parshendi who have a stronger mind will manage to stay inside and therefore safe. Plus once transformation is completed, it will be easy for the voidbringers to just force the rest to come out into the storm.