inquisitorrashek

Kindof. Eshonai stopped fighting platue skirmishes after they started bonding forms of power, saving their population for the summoning. So theirs only really been one fight in which forms of power where used. So they probably had not lost anyone in the new form up until that point. The Alethi having to quickly retreat through the oath gate, and the everstorm/highstorm clash probably didn’t leave anything left to be inspected. Also Venly after her transformation basically reguardes all the pre-power parsh transformations as basically the same thing, nothing.

True, but the parshendi seem to have forgotten almost as much as the humans have. I guess what I’m trying to say is they make reference that a chull like beast (so like medium sized gem producer) can be farmed in certin places for small gemhearts that can be soulcast into grain. So not big enough to be a brome, more than likely not being glassed into spheres. And every culture that we have come across so far either uses spheres as money or uses them religiously in one way or another. And bromes are common enough that their everywhere. So either greatshell hunts where either allot more common in the past, which they dont get into the numbers of how many gems a shell beast gemheart could be cracked into, so I guess that’s possible. But seems unlikely to me.

Milky white gemstones are just what the modern day parshmen gemhearts are like with non forms of power. This is just my theory but, I would not be surprised to find that all the different parshendi transformations have their own gemstone, and that’s where all the gems from spheres came from originally, as it’s not really been touched on where spheres come from, only that a gemsmith can recut a broken gem into smaller ones and that gems can’t be created through soulcasting. It would fall in line with the parshendi traditions and also why humans forgot that the parshmen had them at all.