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==History==
Singers predate humanity on Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|111}} After the [[Expulsion]], where mankind destroyed the [[Tranquiline Halls]], ancient singers were ordered by gods--perhaps [[Honor]] and [[Cultivation]]--to help the human refugees to Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|111}} These ancient singers were the Dawnsingers.
At one point in their history, singers interbred with humans, creating the modern day [[Herdaz|Herdazians]] and [[Unkalaki]] (Horneaters).{{qa ref|1084|9|Horneaters are human/Parshendi hybrids.|date=August 13th, 2014}}{{reddit ref|books|2ytg2h|crds34r}}
Humans used powers the singers were forbidden to touch, powers involving [[spren]] and [[Surge]]s, presumably some kind of [[Surgebinding]].{{book ref|sa3|}} However, humans also brought [[Odium]] with them, and the singers called these ancient humans the [[Voidbringer]]s. Humans were granted the lands of [[Shinovar]], but they expanded out eventually, and fought the singers. This original conflict was the [[First Desolation]], with humans on the side of Odium.
According to the listener Song of Histories, after the singers felt [[spren]] betrayed them, the listeners turned to other gods (this song, however, could be warped to history). The exact timeline is not clear, but at some stage, there were souls of ancient singers, valiant soldiers at that time, had been granted great power from [[Odium]] to fight against humans.{{book ref|sa3|38}} The power from Odium made them into [[Cognitive Shadow]]s and allowed these ancient singers to be reborn in singer bodies, creating the [[Fused]].{{book ref|sa3|38}} The Fused came to rule the singers. The Fused ultimately despise humanity and want them wiped off Roshar, even if it required the destruction of Roshar.{{book ref|sa3|38}}
To stop the Fused from being reborn, Honor chose ten humans to be the [[Herald]]s, and the Heralds would imprison the Fused on [[Braize]]. The Fused tortured the Heralds until one Herald relented, which allowed the Fused to Return to Roshar. When a Herald gave in, that started a Desolation. The Desolations continued for an unknown amount of time, nearly destroying humanity many times. Eventually, at the [[Last Desolation]], all Heralds except one, [[Taln]], abandoned their [[Oathpact]] and kept the Fused at bay for the next four and a half millennia.
The singers, no longer the dominant species on Roshar, continued to fight humanity and the [[Knights Radiant]]. Around two thousand years after the Last Desolation, near the Recreance, there was the [[False Desolation]].{{book ref|sa3|56}} The [[Unmade]] [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]] Connected with the singers and provided them [[Regal|forms of power]] and [[Voidlight]], as Odium once did in the Desolations.{{epigraph ref|sa3|80} The [[Knights Radiant]] sought to stop this threat by imprisoning Ba-Ado-Mishram. They succeeded but in doing so, stole part of singers souls, ripping out their [[Connection]] and [[Identity]].{{book ref|sa3|17}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|81}} These singers no longer had a form and were termed "slaveforms".
Some singers who threw off the Fused and freed themselves, the [[listener]]s, were spared from this event, perhaps not Connecting with Ba-Ado-Mishram. The listeners became the only singers with their minds in tact for millennia. The rest of the singers, however, were all essentially mindless, which the humans used as slave labor.
Later, the listeners, manipulated by [[Voidspren]], entered stormform, one of the forms of power. In doing so, the listeners summoned a great storm at the [[Battle of Narak]]: the [[Everstorm]]. The Everstorm, full of Odium's power, passed through the world and restored the slaveform singers Connection and Identity, healed them.
==See Also==
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{{reddit ref|books|2ytg2h|crbq12w|text=I originally conceived the asexual nature of most Parshendi forms after reading a very thought-provoking article written by someone asexual.|date=17
{{reddit ref|books|2ytg2h|crcbbv7|text=Most Listener forms are asexual, but several forms are different, including slaveform.|date=19
{{reddit ref|books|2ytg2h|crds34r|text=The Horneaters and the Herdazians are both descendants of Parshendi/human interbreeding.|date=17 May 2015}}
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