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== Biology and Appearance ==

 

Singers are humanoid, but not entirely human-like. The most apparent sign of their alien nature is their skin; it's covered in marblings, swirls of various colors - red, black or white.{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} Most singers have two-colored skin; the marblings can appear in various way, both as delicate swirls and large, wind-swept patterns.{{book ref|sa3|i|7}}{{book ref|sa3|116}} There are singers whose skin has all three colors, but they are extremely rare.{{book ref|sa3|54}} Their hair are typically orange or red -- colors that don't seem to naturally occur for Rosharan humans.{{wob ref|5782}}{{book ref|sa3|109}}

Mateform is used for reproductive purposes. A few listeners maintain mating form constantly, although most enter it only briefly in order to reproduce with a partner; if these partners later entered warform they became a warpair.{{cite}} It is a distracting form which makes productive work difficult. Nothing is stopping other forms from reproducing, the mateform is merely a speciality.{{wob ref|3400}}

 

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=== The Fused ===

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At some point, [[Honor]] and [[Cultivation]] sided with humanity, while singers came to work with [[Odium]], who granted their most valiant warriors immortality and great power to fight against the human scourge. This power made them into [[Cognitive Shadow]]s, and allowed them to be reborn by possessing the bodies of other singers. Those immortal singers came to be known as the Fused.{{book ref|sa3|38}} They became both gods and rulers of singer-kind, and came to despise humanity, wanting them wiped off Roshar regardless of the collateral damage.{{book ref|sa3|38}}{{book ref|sa3|i|3}}

=== The listeners ===

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The listeners would live on in the [[Shattered Plains]] for the next few hundred years, forming a number of groups settled in the craters around the western edge of the Plains. Eventually, they made contact with humans, and, thorugh diplomatic efforts, forged a treaty between the two species. However, on the night the treaty was to be signed, the listener [[Eshonai]] learned about human king [[Gavilar]]'s plans to return the "listener gods" -- the [[Fused]] -- to Roshar. Fearing the consequences, the listeners arranged for Gavilar to be assassinated.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}} As a result, they were forced to flee, abandoning even their homes for a more distant plateau of [[Narak]] right as humans arrived to exact their vengeance. Thus began the [[War of Reckoning]].{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}