The Parshendi
A people with black-and-red marbled skin, dismissed as savages by the east. Cousins to the docile parshmen of the rest of the world. The Parshendi command Szeth as his masters. SA:WoK:Prologue
Known facts
- warrior-formThe Parshendi fielded on the plateaus are far more muscular than common parshmen, with marbled red-and-black skin, rusty orange armor over forearms, chests, heads, and legs, and recurve shortbows tuned to slaughter charging bridgemen.SA:WoK:Ch 6
- anomaly-self-sufficientPer Gavilar's own account scribed by Jasnah, the Parshendi when first encountered in the Unclaimed Hills confounded all logic and science: parshmen on their own should sit there doing nothing until civilized people came to give them orders. The Parshendi instead hunted, made weapons, built buildings, and had their own civilization. Gavilar's expedition realised the discovery could overthrow all the Alethi understanding of their parshman servants.SA:WoK:Ch 36
- elders-claimed-the-assassinationThree Parshendi elders — Gangnah, Klade, and Varnali — remained behind after Gavilar's death to claim responsibility for hiring the assassin, while the rest of their delegation escaped Kholinar and destroyed the cavalry Dalinar sent after them. The elders were hanged; they offered no further explanation, saying only that Gavilar had been on the verge of an act they regarded as catastrophically reckless.SA:WoR:Prologue
- withholding-shardbearerDalinar notes the Parshendi no longer commit their lone Shardbearer to plateau battles, that the Shardbearer from the Tower instead watches from a neighbouring plateau as the harvest goes on. It is the first sign that their battlefield doctrine has changed and that their reasoning is less legible to him than he thought.SA:WoR:Ch 8
- red-eyed-form-confirmed-in-the-fieldA Parshendi scout killed in the rain shows a body unlike any form the Alethi have fought — hair-and-carapace mixed, broken ridges along the arms — and an eyelid that lifts on a fully red eye, the legend out of Jasnah's notebooks confirmed: the Voidbringers have come back to the field.SA:WoR:Ch 78
- new-form-disgorges-red-lightning-spren-on-deathKilled in Adolin's assault, the new red-eyed Parshendi disgorge small red lightning-spren from their chests that flicker up into the rain and vanish.SA:WoR:Ch 81
Events
- SA:WoK:I-3 Recalled — five years past — tossing Szeth's Oathstone aside as they fled Kholinar
- SA:WoK:Ch 68 Withdraw from the Tower; sing the wrong rhythm
Backreferences
- summaryMB2:TLM:Ch 51
- summarySA:OB:Prologue
- factVenli
- factGitgeth
- factBrianlia
- factThe Five
- factWarform
- factWorkform
- factMateform
- factDullform
- factRhythms
- summarySA:OB:Ch 9
- summarySA:OB:Ch 17
- summarySA:OB:Ch 20
- summarySA:OB:Ch 31
- factYixli
- summarySA:OB:Ch 35
- factDemid
- factStormform
- factRhythm of Command
- factRhythm of the Lost
- summarySA:OB:Ch 46
- summarySA:OB:Ch 54
- summarySA:OB:Ch 55
- summarySA:OB:Ch 114
- summarySA:RoW:Prologue
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 10
- factNarak
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 11
- factVenli
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 14
- factRhythm of Peace
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 38
- factthe listeners
- summarySA:RoW:Ch 92
- summarySA:WoK:Prologue
- factGavilar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 4
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 6
- factThe Parshendi
- factSadeas
- factKaladin
- factBridge Four
- factBridgeman
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 9
- factSadeas
- factBridge Four
- factStormfather's Judgment
- summarySA:WoK:I-3
- factSzeth-son-son-Vallano
- factOathstone
- factElhokar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 14
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 15
- factSadeas
- factThe Shattered Plains
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 23
- factThe Tower
- factThe Tower
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 27
- factChasm duty
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 30
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 32
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 36
- factThe Parshendi
- factHelaran Davar
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 49
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 53
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- summarySA:WoK:Ch 55
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- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 58
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- summarySA:WoK:Ch 63
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 64
- factSadeas
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 65
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 66
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 67
- factEshonai
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 69
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 71
- factJasnah Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Epilogue
- summarySA:WaT:Prologue
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 88
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 142
- summarySA:WoR:Prologue
- factThe Parshendi
- factKlade
- factGangnah
- factVarnali
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 6
- factJasnah Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 8
- factThe Parshendi
- factAladar
- factEshonai
- factThe Listener Song of Listing
- factThe Listener Song of Winds
- factThe Listener Song of Secrets
- factThe Listener Song of Histories
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 26
- factEshonai
- factEshonai
- factThe Listener Song of Wars
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 29
- factSadeas
- factThe Listener Song of Revision
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 32
- factThe Listener Song of Spren
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 38
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 41
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 44
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 50
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 51
- factGavilar Kholin
- factDalinar Kholin
- factAdolin Kholin
- factInadara
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 52
- factAmaram
- factRlain
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 53
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 54
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 60
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 69
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- summarySA:WoR:Ch 74
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 75
- factDalinar Kholin
- factShallan Davar
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 77
- factMoash
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 78
- factThe Parshendi
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 79
- factDalinar Kholin
- factRlain
- factRlain
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 80
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 81
- factThe Parshendi
- factDalinar Kholin
- factDalinar Kholin
- factSureblood
- factAladar
- factStormspren
- factRlain
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 82
- factAdolin Kholin
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 83
- factThe Everstorm
- factAdolin Kholin
- factThe Stormfather
- factThe Stormfather
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 85
- factRoion
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 86
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 87
- factRod
- factRlain
- summarySA:WoR:Ch 89
- factSadeas
- factThe Everstorm
- factAdolin Kholin