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
Presence
appears mentioned absent
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
Appearances
- 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
Thread
- SA:WoK:PrologueintroIntroduced as “The Parshendi”
- SA:WoK:Ch 6factwarrior-form: The 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 36factanomaly-self-sufficient: Per 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.
Backreferences
- 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
- factKaladin
- 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
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 36
- factThe Parshendi
- factThe Parshendi Shardbearer
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 49
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 53
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 54
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 55
- factKaladin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 56
- factDalinar Kholin
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 58
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 62
- 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