Parshmen
A docile, thick-witted people with mottled black-and-red skin, kept widely as slave laborers across Vorin lands. Said to be related to — but very different from — the Parshendi of the Shattered Plains. SA:WoK:Ch 3
Presence
appears mentioned absent
Known facts
- rarely-speakCan speak, but rarely choose to. The Palanaeum's soot-cleaning porters bow and pass without a word.SA:WoK:Ch 7
- never-bridgemenAre too valuable to throw onto the bridges, and Sadeas is unwilling to let camp parshmen see their cousins charged at by their kind.SA:WoK:Ch 9
Appearances
- SA:WoK:Ch 7 Soot-cleaning porters and lift-porters in the Veil and Palanaeum
- SA:WoK:Ch 8 Porters carrying books for Jasnah and operating the alcove lifts
- SA:WoK:Ch 9 Working the lumberyard and camp under taskmaster whips
- SA:WoK:Ch 33 Lift-porters and book-carriers throughout the Palanaeum
- SA:WoK:Ch 36 Carry bath-water pipes (now obsolete) and palanquin bearers
Thread
- SA:WoK:Ch 3introIntroduced as “Parshmen”
- SA:WoK:Ch 7factrarely-speak: Can speak, but rarely choose to. The Palanaeum's soot-cleaning porters bow and pass without a word.
- SA:WoK:Ch 9factnever-bridgemen: Are too valuable to throw onto the bridges, and Sadeas is unwilling to let camp parshmen see their cousins charged at by their kind.
Backreferences
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 7