Singers

Singers are an intelligent type of being on Roshar, which humankind call parshmen or the 'parsh'.

Some of those singers with whom Moash was enslaved have an accent similar to that of many of the bridgemen who had been Moash's friends.

Leshwi tells Moash that many of the singers that her kind left in Alethkar are not bold. Still, the Fused find them to be remarkable, considering how long they were abused by the Alethi, but not bold enough.

Categories

Categories of singers include Listeners, Regals, Fused, and Voidbringers.

Appearance

Singer hair reflects their skin color.

Physiology

Their bones are red, but not completely. If one were to break open a bone, one would find a white marrow-like substance. In each their sternums there is a gemheart, but it's fused to the bone and is grown into the bone. One would have to kind of snap it open and find it inside, and it kind of just looks like marrow, but there's a gemheart in there. Singers have shorter lives when compared to those of humans, and reach puberty in their seventh or eighth year.

Forms

All Singer forms are not predetermined by whatever deity created them or by evolution. According to Brandon, new forms could exist.

Also according to Brandon, while singer forms don't utilize fabrial magic, they're based on the same kind of foundation.

Characteristics

Singer gemhearts are a "milky white" color, and look like bone/bone marrow.

Singers can drink the Horneater white.

Notes

For real world examples from which Brandon drew for Parshendi singing, he stated that he used Hindu chants in his head.

“	Singer is the name of the people in their own language. Listener, this group that split off from the singers and did not want to be called singers anymore, called themselves listeners and that name perpetuated. You could say that singer is the name of race and listener is the name of the nation.	”
–Brandon Sanderson