Slaveform

Slaveform is not a true form, but the lack of a bond with a spren or the lack of a form. What for millennia mankind called the 'parshmen', are actually singers in slaveform. Slaveform did not exist until after the False Desolation.^{[citation needed]}

“	Slaveform, the form with no spren, no soul, and no song. ( ... ) It wasn't really a form at all, however, but the lack of any form.	”
–Eshonai musing about slaveform

Appearance

Their skin has either a marbled pattern of black and red or white and red, although the white and red is more common in Alethkar. Slaveform looks similar enough to dullform that humans could confuse the two.

Personality

They care about and are protective of their dead, usually objecting to anyone other than one of themselves tending to them. This care for the dead presumably extends to corpses of other singers as well.

Characteristics

Slaveform singers are strong enough to perform physical labor.

The form is described by Sah, a singer who had previously been trapped in slaveform, as "living in a fog ... knowing deep in your soul that something is profoundly wrong ... [but] not being able to say a single word to stop it."

History

Slaveform singers lived among humans (notably in Alethkar, but also in Jah Keved and Kharbranth) and generally functioned as servants. Barely of intelligence, it was said that they - if left in the woods, for example - would stand around amiably until someone came along to tell them what to do. Generally, a slaveform would take orders without any objection. Each could speak but rarely did so.

Humans bred singers who demonstrated they could successfully birth healthy children, splitting up families to do so. However, they do mate of their own accord and form nuclear families if humans don't disrupt them.

The Everstorm healed all slaveform singers by restoring each their Connection and Identity, so this form no longer exists during the True Desolation.