User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Venli

"I feel like a relic. Already I seem like a cast-off ruin from a nearly forgotten day."

- Venli

Summary
Venli is a Parshendi Scholar and the younger sister of Eshonai. Her studies are what led to the eventually rediscovery of Nimbleform and Stormform, and thus played a majour role in the coming of the Final Desolation and the loss of countless Parshendi lives.

She was eventually granted Envoyform and became Odium's chief propagandist. Spreading pro-Odium propaganda across Roshar in order to gain the support of freed Parshmen, and directly serving Leshwi and Raboniel as their Voice. Hiding from them her status as a Surgebinder and her sympathies with humanity.

She discoveredI that some of her people survived, and developed a plan amongst various Singer peoples to flee the Fused Army and join with a group of Parshedi which turned down the Stormform and fled from the Shattered Plains.

Powers and Stats
Name: Venli | The Last Listener | Voice of Lady Leshwi, Voice of the Lady of Wishes (former), Voice of Odium

Age: 16 (~18 Earth Years) | 18 (~20 Earth Years)

Gender: Femalen

Classification: Listener | Stormform | Envoyform, Voice, Willshaper

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Intellect
She is a very intelligent individual, able to make quick decisions and, when focused, was able to construct an entire writing system from scratch to be able to transcribe the Parshendi tongue, which was formally such an oral tongue.

Forms
As a Singer, she is capable of taking on myriad forms by bonding Spren to her Gemheart.

Dullform
"Dullform dread, with the mind most lost. The lowest, and one not bright. To find this form, one needs banish cost. It finds you and brings you to blight."

- final stanza of the Song of Listing

A form taken on when one bonds the wrong spren. This leaves the Singer mentally limited, those in dullform find thinking difficult, as if they were half-asleep, and have a harder time hearing the rhythms. This is very similar to Slaveform in various ways, therefore Listeners often use Dullform Singers as Spies.

Mateform
"Mateform meek, for love to share, Given to life, it brings us joy. To find this form, one must care. True empathy, one must employ."

- 5th stanza of the Song of Listing

Mateform, as the name suggests, is focused towards reproduction. They are mentally not very strong, and can get focused very easily to focus on their forms primary purpose. Due to their specialization towards sex and reproduction. This is not the only form capable of reproduction, though it is one of the few that can, and is highly specialized towards it.

This is attained by bonding a Lifespren

Warform
"Warform is worn for battle and reign, Claimed by the gods, given to kill. Unknown, unseen, but vital to gain. It comes to those with the will."

- 15th stanza of the Song of Listing

Warform gives listeners an armor-like carapace, and makes them taller and bulkier than other forms. Due to this it is often used in combat during the War of Reckoning. This grants them increased strength, and makes them more pragmatic and more prone to violence.

This is attained by bonding a Painspren.

Workform
"Workform worn for strength and care. Whispering spren breathe at your ear. Seek first this form, its mysteries to bear. Found here is freedom from fear."

- 19th stanza of the Song of Listing

Workform grants greater strength, and is well suited for labour.

This is attained by bonding a Gravitationspren

Nimbleform
"Nimbleform has a delicate touch. Gave the gods this form to many, Tho' once defied, by the gods they were crushed. This form craves precision and plenty."

- 27th stanza of the Song of Listing

A form without explicit powers or advantages, though it is used for all tasks that require dexterity and care.

It has no carapace, and less endurance than other forms.

Meditationform
"Mediationform made for peace, it's said. Form of teaching and consolation. When used by the gods, it became instead Form of lies and desolation."

- 33rd stanza of the Song of Listing

Scholarform
"Scholarform shown for patience and thought. Beware its ambitions innate. Though study and diligence bring the reward, Loss of innocence may be one's fate."

- 69th stanza of the Song of Listing

This form works to increase one's mental faculty and patience.

Artform
"Artform applied for beauty and hue. One yearns for the songs it creates. Most misunderstood by the artist it's true, Come the spren to foundation's fates."

- 90th stanza of the Song of Listing

Rhyhtms
She is able to attune to the fundamental Rhyhtms that permeate the Cosmere. These cannot be heard or attuned to by normal humans.


 * Rhythm of Amusement
 * Rhythm of Annoyance
 * Rhythm of Anticipation
 * Rhythm of Anxiety
 * Rhythm of Appreciation
 * Rhythm of Awe - the Knights Radiant are sung of to this rhythm
 * Rhythm of Betrayal - rarely sung
 * Rhythm of Confidence
 * Rhythm of Confusion
 * Rhythm of Consideration
 * Rhythm of Consolation - used for strong apologies
 * Rhythm of Curiosity - a slow rhythm
 * Rhythm of Despair
 * Rhythm of Determination
 * Rhythm of Disappointment
 * Rhythm of Excitement
 * Rhythm of Fortune - has some cultural significance, as one can be said to be blessed by it if they're lucky
 * Rhythm of Hope
 * Rhythm of Irritation
 * Rhythm of Joy
 * Rhythm of Longing
 * Rhythm of the Lost - soft, slow, but violent, with sharp, separated notes; used for remembering the fallen
 * Rhythm of Memories - used for singing about history
 * '''Rhythm of Mourning
 * Rhythm of Pain
 * Rhythm of Peace - calm, soft, soothing beats; used by listeners to measure time
 * Rhythm of Pleading - rarely-used
 * Rhythm of Praise - used both to show appreciation of others and to express true satisfaction
 * Rhythm of Reconciliation
 * Rhythm of Remembrance
 * Rhythm of Reprimand
 * Rhythm of Resignation
 * Rhythm of Resolve - a steady beat with power rising over time
 * Rhythm of Skepticism
 * Rhythm of Supplication
 * Rhythm of Surprise
 * Rhythm of Tension
 * Rhythm of the Terrors - used when feeling terror, as the name implies.
 * Rhythm of Victory
 * Rhythm of Winds - used for predicting highstorms
 * Rhythm of Wisdom - possibly metaphorical

Stormform =

Stormform
"Stormform is said to cause / A tempest of winds and showers, / Beware its powers, beware its powers. / Though its coming brings the gods their night, / It obliges a bloodred spren. / Beware its end, beware its end."

- 4th stanza of the Song of Winds

In Stormform she gains the ability to pull upon the Investiture of Odium to become incredibly powerful, their strength increases to the degree she can fight a person in shardplate, and gains thin and light armour which is as effective as the formally bulky and heavy armour of the Warform, with ridges on the nose and cheeks, capable of deflecting a blade away from the face without causing too much damage.

Stormforms are capable of unleashing grand bolts of lightning that electrocute and burn their enemies, cooking them alive in their armor. Even capable of destroying stone structures. They can also physically touch a foe and release a powerful shock.

She gains immunity to the effects of Storms, able to move through the Highstorm and Everstorm with ease.

Post-Oathbringer = After the events of Oathbringer and throughout the events of Rhythm of War she came to possess Envoyform and become a Surgebinder of the Order of Willshapers.

Envoyform
As an Envoyform she has the powers of translation, able to speak in and understand any language spoken, or written, by man or singer. . An envoyform feels as though the words blur in their mind before shifting into something understandable and they gain the ability to speak and understand that language. As she got more skilled in the usage of her abilities, she developed the ability to intuit instructions from so little as a mere hum or a single gesture. This translation ability requires knowledge that what they are looking at or listening to is language in order for it to function properly.

Though it lacks carapace armour, with the carapace it has being focused towards ornamentation. It also is not as good at insulating her from the cold as other forms. Despite being weaker than other Forms of Power, she is still significantly stronger than a normal human.

This form is asexual, though does have more pronounced sexual characteristics, such as breasts, however these are mainly aestetic in nature.

Voidlight
Being in a Form of Power gives her the ability to call upon and use Voidlight, the Investiture of Odium.

Surgebinder
After bonding with the Lightspren, or Reacher, known as Timbre, she became a Surgebinder of the Order of Willshapers. This allows her to use both Voidlight and Stormlight, and power her Surges with Voidlight.

However, she is not particularly practiced in any Surges.

Surge of Transportation
Through the use of the Surge of Transportation, she can transfer herself in and out of Shadesmar through the creation of a miniature Perpendicularity. She is not very practiced in this Surge, and furthermore, as a Willshaper, she is not as powerful in this Surge than an Elsecaller would be.

Surge of Cohesion
Cohesion allows them to alter the shape of solid objects in a way called Stoneshaping. Allowing her to make more malleable, like clay, or even a liquid. Allowing her to reshape it to her desire. This is done through the manipulation of all of the Axi which make up the stone and the forces which bind them together. However, it had strict limits put on it by Honor, in order to prevent it from being as powerful and destructive as the Yolish Art of Microkinesis.

She communicated with the stone, and the stone and her body aligned in an ancient rhythm set to a pure tone, making stone reshape to show her images of her ancient people, the Dawnsingers, shaping things with stone. The exact reason for how and why this happened is not fully understood.