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Prologue · reading

Parshendi warriors with marbled skin and living carapace armor

culture · par-SHEN-dee

Parshendi

the Parshendi

of the Shattered Plains. Not a faceless horde: Eshonai, a Shardbearer and general, wants to speak peace with Dalinar after the Tower.
Eshonai in Plate, asking for peace.
Role
A people with a general who has decided the killing has gone far enough.
First introduced
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
Most recently in view
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
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Look

Marbled skin and carapace still. Eshonai is a woman in , a general, not a beast in a shell. The look that meant 'savage' to the Alethi is a person's face.

As observed

Eshonai is deliberate, tired of the war, and capable of respect for an enemy who fights with . The assassination of Gavilar still sits unexplained beside that.

Where

The Shattered Plains; they have a people and a home out there, not only warbands.

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Eshonai

Eshonai

Shardbearer · Parshendi

Shardbearer from the Tower.