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=== Stormform ===
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|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.
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A singer bonded to a stormspren is granted stormform,{{book ref|sa4|86}} a form of power that is commonly used for frontline soldiers and a fearsome foe on the battlefield. This form was the first used by the listeners, allowing them to call the Everstorm into the Physical Realm{{book ref|sa2|84}} and freeing the other singers from their captivity.{{book ref|sa3|17}} With the return of the Everstorms, stormforms are often used as elite troops, capable of reinforcing standard soldiers or serving in special units that carry out important tasks, such as the company that seized the Sibling's crystal pillar in Urithiru.{{book ref|sa4|38}}
'''Appearance'''
Instead of the bulky external carapace armor granted by warform, a singer in stormform is protected by a more subtle armor that is nearly as effective.{{book ref|sa3|i|8}} The singer's skin is covered in rows of durable protective ridges that poke out through the skin, which stretches tightly in some places. Stormforms also have hairstrands are often absent in more martial forms,{{book ref|sa3|i|8}} more prominent physical differences between the sexes than other forms,{{book ref|sa2|83}} and barbed carapace on the backs of their hands.{{book ref|sa4|43}} Their face is protected by a carapace mask beneath the stormform's skin{{book ref|sa3|i|3}} with ridges on the nose and cheeks, capable of deflecting a blade away from the face without causing too much damage.{{book ref|sa4|95}} The ridged carapace breaks the skin above the cheeks and along the sides of the head.{{book ref|sa2|78}} The spiking armor plates{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} present under their skin elsewhere on their bodies{{book ref|sa3|i|3}} makes grappling with them difficult, jabbing attackers and preventing them from getting a decent hold.{{book ref|sa4|43}} A stormform often has flashes of energy appear around them, such as sometimes flashing across their eyes{{book ref|sa4|31}} or tiny nearly invisible lines of lighting flaring from their hands when they form a fist quickly.{{book ref|sa2|i|8}} When they are preparing to summon their lightning their skin begins to crackle with energy.{{book ref|sa4|43}} As they fight they cause flashes of light, {{book ref|sa2|80}} sometimes emanating from their weapons when they connect with enemies.{{book ref|sa2|81}}
'''Abilities and Weaknesses'''
Despite looking comparatively lithe,{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} a stormform Regal is in fact significantly stronger than a warform singer,{{book ref|sa2|i|8}} and even other forms of power,{{book ref|sa4|38}} They are able to leap across the chasms of the [[Shattered Plains]] without a running start{{book ref|sa2|i|8}} and posses a grip strength that allows them to easily hold the chasm walls when climbing them.{{book ref|sa3|i|3}}
The most overt power that stormform grants a singer is the ability to create and manipulate a red lightning in a variety of useful ways. Stormforms are capable of unleashing grand bolts of lightning that electrocute and burn their enemies, cooking them alive in their armor.{{book ref|sa2|81}} It is also capable of doing great damage to fortifications, with bolts used to destroy stone structures.{{book ref|sa4|42}} It takes a moment for a stormform to summon a bolt of lightning{{book ref|sa2|83}}{{book ref|sa4|103}} and those nearby can sense the power building,{{book ref|sa4|103}} as the stormform's skin begins to crackle with the red lightning.{{book ref|sa4|43}} This ability to throw lightning is most deadly in close range. The lightning itself is difficult to control and moves unpredictably, sometimes moving the wrong direction or channeling directly into the ground.{{book ref|sa2|81}} The flash of lightning is blindingly bright and creates a loud clap of thunder that is sometimes used as a signal and intimidates enemies. {{book ref|sa4|111}} This thunderclap can be permanently deafening in close quarters, but as it is quieter than normal thunder, those shielded from the noise usually suffer no permanent hearing loss.{{book ref|sa4|43}} When a stormform is killed, if their power has not been expended it can escape from their corpse and kill those nearby, particularly those standing in puddles.{{book ref|sa2|82}}
Stormform Regals are also capable of directly channeling the lightning into another person directly through physical contact, sending constant jolts of power through them,{{book ref|sa4|43}}which creates an immensely painful burning sensation in the victim.{{book ref|sa4|103}} Their oponents are unable to withstand the power of this attack without Stormlight healing to aid them.{{book ref|sa4|43}} Unleashing lightning into a person still generates a great deal of heat, burning through clothes, with the shock causing the victim's hair to stand on end.{{book ref|sa4|103}} Even when they are not intending to do harm, touching a stormform may cause the feeling of a little jolt of power.{{book ref|sa4|41}} Stormforms have also experimented with their powers in less directly martial ways. They have discovered that they can rewrite the polarity of a magnet with their lightning{{book ref|sa4|89}} and use it to ignite the contents of pressurized vessels.{{book ref|sa4|97}}
This lightning power is not limitless though, subsequent blasts of lightning are often weaker{{book ref|sa4|103}} than the first and after their Voidlight has been expended, it is slow to renew and its absence may leave the stormform feeling limp.{{book ref|sa4|95}} Another weakness of stormform is ironically water, which makes their ability to throw bolts of lightning even less reliable.{{book ref|sa4|42}} If a stormform is sufficiently drenched in water their power will be ruined and unable to renew properly until they are dry, slipping away from the stormform every time it starts to return.{{book ref|sa4|117}} Their lightning may also be counteracted by intentionally placing lightning rods to draw the bolts of power themselves to protect soldiers fighting stormform Regals.{{book ref|sa4|41}} Their powers may also be fully dampened by a suppression [[fabrial]], which causes their lightning to vanish.{{book ref|sa4|111}}
Another ability granted by stormform is some immunity to the effects of the the storms,{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} allowing them to move through the winds and darknesss of a storm with relative ease,{{book ref|sa2|81}} although they are not immune to the dangers the storms present.{{book ref|sa3|i|6}} According to legend they were able to control and summon the storms themselves,{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} it is uncertain if this refers to the power to summon the Everstorm from Shadesmar. Prior to its arrival in the Physical Realm, a stormform Regal was capable of summoning a small portion of the Everstorm themselves.{{book ref|sa2|i|11}} They could cause a small tempest of wind, lightning and dark mist to appear briefly between their hands, although it is unknown if they maintain this power following the arrival of the Everstorm. It is uncertain whether summoning the Everstorm was a task only the stormforms could complete or whether they were simply chosen as the form best suited for the task.
=== Envoyform ===
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