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The singers, no longer the dominant species on Roshar, continued to fight humanity and the [[Knights Radiant]]. Over the centuries, they came to be known as the '''parsh''', though the meaning of the word is unclear.{{epigraph ref|sa3|77}}
Around two thousand years after the Last Desolation, near the Recreance, another conflict between the two species flared up. Dubbed the [[False Desolation]], it was notable for the participation of [[Ba-Ado-Mishram]], one of [[Odium]]'s [[Unmade]].{{book ref|sa3|56}} Ba-Ado-Mishram Connected with the singers and provided them [[Regal]] forms and [[Voidlight]], as Odium once did in the Desolations, allowing the singers to wage war at levels closer to those of the real Desolations.{{epigraph ref|sa3|80}} In response, the [[Knights Radiant]] imprisoned Ba-Ado-
These singers without form -- "slaveforms" to listeners, and '''parshmen''' to humans -- would eventually become property of humans, turning into cheap, mindless labor that would be exploited for millennia to come.{{book ref|sa1|3}}{{book ref|sa2|i|1}} The only ones to have escape that fate were the listeners, likely thanks to having broken ties with Odium.{{book ref|sa2|i|4}}
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