The Astalsi

A pre-Ascension people who held that every life carried a fixed allotment of misfortune, so each setback was actually a draw against the quota and therefore a kind of blessing; they paired the doctrine with a detailed colour-scale recorded in Keeper copperminds, used to describe sky, plant, and ocean before the Lord Ruler's Ascension. Sazed keeps them in his copperminds. MB1:TFE:Ch 29