The Sleepless
A people Arclo names for Lift in the alley behind Tashi's Light Orphanage — immortal beings whose *bodies* are not bodies at all but disciplined swarms of thousands of finger-sized cremlings, each carrying a patch of skin on its back, interlocking from inside to counterfeit a single person. They breed and tune their own hordelings for what they need — eyes, ears, antennae, memory — and never sleep all at once. Arclo tells her his kind have been allies of ancient Knights Radiant for millennia, and that they call themselves refugees. SA:ED:Ch 18
Known facts
- ancient-allies-of-the-knights-radiantArclo tells Lift that the Sleepless and the Knights Radiant were friends and allies for ages — *long before the Last Desolation, days of honour, all gone* — and that Nale himself knows to stay away from his kind. Their war and humanity's, he says, are the same war and have been for millennia.SA:ED:Ch 18
Backreferences
- summarySA:DS:Ch 5
- factNikli
- factHordeling
- factYelamaiszin
- factAlalhawithador
- factZyardil
- factArclomedarian
- summarySA:ED:Ch 18
- factArclomedarian
- factThe Sleepless
- summarySA:ED:Ch 19
- summarySA:WaT:I-15
- factHoid
- factRysn
- factRysn
- factLife Sense
- factThe Mythwalker