Arclomedarian (The Stormlight Archive)

"Your war is my war, and has been for millennia. Ancient Radiants named me friend and ally before everything went wrong. What wonderful days those were, before the Last Desolation. Days of...honor. Now gone, long gone."

- Arclo to Lift

Summary
Arclomedarian, also known as Arclo, is a Dysian Aimian who resides in Tashikk.

Like all the Sleepless on Roshar, was descended from Yelamaiszin and made to guard the island of Aimia. Although at some point he betrayed Yelamaiszin and most of the other Sleepless, and began to meet with Radiants and meddle with the Sleepless' plans. Eventually they decided to remove it from their communication network.

In early 1174, it met with Lift in Yeddaw. Who she met with multiple times, and it asked her various philosophical questions. Lift later sought Arclo out when Szeth told her that it was the other Radiant in Tashikk that Nale was searching for.

Appearance
Arclo is a collection of countless Hordelings evolved to emulate and disguise as various body parts. It can disguise itself as looking like various different kinds of person, Arclo typically imitates the form of an elderly man with dark skin and a grey mustache, he also possesses epicanthic folds, and, in order to fit among Rosharans, is rather tall. Close inspection of the skin of any Sleepless, including Arclo, reveals various small lines between the various Hordelings.

It wears a tightly wrapped shiqua, gender-neutral form of clothing in Tasshik; a long single sheet, wrapped around the entirety of the wearer's body from head to toe, winding around arms and legs individually, sometimes also being wrapped back around the waist as a skirt.

Personality
It has a deep interest in philosophy, both in making its own philosophies and in studying the philosophies and religions of other peoples and cultures.

It has a professed disinterest in Radiants, despite its communication with various Radiants throughout its history, especially before the Last Desolation.

While not actively murderous, and in fact tries to defend life, it has little to no qualms about killing others for the purpose of defending life.

It is not fully confident in its ability to mimic human beings, despite its great aptitude in doing so, so in order to disguise itself further and assuage its worries it wears a tightly wrapped shiqua.

The Sleepless
Due to not accepting the authority of Yelamaiszin, it has pretty tenuous connections with the rest of the Sleepless, for they cut it off from the rest of the hivemind. Despite this it is not considered one of the "true traitors" and is still liked.

Powers and Stats
Name: Arclomedarian, Arclo

Age: At least 4,500; likely far older. (Was alive before the Last Desolation )

Gender: Genderless, disguised as Male

Classification: Dysian Aimian, Sleepless, Worldhopper

Powers and Abilities: Limited Telepathy (Can communicate with other Sleepless and with all of the Hordelings that make up their body, this can be both communicating information or talking, to giving demands on what it wants it's constituent Cremlings to do), Limited Biological Manipulation (Can modify the various Cremlings that make it its body through actively manipulated selective breeding and mutations to evolve them into a particular form. Able to perfectly specialize them for countless different uses), Regeneration (Can restore itself from the death of Hordelings by breeding more to make up for those lost), Immortality (Due to the nature of their being, Sleepless are able to live for essentially forever as long as they do not have too many of their Hordelings destroyed. Arclomedarian has lived for over 4,500 Rosharan years). Potentially Large Size (Sleepless can, through breeding many, many Hordelings, take the form of even beings much larger than a human, such as a Santhid. Some Hordelings can grow to the size of a building), possibly Flight (Various Sleepless were shown as having many of their hordelings be capable of flight, it is likely, albiet unconfirmed, that it also possesses such hordelings), Multilingualism (it is capable of speaking in most, if not all human languages), Resistance to Transmutation (They are resistant to Soulcasting compared to most beings for a variety of reasons)

Attack Potency: Unknown

Durability: Unknown

Speed: Unknown

Intelligence: While it's intelligence in of itself has little known of its extents, it has a very in depth knowledge of Rosharan history, due to being spread all across Roshar for thousands of years, having access to the knowledge of all of its constituent Hordelings. Putting its knowledge far above that of most living individuals. It also has a great knowledge of and understanding of various religions and philosophies from across the world. It is capable of speaking most, if not all human languages across Roshar, and likely various tongues on other planets.

Weaknesses: If one can destroy all of, or at least a large portion of, the Hordelings that make it up, it would be unable to heal itself. Along with this, the range in which it can extend its Hordelings is ultimately finite, and cannot spread between Realms without the mental link being cut off, blocking them off from the hivemind.

Telepathy
It is connected to a hivemind connecting all of the Hordelings that makes it up, and formerly with all 24 Hordes of Sleepless, able to communicate telepathically with any of them.

It however was cut off from the communications of all Sleepless loyal to Yelamaiszin. It is still free to communicate with its own Hordelings.

Hordelings
It is made out of countless insects known as Hordelings which make up its body, these can be individually controlled by it and spread across the world to be used for various purposes.

Along with this, it can actively breed its Hordelings in order to adapt them to fit certain tasks and roles. Such as in order to act as particular body parts, to act as spies, and some Sleepless managed to make their Hordelings mimic the abilities of a Larkin, able to absorb Investiture. Its Hordelings have been bred to the extent that it can near perfectly mimic a human being.

In particular Arclo spreads its Hordelings across the world to act as spies.

The range in which the Hordelings is very large, able to be spread across much of Roshar, however it is not infinite, and if they are split too far from it they would be cut off from the hivemind. This also cannot be held between the Physical and Cognitive Realms, regardless of distance to the Cognitive Aspect of the central part of the Hivemind.

Due to its nature as a network of countless breedable Hordelings, it is able to regenerate from effectively any wound, not bound by the limitations of normal organic physiology. Therefore it can receive wounds that would kill any normal being and be unaffected. And it can regenerate through breeding more Hordelings in order to restore itself from most wounds.

Multilingualism
It is capable of speaking in most, if not all, human languages.

Worldhopping
Various Sleepless know how to Worldhop and have done so in the past, Arclo is one of those, telling Lift that it had visited places that Lift will never visit.