Specialized hordelings can convincingly mimic inanimate objects. Over the course of many generations, some have even managed to breed hordelings that are able to mimic the powers of a larkin.

Nikli notes that it took three hundred years to breed hordelings that could imitate human fingers. Hordelings can be specially bred to enhance specific capabilities of a Sleepless, such as a heightened sense of smell or increased memory capacity, although this process takes some time. I’m younger than the others, but am more. We don't have the mannerisms, the thoughts. And still, most of us are terrible at pretending to be humans. “ It took my people three hundred years of selective breeding to achieve hordelings capable of imitating human fingers. Sleepless therefore tend to cover their 'skin' when possible, or use the appearance of older skin or tattoos to obscure their true nature. However, individual hordelings cannot shapeshift, so the nature of a Sleepless body is usually visible upon close inspection. For example, because Arclo tries to pass as a human, many of his hordelings have protrusions on their backs that resemble human parts such as skin or eyeballs he is also able to speak with a passably human voice. The hordelings of each Sleepless are not all identical, and often serve specific purposes. The first swarm to come to Roshar originally had spiderlike hordelings the swarms breed their hordelings to resemble local fauna in order to blend in.

Hordelings on Roshar often resemble native creatures known as cremlings simply to make them less noticeable to casual observers they can take other forms. Hordelings are usually about the size of a finger, but they can be as large as a fist or sometimes as large as a building. Unlike Siah Aimians, Dysian Aimians cannot mate with humans. Sleepless not on Roshar would not be practiced in imitating the human form, and would look completely different. The hordelings are not limited in how they assemble themselves with practice, a Sleepless can mimic the shape of other creatures, including humans. Sleepless have a unique physiology, as their 'bodies' are actually composed of thousands of creatures called 'hordelings' that are able to function as a single consciousness. Kaza, watching the cook of the First Dreams

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