Category: Exotic Biochemistry
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Nyhethoryn
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Nyhethoryn are a eusocial carnivorous species organized into a unique caste system. The Nyhethoryn are vicious predatory species who seemingly lack any higher goal, excluding the survival of their kind. Indeed, these creatures appear to be feral and unintelligent, animalistic and bestial; despite this, their martial tactics appear coordinated and…
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Rot Jungle
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Rot Jungle, also known as the Toxic Forest, is a vast and dangerous expanse of fungal growth that stretches for miles in all directions. The jungle is home to a wide variety of deadly and toxic molds, many of which are capable of releasing spores into the air that can…
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Urinoid
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Urine Elementals, also known as “Urinoids,” are a race of sentient beings that are composed entirely of urine. They are typically found in areas with poor sanitation and a high concentration of waste, such as sewers and dumps. They are considered repulsive and loathed by most other races due…
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Mi-Go
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Mi-Go are a highly advanced eusocial species currently residing in the city of R’yleh. Originally native to a long-fallen realm, it was siphoned into the Umbra because of the actions of a greedy federation of realms fearful of the Mi-Go. The Mi-go now sundered into two species, the original purebreeds…
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Jade Goliath
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jade Goliaths are constructs of jade. They were originally created by the Dredge to assist in labor, but now are commonly used by the Aesoteric as workers or draught beasts. Jade Goliaths are massive, with a height of 20.9m (68.57ft), and a width of 30.7m (100.7ft). These creatures are also…
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Great Old One
Reading Time: 3 minutes Great Old Ones are ancient, unknowable lifeforms that predate all known life. They are unfathomably wise, intelligent, and enigmatic. They are a group of phenotypically unique, malignant beings of great power. They reside in various locations in Ja’luhhor’Alotha, and once presided over it as gods and rulers. They were either imprisoned…
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Pale Saucers of Rogmathia
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pale Saucers of Rogmathia, known more simply as the Pale Saucers, or the Saucers, and in singular Saucer, are a race of aerial shapeshifting predatory creatures. Who, in their most common form, resemble the “flying saucers” of human myth. These ancient creatures predate the Aesoteric, but have assisted in their…
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Ravenoid
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Driven only by a singular desire to feed, the Ravenoid is likely to appear wherever there is flesh to be consumed, bringing with it an insatiable propensity for hunger.” – Unholy Sinux Archives The Ravenoid is a bulbous flying carnivorous organism which has a unique spore-based reproductive system. Ravenoids are…
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Neophyte
Reading Time: 2 minutes Neophytes are the first stage in the lifecycle of all Aesoteric organisms. The most unique feature about the average Neophyte is their pharyngeal jaw, not unlike a goblin shark’s. Along with their uniquely shaped head and ornate indentations on their chitinous armor. They mature into Neomorphs, and then into Imagos before…
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Dredge
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Dredge (native name Óorog) are an ancient species of unknowable sapient horrors that assisted the Aesoteric in their greatest megastructures and innovations. After centuries of supporting the Aesoteric’s endeavors, the Dredge retreated into their world to reap the rewards of their servitude to the Aesoteric organisms. Before retreating into their…