Fiction:Necrelus Swarm

"You are not free, we are free. Free from all pain and suffering that our individual minds burden us with. Join us, become free, become part of the Swarm."

The Necrelus Swarm is a undead race created from corpses reanimated by worms that generate a substance called Stygian Glass. These beings undead minds are controlled via hive mind ruled over by the seven Primordials, beings of even greater power and far more ancient. Their goal is to end the pain and suffering of all life by assimilating them into the horde achieving peace through death. The Primordials however posses a far different goal.

Organization
The Necrlus are ruled by a single hive mind that dictates their every action and decision. Those assimilated into the Swarm do initially retain some twisted and corrupted sense of individuality, but as the assimilation furthers itself the assimilant's individuality starts to disappear as their intellect degrades into a more bestial form before degrading all together as they become nothing more then drones. While most Necrelus eventually mentally degraded to the point where they posses no individuality what so ever.

There are the seven Primordials that rule over the swarm. These are even more ancient beings of great power that were the first to span the worms that generate the Necrotic Glass. They actually merely view all other life as food and are utilizing the Swarm

Culture
The Necrelus Swarm's entire culture is based around assimilation and the elimination of pain. They believe that pain and suffering are a plague on Koldenwelt and the sentient species are the viruses that spread it across the planet. To them individuality and any expression of self is the greatest sin of all as it distracts from the perfect vision of the peace that death will bring and the over all goals of the swarm. All must conform to the standards set by the hive mind and to deviate from those standards will result in the immediate destruction of the source of the deviation. Failure is also not tolerated as the Swarm must operate at maximum efficacy and any form a slack and incompetence is intolerable.

The Primordials on the other hand believe highly in their own superiority over all other races, regarding any other sentient life as little more then prey. However they do acknowledge the power of others seeing those of equal power as a potential worthy foe and those of greater power as threat to their place in the universe. They are very patient and cunning, constantly planning ahead and having plans within plans.

Territory
The Necrelus main territory is located somewhere to the far north in a sprawling maze of icy caves, frozen crypts, and snowy forests. It is here the Necrelus lie in wait for unsuspecting prey to wander in or for the eventual call of their masters forward unto battle.

Technology
The Necrelus do not posses technology in the conventional sense. Rather as they assimilate new races they gain the traits of those races and then share them throughout the entire swarm as a whole, selecting the useful ones and disposing of those that would weaken them. This has resulted in the Necrelus developing traits such as vibrating spines of Stygian Glass to shred through enemies in melee or be hurled for ranged combat, and freezing acid to eat through and and sap the strength of enemies. In order to create structures, siege vehicles, and ships, Necrelus can merge with each other to create a larger form of Necrelus.

Assimilation
Necrelus assimilate new members into the Swarm to grow their numbers. To do this they inject a dead corpse via an infestion tube that transfers the worms into the deceased. The worms then begin to reconstructed the body, rebuilding the parts that need to be recreated as well as creating new parts so the new Necrelus can serve a specific purpose, and implanting the brain with a Gloom Stygian Glass shard that connects it to the hive mind. Once the reconstruction is done then the corpse is reanimated with it's mind intact, but completely loyal to the swarm. Reconstructed corpses are drained of all color becoming a ghostly white with veins as black as their blood and glowing red eyes.

Species
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Des Dragons= A species of Lesser Kelodhros who inhabited Alastor alongside the Skrulking and Roraxtus. When the Voranax and Zeyk began to seize control of the valley the Des Dragon breeds were split on who to side with. Some joined with the Voranax and Zeyk, while others joined with the Skrulking and Roraxtus. Those that sided with the Skrulking and Roraxtus were driven from the valley along with their allies. Then there were those who went elsewhere. These were the toxic Ven'Des Dragons. During the war for the Alastorian valley the Ven'Des left for other lands instead of getting involved. They eventually came to the lands of the Necrelus and most where killed and assimilated into the swarm. However those who survived fell under the control of the Primordials and were not assimilated, but instead force bred to augment the Necrelus forces.

Primordials= The absolute rulers of the Necrelus, the Primordials are tall white being of a humanoid frame, but with a three eyed reptilian head with a massive maw that can expand to devour prey and a pair of angel like wings. Communicating via telepathy they can put others under a form of hypnosis. They can also shapeshift into a four legged wolf-like form, smaller winged form, black smoke, and elemental dust. Their frame is also collapsible allowing them it fit through the extremely tight places becoming almost two dimensional.

They devour their prey physically, but actually feed on their victim's mind who are still very much alive inside them until all their mind has been consumed and they finally die. While they can feed off none sapient life, they prefer to as sapient lifeform's dreams taste better and sustain them better. This is their reason for creating the swarm as their connection to the Hive Mind as it gives them a constant supply of minds to feed off.

Military

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[[File:Yellow face.png]] Allies
You will help us bring peace through death.

[[File:Orange face.png]] Hostile
We can give you peace willing, or by force.

[[File:Red face.png]] Enemies
Prepare for assimilation!

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Trivia

 * Theme - Cuotl Theme
 * Based of the Vampires from The Strain series, the Sorcerian from Brynhildr in the Darkness, and Dark Alin from Rise of Legends.
 * Fantasy verse equivalent of the and.