Creature:Vanara

"Accursed children, your birth signals an ill omen for all who will cross your path. Your sin is your very existence, you who should never have been born."

- Unknown

"They tear their way through the stars brutal and merciless, consuming entire planets and leaving nothing in their wake. But you my children, oh you will be worst, oh so much worse. Hunt them down through the darkness between the stars, never falling when other falter and die, with a thirst for retribution never quenched, and blades eternally soak in blood. Rip and tear until it is done, until the prey is slaughtered and the nightmare is slain."

- Persacron Warlord Argent

Celia, The Outcast Progenitor
The first being that could ever truly be called a Vanara was the child of the Alice's companion creature Dinah. Dinah had two children, the Child of Light Ada and the Child of Darkness Celia. Celia was troublesome and miscivious where as her sister was well behaved. In a fit of jealousy over the apparent favoritism of her sister Celia tried to bring her sister to serious harm and was outcast for it, though Celia had a mark placed on her that would curse anyone who dared harm her. In the material world Celia met the concept of goodness given form and will, Sefidrasil, and the two beings became friends. Together the two would battle Sefidrasil's equal and opposite Qliphoggr. Thanks to the curse inflicted on Qliphoggr by Celia's mark Sefidrasil was able to shatter its opposite into ten fragments.

Unfortunately with its double gone Sefidrasil began to destroy the freewill of all those around it, driving it to commit suicide. Mournful Celia took the ten shards of Sefidrasil and reforged them into virtues mortals could embody to nullify Qliphoggr's fragments should the beast return. Celia then ripped out her own heart allowing her body to fade into darkness while her mind went dormant.

The Dark Eye
The Vanara as a race would come into being when two Eitren sisters named Ocenia and Orchisis when digging in some ruins of a long gone civilization. There they found the heart of Celia in the form of a flower of dark, but beautiful colors, like those from a dream. The two sisters took the flower back to their laboratory and attempted to grow more flowers of its kind. However, all their attempts were fraught with failure and eventually the flower itself began to die. The two sisters began to despair until Orchisis saw, embedded in the foreheads of creatures they had been growing vats for another experiment, dark, yet brilliant colored jewels that looked like eyes. Further observation showed that the beings in the tanks could manifest emotion and showed intelligence. Ocenia and Orchisis sought to raise these being seeing them as beings of greater beauty then themselves.

Unfortunately for them and the beings they had created the other Eitren saw this beauty to and were envious of it. They banished Ocenia and Orchisis to a pocket dimension. They then ripped the eye-like jewels from the created beings to deprive them of their beauty and named them Vanara, meaning Accursed Children. But the crimes of the other Eitren came with a great cost for the eye-like jewels gathered together into a single jewel called The Dark Eye. The Dark Eye cursed to Eitren burning away their souls leaving behind an emptiness that would latter be filled by a hunger as a "gift" from the ancient evil known as Qliphoggr. In retaliation the Eitren reduced the Vanara to their slaves and food source.

Succession War
"I have stood on the shoulders of titans and with on single sweep of my great blade have severed their heads from those shoulders."

- Vanara Warrior during the Succession War

For awhile this would be the status quo, but as time wore on Eitren's greater servant race the grew tired of their master's cruelty and wished to rebel against their cruel and oppressive rulers, however they had been programmed to serve and could not openly defy their masters. So the Persacron reached out and collaborated with the who wished to see the Eitren undone for destroying the Alimbics' home galaxy. Both realized the Vanara would be the perfect vessels for bring about this end since their having Eitren DNA meant they could absorb an Eitren's conscious if they slew it a nullify the Eitren's existence, but the Vanara were feeble and weak, so they would need empowering. To accomplish this the Persacron and the Multus secretly found the Stitch Persacron Hybrid and sent her down to Accel Space where she encountered the Stitch Jura. after mating with the stitch Ava was transformed and using the corpses of several Eitren birthed the NewTypes who reproduced with the Vanara implanting a dormant genetic code.

When the time came the code was activated and the Vanara were transformed into tall, imposing beings wielding living weapons and armor, and blessed with the powers of darkness. The Vanara, the Persacron, the Multus, Precore Dragons (another rebellious Eitren creation), and two rouge Eitren (Ocenia and Orcisis) rebelled and fought the Eitren slaying most of them. The survivors fled to the inter-galactic rifts where their queen Leless ate them so they could be reborn as the monsters that would one day become Scelus.

However, a group of rouge Lightlings led by the one referred to as the Indomitable Sun feared and despised the Vanara for their connection to darkness. These Lightlings made a deal with the Eitren's favored creations the Affonire. Together the two slew most of the Persacron and reduced the Vanara to weaker form and imprisoned them on a boron and ammonia based planet believing they would never escape, but in case they did the rouge lightlings used a shard to inflict with the Emerald Thirst insuring that the Vanara would be hunted if they did escape.

But Ava gifted her children with the ability to survive on all worlds regardless of biochemistry and left them behind caches of technology and knowledge to speed up their advancement back into space. She then summoned Jura to call fourth a fragment of Sephridrasil to gift the Vanara with the Burning Rage to fight the Emerald Thrist with. Ava and Jura then devastated the Affonire reducing them to a single planet.

The Sister Wars
After the Promen were render extinct the Vanara largely split into tribes that lived in the ruins of Promen civilization, scavenging whatever they needed to survive. While there is little record of what happened on the continent of World's End, the history of the largest continent Adrestia is well recorded. Over time the tribes began to form, ten named after the elemental domains of Sun, Moon, Stars, Sky, Sea, Underworld, Body, Land, Language, and Death. In order to prevent one another from destroying eachother the tribes quickly worked out a system. The Tribes would send warriors to fight on another in none lethal combat when disputes over resources arose, with the winner winning his tribe the resource.

For many generations this worked fine, until one day when all things changed. No one knew who he was or where came from, but they did know he was powerful and hell bent on conquering them all. He was a powerful mage who called himself the Hermetic Emperor and wielded a Eitren artifact of great power that allowed him to bend the planet to his will. Leading his great armies the Hermetic Emperor conquered tribe after tribe with none standing in his way until the whole of Vidarr was his to rule with and iron fist. No one could topple him and it seemed as if the whole of Alastor was doomed to fall under his rule. That was until a group of ten sisters stumbled upon a great Persacron artifact called the Forge of Spirits. The Forge granted the sisters each power over the elemental domains that the Hermetic Emperor ruled over. Realizing that even with their powers they would need an army to defeat the Hermetic Emperor the sisters went to World's End and the split up to gather followers for which to form an army. Extruding a seemingly supernatural charisma and preforming great miracles the sisters wandered across the continent resolving problems, adverting catastrophe, improving life, and gather followers. Eventually they became the rulers of the continent they landed upon and built them into a new era of technical and societal advancement.

Once their work was done the sisters and reunited to lead their combined armies against the Hermetic Emperor. The war that fallowed was one of the most devastating the planet had ever faced with the very elements themselves trying tear one another apart. While the armies of the Heremetic Emperor were massive and brutal, the armies were run by shrewder tacticians. Eventually the Sisters faced off against the Hermetic Emperor and all fell, except the Sister of Death who destroyed the tyrant for good.

Rule of the Sovereign
After the defeat of the Hermetic Emperor the Sister of Death declared herself the Sovereign and mated with the companions of her dead sisters creating the ten Vanara dynasties. She then bound the dynasties together under a central government with a large amount of autonomy granted to each dynasty, thus the Vanara Republic was born. With the power granted to the by the Forge of Spirits and many other Persacron artifacts the Sovereign accelerated the advancement of her race by generations. In the course of about three millennia the Vanara went from using steel weapons and bows, to a race who had mastered fusion, possessed advanced energy and relativistic kinetics, and was beginning to master interstellar travel. The Vanara prospered like never before with crime and poverty being almost nonexistent, while the populous enjoyed vast social and political freedoms and economic opportunities abounded.

This last for about seven thousand years, though as time wore on people began to see and here less and less of the Soverign, until one day she was gone. With her disappearance came the end of the golden age. With the end having come the great Republic began to fall, other civilizations held back began to prey on the crumbling Republic once more. Mass amounts of territory, technology, and culture were lost as the Republic finally fragmented and the whole of the Vanara fell to a dark age.

Rise and Fall of the Empire
It was during this dark age that a new power arose, a women calling herself the Obsidian Empress began uniting the disparate Vanara nations by force forging them into a new Empire. She then led the Vanara on a great conquest across the stars crushing the civilizations who dared oppose prey on the Vanara. After the conquest was complete the Empress enacted a system in which all other species would be restricted to a single planet which the Vanara would rule from orbit. These species would serve, producing all the Vanara would need or be exterminated. The Vanara would then continue their conquests and live in luxury.

This continued for about six thousand years which each Obsidian Empress being succeeded by another. But one day Vanara colonies on the frontier began to grow dark. Investigations were launched but none returned, and the darkening continued to grow until even the ancient Vanara capital of Alastor grew dark. At the edge of Vanara territory several of the leaders of the last frontier colonies met and began to discuss what was happening. Realizing the Empire was lost they gathered up their people on their combined fleets and fled deep into unknown space.

Service Under the Affonire
Reduced to only a small migrant fleet the remnants of the Vanara traversed the depths of space searching for any place to settle. However, no matter where they went they were driven from wherever they settled by the native powers. Eventually they simply broke down unable to continue and settled on a dark forest planet and waited for the end. It was here they were discovered by the emerging Affonire Republic. The Vanara did not remember the Affonire and the Affonire only remembered the Vanara as legends of demonic beings who hunted their gods. Still the Affonire saw how effective the Vanara could be as weapons and so helped the Vanara rebuild, but at a price. The Vanara would give up their own children for the Affonire to train as soldiers that would infiltrate enemy ranks and destroy civilian areas from within, hamstringing the enemy forces. For a generation or two this continued until political shifts in the Affonire Republic resulted in the Vanara being branded demons that must be exterminated.

It was around this time that young Vanara named Vania who had been sent off world would discover an artifact worshiped by the race she had been sent to cripple. She touched the artifact and was dragged to a pocket dimension where she met two god-like beings, Ocenia and Orchisis, two Eitren who had assisted the Vanara and Persacron in their rebellion against the other Eitren. Ocenia and Orchisis listened to the young Vanara's pleas for salvation and showed her three great ships the size of moons. Ocenia and Orchisis then placed Vania aboard one of the ships. Vania interfaced with the ships causing her to ascend to become a being of pure consciousness in Accel Space. Vania the directed the world ships named Leviathan, Behemoth, and Ziz across the Affonire Republic teleporting Vanara offworld and onto the ships. Once the Vanara were secured the world ships then fled from the Affonire.

Afterwards the Vanara named the worldships Vania-class Worldships in honor of the one who rescued them. Vania then vanished leaving behind three AIs she had constructed to control the ships. These became the first Nagul AIs who, along with the current Vanara Empress, decided it would be best for the Vanara to leave the galaxy altogether and so have the entire species flee to the intergalactic rifts.

Physiology
"They're not as strong and durable as Ugandalorians, nor are they as swift and alluring as the Raptoraneans. What they do have is resilience and adaptability matched by few."

- ???

Vanara, despite their flesh appearance, are not carbon based life but rather polyoxometalate based life. This means that they are built from transition metals linked together by oxygen to form a polyatomic ion. This gives the Vanara a distinctive shinny grey flesh and silvery blood, and makes them especially tolerant to extremes of temperature. When on planets that lack polyoxometalate planets and animals Vanara will simply eat metals that they mine (often after letting them oxidize). Metals and oxygen can also be absorbed from the flesh and blood of carbon based life, all the other stuff that's not absorbed is latter regurgitated.

Vanara notably have several radioisotopes naturally occurring in their body rendering them radioactive. They can control this radiation though, lowering to the point were their only slightly more radioactive then any other life (and thus able to interact safely with others), or raising to the point where it can cause nasty radiation burns. They can even control which parts of their body to render highly radioactive and which do not.

While Vanara as a whole are physically superior to being such as humans, they are not as strong, fast, or durable as many of the other races they known. However, they do have several adaptations that have made them a highly successful race. One is their ability to slightly mutate to suit their environment, for example a Vanara that settles on a oceanic world will developed webbing in between their digits, increased lung capacity, and more water repellent coat. High sensory powers is another factor as Vanara are able to see ultraviolet and infrared light, feel vibrations through the ground, track prey for miles via smell, and can hear an impressive range of subsonic and ultrasonic sounds. Then there is their ability to process and encode information with extreme speed and accuracy, once a Vanara learns something they rarely if ever forget it.

Finally there is their resilience which is thanks to a number of factors. A primary one is the Vanara immune system which is high efficient thanks to a combination of its voraciousness, symbiotic lifeforms that live within the Vanara, and the hostility of a the internal environment of a Vanara's body. A Vanara's immune system can even absorb useful traits from infectious agents. Vanara also regenerate a very fast rate, allowing them to even regrow limbs, and they do not suffer from shock due to stress or physical injury.

Life Cycle
Vanara reproduce sexually between a male and female and lay eggs. Females will build a nest to lay her eggs in and then stay by them twenty-four seven while male is sent to go get food and clear out waste. While taking care of her eggs the female becomes hyper-aggressive and feral. She will not allow anything other then the male to approach and even he must be careful. While Vanara can lay up to twelve eggs only one to three will hatch, with the unhatched eggs serving as the first meal of the newborns. Vanara reproduce very rarily and different females have different levels of fertility that they can sense and forms something of hierarchy among them. Often times sterile females that a fertile female trusts will be allowed to help look after a raise the young.

When Vanara are first born they a leathery skinned, long limbed creatures that nurse off their mother and cling to her back most of the time. They stop nursing, grow fur and scales, can speak, and begin to walk around on their own in course of about a month or so. Vanara reach full sexual maturity in about three years with most leaving the home about year or two after this stage in life. Vanara stay physically fit up until the end of their life. When they die their bodies do not decay, instead they solidify and begin to oxidize.

Behavior
Vanara have relieved a rather universal stereotype as being sadistic, a reputation that is not entirely unearned. Vanara take active joy in tormenting, injuring, and drawing out the death of their foes. Despite appearance though this behavior is divorced to a degree from the concept of cruelty and is more like a cat playing with a dying mouse. It is a survival strategy used to make sure that prey is significantly weakened before going in for the kill. Among their own however, Vanara show a great degree of empathy and will almost always go to help those in distress, even if their an individual the Vanara in question doesn't particularly like.

Vanara as a hole are not terribly social and tend form small, but close knit social groups. Usually these groups are run by dominate female with two or three subservient females and two or three subservient males with one male being the female's favorite. These groups will often hang out with other such groups they have close relationship with. Vanara have inherently meritocratic tendencies and will usually gravitate towards those they regard as the most competent leader who can prove their ability to provide for the group and/or community. When it comes to mate selection females usually do the choosing and will challenge the male they choose to fight. It is unknown why they do this as even if the male looses he still gets the girl. Vanara mate for life and if one mate dies the other partner will not seek out another.

Symbiotes
Insurrection Virus=

Rad-Bacteria= Rad-Bacteria are a type of bacteria that feeds of ionizing radiation via a process similar to photosynthesis. They live inside the skin of the Vanara feeding off the radiation the Vanara naturally produce. In return these bacteria are actually bioluminescent and are what allow the Vanara to communicate in they way they usually do. They also live in the skin of the Blood Worms and give those creatures food so they may also live in symbiosis with their Vanara host.

Blood Worms= Thin black worms with three sectioned mouths ringed with rows upon row of viscous teeth. They live in the Vanara's blood stream and help augment their immune system. They protect they help protect the Vanara from other parasites, when a parasite attempts to infect the host the worms burrow into it and then drain it for food. When their are no parasites to kill they rely on Rad-Bacteria to provide them with nourishment.

Leadership
Vanara are strong proponents of a democratic tradition, voting to elect their leaders and pass or reject policies. However, there is also a strong stratocratic element to their society with voting rights only being given to those who have served in the military and leadership only granted to those who have reached high military rank. Due to military promotion being solely a matter of capability this means the Vanara society as a strong meritocratic element as well. Because of the Stratocratic elements found in Vanara society the military and civilian administration have blurred to the point of being indistinguishable, making the definition of military service a rather broad one.

Bloody Thirst and Burning Rage
As mentioned before Vanara all have a sadistic instincts that drives them to inflict pain on those they intent to kill. While many "civilized" species would try to suppress these urges, the Vanara do not for far worse awaits them if they do. Vanara who suppress their sadistic instincts while be over taken by something called the Bloody Thirst. In this state their pupils vanish and their eyes begin spilling out blood while they become possessed by a voice that overrides their self-control drives them remorselessly slaughter whatever is in reach. Luckily Vanara can work of these sadistic urges via four Sasiations that bleed off Emerald Thirst, though going overboard in these Sasiations can actively give the Blue Thirst more opportunities to take control. The four Sasiations are Skin: Lording one's superiority over another, Blood: hunting and killing other beings, Flesh: taking something that belongs to another, and Bone: terrorizing something through acts of domination and destruction.

Vanara who willing choose to submit to the Bloody Thirst's control will under go a shocking transformation. First their body will begin to melt and then grow and reform itself into a massive black and green monstrous slug-like creature with black stinger-like spikes painfully rupturing from it's back, masses of useless insectoid limbs, sickly yellowish green blood, and a body covered in red eyes and mouths filled with massive teeth and toothed tongues. A terrifying beast called a Drastrigoi.

Separate from the Bloody Thirst is the tendency for the Vanara to go into berserk state called the Burning Rage. This happens when the Vanara has been pushed to the emotional edge in combat causing them to revert to feeling nothing more then a cold fury in in which they will use whatever weapons they have at their disposal. In this state their strength, resilience, and speed increase, and they will utterly ignore any wound they receive or any words their foe may have. Even more noticeably is that their eyes will being to issue flames as their skin darkens and their claws and fangs grow. Once the enemy forces are slaughtered the Vanara will almost instantly snap out of it and experience a near instant emotional recovery. Interestingly enough The Emerald Thirst has a much harder time controlling a Vanara in throws of the Burning Rage, in fact the Vanara seem to have better control and hyper awareness while in this state.

Iterations
Celia, The Outcast Progenitor=

Eye Vanara=

Prey Vanara=

Primordial Vanara=

Primal Vanara=

Relationships
General=

[[File:Green face.png]] Other Imperial Species
Our blades are yours and so is our blood.
 * - Fellow warriors of the empire, our bonds are strong.
 * - Essence brothers and sisters.
 * Vanara Empire Aligned - Once we were enemies, now are bonds have strengthened us tenfold.
 * - Same with the Verasien, they are powerful.

[[File:Blue face.png]] Allies and Friends
We are with you through peace and through war.
 * Ugandalorian - Brothers in the Mendel, fellow servants of Horangiir. To the death we fight with you.
 * - Such amazing adaptability and without the use of genetic or cybernetic augmentation.
 * Raptorian - Loyal and trustworthy, with good evolutionary capacities.
 * Raptoranean - Genetic descendants of the Raptorians, we find their pheromones and over happiness... off putting at times.
 * Volver - An honorable and proud race of warriors.

[[File:Yellow face.png]] Neutral
We think little of you.

[[File:Orange face.png]] Disliked
Don't bother us and you can keep your head.

[[File:Red face.png]] Enemies
We will spray your blood miles across the battle field.

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Allies

 * Ugandalorians - Initially interactions between Imperial Vanara and Ugandalorians were tense to openly hostile. The Ugandals seeing the Vanara as sadistic savages, and the Vanara seeing the Mendel as prejudice idealists. However during the many wars the Vanara and Ugandals fought along side in many battles against common enemies they both began to see each other for what they really were, honorable warriors who fought for what they believed in and cared about in an incredibility hostile universe.The Vanara have taken a strong liking to the Ugandal god Hoorangiir, with the Cult of Hoorangiir having a strong presence in the UPD. While Vanara get along just fine the Walgolorians, they are known to detest Kodalorians. This is due to the death of the children for those who fail in the most spectacular way, something seen as a sin of the highest caliber.


 * Raptoranean - The Vanara have always been fairly fond of the Raptoraneans ever since they first met. The Vanara were initially suspicious of the Waptoria as a whole due to a history of being the subject of repeated attempts of genocide forcing them to live a nomadic lifestyle. However, once the Waptoria proved to be sincere in their desire for friendship, the Vanara warmed to them if slowly. While Vanara can find the Raptoraneans more outgoing nature somewhat off putting at times, the two species get along fairly well though Vanara find Raptoranean pheromones to be unpleasantly smelly (Vanara produce no such things themselves) and Raptoraneans find the ionizing radiation Vanara naturally produce unpleasant to look at since it looks like an aura of death to them.


 * Orgaat - In general Vanara get along fine with Orgaat, some even quiet well. Both are even known to share meals after conflict as both have cannibalistic tendencies. Even though Orgaat hate species who eat others for no purpose or need, Vanara do have purpose for the consumption of the dead of others and their own. This is since they eat the dead enemies for the sheer practicality of easing the strain on rations and eating their own dead is so their fallen can provide for their companions even in death(that and not wasting fresh meat).


 * Dragowar - Even back when they were enemies the Vanara were always fairly sympathetic to the Dragowar and saw the dragons as a grim reminder of what they could have become if they hadn't learned how to manage and avert the Blue Thirst. After the events that brought an end to the Great Mirusian Conflicts the Vanara were the most ardent supporters for helping the Rebel Consuls rebuild the Dragowar and during the conflict did their best to minimize damages and casualties (a first). When the Dragowar were not allowed to remilitarize the Vanara were outraged and spoke out viciously against said treatment feeling the Covenant's attempts to turn the Dragowar more peaceful ridiculous (a Vanara diplomat pointing at the word War was at the end of the species' very name). However, there wasn't anything they could do about, so the Vanara just resorted to exploiting any loop hole they could find in the agreement for all it was worth.

Neutral

 * Humans - Vanara for the most part despise humans, regarding them as weak creatures in both body, mind, and soul, with abnormally developing egos. To them humans are a divided species all struggling against one another, and are constantly greedy always grasping for possession even at the cost of their freedom. Most Vanara will kill most humans they encounter simply to keep things tidy. However, this not universal as the Sicorséach of the Mendel Pact are given a fair degree of respect and, though having never met them face to face, many Vanara are curious to see of the Allied Terran Republic holds potential.

Terminology

 * Young Vanara - A Whelp
 * Female Vanara - A Queen
 * Male Vanara - A Dog
 * Collective Noun - A Vector
 * Collateral adjective - Vanarine

Quotes from others

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"When I first encountered the Vanara, I thought them savage and destructive. But now, having fought alongside them, and seen their culture, I see they are a group worthy of respect and honor, more so then most others."

Trivia

 * Theme - VtM Bloodlines OST - Main Theme
 * Vanara are mostly based off Diclonius from Elfen Lied, Wolfbreed from Wolfbreed, Godzilla himself, Vasari from Sins of a Solar Empire, and Humanity from Dark Souls
 * The Drastrigoi are based off the Drassil from Brynhildr in the Darkness
 * Special thanks goes to Wormulon for advice on improving and taxonomy of my creature.