Creature:Vanara

The Vanara are race created by the ancient Precursors known as the, specifically by the , to battle the as psychic support troops, and latter repurposed to study, understand, utilize, or even fight the supernatural (if it proved necessary). While weak in body the Vanara are strong in mind with strong learning abilities and unyielding tenacity, coupled with innate psychic abilities and a natural affinity for the chromatic magics of Accel Space. While often times stereotyped as sadistic, something not entirely unwarranted, the Vanara are a hardy race known for their determination, loyalty, and spirit that has lend them through the darkest of hours time and time again.

Succession War
The Vanara were first created when the attempted to rebel against their creators, the vicious alien race known as the, alongside the other races of the ancient Percursors known as the. The Vanara were created alongside three other races; the Boyk, the Axengelion, and Vaelnier. While the Boyk were created to be soldiers, the Axengelion to be pilots and machine crews, and the Vaelnier to be strategists. The Vanara were created to act as psychic support. While weak of body, they were strong of mind, inherently psychic, and possessed a strong connection to the supernatural. With their power the Vanaara were able to bend the very fabric of existence around them, summoning fourth the forces of nature to destroy Eitren forces in mass. Combined with the strengths of the other races the Eitren were either all slayen or driven to the intergalactic rifts where they were devoured by their queen to birth the Scelus.

Afterwards the Vanara were wiped of their memories of the war and relocated to a single planet known Alastor, so that they might be reprogrammed to serve a greater purpose beyond war, but also so that they might carve out their own destiny. The Vanara were thus repurpossed to investigate, understand, utilize, or even combat, if it proved necessary, the supernatural forces of the Mirus Galaxy. On the planet Alastor the Vanara developed a magical tradition that utterly supplanted technological development.

First Vanara Empire
Being left to their own devices the Vanara split apart into several tribes that fought among one another for resources and the tablets the Persacron had left for them. This continued until several of the tribe's most elite warriors realized that all this warfare was getting them nowhere. Thus they organized a system of champions that would fight in none lethal gladiatorial battles who would decided what tribe got what when they argued over resources and tablets. Under this system suspicion slowly waned and trade boomed until the gladiatorial battles merely became a simple sport and the tribes united into what would be known historically as the First Vanara Empire.

The First Empire progressed at a slow and steady rate, until a period of unprecedented advancement known as the Great Revolution. Where Vanara magical tradition developed in a way that it resembled and became technology and was treated more scientifically than mystically. Unknown to most the Great Revolution was largely triggered by the arrival of the alien race known as the Psal'Jinnai, who would become known as Pattern Squids by the Vanara who encountered them. The Psals saw potential in the Vanara and there ability to think synchronicly, which the Psals wished to used in advancing their goal of rewriting the universe to be under their control. The Psal'Jinnai manipulated the Vanara from the shadows, wary of direct interference due to the shadowy forms shifting beyond the vale that separated Accel Space from the real word. Beings that watched the Vanara as intently as the Psals themselves did, if not more. Still as the Psal manipulated the Vanara, they probed deeper into Accel Space. And then, one day, the Psal'Jinnai and their influence, vanished from Alastor entirely.

It is not known why they disappeared, perhaps they pierced into one the toxic Kelipot of Accel Space, perhaps they contact the shadowy beings from beyond, perhaps they reached the very core of Accel Space? Only the Psals know. But gone they were and the revolution ended and the Vanara's progressed slowed back down to its former steady pace. The only memory of the Psal being tales of alien beings with morals alien to the Vanara that sought to use them as tools.

The first Empire would meet its end once the Vanara expanded past their solar system and into space. The First Empire failed to exert control over the extrasolar colonies and faded into irrelevance.

Bioloy
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. They even posses two hypodermic fangs that can be used to drain blood directly from the target, though once again, the only absorb the metals found within blood.

While Vanara as a whole are something of middling race when it comes to raw pyshical ability. They are not as fast or alluring as Raptoranians, not as durable or strong as Ugandalorians, and lack the great stamina of humans. However, they do have several adaptations that have made them a highly successful race. First is their ability to process and encode information with extreme speed and accuracy, once a Vanara learns something they rarely if ever forget it.

Then there is the fact that all Vanara are psychic to some degree or another. An ability that they all have is the ability to sense one another, or any other creature with Vanarine genes whenever they are near by. Vanara can also project out their emotions to one another creating a form of collective feeling among each other. These two abilities can be used in tandem for groups of Vanara to create a psychic map of where one another is. Other abilities include simple telekinesis and telepathy, create force fields and force beams, use clairvoyance to located near by objects and individuals, and teleport to anywheres in their line if sight. While all Vanara are telekinetic and telepathic, the other abilities must be learned.

Finally there is the Vanara ability to switch between causal and synchronistic thinking, i.e. the ability to switch between thoughts caused by cause and effect, and those that are a meaningful coincidence. This allows the Vanara to act with complete unpredictability and defy or even mislead predictive modeling. A Vanara's horns are critical to these powers and breaking them off with unleash a massive telekinetic and telepathic backlash before leaving the Vanara in a semi-vegetative state until the horns grow back. This can take to as short as a day, to as long as a weak.

Sensory wise the Vanara are very well equipped. Vanara have four eyes, two on either side of the head for 180 degree vision and two forward facing for depth perception. Their hearing is perhaps their best sense with their large ears being able to pick up a variety on sub and ultrasonic sounds and can be angled independently from one another.

Reproduction and Lifecycle
Vanara reproduce sexually between a male and female and lay eggs that hatch into young. While only Vanara Queens are capable of laying eggs, Vanara are still rather explosive breeders as a single Queen can lay many eggs in a single sitting. Most of these eggs are distributed to Jennies (Vanara females that cannot reproduce) that are under said Queen, with the Queen herself only keeping one or two. In order to keep up genetic diversity a Queen will mate with multiple males (though she only develops an emotional bond with one partner) and young Vanara frequently get hit with a wanderlust causing them to wander far from home.

When Vanara hatch they are hairless, long limbed, and lacking horns. They cling to their mother's belly for about a month or so, feeding off milk their mother sweats, even Jennies or males in homosexual relations are capable of producing milk. During this time period the designated mother becomes fiercely protective of her offspring and the father must bring back food and clear out waste as the mother will not leave her nest. After about a month has passed the newborn Vanara grow fur, even out physically, and begin to start venturing away from the nest. They are fully grown in about seven years.

Symbiotes
Insurrection Virus= Despite the name the Insurrection Virus is not a virus, rather it is a form of nanobot that allows the Vanara to hybridize with other beings, bridging the gap between biochemistries to create a being with a duel biochemistry. How the virus does this is unknown. Insurrection Virus can be delivered one of two ways, via regular sex, or by injecting it via the Vanara's fangs. When transferred through regular sex the offspring involve are perfectly healthy and normal. When forcefully injected the offspring are violent and seek to kill their host species and reunite with their Vanara sire.

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.

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 are also very psychologically hardy, and while they due suffer from traumatic events they bounce back very quickly and tend to become more hardy for it. The general Vanara reaction to adversity is to push forward and fight back no matter what. The stronger the adversity, the harder the Vanara fight. Vanara have a sort of hive instinct where if one is attack or harmed almost all Vanara present will turn on the attacker and gang up to kill them.

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 Bloody 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.

Terminology

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

Alternate Universe Vanara
Universe P Vanara=

Universe S Vanara are much taller and stronger then their Onuris Universe counterparts, but just as skilled with the One Powers of Accel Space. While they lack sadistic tendencies they are far more aggressive and territorial. Lead by their Empress Zuki they have become fearsome conquerors who now hold Hegemony over most of the Mirus Galaxy. Despite being conquerors they are far from despots and let their none rebellious vassals pretty much rule themselves as long as they keep internal order. However, they are much less selective about who they will ritualistically sacrifice to their gods, and any prisoner of war will do.


 * The Universe S Vanara models were Vanara recreations made by for the  Project. Gorzill latter decided to use the model as an alternate universe version of the Vanara.

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."

"For all its laws and energies and materials, so predictable yet so chaotic, the beings born of this three-dimensional space continue to defy expectation. Such potent defiance is to be made useful in achieving Symmetry, shaped and nurtured like seeds in the rich soil of reality to become precise needles in weaving the final Pattern."

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.