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. Celia wandered into realspace in the universe of the First Gigaquadrant creating a link to Accel Space. As she wandered about real space pieces of her soul wound randomly fragment of and posses the toys which became known as Soul Dolls. These Soul Dolls where discovered by a cruel and ancient race that had been around since the universe first was able to support life as it is currently known. These where the and they committed hundreds of genocides to get at these Soul Dols twisting the souls within them. They then reforged the Soul Dolls into a servant race with their own flesh and the flesh of the races they had destroy to get to the Soul Dolls. These became the Prey Vanara.

However, Celia had a curse upon her that would bring grievous harm to any who harmed her and since the Soul Dolls had once been part of her the Eitren would suffer. The curse burned away the Eitren's souls leaving them with a void that a shard of the being, which had fallowed Celia to the universe, filled with a hunger that could only be satisfied by consuming other sentient life. It also took away the Eitren's ability to reproduce so the Eitren create and artificial reincarnation cycle to preserve themselves and made the Vanara into their food source as retribution.

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 Blue 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 Crimson Rage to fight the Blue Thrist with. Ava and Jura then devastated the Affonire reducing them to a single planet.

Hunted to Hunter
When the Vanara were trapped on Alastor there was already a dominate species present called the Promen. The Promen were humans would had been modified to live on a boron based world and sought to exterminate the Vanara. Thus began generation after generation of guerrilla warfare conducted by the Vanara to avoid extinction. However, ever so slowly they were being slowly driven to the brink by the Promen. That was until one Vanara unearthed a Persacron artifact that transformed the genetic program within them into a virus. The virus rapidly spread from Promen to Promen causing their children to be born as Vanara mutants, who as they grew would come to join the Vanara in their fight. Combine the spread of the virus with a massive nuclear war that destroyed Promen civilization, the Vanara eventually drove the Promen to extinction.

The Bunyip Wars
After the Promen were driven extinct the split up into several tribes that nomdically wandered the wasteland there world had become in the aftermath of the nuclear devastation. Eventually as certain areas become more habital and the tribes would settle in these areas. However, from this radioactive wasteland emerged great misshapen beats of gigantic proportions and fearsome appetites called Bunyip. The Bunyip preyed on the Vanara and forced them to live in constant fear. That was until one day when a tribe named the Rasiel Tribe discovered a tome. Within the tome they discovered ancient knowledge that would unlock the keys to greater civilization. One of these were instructions on how to make cannons with rifled barrels that hurled projectiles with chemical propellant. Going to other tribes in their area Rasiel Tribe shared their knowledge and formed a coalition against the Bunyip. After destroying the Bunyip of their area the tribes joined together to build a greater civilization, while sending out messengers to find other tribes and teach them how to fight back against the Bunyip.

Biochemistry
Vanara are boron based lifeforms, as of so far they have discovered no other lifeforms like them. Vanara evolved on a planet with a low atmosphere, low temperature, and bombarded by cosmic rays. Vanara also utilize ammonia in their biochemistry in place of water.

Radioactivity
Vanara naturally produce levels of ionizing radiation that are lethal to most forms of life. They can alter their own naturally accruing electromagnetic fields making themselves almost invisible to beings who can detect such things(such as themselves) or raise to a point to cause minor interference to electrical devices within a foot of them.

Circulatory, Respiratory, Endocrine, and Lymphatic
Vanara have a circulatory and respiratory system like most creatures though there are a few specialized adaptations. For one Vanara have one primary heart as well as a smaller secondary heart that kicks in should the first one be taken out. Their lungs are quiet large and very effective, able to filter out most particulates and poisonous gas allowing Vanara breath as long as some oxygen is present. Vanara blood contains a potent necrotoxin and is bluish grey color. They have a large amount of blood an under high pressure meaning it tend to erupt out of the wound. However wounds heal very quickly with even the severing of major arteries beginning to clot jut seconds after injury. This and back up (but less effective) major arteries and veins for if one is taken out, means that while bleeding to death is a potential danger, it is less of one for Vanara then other species. Vanara have rather high amounts of adrenaline pumping through system making them seam rather high strung to others, and also have incredibly effective immune systems and suffering from very few diseases.

Most interestingly is that Vanara posses a very large and well devolved Pineal Gland, about the size of a chicken egg, this allows them to control their sleep patterns and circadian rhythm quickly adapting to day and night cycles of different planets without the effects of sleep loss others can experience from the change. It also allows them to wake almost instantly and without any drowsiness if they feel there is a threat in the area, and prevents them from suffering severely from sleep deprivation. While able to stay awake for extreme amounts of time, they prefer nighttime activity.

Integumentary, Skeletal, Muscular, and Nervous
Vanara skin is very effective insulator allowing them to maintain a constant inner body temperature in conditions well below freezing and in equally intense heat. It also has a metallic quality making it something of a weak natural armor. Their skeletons are collapsible allowing them to fit into extremely tight spaces, but are fragile and can be broken significant force and have a very high amount of fast twitch nerve fibers making them incredibly agile as well as having a much faster reaction time of about 100 milliseconds for visual stimulus, 85 milliseconds for audio stimulus, 75 milliseconds for touch stimulus. Vanara claws are sharp and hard enough to scratch diamond if enough pressure is applied and they have a bite force of around 4,000 pounds per square inch and is full of deadly radioactive bacteria.

Digestive and Urinary
Vanara are omnivores eating both plants and meat, though they can also process minerals especially radioactive ones. Their digestive system is very effective absorbing most of the nutrients and moisture from what they consume. Their urine is extremely concentrated and they can go without eating for a month. Despite being a Boron and Ammonia based race, Vanara can consume carbon and water based food and drink, however ingesting over 5 cups of pure water has a toxic effect, as a result Vanara avoid large bodies of water. Vanara have two hypodermic fangs that are normally hidden away can descend to drain blood from targets. Blood drinking accelerates the Vanara's regeneration, but has an alcohol like effect which they must sleep of if they drink too much.

Sensory
Vanara have very effective eye sight able to see five to seven times further then a human, see with perfect clarity in almost completely dark conditions, as well as on the infrared and ultraviolet light spectrum. They can also hear a wide rang of ultra and subsonic sounds as well as feel their very vibrations, this does make them vulnerable to extremely high pitched noises. Their sense of smell is also very potent around 100,000 times more accurate than a humans and track a target for miles upon miles. A Vanara's hearing and smell are especially tuned to the sound of blood pupping and sniffing out blood, they can quite literally hear and smell the blood in a near by creature's system. They also have potent sense of touch and are even able to detect electromagnetic fields produced by either artificial or living beings. This detection ability also gives them improved orientation and navigation abilities.

Reproduction
Vanara reproduce sexually between a male and female. When they begin the two individual's nervous systems actually merge resulting in an even more sensual experience then usual as the two actually feel what the other is feeling at the same time. Vanara females can choose whether or not they wish to become pregnant. If not they simply reabsorb the fertilized egg back into their body, once the eggs are ready to be laid they cannot be reabsorbed. Females typically lay about five to fifteen eggs, however only one to three will be fertalized and these eggs will triple in size and develop hard shells. After laying eggs a female will guard them and become hyper-aggressive, not allowing anything near the clutch. The male's job is to bring back food and clear out waste until the eggs hatch.

Viral Symbiosis and Hybridization
Having a boron based biochemistry it should be impossible for Vanara to reproduce with other species, however this not the case. This is due to a latent sexually transmitted biomechanical virus that lives inside a Vanara. The virus is not harmful and for the most part remains inactive only becoming active when the host is engaged in sexual activity and transmitted to the offspring created. If reproduction is done with another species the virus actually analyses the genetic and biochemical information and can then generate biopolymers that bridge the biochemical and genetic gap between the two species creating viable offspring. The virus itself actually contains Vanara genetic code and infects the non-Vanara partner, it however does them no harm or alter them in anyway, instead if said individual from another species produces offspring with another those offspring will have Vanarine DNA.
 * Link to Virus

Growth and Development
As mentioned before Vanara lay a few eggs, most are not fertilized. When those that are hatch the hatchlings devour the unfertilized eggs as their first meal. Upon hatching Vanara are leathery, long limbed, large eyed versions of the first stage Vanara. They quickly develop fur, become more equally portioned, and are slowly weened off their mothers milk. During this period they stik to their nest rarely wandering far. Vanara grow at a rapid rate, for comparison the first year of growth is equivalent to 13 years of human growth, after that things begin to slow down top about four years of human growth in the second year of life, and finally three years of human growth reaching adult hood by the age of three.

This accelerated growth has also affected their learning ability. A Vanara child can process and retain information much faster and more of it. Your average Vanara can interpret images and other sensory input in just a single millisecond and retain well over 70% of that information. This enhanced ability to process information and retain it makes then extremely fast learns, but will often find other education systems to be slow and tedious.

Death
Vanara remain completely physically fit even as they age up until death. When a Vanara begins to die angry, reddish orange, glow rashes appear on their body and begin to grow signaling the body is about to go into a meltdown. Not soon after these rashes appear the Vanara's mind will die before its body completely meltsdown, but the body still shambles around as a "Walking Ghost." Eventually however the body completely meltsdown breaking apart into radioactive fallout and ending the Walking Ghost Phase.

Sadism
Vanara are well known for their rather sadistic nature, the actively enjoy toying with dying or weakened enemies, often times mocking and slowly wounding them while they bleed out. While other races often consider the Vanara to be naturally cruel for this behavior, truth is these sadistic tendencies are more like a cat playing with a mouse. For the Vanara it's an instinctual drive put in place to ensure that the Vanara has its prey is to weak to harm it before going in for the kill. In a similar vein Vanara do not distinguish between enemy and prey, and will often devour the corpses of the deceased foes. This comes from both natural predatory instinct and various cultural factors. This is also true for their love of violence and bloodshed, being both a product of instincts programmed into the Vanara by their creators in order to create better living weapons that will less susceptible to trauma and coming from a militaristic culture.

Socialization
Vanara naturally have a social structure based on gender and reproductive potential. Vanara females with the highest reproductive potential tend to occupy higher positions on the social ladder with several females of lesser reproductive potential under them. Sterile females are generally at the bottom of the social ladder, but are often times closer to those of higher reproductive potential as they are less of a threat to their dominance as females of relatively equal reproductive potential tend to be in fierce competition with each other. Males tend not to develop as strong a social structure and are more amiable with each other. However those with the best genetics tend to be more valuable to females as mates and can often times become more powerful. However this is not a hard and fast rule, with generally ability and competence being more determinate of position of power with fertility being secondary.

Vanara as a general rule are not terribly social and rarely interact with others outside their own small circle of friends. A typical Vanara Glaring(group of Vanara) is composed of a dominate female with a small number of subservient females(usually three) and a small number of males(usually two), with one male generally being favored by the dominate female. Glarings are known to interact with other Glarings they are on good terms with in friendly competition. Vanara of the same Glaring often groom each other, social grooming is not seen as sexual to them in anyway as long as it is not around areas considered intimate. Touching Vectors would be considered kissing.

Communication
Vanara naturally communicate through bioluminescent flashes of light that in certain colors and patterns form words and sentences. They also use body posture and various vocalizations to communicate intent and emotion as well and have a wide vocal range. Vanara with a relaxed posture tend to be more content or depressed with a upward tilled or straight pointing head being contend and a downward facing head being depressed. A more rigged posture with a indicated excitement and aggression if the head is jutting forward. Vanara experience positive emotions tend to have their ears straight up an eyes wide, while those experiencing negative emotions tend to have their ears flat and eyes narrowed.

Vanara have a wide range of sounds they use in communication and are known for being a rather "chatty race". Angry Vanara will usually growl and yell, while excited Vanara tend to whoop and yell. Vanara who are content, often times these sounds are precursor to an attack. Vanara who are feeling content will make a lowing noises and grunts. Lowing can also be seen as a form of distress is whining. Howling is rare and only used when Vanara wish to locate each other over long distances. Most notable of Vanara sounds is their laughing and giggling which they use to communicate a wide variety of things. They use it to communicate rank and coordinate strategies.

Thought Process
Thanks to their intrinsic connection to, a realm of nonsense, Vanara are not logical beings, Instead they are nonsensical beings who actions, thoughts, and opinions are not born of reasoning, rather they come from the "convictions born inside themselves" in response to stimulus and their emotions. Due to the ability of these convictions to be chained together in a complex manner and be formed in response to on another this can often resemble logical thinking though it is no such thing. Thus it can be very disarming when other species find themselves experiencing a Vanara doing or making inexplicable things or decisions and having explanation for their decision other then, "it felt right."

Group Mind
The Vanara connection to Accel Space grants them other mental aspects as well, one of the most prominent being their Group Mind. This group mind is formed from collective empathy causing Vanara to experiencing the same feelings their actions cause others of their own kind. For example a Vanara who hurts another Vanara will experience that other Vanara's pain. The more directly and drastically a Vanara is effected by the other's actions the more the other Vanara will feel it. Vanara who are close to one another will pick up on one another's feelings regardless with the bond strengthening as they grow closer. Vanara who join different factions will be severed from their old group mind and form another.

Blue Thirst
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 Blue Thirst. In this state their pupils vanish and thir eyes glow an eerie blue while they become possessed by a voice that overrides their self-control drives them remorselessly slaughter whatever is in reach. Luckily Vanara can give their sadistic urges outlets such as hunting or other bloodsports and violent activities, drinking blood can also stave it off. Those in risk of falling to the Blue Thirst can torture themselves ton stop the takeover and for those that do fall contact with specific individuals they have extremely close emotional bonds with can snap them out of it.

Vanara who willing choose to submit to the Blue 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.

Due to blood drink staving off red thirst several members of the Enlightenment Collaborative have give themselves glowing red tattoos. These tattoos give any desperate Vanara permission to drink their blood as long as the Vanara does not drink them to point of death of course.

Crimson Rage
Separate from the Blue Thirst is the tendency for the Vanara to go into berserk state called the Crimson Rage. This happens when the Vanara has been pushed to the emotional edge in combat causing them to fly into a combat frenzy in which they will use whatever weapons they have at their disposal. Even more disturbingly they developed and apatite for the flesh and blood of their foes and Vanara who go berserk can be seen licking blood from their hands and will often go for their enemies throat with their jaws. Even more noticeably is that their eyes will glow pure red 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. Interestingly enough The Blue Thirst has a much harder time controlling a Vanara in throws of the Crimson Rage, in fact the Vanara seem to have better control and hyper awareness while in this state.

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.

Psychokinetic Field
A field generate by a number of Vanara that has they ability to manipulate and sever molecular bonds as well as acting as an anti-essence barrier. However despite it's name it is neither psychic or kinetic(or even essence for that matter), but is called such as a mislead.
 * Link

Ryu Form
A power unique to only a select few Vanara in third stage(now Naiyu) that allows then to incarnate a massive dragon like form around them in truly desperate, life or death situations.
 * Link

Relationships
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 * NOTE: These are for inter-species relationships of the United Persan Descendants Naiyu Vanara. For political realtions between factions see the factions pages

[[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 tend to vary between extremely selfish or selfless to the point of being complete fanatics. However not all humans are treated with the same level of disgust and disregard, France despite being mistrusted by the UPD is given a sort of grudging respect and the Sicorséach of the Mendel Pact are given a fair amount of respect or at least seen as able to prove themselves.

Terminology

 * Young Vanara - A Whelp
 * Female Vanara - A Queen
 * Male Vanara - A Dog
 * Collective Noun - A Cackle
 * 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, 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.