Creature:Skordi

"Skordi, as a rule, are manipulative, brutish, and treacherous, and that's them on a good day."

- Barda Clett

Skordi are a race of savage, brutal, powerful bestial warmongers native to the, infamous for their foul temperament, lust for battle and war, and near-inability to live alongside most other races due to their love of violence and destruction. The Skordi, when they where originally created by the Multus Esse, barely resembled the gargantuan forms they have now, resembling small, ape-like beings native to their world of Skorkaz. Experiments by Darkling scientists and Agents lead to them gaining a more fearsome, reptilian visage, and a far greater propensity for violence. Unable to control their charges, the Darkling agents where slain, and the Skordi fractured into multiple warbands, before spreading out across the stars.

Skordi are largely immune to most attempts to hold their population in check. Darklings have attempted to sterilize their world multiple times, agents of just about every faction have made attempts to limit their activities, and even the Alpha Cyber Collective has struggled against their rampage. While the Skordi are slow to get moving, once their hordes start marching to battle, few things can stop them. Though they appear primitive and savage compared to the Mendel, Waptoria or Zarbanians, they hide underneath their thick heads a powerful mind that only grows more fearsome and intelligent with age, and a strong body that most diseases and biologic agents cannot hope to counter.

Creation
The Skordi were created by the ancient in the bygone days of Mirus. Their home, the jungle world of Skorkaz, was perfect for the ape like beings, who, at the time, where hardly taller then a human. Still stronger then most other races, they hardly resembled the brutal beasts they would become much later on. Their days were spent in peace, living peacefully alongside one another, and hardly coming into conflict, their great strength turned to creating beautiful forts, citadels and spires, more for show then anything else, and meant to impress others. This changed when the Darklings took notice of such brutes. Highly impressed by their strength, but wishing to turn them into warriors to conquer and destroy their foes, the Darklings sent one of their own, Darkling Spirax to oversee the deployment of several agents to not only modify the Skordi, but turn them into obedient shock troops for their armies.

The Skordi were easily modified, due to their simple genetic structure, and further strengthened, to make them reproduce faster, fight harder, and be much more aggressive. However, another race needed creation, the dreaded s, who would serve as infiltration agents for the Brotherhood. Spirax was sent to create where his brothers and sisters had failed, and left his Skordi creations with his agents and several Mutran Spiders. he set out for about 7 months, and, when he was finished improving what they had failed at, Spirax returned to the world, only to find his creations fighting amongst themselves. They had turned the planet into an absolute warzone, killed all of their overseers, agent and Spider alike, and divided amongst themselves various petty kingdoms, and had even begun building starships. Disturbed and angered at his failure, the Brotherhood demoted Spirax severely, and ordered to overseer the world, or try to.

The Skordi spread out quickly, the beasts reproducing far faster then what was thought possible, and traveling throughout Mirus, looking for things to fight and kill to prove themselves, their aggression and lust for battle left out of control by their "Maker". Once encountered by other races, it did not take long for war to break out, the Skordi's various tribes and warbands pushing into their territory and raiding and pillaging as they saw fit. Once weakness, however, was their fractious nature, which turned against them as the Skordi spread out, various tribal leaders and secondary chieftains gaining command of their own warbands, and doing about their own missions.

The Brotherhood made one final attempt to bring the Skordi under control, by creating the Shadow Skordi, brutes armed with Shadow Energy, and much larger, stronger and far more ill-tempered then the standard Skordi, but also more disciplined and organized. Despite, these Shadow Skordi, shortly after their creation, killed their captors and went back to their tribes, becoming fearsome leaders and warriors for their comrades.

The Skordi briefly reunited when a Skordi known as the Shadow Beast, united all of his kin, and waged war on the entirety of Mirus. But his crusade of blood was ended, and his warbands splintered off once more, though many Warlords poignantly wish for his return, or one like him. While many Skordi overcame their nature, and settled in many of the empires of Mirus, the rest remain a wild, untamed race, to proud to bend their knee to any weakling.

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