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

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 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 used a shard to inflict with the Bloody Thirst insuring that the Vanara to keep them from building a society. But Ava summoned Jura to call fourth a fragment of Sephridrasil to gift the Vanara with the Burning Rage to fight the Bloody Thirst with. Ava and Jura then devastated the Affonire reducing them to a single planet.

Age of Monsters
The planet the Vanara were reduced to was called Alastor, a tidally locked world with the only land a massive continent stuck in between the boiling seas of light side and the frozen seas of the dark side. From the light side came raging giants of flame, from the dark side came cruel giants of ice, and from the depths of the seas came many formed sea monsters, seeking to devour all life on the continent. The Vanara tribes tried to fight back but they were steadily driven back to the center of the where they await their doom. One night though while the last of tribes huddled around their camp fires waiting for the end to come and cloaked figure approached them. The stranger said that she had the power to destroy the giants and the sea monsters that plagued the tribes, and that she could give the tribes these as well.

The tribes of course laughed at her until two giants, one of fire and the other of ice, began to approach the camps. The tribesmen coward and cried that their doom had come. All except for the cloaked stranger who approached the giants with out fear. The giants laughed at her like the tribesmen had until the stranger threw off her cloak. What stood before them was a silver furred Vanara with blazing purple eyes, clad in armor blazing like the sun and cap that shimmered like the night sky. In her hands was a great sword blazing with light and darkness with which she slew the giants with.

The stranger named herself the Seraph Dragon Empress and taught the Vanara tribes how to craft holy weapons that could destroy the giants and sea serpents with the powers of fire, ice, metal, wind, rock, and thunder. Armed with these the Vanara steadily took back the continent and drove the giants of fire and ice back to the light and dark sides of planet respectively, and drove the sea monsters back to the depths. After this the Seraph Dragon Empress left the Vanara tribes in order to hunt down the last of the giants and sea monsters, but she never returned. The tribes remained at peace for a few decades, but greed and hatred began to fill their hearts and they began to fight among one another.

The Leviathan War
The tribes would fight an unending war with no real sides for a hundred years until from the north came a great army lead by a dark figure in a skull-like, horned helmet. The man called himself the Leviathan and he lead his armies on a campaign of brutal conquest and even purged those who followed the main Vanara religion of who refused to acknowledge the Leviathan as king. The Leviathan taught that Vanara were inherently violent and selfish beings that would destroy themselves unless a great leader like himself oppressed them and tamed their nature. Eventually the Leviathan had conquered all of the continent, and with his victory hope began to die in the hearts of the Vanara and the land itself began to deteriorate. All except those who lived in the Midlinds. These hardy survivors fought back hoping to free the Vanara from tyranny. Despite their bravery their forces were no match against those of the man who had conquered the world. Eventually they were driven back to the fortress of Highreach where they readied for their last stand against the forces of tyranny. The siege was long and hard, and while the Midlanders fought hard they could not succeed. That was until from the east came ridding a figure in golden armor, a starry cape, and wielding a sword that burn with both light and darkness. The figure road straight into the enemy ranks and began slaughtering them in mass, while the defenders of Highreach felt themselves invigorate and began to fight back harder then ever. By morning the defenders stood victorious and the invaders had been crushed. The figure revealed herself as the Seraph Dragon Empress returned to lead her people and liberate them from the Leviathan.

And lead then she did, first to recapture the Midlinds and then onward. First the army marched to the south where the Leviathan's grip was the weakest, sending insurgents to start up rebellions in the various cities and citadels before the main army arrived to conquer them. Eventually the south was liberated from the Leviathan and the liberation forces split, one to take the west, the other to take the east. Wherever these forces went hope was restored to the hearts of the Vanara and land was restored. Eventually the two forces met up again to fight their way into the north and towards the Leviathan himself. At the City of Blades the liberation forces fought hard while the Leviathan whipped up a great storm to reign death and destruction upon those who would dare stand against him, while hiding his fortress within a abyss of pure darkness. However, the Seraph Dragon Empress marched fourth unabated to plunge into the abyss and face the Leviathan. What happened in there is unknown, but the Seraph Dragon Empress emerged victorious while the Leviathan was never seen again.

The Thousand Years
With the Leviathan defeated and the Vanara united the Seraph Dragon Empress divided the continent up into four powers. The Kingdom of Blades in the north, the Solar Empire in the east, the Lunar Empire in the west, and the Midlinds in the center of it all. While the Celestial Dragon Empress would ruled over the Midlinds, other rulers would rule over the other nations. These nations would rule over themselves however they saw fit, as long as they kept several agreed upon element of democracy, showed religious and racial tolerance, and would help one another in times of war. The Celestial Dragon Empress would rule over the Midlinds for a hundred years before vanishing again. The Vanara would carry on without her though for about nine hundred years. In the course of these thousand years the Vanara would grow from the iron age to a growing interstellar civilization. Unfortunately for the Vanara the alien powers surrounding them would grow jealous of the Vanara's growing power. Forming an alliance these alien powers used infiltration and subterfuge to weaken the Vanara nation's alliance until the nations began to go to war with one another. Once this was acomplished the alien alliance declared war on the Vanara and began to push them back to their homeworld. Any other alien power who protested against the war on the Vanara was exterminated.

Return of the Leviathan and Fall of an Empire
It was during this dark age that a the one calling himself the Leviathan returned and began uniting the disparate Vanara nations by force forging them into a new Empire. The leviathan 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 Leviathan 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 with the Leviathan ruling wwith an iron fist. 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.

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 also have a naturally occurring radioisotope in their body, the levels of which they can raise or lower, allowing them to raise or lower their bodies natural levels of radiation. They can unleash these radioisotope as bolts of radioactive plasma fired from their maw. They can only fire these bolts four times before needing to sleep in order to recharge their radioisotope levels.

While Vanara as a whole are physically superior to beings 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. Vanara also process and encode information with extreme speed and accuracy, once a Vanara learns something they rarely if ever forget it.

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. They can also see on the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums. Vanara sense of smell is also very powerful allowing them to track foes for miles and they can feel subtle vibrations through the ground caused by creatures moving. 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.

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.

Psychology
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.

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.

Ethos
The Vanara ethos is composed of five ideals: liberty, responsibility, tolerance, adaptability, and traditon. Liberty dictates that one should be allowed to do as they please as long it does not infringe upon the liberty of others and/or shirk responsibility. Responsibility states that one has a responsibility to assist their neighbors in times of need. It also states that one can break just about any law if it means saving a life. Then there is tolerance which dictates that one should be accepting of differences of belief and life styles of others as long as said others do not seek to prosecute them. Next is adaptability, the idea that that the only constant is change and that one must always being willing to change with times. That being said the final ideal of tradition asserts that there are things always worth hanging onto no matter the circumstance. Courage, empathy, friendship, duty, and unity are things that should never die in the Vanara ethos not matter the adversity faced.

Traditions
As mentioned before Vanara society and culture is highly militaristic. Once able to all young Vanara are taught by their parents various martial arts and how to uses blades and guns in combat. Indeed a young Vanara is not considered properly educated until they know how to kill someone with their bare hands. Once they enter school Vanara are repeatedly drilled and are taught in matters of tactics and strategy. Civilians are allowed (and encouraged) to own basically any weapon they can get their hands one, and the family armory is not considered complete until it has at least one weapon that can destroy a tank.

Education is considered of high importance as well to the Vanara and teachers are held in some of highest regard in Vanara society. In fact being a teacher grants one voting rights without having to serve in the military. Citizens regardless of class or background are educated up to what be an associate degree level to many. Anything beyond that must be paid for by those wishing to further their education though this not hard. The arts are highly promoted by the Vanara education systems and students are encourage to be creative and expressive as they can.

Vanara are also big on hunting and frequently collect trophies from the great beasts that they slay in the hunt. This trophy collecting also extends to enemies slayen in combat and it is not uncommon for Vanara to be seen with flayed skin, skulls, shrunken heads, and other bits of bone and body parts adorning their armor. Vanara will also eat their dead enemies as meat is meat regardless of where it came from, and they regard wasting a kill as disgusting practice. For this reason beasts slayen in the hunt will always be eaten in a grand feast.

Nature is regarded as cyclical by the Vanara and they have various rituals and holidays honoring and celebrating this. First of these are the Elemental Festivals. First is the Festival of Flora which celebrates the transition from dry season to wet season, then the Festival of Water which celebrates the height of the wet season, the Festival of Metal celebrates the transitions from wet season to dry season, and the festival of fire represents the height of the dry season. The Festivals of Earth and Air celebrate the beginning and end of the year respectively. Other celebrations honor a Vanara's transitions through life. Their birth, sexual maturity, finishing their education, finishing their required military service, and a celebration held after a period of morning when someone dies in honor of the life they lived. Two of the most basic forms of ritual are meditation performed before going to bed and brief exercise after walking to honor the transitions of night and day. Other celebrations exist for things such as marriage, promotion, and other major events in a Vanara's life.

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.