Creature:Dre'ay

The dre'ay are the only species in the Dreadthrone empire, or maybe they are better called species...

HISTORY:

The dre'ay "evolved" simply by being the most magnetic creature on their home planet, shattering the other creatures on the planet and absorbing their DNA with it... eventually killing every other non-plant species on the planet and turning on each other, starting up a system of accelerated evolution until they could literally lift cars.

The brutal evolution ended when spaceships were developed, seeing the chance the sub-species simply accepted slavery in exchange for not being wiped out as pests.

Even after they colonized hundreds of systems a milder version of the "murderlution" still continued, civil wars break out almost every day and it is considered a part of the economy and rebel leaders are paid for rebelling... As a job!

SPECIES STRENGTHS:

The smaller creatures are the most abundant, plainly because they were less effective at killing each other during the "murderlution" and the birth/death rate was high making more quicker over time, the more powerful ones were the opposite...

During their time in "murderlution" physical strength was unnecessary, why smash each other when you can simply make the other EXPLODE into shards and absorb them? the larger creatures simply gained Essence powers while retaining a little over 150% of what physical strength is needed for them to walk at full speed, while the smaller ones yet again did the opposite, they were simply not large enough to have much effect, so they used their physical strength.. which over time weakened their Essence powers further.