Nianin

Bonding

• Nianin will bond with the first being that is able to ingest them burrowing into their stomach & becoming intermingled with their soul siphoning energy from the soul of the host. As their host kills the Nianin feeds from the energy of the death, typically the glimmer made from virulence. Nianin don't form close bonds strong enough to warrant sparing their host if they fail to keep them fed they will consume their soul dematerialize into the mortal realm coming out of the husk of their host and will usually perish as they are unable to gain a new host exploding in a burst of glimmer.

Breeding

• Nianin don't reproduce with each other rather their fully matured forms reproduce asexually laying thousands of eggs each cycle. Their eggs remain eggs no matter how long so long as they remain in their matured worm when the need for more worms comes they are hatched and sent out.

The Swarm: A race that made a pact with the Nianin and gave them immense power through the swarm they lead a path of carnage and destruction across the cosmos. Through this they got revenge for the Great Storm making sure nature in many forms is snuffed out.

Shayde, The Butterfly Of Darkness

• Shayde is one of the 5 nianin who meet romulus and his allies at the core of Boria promising them power if they would take their larva. She was a butterfly made of darkness and shadow, her eyes glowed red, her wings were brimming with black vapor, & several spikes grew from her abdomen.
• She was slain by romulus to gain enough power to commune with the darkness itself, learning of the power of umbranize and placing other dark rituals on various hadium tablets. A portion of her corpse was hollowed out, twisted and reshaped to form Romulus's dreadnought.

Vossen, The Moth Of Ruin

• Vossen is one of the 5 nianin & was the physical personification of ruin itself. He is a colossal moth covered in spiked segmented chitinous armor with burning orange flames peering from the cracks, from his wings came flames that he would unleash in large flaming gusts, & using his hypnotic gaze to keep others stunned.
• He was incredibly strong, his body covered in segmented red armor with bright orange flames peering from the cracks. He was the one to imbue the power of ruin into the swarm goddess of war, demonia.

Habitha, The Beetle Of Despair

• Habitha is one of the 5 nianin & was the physical manifestation of despair itself. She was a beetle filled with death, her outer carapace was segmented pale green chitin with pale green fog peering from the cracks, an ominous pale green fog followed her and lightly obscured her form. She was the one who imbued the power of despair into the swarm goddess of cunning, velorina.

Everbleed, The Spider Of Rampage

• Everbleed is one of the 5 nianin & was the physical personification of rampage. She was a Nianin full of anger and hate that became black miasma wreathing her colossal form & black chitin carapace. She was the one who imbued the power of rampage into the swarm goddess of war demonia.

Eusmil, The Dragonfly Of Strife

• Eusmil is one of 5 nianin and was the physical manifestation of strife itself. She was a colossal dragonfly with a segmented white carapace, with purple gas and plasma arcing around her body from the cracks of her exoskeleton. She was the one who imbued the power of strife into the swarm god of hunting Zagruc.

Romulus Mortem, The Umbral Emperor

• The leader of the swarm species, the strongest of his siblings and the one who gained the power of umbranize. Once the leader of the Mortem Nation he led the expedition after the ammonites took their home. He is one of the swarm to save his species from extinction through his acceptance of the Nianin larva, becoming the swarm god of knowledge by staying true to his nature. Romulus being at the pinnacle of the swarm pantheon has influenced other broods with his ideologies making all of them abhor necromancy and the light.
• He was the one to slay the butterfly of darkness shadye gaining the power to umbranize others turning them into dark and twisted copies of their former selves and through the darkness he learned of other dark magics and rituals which he carved into chitinous tablets called the tablets of torment. He hollowed out the corpse of the nianin turning it into his mobile space fortress the dreadnought, an event that his brood celebrated by turning things inside out. He is the father of zegrath, the lightbane, the twin sisters strain and nifsara, the perish singers, & begrudgingly the forgotten son venkalth, herald of habitha & the lover of Velorina.

Velorina Alkior, The Sorceress Queen

• Velorina is the lover of romulus, mother of zegrath, velkanth, strain & nifsara, and the swarm goddess of cunning and trickery. She was once the leader of the Alkior Dynasty being an avid scholar & gifted alchemist before ascending to godhood. She was imbued with the blessing of the Nianin despair from the Nianin once she ascended to godhood. Through despair she could reanimate the dead and make others die of a broken heart.
• Her ability to twist a situation to her benefit through words alone is uncanny, even to the point where her family doesn't trust her actions or words. Velorina is known for her immense magic power as well as her trickery always having something up her sleeve, she is very smart and charismatic.
• She is heralded for how intelligent, charismatic, & devious she is has many subtle tricks to work to her benefit like velorina's Song a tune that infects the minds of others making them more susceptible to her suggestions. Valorina looked for a means of control over all of her kind as she is envious of her husband for his fame and power.

Demonia Ruano, The Axe Of Corruption

• Demonia is the lover of Zagruc, the mother of Nizna, Pheza, and Dane, as well as the swarm goddess of war. She once ruled the warmongering nation of Ruano on her home planet before she ascended to godhood. She was imbued with the two of the blessings of the Nianin of ruin & rampage. Through ruin she can make ecosystems inhabitable through razing it with fire turning those burned into her flaming subordinates & through rampage she could continue violence, pain, & devastation being empowered by it.
• Demonia is known for not only her immense strength, durability, & powerful axe but also her intelligence and tactics, having wiped out the most races of her allies across the cosmos the most notable being the 50 year war against the maganti. Her brood was one of the most prominent forces in the cosmos razing planets with their might. She met her end at the hands of lyon olgrim during the black garden war, she was defeated but her body too durable to be broken down leading to her meteoric fall to the dark lands.

Zagruc Nanamo, Swarm God Of Hunting

• The swarm god of hunting, once the leader of the Nanamo Nation on his home planet, once he and his allies made a pact with the Nianin he became empowered like the others, growing immensely and being able to make a better life for his people through the blood law. Zagruc was the lover of Demonia Ruano, Swarm Goddess Of War the two made Nizna, Pheza, & Dane.
• He like his allies lead a campaign of genocide across the cosmos to feed his larva and grow. His power to hunt and keep to the shadows was unmatched though he was always envious of Romulus for his Umbral power, something he thought he deserved. He sought to undermine his brood and claim his power through the death law. He gained the power of strife from Eusmil, gaining the power of weakening his victims until they die or until he kills them. Ascendant Swarm

Savera Olgrim, The Pale Witch

• A vanir necromancer from the planet Zodia who through her extensive knowledge of swarm sorcery & history made many measures to contain and control the Nianin. Her many plans don't boad well for them as they sully the sanctity of the law of blood.