Unplayable Races

[Asariel]

Xer'Aghi

Insectoid race and a collective hive mind native to Dar'Aghos planet. They were the first that the Dar'Aghi conquered and subdued. Their numbers were kept in check with weekly purges. Now, after millions of years of being left alone...Xer'Aghi are the apex species of the planet. Ninety percent of native fauna and flora has already been devoured and reconstructed to fit the hive mind's needs. They now count billions and are litereally everywhere. Main part of them spends days under the ground where they have tunnels spanning all across the planet. They can strike anywhere in matter of hours. During the night, workers and warriors swarm out of their holes to find anything that they could eat or bring to the nest. Truth to be told, should the Dar'aghi not arrive, the insects would soon start feasting on each other as there is little to nothing left for them to feed on. Xer'Aghi need organic material to sustain themselves but not all is good for them. Some certain poisonous plants and animals have been left untouched. One could say that the Xer'aghi terraformed the planet. Their current technological state is unknown, however, it is known that except the hive queen and hive destroyers, none of them has any kind of psychic abilities.

The Corrupted

Scavengers and treasure hunters of many races, many origins and many stories. Each one of them have found a way to Dar'Aghos for a different reason, yet they all came for it's arcane-technological wonders. Needles to say, only a very few left with what they wanted. Most of these sorry individuals got infected with Technocytes. Genius security system devised by an old and crazy Magus of Arcaneum Arcana. Technocytes are tiny nanobots that literally float in the air in facilities they were deployed to. Once put to one place, they will "infect" everything. The ground, the wires, systems and any creature, organic or not that would dare to trespass. Once technocytes manage to invade an organic body, they will begind draining it of all fluids but keeping it alive. All internal organs will get replaced by swarms of technocytes. Soon the victim resembles nothing but a skeleton with withered, usually yellow-ish skin. First the body is starved, then the mind. For some unknown reason, technocytes never invade the brain. They live in the host's body, keeping it alive but the mind is kept intact, reduced to primal instincts, but intact. The reason why technocytes do this are unknown. They most likely developed some kind of sentience and crave "freedom" which are The Corrupted. They formed tribes in every single city that still stands. Most of them are dumb, with little traces of intelligence. Those exceptional ones do have their original intelligence and are usually the ones leading tribes and groups. The Corrupted are highly violent and territorial. Erythael classified them as "Petty annoyance. Must be exterminated."