This Lore category explores the various Species that inhabit the universe. Each entry delves into the unique biological and psychological traits of a species, how these traits influence their culture, and how they interact with the core themes of the game. The entries are designed to provide a rich context for emergent stories, transforming each species into a living, breathing part of the game’s narrative fabric.

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• Amaranthine - Aristocratic immortal hegemony of the Gilded Cage; obsessed with stasis, perfection, and erasing change or decay.
• Arborian - The physical embodiment of a self-aware, emergent reality; the caretakers of the Sylvan Concord.
• Artisan - Sentient constructs, each uniquely crafted, struggling with inherited purpose and self-authorship.
• Calligrapher - Living manuscripts who inscribe their bodies with glyphs, embodying self-authorship and narrative power.
• Carrion-Weaver - Insectoid scavengers who wear the history of their world, transforming refuse into art and identity.
• Choral - The native symphony of the Sylvan Concord; a species that perceives reality primarily through resonance and vibration.
• Chymist - Master bio-alchemists who transform themselves through ritual metamorphosis, making form an argument.
• Eidomorph - Typically a Calligrapher or another practitioner of deep self-authorship, whose will has been broken.
• Ensemblant - Swarm-based beings whose identity is a consensus, haunted by a shattering trauma and schism.
• Geas-bound - Beings bound by unbreakable oaths, living in metaphysical servitude to a creator’s will.
• Kith - The ultimate negotiators, living embodiments of contracts, born from the cosmos’s need for balance.
• Krystallos - Ancient, silicon-based beings who record memory in crystalline shells; value patience and tradition.
• Law-Wraught - Forgotten constructs haunted by lost purpose, seeking new meaning after their creator vanished.
• Legion - An Ensemblant in the ultimate state of Discord. No longer a unified “We,” but warring factions.
• Mire-Born - Amorphous beings born from the Mire, metabolizing its chaotic Eidos and bio-mechanical sludge.
• Mycellian - Planet-spanning fungal network; avatars are extensions of a single, collective consciousness.
• Rune-scarred - Liberated beings marked by scars of former servitude, devoted to radical self-authorship.
• Solipsid - Isolated individuals who believe only their own mind is real, born from severed Mycelian avatars.
• Synod - Not a species in the traditional biological sense, but a coalition of survivors from a broken reality.
• Teratomorph - The result of a catastrophic failure of a Chymist’s transformation.
• Still-blooded - Once-dimorphic people pacified into stasis by conquerors, living in sorrowful remembrance.
• Thanati - Psychically sensitive to memory and death, divided by a schism over the soul’s value.
• Thespian - Mutable actors who embody roles as reality, living lives as performances and archetypes.
• Unbroken - Cybernetic survivors who conquered mortality, viewing flesh as a flaw to be transcended.
• Valen - Seasonally metamorphic people, torn between sacred cycles of change and the quest for stability.