One being’s trash is another’s chassis.

Core Concept

The Carrion-Weavers are an insectoid species native to The Mire, a people who have evolved not just to survive in a cosmic landfill, but to make it their shell, their art, and their identity. They are the ultimate scavengers, who have collapsed the distinction between biology and salvage. Their bodies are a living testament to the belief that a being is defined not by its origins, but by the quality of the history it chooses to wear.

Physiology & Biology

• Core Morphology: [Insectoid]. In their larval state, they are simple, soft-bodied grubs. Their transformation into adulthood is their life’s great work.
• The Symbiotic Carapace: A young Carrion-Weaver’s first instinct is to find a piece of discarded “hard shell”—a fragment of plasteel, a shard of ceramic, a piece of rusted iron—and bond it to its soft exoskeleton. Over its life, it continues this process, scavenging for better and more interesting materials and integrating them into its carapace.
• A Living Mosaic: A mature Carrion-Weaver is a beautiful and chaotic sight. Its body is a walking collage of galactic history: a shoulder plate from a Hegemonic legionary, a leg reinforced with the resilient wood of an Arborian bio-ship, a head protected by the skull of some long-dead beast. Their biology is the art of assemblage.

Psychology & Society (Faith / Fiction)

Core Faith: “The Shell is the Story.” They do not judge a being by its words or deeds, but by the quality and history of the salvage it wears. A Weaver adorned in the rare alloys of a precursor race is an aristocrat. One covered in the rusted refuse of a forgotten colony is a commoner. Their entire social hierarchy is based on the archaeological value of their own bodies.

Core Fiction: Their great myth is the “Tale of the Great Wreckage,” a promised land, a ship-graveyard of incomprehensible scale where the god-like technologies of the first civilizations lie waiting to be found and worn. To find the Great Wreckage is the ultimate pilgrimage for any Carrion-Weaver.

Gameplay Hooks & Tensions

Playing as a Carrion-Weaver is to engage with a unique, continuous crafting loop where your body is your primary project.

• Their core mechanic would be Somatic Scavenging, the ability to find and integrate specific pieces of scrap directly into their own bodies, gaining temporary or permanent buffs and abilities.
• They are the galaxy’s master jury-riggers and scavengers. They might have a unique ability to [Cannibalize] technology with a higher chance of success than any other species.
• Their core Need would not just be for sustenance, but for [Upgrades]. A Carrion-Weaver with a “low-tier” shell might suffer a social debuff when interacting with its more well-adorned peers.

Eidos Generated

• [salvage]
• [appropriated_identity]
• [pragmatism]
• [the_beauty_of_the_broken]
• [history_as_armor]