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Nexus
Nexus is simply teeming with life. These are the intelligent ones...who may or may not try to kill and/or eat you.
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The Eldan
The Eldan as a group
One of the most technologically advanced races in the galaxy, and the people who started the Dominion (by proxy). They mysteriously disappeared long ago, taking their secrets with them.
- Benevolent Precursors: Played with. While the Eldan have their fair share of compassionate beings (Ohmna), others are just downright assholes (Nazrek, Zarkonis, Vorion) who created some nasty, nasty things before disappearing. They also started (and ensured) the Dominion's rise to power by using Tresayne Toria to create a half-human, half-Eldan hybrid that would eventually rule over the Dominion. Why? We don't know. For all we know, they could have just used them as a cheap labour force to build an empire, like you would a carpenter for a vacation home.
- As the player amasses more datacubes, an unflattering image emerges of the Eldan. Although they may have been competent and enthusiastic scientists, they were also shortsighted, prone to petty infighting, quick to cover up their stupid mistakes, and in Yuria's case a paranoid schizophrenic, which is why she was selected to become Hydris, the Primeval of Water.
- Clarke's Third Law: Their technology has allowed them to accomplish feats seemingly impossible to other races: develop sophisticated A.I., engineer entire species, and even create gods.
- Elemental Powers: The Eldans' mastery of the Primal Powers allowed them to reach unrivaled levels of technology. Two of their orders, the Weavers and the Evokers, are more specifically dedicated to Primal Powers.
- For Science!: Their explanation for their more morally ambiguous experiments.
- Gadgeteer Genius: The Makers are in charge of supplying machinery necessary to the Nexus Project.
- LEGO Genetics: Progenitors can seemingly create thousands of species and grant specific abilities using their genetical engineering techniques.
- That Mysterious Thing: They constantly refer to the "Nexus Project" in datacubes.
- Space Elves: Although they never appear properly, given the appearance of the half-Cassian half Eldan hybrids it is likely that they were basically this. Size-wise however, given their corrupted counterparts it seems they were very large and tall, about the size of the Osuns.
The Caretaker
The Caretaker AI
"... Oh my. Are you ready? Then please, step forward into this virtual world to begin. Don't be alarmed: this experience will be EXCRUCIATINGLY PAINFUL!"
Voiced by JB Blanc
Artificial Intelligence. A sentient program left behind to maintain and monitor the Eldan's various experiments, centuries of disuse and the fracturing of his "personality cores" have left the Caretaker helpful...or extremely dangerous, depending on which one you find.
On the one hand, a "green" Caretaker is polite (if sarcastic), helpful, and generally works in the best interest of everyone, i.e. getting the latest Eldan monstrosity under control.
On the other, a "red" Caretaker is sadistic, insane, and just plain mean. He also won't think twice about resurrecting any horrific Eldan experiments left behind, if only to take care of the pesky "organics". (In other words: you.)
He also supervises and narrates the Adventures, 5-man group content taking place in virtual worlds.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: If his personality core is damaged enough, he becomes this. Fortunately—or unfortunately—there are many, many interdependent personality cores all over nexus.
- Deadpan Snarker: Often. The more your character interacts with him, the more banter you get to see.
- Evil Is Hammy: In his "Red" damaged form.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Purposefully destabilized his personality cores, letting the Security Avatar (the red Caretaker) become a fractured but major component of his functioning, therefore making it harder for the Entity to access the Datascape and corrupt him. It almost worked too well, as this allowed Avatus, his security protocol, to become
the hardest boss in the game. - Meaningful Name: His name is The Caretaker because it's his job to monitor the maintain and monitor the Eldan's various experiments (and to look after Drusera).
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It's very noticeable that, when the Caretaker glitches out, his reasonable set of nice, normal teeth turns into a mouthful of fangs.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: One of his more amusing transmat quotes.The Caretaker: Noo! I don't make secret copies of the travelers I transmat! And I also don't look at them all the time in a secret underground vault, no... [awkward chuckle]
- The Caretaker: As his name implies, it's his job to monitor the maintain and monitor the Eldan's various experiments (and to look after Drusera).
Jariel
Jariel, the Archon
Jariel lead the Nexus Project and oversaw each of the six Orders.
- The Chosen Many: He was one of the six vessels chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
- For Science!: While not a scientist himself, Jariel was very eager to disregard the potential dangers of some experiments as long as they advanced Eldan science.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Jariel kept Omechron, the Primeval of Logic's involvement who designed the Protoplasmic Resonator a secret from his colleagues, believing that revealing such information would introduce... "complications" that he felt is "totally unnecessary".
- Karma Houdini: Jariel's bad decisions are the source of a good share of problems Nexus has, but he never faced the consequences of his decisions because he became the Genesis Prime.
- The Leader: The mastermind of all the experiments on Nexus.
- Secret Government Warehouse: The Vault of the Archon is in Arcterra, a remote continent. The Vault contains some of the 'Project''s most sensitive information: including the revelation of Omechron, the Primeval of Logic, who provided Jariel with the last piece to make the Protoplasmic Resonator - the device that created Drusera. It's so secret that not even the Caretaker was aware of its (or Arcterra's) existence.
- Vocal Evolution: Jariel sounds notably different in the datacubes in the Alpha Sanctum, compared to the ones found later on in Omnicore-1 and in the Vault of the Archon.
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Jariel is very much in denial regarding the dangerous outcomes of some experiments done on Nexus.
Nazrek
Progenitor Nazrek
Quite possibly the most morally ambiguous to outright evil of the Eldan, Nazrek was responsible for numerous horrors and breaches of protocol on Nexus; such as the necromantic capabilities of the Moodies, the Stemdragons, the Dreg, the Squirg, and a whole host of other nightmares.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear how much of the Entity is Nazrek. One of the reasons he modified the Protoplasmic Resonator was because he was unwilling to lose himself by becoming the Genesis Prime. Given Ohmna's specific fate it is likely that Nazrek's personality is an important part of the Entity, but it is never outright confirmed.
- The Chosen Many: He was one of the six vessels chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
- Foil: To Ohmna. Nazrek reveled in bloodshed, violence, and did not hesitate to break protocol or ignore others in the pursuit of his projects. The two of them had a constant rivalry, well-detailed in their datacubes.
- The Heavy: A minor example, since he's long gone by the time the game begins but it's through his actions that The Entity, and in fact The Strain even exist, making every horrible thing they do his fault.
- Hypocrite: Claimed to have mutated the female Skeech as a reminder to Ohmna not to breach protocol. Given that he himself had broken protocol many, many more times, with more drastic consequences, it was obviously more a way to piss off Ohmna and amuse himself.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Was a big fan of the Osun's bloodsport. Claimed there is nothing on Nexus he enjoys more.
- It Amused Me: While the present look of the female Skeech was a reminder not to breach protocol, the creation of Lucent, the hyper-intelligent Skeech was purely for his own amusement and to spite Ohmna. He sarcastically noted that she'd be pleased to know the result of his little experiment.
- Mad Scientist: Creator of a brain-wave eating, mind-controlling cephalopod cousin to the head crab, frequently broke protocol, made incredibly dangerous modifications for the hell of it, had an outstandingly bad history of interactions with his fellow co-workers with more than a few musings of "improving" them...and proud of all of it.
- In a Grimvault datacube, it's revealed that Nazrek was the one who, working with a currently unknown benefactor, made slight adjustments to the Protoplasmic Resonator. These created the mental instabilities in Drusera — who he became a part of — which eventually birthed the Entity.
- Token Evil Teammate: While the Eldan aren't great people (Zarkonis and Vorion come to mind), Nazrek was by far the worst of them. It even gets lampshaded in one quest in Farside.Specialist Vita: If all the Eldan were like Progenitor Nazrek, then they were truly monsters.
Ohmna
Progenitor Ohmna
The creator of the Skeech, she also had a hand in the creation of the Osun and the Falkrin. She had a constant, well-documented beef with Nazrek, the latter spiting her every chance he gets for his own amusement.
- Foil: To Nazrek. She's much more compassionate and wholly less psychopathic. They constantly had arguments over their conflicting ideologies.
- Motherly Scientist: She grew very attached to her creation, the Skeech. The little blue gremlins were universally hated by everyone, especially her rival Progenitor Nazrek; and when the time inevitably came to exterminate them, she instead hid them in caves...where they proceeded to thrive and infest most all of Nexus' subterranean systems.
- Not So Above It All: While she is one of the more sane Eldans, she is not above engaging in pettiness with Nazrek.
Vorion
Maker Vorion
Quite possibly one of the Eldan's most brilliant minds, he was responsible for the Augmentation process, and many other technological wonders on Nexus.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Vorion is mostly concerned with advancing the Nexus Project, which has led him to create morally dubious inventions, however, he doesn't do it out of sadism or spite, just For Science!.
- Crazy-Prepared: Even though he was incredibly confident that the Datascape and the Caretaker would never, ever need to be rebooted, he went ahead and made a user guide for manual maintenance, however unlikely the situation was. Subverted in that the manual is fragmented and you rely on your specialist assistant's messing with the machines to do so.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He created many of the Eldans' most innovative inventions: Foci, Augmentation and the Caretaker are all products of his making.
- Mad Scientist: While the third most morally questionable Eldan next to Nazrek (the most questionable) and Zarkonis (the second most), his experiments were generally more "have destructive applications" than being inherently bad. He did, however, start tinkering more and more with Augmentation...leading him down a slippery slope of clone armies, mind-control, and eventually the Bio-Phage.
Zarkonis
Maker Zarkonis
Responsible for most of the security systems and weapons systems on Nexus. Thought very highly of himself.
- Foil:
- To Vorion. Vorion makes major contributions to the Nexus Project and is lauded by the Archon for his inventions, while Zarkonis' are less sophisticated and needlessly destructive, and is usually dismissed by the Archon.
- To Nazrek. Both are the black sheeps of their respective orders, but Nazrek is recognized for his "talent" and much more conscious of his own evilness, whereas Zarkonis is completely out of touch.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Towards Vorion.
- Just Think of the Potential!: Frequently made his works more dangerous than strictly necessary, because he found "untold potential" in them; and frequently argued with the Archon as a result. Aperture Science would have loved to have him.
- Mad Scientist: Of weapons and doomsday devices. He didn't need to make a cannon capable of annihilating the planet in one shot...but he certainly wanted to.
- No Kill like Overkill: His philosophy.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Believed this, at any rate. No one could seem to see his "genius". He would be right, though, if he were talking about social skills and human resources.
- The Chosen Many: He was one of the six vessels chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
Ionis
Watcher Ionis
Head of the Watchers, the security and administration for the Nexus Project. He oversaw the allocation of resources and saw that protocol is followed. Constantly pointed out issues and voiced his concerns over the various projects of the Eldan, but was ignored.
- The Chosen Many: He was one of the six vessels chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
- Foreshadowing: Had a real knack for catching what was wrong with a project before the consequences happened. Many of his datacubes detail his apprehensions regarding one aspect or another of a project - apprehensions that, many times, came to be forebears of what happened.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Ionis is not interested in becoming part of the Genesis Prime, but considering the other candidates, he hopes his presence will have a balancing effect on the personality of the future Genesis Prime.
- Ignored Expert: The Archon usually rejected his various concerns.
Koral
Shaper Koral
Belonged to the Order of the Shapers, and was among the more moral members of the Project. His wary and conservative views had not made him popular with his colleagues.- Foreshadowing: Like Ionis, he had a knack for noticing problems, although his were less technical and more focused on how his colleagues were getting out of hand.
- Historical Character Confusion: May occur for players. Depending on the datacube, his name is spelled 'Korol' or 'Koral' - the former spelling is also the name of one of Dominus' sons. However, they are clearly not the same individual.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted, as discussed above.
- Only Sane Man: Appeared to see himself as such.Koral: Hydris, Goddess of Water. Am I the only one amongst us who finds this troubling? Naming our creations after ancient Eldan gods? What begins as our greatest work of science is slowly becoming something more insidious and dangerous. I must be more cautious. I have heard whisper about my "obstructive opinions", and frankly, I begin to fear for my life.
- The World Is Just Awesome: In several datacubes, he seems overcome by the beauty of Nexus. For example: the time he spent days wandering through the caverns in Algoroc.
Aviel
Weaver Aviel
An Eldan who is part of the Order of the Weavers, the Weavers were responsible for matters involving the Primal Powers, developing technology and techniques specifically for harnessing and manipulating the energies. She oversaw many experiments to infuse primal energy into various forms, as well as to teach the primitive races created by the Progenitors to evoke primal energies on their own. She believed noticeably in the superiority of females over males.- The Chosen Many: She was one of the six vessels chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
- For the Evulz: Has shades of this. She seems to enjoy watching the sheer destructive force of Primal Powers.
- Straw Feminist: She believed that females were "superior" to males.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female among the six individuals chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
Elyona
Evoker Elyona
One of the Evokers, she becomes the Genesis Prime's tutor after her creation.- So Proud of You: Elyona is impressed by Drusera's natural talent at evocation.
- Token Good Teammate: She is amongst the nicest Eldan, becomes fond of Drusera and frequently worries about the consequences of the Nexus Project.
Bathior
Evoker Bathior
Bathoir was aligned with the Order of the Evokers. He believed strongly in the superiority of his own Order over all others.- The Chosen Many: He was one of the six vessels chosen to be combined to become the Genesis Prime.
- Master Race: He believed in the superiority of his own Order over all others; even requesting of Jariel that all six vessels for the Genesis Prime should all be Evokers.Bathior: "I have just been informed by the Archon that my petition has been received and accepted. I will indeed be one of the six vessels for the Genesis Prime. Unfortunately, my second petition was soundly rejected. Given the obvious superiority of my Order, I thought it was only logical that all six of the vessels be Evokers. The Archon appeared to understand my position, but made it clear that such a radical deviation from the current plan was not possible."
Nuriam
Progenitor Nuriam
Nuriam was part of the Order of the Progenitors, a group of Eldan in charge of creating new life on Nexus. She was one of the six chosen by the Eldan to become a Primeval, a powerful being infused with massive amounts of elemental energy. Though they were originally steps towards the completion of the Nexus Project, the natives of Nexus revere and fear them as gods and goddesses. In her case she became Vitara, Primeval of Life. She was Ohmna's mentor and friend.- Deity of Human Origin: Nuriam became Vitara, Primeval of Life, and her influence on Wilderrun is enormous. It's because of her that the Torine are basically immortal.
- Green Thumb: After becoming Vitara, she was infused with the powers of Life, allowing her to influence plant life.
- Healing Hands: She, as Vitara, healed Tresayne Toria in exchange for Toria's service.
Yuria
Evoker Yuria
Yuria was one of the Evokers. The Evokers seem to have shared some responsibilities with the Weavers in studying and manipulating Primal Energy in creating new energy, such as the Elementals that wander Nexus. She was one of the six chosen by the Eldan to become a Primeval. Though they were originally steps towards the completion of the Nexus Project, the natives of Nexus revere and fear them as gods and goddesses. In her case she became Hydris, Primeval of Water.- Deity of Human Origin/Godhood Seeker: Yuria became Hydris, Primeval of Water.Yuria: "And a terrible god I shall be! I will destroy them all!"
- Ax-Crazy: She was known to be a paranoid schizophrenic, and her optimistic outlook on becoming a Primeval is that she'd kill everyone.
- Gone Horribly Right: The Eldan wanted someone to become fused with a dangerous and volatile substance. They chose Yuria to become Hydris, because her personality most resembled the 'unpredictable and dangerous' nature of Primal Water. It worked.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: ...On the other hand, Jariel expresses that Yuria becoming Hydris was a disaster and that she escaped from containment.
- Making a Splash: After becoming Hydris, Primeval of Water, Yuria was infused with the Elemental Powers of Water.
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Fusing a volatile and unstable person with a dangerous and unpredictable element, giving them enormous power? Sure, that's not gonna turn out badly at all.
Drusera
Drusera
"Thank you for being my friend."
Voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey
A mysterious woman who appears as a beautiful ghostly figure. She seems to have a rather vested interest in the fight against the Strain.
- Enemy Within: She shares a body with the Entity.
- Foreshadowing: You may have noticed chatter in cities about a strange ghost-like lady appearing and disappearing at whims. You can even get a chance to see her as well if you're lucky enough, although she'll usually only say a pre-scripted line before disappearing. Come Level 28, said ghost-like lady turns out to be playing a massive role in a mystery that's plagued the universe for centuries.
- Friend to All Living Things
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Her reason for lying about sharing a body with the Entity. She didn't want to drive away her only friend.
- Meaningful Name: Drusera was named after an Eldan deity. And then we find out that she was designed to be a deity.
- Pals with the Genesis Prime: The player character and Drusera end up pretty close.
- Physical God: As the focus of the Nexus Project, Drusera is said to be capable of altering the fabric of reality if sufficiently trained. The Datacube notes that she is, "for all intents and purposes, a god".
- Survivor Guilt: She couldn't save the Eldan from the Strain.
- Taking You with Me: It's implied in Defile datacubes that she attempted a Heroic Sacrifice by allowing herself to be destroyed, which would also kill the Entity. It... didn't work.
- Walking Spoiler: She's very important to the Eldan, and to Nexus.
Primevals
Primevals in general
Former Eldans infused with pure primal power, Primevals were created for the sole purpose of perfecting the process of Primal Infusion, before creating the Genesis Prime. They now live like gods near their foci, and are often worshipped by local species.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Despite being former Eldans, once their transformation complete, they seem to have abandonned Eldan society, living as gods, and appear to be unphazed by their brethen's disappearance.
- Elemental Powers: Part of being infused with massive quantities of Primal Powers.
- Deityof Human Origin: Primevals were former Eldans before being transformed.
- Meaningful Name: They are named after old Eldan gods. Some Eldans are perplexed by this choice and fear that is revealing of the increasing religious devotion to the Nexus Project.
Osiric
Osiric, Primeval of Air
A giant, bird-like creature who holds dominion over Galeras and the Focus of Air. The Falkrin and Murgh are subservient to him, the females of the latter are his "Brides" and the arbiters of his will.
- Bird People: A gigantic bird-like creature.
- Blow You Away: Being the Primeval of Air.
- Deity of Human Origin: Osiric was originally an Eldan whose body was infused with large quantities of Primal Air via the Focus of Air.
Vitara
Vitara, Primeval of Life
The goddess of the Torine, and the reason for their immortality. She resides in Wilderrun, near the Focus of Life and the Everpool, a body of water whose Primal Life-infused waters can grant immortality.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: While she took pity of Tresayne Toria and saved her life, Ohmna is disturbed at the sight of her former mentor. Nuriam herself lampshades this.Progenitor Nuriam: […]Will I be benevolent? Vengeful? Cruel? Or will such emotions no longer have meaning for me? Perhaps the gods are beyond such petty concerns.Progenitor Ohmna: The Vitara Protocols have concluded, and the result can only be described as... magnificent. Of all the Primevals that we have created, Vitara is by far the most impressive. I feel as if I can still sense Nuriam behind the creature's eyes, but my mentor has now become something else. Something both infinitely wise and undeniably dangerous. I am not ashamed to admit that she frightens me.
- Green Thumb: Being the Primeval of Life.
- Healing Hands: She saved Tresayne Toria and her Swordmaidens and gave them eternal life in exchange for their allegiance.
Omechron
Omechron, Primeval of Logic
The Primeval of Logic, Omechron lives in the Halon Ring outside of Nexus. Omechron is revealed to be the benefactor behind the Protoplasmic Resonator.
- Red Herring: Due to his deal with the Archon. The Lost World Story revealed that he would have been helping the players in defeating the Entity.
- The Reveal: Omechron is revealed to be the one who provided the Archon the blueprints for the Protoplasmic Resonator, which created the Genesis Prime.
- Robot: He looks like a robotic mask, with a brain made out of Primal Logic.
- Super-Intelligence: Being the Primeval of Logic, Omechron's intelligence far outclasses Eldans' mental capacities even Vorion's. With the Focus of Logic, he can continue to increase his mental faculties indefenitely.
Natives
Falkrin
Falkrin AKA AV-1
Winged humanoids with avian features. Proud, barbaric, and extremely territorial, they defend their cliff-side homes with sound and fury.
- Bird People: Bird-like humanoids.
- Matriarchy: Falkrins are lead by female leaders, the Brides of Osiric.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Falkrin think very highly of themselves, mostly in their capacity for combat and obvious superiority over the "groundwalkers"...who they will not hesitate to slaughter to prove their point.
- Punny Name: Pronounce their code name really, really fast.
Moodies
Moodies
Necromantic primates. Known for their large, decorative masks that all but obscure most of their body.
- Bio-Augmentation: Nazrek modified their Primal Pattern (DNA), granting them necromantic abilities.
- Necromancer: An entire race of them; this is thanks to the Boravic gland, an organ they can store their life energy in for use later. They were also been modified by Progenitor Nazrek, giving them the primal energy manipulation necessary to craft a Boravic gland in non-Moodies to turn them into undead slaves.
- You No Take Candle: Moodies speak with very broken English. (In-universe, partially translated Eldan.) Justified in that the Moodies are not a very word-heavy species, preferring to let their giant expressive masks and body language do their talking for them.Moody: Me kill you! Then me make you mine!
Osun
Osun AKA OS-1
"The most Metal species in Wild Star", they are gigantic warriors of living metal. Skilled smiths and beast tamers, they are extremely dangerous foes.
- The Blacksmith: Osun have great respect in their blacksmiths, usually the ones who forge either the imposing walls of their cities or their weapons. Forgemaster Trogun of Kel'Voreth has branched out into robotics, too.
- Cryptic Background Reference: The Osun were once much more technologically advanced. This combined with their increased agressivity towards their creators frightened the Eldans causing them to retaliate. The details of what happened are unknown but their cities were destroyed, their past erased and the Osun were never able to reach similar levels of technology.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: Osun pride themselves on conquering, subduing, and enslaving "lesser" races. Next to Warlords, their most respected members are the Forgemasters who craft the weapons with which they crush skulls.
- Silicon-Based Life: They're made of a metal substance. When an Osun is struck, you hear a loud "CLANG!"
Pell
Initially created to serve as the Eldan's assistants in their scientific projects, Pells started to decline after the disappearance of the Eldans. Pells now form several tribes, usually organised around the worship of a specific Primal Element. They only retain fragmentary knowledge of their former masters' goals and keep their machines as artefacts to be used for their religious endeavours.
- Elemental Powers: Different groups of Pells have attuned themselves to Primal Powers, causing them to slowly develop specific attributes based on the element they worship.
- Water Pells have gills to breath underwater.
- Fire Pells have thicker skins to sustain higher temperatures.
- Air Pells have developped proto-feathers.
- Earth Pells can detect precious ores through smell.
- Life Pells have longer lifespans.
- Logic Pells have higher intelligence.
- Low Culture, High Tech: Modern Pells have inherited Eldan technology but have only limited understanding of its functioning, usually worshipping it in the form of Cargo Cult.
Thundercall
Found in Galeras. Worship the Storm and their "god" Stormtalon, a massive dragon-like beast born from the God Incubator.
- Blow You Away: Capable of creating and guiding tornadoes.
- Shock and Awe: Can also literally call down the thunder on their enemies.
Calmwater
Found in Whitevale. They worship Hydris, the Primeval of Water. Unlike some of their cousins, they are a peaceful tribe, content to fish and collect rainwater.Stormseeker
Found in Ellevar. They worship Hydris, the Primeval of Water.Flamedancer
Found in Malgrave.- Brainwashed and Crazy: They appear to have fallen under the influence of the Elder Cube and stopped worshipping the "Flame".
- The Heretic: A former member of the commune considers them to be this after they started to worship the Elder Cube and stopped worshipping the "Flame".
- Playing with Fire: As fire-attuned Pells.
Skeech
Skeech
A cannibalistic, simple-minded, and violent species of blue, gremlin-like creatures. Make surprisingly good chefs, as noted by their victims before they perished from the cooking process.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Female Skeech are much more larger, bulkier and uglier than their male counterparts, due to a genetic modification made by Nazrek to spite Ohmna.
- I'm a Humanitarian: In tribe vs tribe warfare, the losers are also the winner's victory feast.
- Pokémon Speak: Most of their vocabulary is composed of the word "Skeech."
Torine
Torine
Tresayne Toria, her fellow Cassian swordmaidens, and their descendants; now the immortal servants of Vitara.
- Amazonian Beauty: Torine are in astoundingly good shape, very muscular, and barely wear anything at all, showcasing their massive physiques for all to see.
- Amazon Brigade: Tresayne and her "Swordsisters".
- Damsel out of Distress: Tresayne, in The Maiden's Tale issue of Tales from Beyond the Fringe. During her 'voluntary' abduction by the Eldan, Tresayne slaughters countless Mechari and then demands a renegotiation. Namely, that her Swordsisters must be allowed to accompany her.
- Determinator: Tresayne, as demonstrated in 'The Maiden's Tale' and 'Tresayne Toria's Perfect Strike'.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: As noted by Elyona, Tresayne's story is both "the stuff of legends" and "incomparably tragic". Her son went on to found one of the most powerful empires ever known...but Tresayne herself is bound to spend her life on Nexus millions of lightyears away, undying yet surrounded by death.
- Spiteful Spit: Tresayne spits blood in Vitara's face, as she is supposedly dying. Of course, she then takes Vitara up on her offer.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Tresayne, her sisters, and her servants were all informed that Nexus was a one way trip. A group of the third tried to escape the planet with inevitably fatal results.Jariel: The recent destruction of the Cassian vessel was tragic, although completely necessary for the ongoing security of the Project. It was made abundantly clear to the humans that they were never to attempt escape from Nexus, and that such an attempt would result in severe consequences.]]
Elyona': I recently learned that Tresayne Toria and her "swordsisters" are still alive in this jungle, preserved for hundreds of years by the intense energies of the Focus of Life ... I try to imagine their lives, helpless victims of circumstance torn from their homes, living forever on a hostile alien world from which they can never escape. Their story, although the stuff of legends, is incomparably tragic.
The Strain and the Entity
The Entity
A strange, mutagenic lifeform with the ability to assimilate other life (and in the case of highly powerful Strain known as the Skurge, the landscape) into a monstrous Hive Mind loyal to the Entity, an ancient enemy of the Eldan. The Strain regards itself as the perfect form of life, and regards it as a moral duty to share that perfection with all other life. Through force, if necessary.
- Abusive Precursors: The Strain is what happened when an Eldan made the full switch into this mode of thinking.
- Big Bad: The most lethal and aggressive antagonist both Dominion and Exile face, especially under the command of the Entity.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Strain sees nothing wrong with corrupting the universe. Everything is so ugly. Symmetry, just two eyes, woefully inefficient designs... they're like a carpenter giving a rundown, ugly house a fresh coat of paint, much needed repairs, and a few improvements.
- Body Horror: Purple growth and eyes covering everything is the least of what happens when the Strain takes over.
- Eldritch Abomination: The Entity proudly calls himself "something beyond the Eldan's understanding". He also isn't part of the Strain, and it still listens to him. Think about that for a second.
- Enemy Within: Its' personality evolved from minor instabilities in Drusera's, a side effect of a minor adjustment made to the Protoplasmic Resonator which created her. The extent to which they are different individuals is actually heavily debated, in and out of universe.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: The Strain has a thing for growing new occular organs.
- Horde of Alien Locusts: More directly malevolent and ideologically motivated than most, but the Strain has the thematic of transforming all things it can into itself.
- I Am Legion: The Entity's manner of speaking.The Entity: We are The Entity.
- It Can Think: The Strain is not stupid, and the Entity even less so.
- Precursor Killers: It's the Strain that destroyed the Eldan with the Entity's help.
- Split-Personality Takeover: Its' ultimate goal is to commandeer the body of the Genesis Prime from Drusera, using its power to annihilate all life as we know it in the galaxy.
