Deepers

Deepers are a dark reflection of the Rikally, a violent offshoot of the species which exists to serve malignant horrors from the Metadimension. Hostile and hateful creatures who see other races as food (including their Rikally cousins), they have a vaguely similar profile but their bodies are easily told apart from Rikally by the presence of myriad razor fins, spine-coated carapace plates, and mouths like a Slingjaw rather than a Shark. Despite these potent physical adaptations however, they do not like to go for open combat unless they believe they have an absolute advantage over their prey. They hide in the darkest places they can find, lay traps and ambushes, and make use of psionic and magic powers to dominate large predatory creatures to do battle for them until their prey is weak enough to be utterly destroyed.

Despite having similar physiological needs as the Rikally, Deepers are not located solely on Orochi. Potent portal magics have allowed them to show up on all worlds, stealing condensuits and thermal gear needed to survive on other planets, and thus it is possible to run into their raiding parties even in the frozen depths of Fafnir or in the merciless sandstorms of Typhon.

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