Exanimator

An exanimator is a name given to a type of hunter-colonist hailing from Estvoled. Exanimators were sometimes called different names depending on the quarry they hunted, such as devil hunter or vampire hunter, though history regards them all as functionally the same despite their seemingly different specializations. The most common defining feature of the exanimators, in addition to their relentless hunting, was their tendency to draw on elements of their prey to capture them. Rarely did an exanimator ever "fall" so far so as to be mistaken for the prey by a fellow exanimator -- for the most part, their creed was simply the extermination of their enemy at any cost to keep newly colonized lands free of monsters that might feast on the unsuspecting.
In reality, exanimators did not hunt fantastical vampires or devils from their homeland's legends at all regularly. Occasionally, such a creature would manifest, but for the most part, exanimators actually hunted the "monsters" of Sigzlor -- the native people who happened to superficially resemble monsters in Estvoldian lore and myth. "Vampire" hunters actually hunted morphers, for example, and "devil" hunters focused on eradicating edavs from every corner of the planet. The mass genocides committed by exanimators continue to weigh heavily on the history-focused society of Tumoria to this day, especially because exanimators were, at the time of the Galactic Wars, relied upon heavily to sow chaos and fear amid the Sigzlorian enemy. In the days of Sigzlor being considered the enemy of the Veriol Alliance, exanimators were the Veriols' most skilled and even most revered huntsmen capable of slipping past enemy lines and assassinating high-profile targets with ease.
Accusations of exanimators still being glorified within Estvoldian historical contexts, especially within Tumoria, continue to dog the Veriol Alliance and have been cited as one of the primary reasons no Sigzlorian nation will ever ally with the Veriol Alliance. To this day, there are rumors of exanimator clades still hiding out throughout unpopulated corners of Estvoled, murdering their ancestral enemies with all the resolution of hundreds of years of hate and keeping their homeland "pure" and undefiled by their long-hated victims.
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