Umbrans

Umbrans are bat-like humanoid beings that live in the deep ether, specifically the Pin-Jump Region. They exist as part of a local hivemind, but individuals transplanted from one hive to another have universally been rejected by their new brethren and have almost always been viciously torn to shreds. They are most definitely not Mynocks.
== Behavior ==
Umbrans do not exhibit formal language or even oral communication, but they clearly have the ability to coordinate themselves psionically. Limited contact by psionics, such as Banshee the Blind, has revealed that Umbrans possess a limited individual sentience (on the level of a very young human child)No serious academic work has been conducted on whether their hive-minds are simply a collection of coordinative impulses or possess their own motivation and personality.. The lack of strategic behavior by Umbrans suggests that the hive minds need not be sentient.
== History ==
Umbrans are most likely the twisted descendants of dwarven refugees from the Episurian Empire who found their way to Foundation/Naga Space. Their condition, according to Selene Veer and the fragmented memories of the Lodestone Golem Hrymn, is the result of a mutagenic virus devised by the Mage Prince Anselm Trobe and, possibly, generations of manipulation by the Naga. If true, the mutagenic virus or Naga influence (or possibly deep ether radiation) must have transformed the normally non-psionic dwarves into a race that appears entirely psionic.
This peculiar phenomenon matches with the ability of dwarves to sense etherics very finely, which some scholars have suggested is a unique form of latent psionic ability without the outliers that give elves, orcs, and humans their (exceedingly rare) "true" psychics: such an ability could have become the foundation for an entirely (weakly) psionic race such as the Umbrans. The apparent fascination of Anselm Trobe with psychic heredity (which led to his magnum opus, the Perfect Princes) gives sufficient motivation for the condition of the Umbrans, if not an evolutionary explanation.
== Notes ==
Category:Creatures