Replica

The replica are a race of beings that live in a different level of shell than that of welt. For a short time, the Replica could see and travel to Welt through saprophytic glass and mirrors. The replica live in a land that is ravaged by ultrafauna. 
== Rules ==
Replica can see through reflective surfaces, but can only use mirrors as passageways between the surface layer and theirs.
Mirrors to them are doors into the known shell (the shell where the Dalmer currently live). Reflective surfaces are windows that they cannot get through. They can see anything that is in range of the reflective surface, they can touch anything through a reflective surface, as long as part of their body remains in the replica world, otherwise they will be snapped back violently. For this reason, when in front of mirrors, people are generally armed. 
== Abilities ==
=== Infinite Mirror ===
They use two mirrors face to face to grow their numbers, destroying one of the mirrors, or at least removing the entity in the middle so as to stop the replication. While they seem to extend into the infinite, in reality they get progressively darker and fade into invisibility long before they get there. That’s because mirrors absorb a small fraction of the energy of the light striking them each time. Thus even the best mirrors are unlikely to generate more than a few hundred visible reflections.
=== Stereolithography ===
If six reflective surfaces surround and seal an object like a cube, it appears in the world of replica as a physical object (and vice versa). These devices are called Stereolithography die and are used to transport objects to and from replicas. Where the object within the Stereolithograph's dice is transported depends on which side opens the cube first. 
=== Egress ===
Going through portals corrodes the body. Destroying a reflective surface will stop a replica from coming through, unless the shards are large enough to accommodate the replica. 
== The Replica world ==
The replica world isn't blank, it is simply a world where doored and windowed rooms appear randomly, and give a glimpse of what another world looks like. As Saprophyted glass and mirrors (treated with fungal warp metal) became more common, the replica expanded their knowledge of the outer shell. Since their encounter with the outer shell they are impatient to discover the new worlds the fungus opens to them. 
=== Saprophytic reflective materials ===
The truth behind the replica's appearance is that the glass is coated with Saprophyte solution, which makes surfaces highly reflective, and is made from fungal warp metal. The practice lead to glass and mirrors becoming windows and portals into the replica world. Saprophyted glass alone cannot transport people through to the replica world, but mirrors can. Warped saprophyted mirrors transform the item to its destination, this is very often lethal for living things. 
=== The Dalmer and the Replica ===
The Dalmer solved the problem with an antifungal campaign, this is one of the rare occasions where the Dalmer directly helped another race (though in this case it was to counter a technological exposition breach concerning fungal warp metal, the basis behind warp technology). 
== The Other races and the Replica ==
There is one episode where the other races, tired of the replica, place an enormous mirror underwater, terrorizing and flooding the replica lands, prompting their idea of retaliating with their local ultrafauna. The replica only tried to invade once, then they sent giant monsters from their world for the others to deal with. After the dalmer anti fungic campaign, they weren't heard of again. 
Sometimes Demons get stuck in replica. They can rupture the eyeballs of people who see them, and appear when their name is spoken three times (the fungus calls them to the mirror). 
There are small groups of replica in Welt, who want to bring the replica there and conquer, so they create massive mirrors to bring conqueror beasts to destroy opposition. they rarely do anything beyond bringing the beasts to Welt, leading to suspicions that they operate without the knowledge or approval of the replica governing body, or simply to rid the replica of pesky ultrafauna.
Much later, a peace agreement came together to stop contact with either side, to avoid a large water reserve flooding either lands. 
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