Kollektiv

Kollektiv (Also known as Kollektives Fleisch in German, Collectivus Carnis in Latin, and translated to English as Collective Flesh or just Collective, also known simply as Biomass) was originally identified as a structure related to the Verzerrt and Revenants that often emerges in areas known to contain large populations or groups of them, along with being the substance that composes Archives (or Hives). In actuality, Kollektiv is a Eldritch-like entity that serves as the inner core of Earth and the origin of all life, including the Verzerrt and (unwillingly) humanity. 
== Background ==
Kollektiv refers to both of the following, in the simplest terms being a hivemind that connects all Verzerrt and Necrotic entities like the Revenants. It is also the term used to refer to the biomass structures constructed by the Verzerrt, Revenants, and other associated entities. Places that they have claimed are often overrun with numerous tendrils, large constructs comprised of flesh, bone, and organs, and even having structures like the Monuments of Despair. Though the latter seems to be appear in places of great importance or sites of Extinction Verdict Events.
The exact origins of Kollektiv are unclear. Though through some interrogation efforts along with study of recent events, it is believed that Kollektiv is connected to every single human, living or dead, that has ever existed. It is a previously unknown sprawling hivemind and collective consciousness of humanity. It also acts as something of a data holder, containing every single memory, experience, personality of all humans. These are all preserved, and through the proper procedures in the real world, it is possible to even bring people back into their own bodies or vessels, even if they have been dead for centuries.
Kollektiv is integral to the Verzerrt everything that they create, allowing them to coordinate complex assaults and communicate without the need for words. Verzerrt use this to communicate before they absorb a human host as they have no concept of language beforehand.
It is worth knowing that all animals and non human creatures on Earth are also a part of Kollektiv. 
There are many unknown functions, uses, and traits of Kollektiv that have not been discovered yet. This page will be updated as more information is uncovered.
A common theory regarding Kollektives nature is that it is a massive superorganism underneath the Earth's surface that spread across the entire planet.
== Memories of The World ==
Kollektiv acts as the collective brain and subconsciousness of every species on Earth. Every thought, every memory, every experience, along with the creatures they all originate from (humans especially) is preserved and stored inside Kollektiv. Within the hivemind, time seems to be irrelevant or possibly nonexistent. Anything within Kollektiv can be transmitted instantly. An exact estimate is unclear, but one of the more accepted values is trillions time the speed of light. Then again, we can never be quite sure.
Regardless, all of this means that if someone learns how to traverse Kollektiv, and most importantly, handle the wealth of info, they could learn everything the Earth has ever experienced, and all the knowledge they could possibly wish to learn.
== Hivemind Connection ==
Every species on Earth is described as being a part of Kollektiv, especially humans. Everything that has ever lived is a part of this entity. Kollektiv itself isn't malicious or benevolent, rather it maintains a neutral allegiance, never directly interfering. However, it's properties can be manipulated by other beings to potentially harm it or the species it created. Neither the living nor the dead are fully safe.
== Veins ==
While Kollektiv is mostly referred to as such in the context of the hivemind, it is also a massive superorganism, with extensions of itself spread across the entire planet underneath the surface and deep below the blackest depths of the ocean. These extensions are dubbed Veins, due to their incredible likeness in both function and resemblance to the veins inside mammalian species. Though they are notably red in coloration with a more fleshy look, and unlike their namesake, they don't purely exist to move blood throughout the body. Instead, they act as conduits and can move flesh, bones, and any other organic material through these Veins to anywhere in the world. While an unconventional method, they can also be used as a form of transport either by disassembling oneself and moving their components through the Vein or just entering the Vein normally. 
== Gallery ==
File:Collective 1.png|A hallucination spurred by Kollektiv that acts as a visual representation to integrations into the hivemind. Much of what is visually "seen" in these visions depict an environment that is very similar to both Purgatory, Wrath, and sometimes Kreuzung. Suggesting all these locations are connected with each other, and by extension, the network.
== Trivia ==
* The idea, function, and nature around Kollektiv is based around and similar to the concept of Akashic Records. It can even be considered the physical manifestation or incarnation of such a concept.
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