Cannibals

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A **cannibal** is a being that kills and eats other creatures of the same species. This definition also extends to creatures that kill and eat sentient and sapient beings.

## *Rabydosverse*

The following civilisations and creatures were notorious for practicing cannibalism:

* Anevondir - harvesting Celestials' organs to create elixirs and serums
* Celestials - harvesting lesser beings as food, either for amusement or to frighten their slaves into obedience
* Demons - true demons and chaos creatures only cared about power and hunger.
	+ This savage nature was why the Void was also known as "the Eternal Feast" in Malendor mythology, a hellish state where everything exists only to eat and kill, endlessly, in absolute chaos.
* Kutirva, Ngaitavran, and Adbovuri - primitive tribes in Gausari and nearby planets who left piles of bones. Exterminated by the ancient Novantirs' space fleets out of anger and grief.
* Vampires - drinking blood from other people, and inevitably eating their bodies and organs, and then waging wars against all other humans to enslave them
	+ Because of the vampires' attempts to enslave humanity, all the nations of Jerde made it a duty to exterminate and destroy all vampires. To them, vampires are among the only people that are allowed to be utterly annihilated without mercy (alongside suvokkon and demons), for they have become too much of a threat.
	+ Cannibalism was common among the vampiric nations of the past. Even vampires who displeased their peers, or who were targets of their peers' boredom, were simply eaten and torn to pieces.
* Faminefolk - a name given to the Resovjantien peoples that lived after a terrible blizzard, driven by famine into cannibalism and violence. Many of them turned to Motakol as their protector and hero, fighting under him to slay their tormentors.
	+ The names of their kings were: Mutrunda, Trenuwon, Tydua, Ngindamulon, Urimnon the Scholar, Loerekar, Aorudzhel the Armoured, Mivollun the Musician, and Ngadal the Dog-keeper. Some were renowned for their skills, only for their talents to be drowned out by hunger for power and human flesh.
	+ Gula was one notorious warrior, notorious for dipping the teeth and fingerbones of his victims in a sap made from blood. Motakol slew him and burned his trove of blood and bones.
	+ Even after the kings' defeat, King Motakol ordered his men to preserve whatever records these wicked kings left behind, to remember and retrieve whatever good that may be lost from the blizzard.
	+ In Wonao belief, anyone who willingly eats human flesh and drinks blood will be driven to murder more people to satisfy their desire. Therefore, cannibals are seen as the most unforgivable criminals, to be immediately executed and destroyed when caught. The immediate destruction of the cannibal's body is to prevent his soul from becoming a powerful demon.
* Rynvants - harvesting humans as cattle and prey, eventually slaughtered by the Freyrgardian humans
* Vigefionians - killing and eating clones to frighten them into obedience. Their hunts to kill the Wosonoi passed into legend, resulting in an innate fear and hatred of ice cream among the Heronoi, their creations.
* Arnadjanai - killing and eating enemies to show their dominance, killing slaves and babies to produce extra food. Notoriously, the Arnadjanai defeated their Vigefionian creators and tormentors by killing, tearing them apart, and eating them.
* Valgeta - killing criminals and hostile civilisations and cutting their bodies into food. The Empire of Valgeta was very notorious for hunting people down like animals, reviled by much of the Galaxy as cannibalistic monsters.
* Imperial Igarins - killing and eating slaves to frighten enemies or produce cheap food
* Kuelgons (Konjor Supercorporation) - biting their enemies when angered, killing clones as a sport or to produce cheap food. Cannibalism is an expression of hatred in Kuelgon culture.
* Novantirnas (Malendor Supercorporation) - killing clones as a sport or to produce cheap food.
	+ The Novantirna worship the Aesir (Norse deities), and they learned that eating dead bodies from sapient beings is considered the same as desecrating the dead, a great offense against the Aesir. Because of this, many Malendors do not eat food made from corpses, such as junk food produced from murdered slaves and clones that is popular throughout the Galaxy.
	+ Eating an eye is considered the worst form of desecrating the dead, as it also blasphemes against Odin, the lord of knowledge and magic. The eye is considered to be sacred to Odin. This is why the enemies of the Malendors eat their enemies' eyes after they kill them.
* Cyan Senate - killing clones and enemies as a sport or to produce cheap food
* Ontemazei - eating anyone that irritates or triggers them, as they were a clone race created by the Konjors as a slave race, to be tortured, and hunted as prey; punishing prisoners and rebels by killing and eating them
* Ontemazei Empire - killing and eating enemies to express their dominance over them
	+ The Kelunne, a race of clown-like ogres, were created by the Ontemazei authorities as shock troopers and raiders. As they were designed only to kill and eat their enemies, they lacked any sense of intelligence or individuality.
	+ For this reason and their almost-successful extermination of humanity on Jerde, many civilisations on Jerde regard all living Ontemazei as dangerous monsters. At some points of its history, Ontemazei were enslaved and tortured. For example, in Zaqo and Mirukuz, they were given fingers, hands, legs, or muscles from prisoners as food to see if the Ontemazei prisoners would start eating them: in most cases, the Ontemazei prisoners refused, and were nonetheless killed off.
* Thralondian Empire - killing and enslaving thousands of people to drink their blood
* Maeranoi - in the city of Arkjensan in central Bujan, the Maeranoi Terrans there enjoyed hunting and killing people as prey. Many of those who took part in this vile practice were conscripted by the Wannaenid rulers during the Bujanski revolution, but they were defeated and exterminated. Only those who had not tasted human flesh or blood, or who was under the age of thirteen, were spared from death.
	+ Some Terran criminals of both Maeranoi and Tyrskan descent also took part in cannibalism, having came from very dystopian societies and crime gangs. Ultimately, the Terrans were meant to be used by the Wannaenids as living weapons, reduced to nothing but instruments of brutal murder to be killed off for amusement.
	+ Arkjensan was feared even by other Terrans as the most brutal and uncivilised of their whole kind, and they were even more angry that it was chosen as the Maeranoi's capital by their Wannaenid rulers.
	+ Those who especially hunted and killed children for such purposes were known as "protchers", in turn hunted and torn to shreds by the Bujanski rebels.
* Abductors - killing people to eat them as prey

According to Gauvajut mythology, evil ghosts also sought to eat people, as they wanted revenge against the living for persecuting them.

In Vozonid culture, anyone suspected of cannibalism is automatically no longer considered human, so it is acceptable to kill the cannibal as soon as possible.

## *Rinnarverse*

In the Earth Union, people who reached a certain age were directed to the people farms, where they are euthanised and their bodies are cut into food. People who go into hiding to avoid being "recycled" were being pursued by its soldiers and hunted like animals. During the Veganist Era at the early years of the Earth Union, recycled human meat was the only permitted meat in some areas. The resulting meat shortage and killing-harvestings of selected people (and anger over being forced to give up their religious beliefs) led to revolts that quickly overthrew the Vegan Elite.

The Vetarbroitar and other enemies of the Earth Union reviled their foe as cannibals. However, the Farsiders resorted to cannibalism to frighten their enemies and succumb to their rage and hatred of the Earth Union.

In Rinnarit culture, cannibalism is an extreme sin, as doing so aligns the doer with evil spirits. Their punishment for any cannibal is death, usually by beheading. To avoid cannibalism, Rinnarits avoid comparing people to food, and they burn any food that is designed to look like a human body or a face in a mock funeral.

## Trivia

* The author hates cannibals and is disgusted by their very existence.
	+ The Vigefionians' tendency to eat their clones, along with one of their snacks, was inspired by SCP-490.
	+ The Ontemazei were inspired by fantasy elves and orcs, the Eldar of Warhammer 40k, dryads, various characters and monsters from horror films, and the humans of Equestria Girls and its parody series. They were also inspired by "Too Many Pinkie Pies", a story that he read when he was younger about magical beans that turned into tiny children, and revenge fantasies about torturing some characters after he read the "Cupcakes" fanfic.
	+ The Ontemazei Empire was inspired by the Dark Eldar, the atrocities of the Japanese Empire (like their Vozonid rivals), various monsters and villains from horror movies (such as the Kelunne from evil clowns; cannibals, and eaters of humans -- the author hated cannibals), and EqG humanoids.
	+ One scene from "Daybreakers" where vampire soldiers eat each other after being cured of vampirism made the author hate vampires.
	+ The setting of King Motakol's bleak youth and wars against the cannibals were influenced by the cannibals from the 2014 movie Noah.