Skulk apparition

The skulk apparitions, a race similar to the automatons but are also much different, they are made of a chitinous substance and liquid skulk, which also fuels them making them survive best around deepslate and other materials that are found in the deep dark. they are connected to a different hive mind durring their formulation but they can enter other hive minds if they wish but are unable to damage them in any way, it makes them able to communicate with others.

## ORIGINS

The skulk apparitions are formulations of bone like chitin and liquid skulk yet nobody but them know their origins, and they refuse to say much on it, they all say it has something to do with "OPPERATION: HYPERION" which as of yet is still unknown

## CULTURE

not many know what the culture of the skulk apparitions is, but many guess it has something to do with the deepslate buildings and cavern cities they make, and a few details are known of it

### THE EMBLEM OF THE DEEP

the emblem of the deep, this signifies a skulk apparition who focuses on gathering ore which they seem to be especially food at

### THE EMBLEM OF THE CAVE POTATO

the emblem of the cave potato is for the skulk apparitions who focus the most on harvesting their main food sources which are glow berries, sweet berries, and cave potatoes, as the name implies

### THE EMBLEM OF CRAFTSMANSHIP

the emblem of craftsmanship is usually shown to symbolize the skulk apparitions who usually end up making or obtaining gear and tools for the others, usually they are blacksmiths and merchants

### THE EMBLEM OF THE MOON

the emblem of the moon despite what it says is for the skulk apparitions who work to expand the homes of their kin, usually under darkness

### THE EMBLEM OF THE PRAETORIAN

the emblem of the praetorian is for the skulk apparitions that defend their homes with their lives and fight for it, in a sense the ones with these emblems are highly respected among other skulk apparitions

## BODY STRUCTURE

they look similar to the automatons, but a bit bulkier and they seem to be physically stronger but have a hard time seeing, they usually dont have a face and its usually energy flowing through their body, if you wonder how they eat its also how they fuel themselfs, they absorb any bio-matter they gaze at while their bio-matter core focuses a light to consume said biomatter and convert it into more skulk

## TRADITIONS

there isnt much here that is known of the skulk apparitions, but what is known will be documented

### UNDERGROUND HOMES

no matter what options they have they will always make their homes underground, usually at the level of deepslate or bringing the deepslate to them when they are in a mountain's hole or cave

### TUNNELS

the skulk apparitions seem to love building tunnels from building to building, they know it makes going from one place to the next easier, and thus they do it alot, and they generally like digging

### THE ENGRAVED

the skulk apparitions usually have engravings on part of their chitinous "shell" mimicing one of the emblems from their culture, they see this as a form of organization and honoring the wishes of their elders

### "THE BLINDING"

"the blinding" as they call it is what happens when a soul is put inside of a skulk apparition made shell, it makes anything that isnt related to a automaton in some way or related to the skulk unable to see for a few hours, this is a self defense mechanism as well as they can do this at will once the first one is complete

## RELATIONS

The skulk apparitions while not hateful of sentient life, do not like sentient life in the slightest but this is only if they were raised outside of a cave for they care about the caves and those who understand that well they take a liking to