Lenarran

Kythshara- Presumably from their creation until 11,000 years ago

### Habitat

Arid savanna ideally, but any enviroment that thralls or humans can live in will allow Nymphs to thrive

### Powers

(Unenhanced) Latent telepathy with their master and shape shifting limited to their master's ideal mate.(Enhanced) Full telepathy with their master and a virtually unlimited range of races and animals they can shift into.

### Average lifespan

Unknown (all living Lenarrans are at least 11,000 years old)

### Notable members

Jade, Celphna, Marika, Betrixa, Neysa, Leylira and Ailita

## Physical characteristics

### Average mass

Variable, depending on the wishes of their master

### Eye color

Green (Natural Form) Variable

Lenarrans (also known as *Nymphs*) are a species of intelligent humanoids that are a type of hominidae/felidae hybrid. They were presumably created by the Progenitor Mael'nerak, who melded different genetic traits together from various sources to create them. The Lenarran's creator grafted feline DNA onto a humanoid template, but there are a number of differences between them and other progenitor created races. There are no male Lenarrans, and Nymphs are only reproductively compatible with Progenitors. It is unknown if their creator made the first Lenarran and then used her to give birth to the whole race, or if the Nymphs were artificially mass created at the same time.

In their natural forms they are shorter than all other known progenitor created races except the Ashanath, standing at only 5 foot tall. They have no circulatory, respiratory or digestive systems and only one internal organ, a crystalline structure positioned approximately where a heart would be in a thrall/human. It seems to contain the consciousness of Lenarran, acting as her brain. Every other physical part of a nymph is non-vital and can be regenerated relatively quickly. Despite not having internal organs they still need to eat and breathe. It is unknown how they process oxygen and food without the requisite organs, possibly on a cellular level..

Like thralls, they are genetically engineered to be predisposed to having a need for a master. They use their limited telepathy to forge a bond with their new master and then alter their bodies and personalities into becoming their new master's perfect mate.

The true form of Lenarrans has pointed cat ears, a tail, and a close coat of green fur (Chapter 61). Alyssa describes it as "a furry's wet dream (Chapter 63). Being shape shifters seems to grant Lenarrans functional immortality. They seem to be immune to aging and disease. They also regenerate from non-fatal injuries, but they can be killed by sustaining damage their crystaline heart. So over the eons their nearly complete lack of reproductivity coupled with rare accidents and murder has left Lenarrans on the verge of extinction.

What makes Lenarrans unique among the known races are their unusual abilities. While there are other more powerful telepathic peoples in the galaxy, Nymphs are different in how they use their psychic talents. They use form a telepathic bond with a new master to learn his requirements for his perfect mate and then wipes out all of her memories to reform a new personality for him as she shifts her body for his sexual pleasure.

When Mael'nerak resettled the Nymph population to Lenarra thousands of years ago he addressed all the pack leaders. (Chapter 76)There were a significant number of them, and since each pack leader led a hundred Nymphs their population was somewhere between tens and hundreds of thousands. After Mael'nerak freed them to live simple lives as hunter/gatherers they followed herds of shentole across the savannah in a happy, though simple way of life that lasted several millenia. That ended after the Terran Federation claimed Lenarra from the Ashanath Collective who had inherited it after the Maliri withdrew to their Homeworlds. The TFS Darius' survey of Lenarra revealed the Nymphs and their need for dominant masters led to a "gold rush" that led to every last Lenarran being removed from the planet into lives of sexual slavery. To this day most survivors are either sex slaves passed down through a succession of pirate lords on the fringes of Federation space or playthings of the powerful and super-rich.

Unenhanced Lenarrans are subject to several core instincts that drive their behavior. First of all, they keenly need a master whose desires determines who they become. They are incapable of disobedience and will gleefully perform any sex act required by their master. They have an inherent aversion to using weapons, to the point of physical pain developing if they try to ignore this instinct. They can only shift into females, and only into the form their master finds most desirable. The Lenarrans on the Invictus are being enhanced by John Blake and are in various stages of being pushed past the influence of these instincts.