Cosmovore Queen

> "*Prayer will not save you, little one. My children are hungry.*"
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The Cosmovore Queen (Nesarian: Ecolor Retia) was an intelligent and massive magical creature - possibly a Titan, but that assertion is highly controversial - which both commanded and created the Cosmovores. The Queen was obsessed with ensuring the survival and supremacy of the Cosmovores, which she viewed as her children, and actively sought to exterminate all other life to convert their biomass into new Cosmovores to grow the ranks of her children. Though referred to as a matriarch both by herself and others, the Queen possessed no sexual organs and was not actually female.

The Cosmovore Queen was capable of telepathic communication through magical means with her creations, but also with normal intelligent creatures (but not unintelligent ones). The strength and clarity of her communication varied greatly from person to person, with no clearly discernable pattern. The two most famous individuals who received some kind of communication from her were Emperor Athdus III and Colados Iafesa, who both only received very vague messages, and the result of her communication had the exact opposite of the intended effect of discouraging and maddening them.

Some individuals were far more susceptible to the Queen's communication, and some regions saw the formation of cults dedicated to the Queen, believing her to be an all-powerful goddess who would come to deliver divine judgement, sparing the righteous to create a pure world. It soon became apparent that the Queen did not at all intend to spare those devoted to her and no desire to be worshipped; this was simply a ploy to weaken the enemy.

The Cosmovore Queen was eventually slain in the Battle of Millions by the Flame-Bearer, resulting in the total collapse of her creations as they no longer knew how to function correctly, and the production of new Cosmovores was stopped. Many of her children were slain, but most simply starved or intentionally committed suicide. Although she was defeated, such was her prowess that she dealt fatal wounds to the Flame-Bearer which eventually killed him not long after her own death.

## Appearance

The Queen's body was serpentine and vast, covered in a thick, hard segmented and finely articulated pale grey exoskeleton, which - like the majority of Cosmovores - was augmented by a thick segmented lustrous black carapace along the back and atop the head. The Queen's body can be split into two sections, the torso and the tail.

The torso was, as the name would suggest, the Queen's torso, from which her head (bearing slanted burning amber eyes and a gaping maw full of sharp teeth) and six arms (four bearing single large scythe-like claws and two bearing clawed hands) sprouted. Behind her head were also six long spikes protruding from the black carapace, which are thought to have been telepathic relays. Unlike the rest of the Cosmovores, the Queen's torso also bore a ribcage-like structure which created visible ridges along the front of the torso. The reason for this is unknown, but it is theorised that the Queen required lungs (or some other expanding internal organ) that were bigger than what the room inside her exoskeleton allowed for, so the frontal exoskeleton was broken up into rib-like structures which were more flexible.

The tail, meanwhile, was simply a serpentine tail covered in thousands of segments of exoskeleton - so small that they appeared almost as scales - with the black carapace running along the spine all the way to the tip. The Queen clearly supported her weight with magical means, as the muscles in her tail would not be strong enough to hold herself up.

## Magical Ability

In addition to her powerful telepathy, the Cosmovore Queen had access to more conventional magic. Although passive magic is always hard to measure, it can be safely assumed she had it in abundance, using it to rapidly heal wounds, boost stamina and, according to her own words, live for "thousands of generations" - although the actual meaning of these words is unclear, for it is not known what she meant by generations. After all, a generation of Cosmovores is a few years at most, but a single generation of Dark Elves could be up to two centuries.

The Queen could also use shield and plasma magic, although she was either unable or unwilling to utilise the plasma in the form of a cloud, instead solely using it in its lightning-bolt form. She was also either unable or unwilling to form the shield into complex shapes, and she rarely had it active for more than a few seconds at a time, although this latter point is more likely to be an energy-conserving tactic than a lack of ability, particularly in the fight against the Flame-Bearer, which required her to summon vast shields which would have been very draining.