Zaros

Zaros are predators of humans in Seire. They are demonic beings granted power from a corrupted soulshard. Emotions they gain from humans allow them to regain what little humanity they have left, and it’s an addiction.

There are two types of Zaros: Flesh Eaters and Dream Eaters, both get their names from their specific eating habits. Flesh Eaters are described as a black shard that is aggressive and viciously stalks and rips apart prey. While Dream Eaters are described as white shards that is meticulous, cunning, and feeds off of humans whom have fallen asleep.

Zaros are shards with miraculous magical abilities, however if that crystal is ever shattered they will wither away and die in due time. These crystals allow Zaros to gain sentience, feed their own power, and to help them live and regain their humanity through dead bodies.

**NOTE**: ZAROS WHO DO NOT FEED BECOME STARVING, They look more demonic, in nature and gain debuffs.

**UNIVERSAL BANES FROM STARVATION:**

**Magic Ability 3:** Locks you cannot use this

**Shard Location:** Glows Brightly and Becomes easily noticeable even through armor or material.

**Teeth and Fangs protrude**: You are looking Sharky there

**Uncontrollable**: Randomly you might lose control of your body..... (admin is waiting)

**Ranking Boost:** Your attack doubles in rank but only when you are in an uncontrollable rampage. (Ability above)

**Vampiric Noctal**: Your senses in the dark are increased by three ranks (Not attacking abilities)

**Poisonous Rot:** Your body is dying! You are starting to stink and your body is falling apart! (Zaros will have HALF their Maximum HP)

### **Template: Black shard (Flesh Eater)**

Name: (Name your Oc so he or she can be identified by myself).

Race: (This must be classified so I can determine if you are using the correct template and decide where to place your accepted Oc).

Zaros Type: (Flesh Eater)

Sex: (Male or Female.)

Rank: (This needs to be known always, even if you generally start at F rank.)

Age: (This needs to be stated or I will not accept it.)

Special skills: (This is only for crafting skills, this will use up a slot for magic abilities, one for each crafting skill, this can also be “none” This can also include small abilities like “Sword play” etc.).

Primary Emotion: (What emotion are you drawn to? NOTE: Black shards can sense all emotions from living beings their rank and below.)

Magic Abilities: (You get two slots for abilities, an admin will give you a special ability for the emotion you choose.)

Magic Ability 3: (this will be determined based on your emotion you choose, leave this blank. You will lose all your temporary ranks if you use this.)

Black Shard Abilities/Passives:

Thermal Vision: Can see people through walls due to heat vision that can be toggled. (rank does not matter unless the mage in question can regulate or control body heat example being an ice mage or a fire mage etc)

Haunted: Flesh Eaters are Haunted by F rank shadows that appear and slowly drain sanity (until damage is dealt), these shadows can be killed to dissipate them. Killing these shadows gain a small bit of humanity.

Blood Lust: Attacking an OC with the emotion you’re attracted to increases your damage dealt against that OC by double.

Rusty: Permanently lose ranks if a year passes and you do not kill any OC’s (cannot exceed F rank, deranking stops at A rank, A rank will be a zaros perma-rank ‘check point’)

Heart Thief: Flesh Eaters gain temporary ranks by killing or consuming creatures that are a higher rank than the Zaros. (Gain + 1 temporary rank every higher level monster killed) If the creature is a lower rank however a Flesh Eater will lose rankings.

Insanity: Permanently lose sanity and humanity for every temporary rank gained. (x2)

Glutton: Become starving if you do not Feed/Eat in one thread (sin included).

Blood Rank: You only rank up permanently if you can kill an Oc.

Insatiable: Jelli does not satiate your hunger.... you are actually always feeling hungry.

Stained Shard: Feeding on different types of living things yields different effects/results (Will post a list shortly)

Iron Stomach: Can consume any living thing and digest the sin virus easily without getting infected. HOWEVER this does not stop the pathogen from infecting you in other ways. (injection, through anywhere other than stomach etc)

Physical attributes: (If you have swords for legs or any metallic or robotic attachment it needs to be stated here.)

Weapons/Items: (This may not include weapons with magical properties or with unique qualities, if you want something better. You will need to make it or purchase it from someone who can make it. I will only allow three healing items for example: potions. They will be used up after consumption however. You may not have magical trinkets or anything that increases your ability. )

Shard location: (Leave this blank, an admin will give it to you)

 Appearance: (What do you look like? One picture can be used in your acceptance. If you want more please reply to my photo comment and add your own pictures. Do not post more. If you do not have a picture that is also okay, please describe what they look like here.)

Background: (extra information of your oc’s past, I would recommend not something super in depth unless you have a high understanding of our world. We do not accept royalty, rich people, and people from unknown places in our land.)

Additional information: (You may put your likes or dislikes here if you want or anything else you wish to share.)

### **Template: White shard (Dream Eater)**

Name: (Name your Oc so he or she can be identified by myself).

Race: (This must be classified so I can determine if you are using the correct template and decide where to place your accepted Oc).

Zaros Type: (Dream Eater)

Sex: (Male or Female.)

Rank: (This needs to be known always, even if you generally start at F rank.)

Age: (This needs to be stated or I will not accept it.)

Special skills: (This is only for crafting skills, this will use up a slot for magic abilities, one for each crafting skill, this can also be “none” This can also include small abilities like “Sword play” etc.).

Primary Emotion: (What emotion are you drawn to? NOTE: You can ONLY sense this emotion, NONE OTHERS as a white shard.)

Magic Abilities: (You get two slots for abilities, an admin will give you a special ability for the emotion you choose.)

Magic Ability 3: (this will be determined based on your emotion you choose, leave this blank. You will lose all your temporary ranks if you use this.)

White Shard Abilities/Passives:

Lullaby: Can lure unexpecting humans to sleep either by singing them a song (has to be fully listened to) or by staring deeply into each others eyes.

Subtle: Can feed off of Oc’s by touching, biting, etc without killing oc’s. However Oc’s must be asleep/incapacitated.

Cold Touch: Oc’s that have been prey to a white shard will suffer from temporary curse: Living Nightmares

Snack and Dash: White shards need to feed before a thread, or else they become starving.

Alchemist: Dream Eaters can create Jelli from sin/animals to satiate hunger and prevent starvation, however consuming Jelli decreases humanity greatly.

Thief: Zaros who feed off Oc’s gain one temporary rank per oc, however they end up temporary stealing the Oc’s rank for one thread due to this. Oc’s who have their ranks stolen gain significantly less EXP for their next mission thread.

Totally a Human: Gain permanent ranks with exp from missions! However you only get EXP if you have temporary ranks from feeding/stealing from other Oc’s.

Frenzy: If a zaros encounters a human with their primary emotion they are attracted to, then a white shard can feed off of them without waiting for them to fall asleep. (and can feed through physical contact) Feeding off of this human will give the zaros two temporary ranks and double damage for one thread.

Jelli Glutton: Eating certain Jelli’s and Zaros foods (located in midnight ravine) yield certain and different effects (will update this list later).

Malnourished: White shards are weaker than Black shards... Due to differentiating diets and methods preferred to feed.

Physical attributes: (If you have swords for legs or any metallic or robotic attachment it needs to be stated here.)

Weapons/Items: (This may not include weapons with magical properties or with unique qualities, if you want something better. You will need to make it or purchase it from someone who can make it. I will only allow three healing items for example: potions. They will be used up after consumption however. You may not have magical trinkets or anything that increases your ability. )

Shard location: (Leave this blank, an admin will give it to you)

Appearance: (What do you look like? One picture can be used in your acceptance. If you want more please reply to my photo comment and add your own pictures. Do not post more. If you do not have a picture that is also okay, please describe what they look like here.)

Background: (extra information of your oc’s past, I would recommend not something super in depth unless you have a high understanding of our world. We do not accept royalty, rich people, and people from unknown places in our land.)

Additional information: (You may put your likes or dislikes here if you want or anything else you wish to share.)

#### **FEEDING LIST**

**Black Shard:**

-Human

Gain EXP, consuming a human restores all lethal wounds and cures all status or infections/diseases. Your attack increases by +1 for the rest of the thread to ward off anyone who dare attack you in a weaker state... the fools.

(Rank instantly if its an OC)

-Infected

Consuming an infected will give you the ability to transform into their feral form and use all their abilities for five threads. You will also gain EXP.

(Rank instantly if its an OC)

-Zaros

Eating a Zaros gives you EXP and changes your shard type to white temporarily, this shard change lasts until you decide to switch back. However you cannot switch back to white unless you eat another Zaros.

(Rank instantly if its an OC)

-Celeste

Consuming a Celeste will allow you to summon their God for the rest of the thread. You may also teleport to anyone a higher rank than you once. Gain EXP per kill.

(Rank instantly if its an OC)

-Aion

Aions will give you the ability to transform into their Aidelon for the rest of the thread and manipulate rifts, opening or closing them whenever you wish for that thread. Gain EXP as well.

(Rank instantly only if its an OC)

-Cursed

Cursed beings will change you into them temporarily for that thread, you’ll look like for example: A werewolf if you eat one, however you’ll still have your abilities. You will gain the ability to escape any dungeon, cave, or even Ein. Gain EXP per kill.

(Rank instantly only if its an OC)

-Elementi

Eating an Elementi (Golem) Will allow you to manipulate their element for the rest of the thread. Consuming the flesh of an Arcanist will give you the ability to teleport into any other thread once. Gain EXP per kill.

(Rank instantly only if its an OC)

-Morrow

will update soon

-Epithet

will update soon

-Lumin

will update soon

-Relix

Zaros will not level up upon consuming a Relix, in fact, zaros will feel sick and unable to move due to paralysis upon consuming one. This is the only race that negatively hinders a black zaros. However there is no way to tell outside of experience and eating for the black zaros in this regard.

-Aidelon/Summons

Eating Aions or summons will also rank you up by two temporarily rather than one from Sin or Rancor. Eating an Elementi summon permanently kills them and gives a large boost of EXP. Killing and consuming the summon or Aidelon will also trap the OC in the thread until you say so if they are your rank or above.

-Sin/Animals

Upon killing sin and other animalia, gain the ability arena trap. Arena trap will work on one player your rank or above.

Arena Trap: Black shadows erupt across your hand, upon touching a player oc trap them into a shadow arena. Where you’ll have to fight until one of you die. This can only work on one oc, although that one oc cannot leave, all other ocs can come and go. Once arena trap is used, the ability disappears until you feed again.

-Rancor/Other

Consuming any rancor gives you one of their abilities. (Will specify on consumption) This ability lasts for the entire thread. You can gain multiple abilities per unique rancor consumed.

**White Shard:**

-Dreams of Seirians (Human, Elementi, Infected)

Gain ALOT of EXP and gain the ability to use one of their abilities for your next thread.

-Dreams of Einlings (Celeste, Cursed, Aions)

Gain ALOT of EXP and gain the ability to level up your rank based on Rancor you kill. (Temporary rank for the thread)

-Dreams of the Aether (Epithet, Morrow, Lumin)

Gain ALOT of EXP and a temporary sigil that can control a fake magic produced reverent up to 2 charges per thread. Swap out your own abilities with your victims abilities (trade abilities temporarily).

-Dreams(?) of Relix

Relix are unable to be consumed in any capacity, dreamwise they feel empty and inedible. Nothing will happen trying to consume, I'd look for someone else.

-Jelli(s)

Satiate hunger and gain one element to manipulate OR be immune to randomly

-Candy Orb(s)

Satiate hunger and gain a very minuscule amount of EXP for your next thread.

-Pride Pill

Become immune to Life elements. Gain a rank if you get hit with any of these. Gain 2x damage if you encounter Fire, Air, or Affliction elemental users.

-Lust Pill

Gain the ability to absorb Light, or Dark based elements to restore HP and rank you up. Eating the elements give you the additional ability to use these elements for the thread.

Gain the ability to create illusions to confuse and misdirect enemies your rank or + 1 above your rank, and below your rank.

-Wrath Pill

Immunity to Fire, Death, and Electricity. You gain a rank every time you get hit with an attack from something higher ranking than you. Deal triple damage to OC’s who are a higher rank than you.

-Gluttony Pill

You become starving even though you ate, however all negative effects of being starving are reversed. (example: Poisonous rot will increase your HP by half instead of decreasing by half) Eating the Gluttony pill also gives you temporary black shard abilities. You will change back to being a white shard after three threads or until you eat a different Zaros food.

-Envy Pill

Steal any projectile magic to use yourself for one thread. Deal double damage towards players the same Sex/Gender as you. Gain double defense and magic defense against bosses and rancor.

-Sloth Pill

Gain an immunity to damage from magic attacks however, your damage is halved entirely for the thread. You are tired the entire thread... You are more vulnerable to status effects.

-Greed Pill

Eating this makes drops turn into gold, and it is all yours! Screw the other players its YOURS!!! Gold will be cursed so no one is able to pick it up! Gold will levitate and be added automatically into your inventory.

As a predator, the Zaros race outmatches the humans strength. Smart humans dont engage on a Zaros attack, they try their hardest to run and get the hell out of there alive.