Ersatz

Ersatz symbol.

## Aliases & Titles

Ersatz (偽 (にせ) , *Nise*β, literally meaning "*fake*") are a category of hellions. Unlike Natural Hellions, the ersatz were directly made/transformed into hellions from either blood, transplantations, or overall surgery. This general category of hellions was shown to be almost similar to hybrids in a certain way, owing to its nearly similar properties and achievement: surgery or blood-related operations.

## Overview

Practically all hellions possess a murderous instinct to kill and devour humans, and have lost most of their memories from their birth and principal education. While they do still retain their original personality, most times it becomes a darker version of what it used to be, often corrupted by their core beliefs and their past. However, there are a few hellions who have completely retained human emotions and memories, such as Nara and Skadi. However, unlike normal hellions, ersatz do not possess a murderous instinct to immediately slaughter humans or humanoid beings. Instead, they are able to keep calm and are capable to not kill humans and feed off them and instead simply feed off NOKORIBI cells from blood pouches procured from the hospitals such as the Rabu Hospital.

## Capacities

### Anatomy

Ersatz possess an inhuman anatomy. Although this anatomy is indeed inhuman, its biological form stays the same. However, the ersatz possess NOKORIBI, special cells. This anatomy grants the ersatz with a longer lifespan, a greater growth, purest forms of cells, inhuman regeneration, and similarly inhuman, overall abilities. NOKORIBI, being possibly hellion-limited cells, are capable of granting those abilities and/or sub-abilities to both Natural Hellions and ersatz.

### Abilities

As cited above, from their anatomy, the ersatz possess various and many diverse abilities and/or sub-abilities. Within this category of abilities or sub-abilities, they consist of:

* **Inhuman Growth Rate:** Artificial and Natural Hellions grow at tremendously rapid rates, dependent on the number of humans they have consumed and the amount of Shub-Niggurath's blood they have assimilated. This allows even the weakest humans to become one of the most powerful beings in existence in mere months. As a result, demons are able to reach further heights that are impossible to attain when human as long as they keep assimilating Shub's blood and consuming humans. Some hellions, however, have a limit to how much they can use to grow stronger, and they might be not compatible with a higher amount of Shub-Niggurath's blood and die if they do not consume enough humans or people. The hellions also relate over NOKORIBI to grow even stronger.
* **Disease Immunity:** Ersatz have an innate immunity to all types of diseases and ailments, with complex anti-hellion drugs derived from other hellions being the only exception, the former being able to effectively weaken hellions and being able to kill hellions if they receive even milligrams of the substance. Though, this was seen utterly ineffective with Nara, even when the drug was remade into Anti-Nara Drug that was deemed approximately 1,100 times over the lethal dose and 700 times stronger than the normal anti-hellion drugs.
* **Semblance:** Ersatz have a naturally menacing presence and aura that evokes fear, with stronger hellions having a more intense aura. The aura of D to C-ranked hellions can make the air feel heavy and thick with a mere gaze. Meanwhile, Nara's was cited as the "foul and sickening, rancid stench of pennies".

## Biology

### Appearance

Ersatz, unlike some normal and average hellions, appear with a fully human form and appearance, although still possessing paler skin, fangs, claws, different-colored hair, different-colored eyes, and sharp teeth. While some hellions can appear in or with a fully inhuman form like Shub-Niggurath's true form's monstrous and Lovecraftian appearance, ersatz are fully sure to always possess a fully humanoid form and appearance due to being turned into hellions from their human forms and not directly born hellion.

All of them are humanoid in appearance, only with slight alterations to their physiology, including but not limited to: paler skin, fangs, pointed nails, and/or a change in hair color. The changes differ from hellion to hellion, as some ersatz can still retain their normal appearance; keeping the same hair or eye colors as when they were humans.

### Mechanisms

Ersatz have similar mechanisms are practically all hellions; they are known to mutate and grow stronger over time as they consume more humans, allowing them to grow into more monstrous forms and improve their physical and regenerative abilities among other attributes. Once they consume enough humans, they can develop **Sarcophagic Technique**, an array of hypernatural powers and abilities which are unique to each hellion. Different human blood types have different levels of nutrition for demons: the rarer the blood type, the greater the nutrition. The rarest blood type is known as **F-M7 33**; eating a single human with this blood type provides a hellion with roughly the same nutrition as eating one thousand ordinary humans. Meanwhile, this also applicates to the hellions: the rarer the blood type, the more powerful the hellion is. The rarest blood type for hellions is casually known as **Einvald** (From Proto-Germanic "ainazwaldą", literally "supreme power, omnipotence, absolute sovereignty" in Norse), and its only known possessors are Nara, Shub-Niggurath, Enikle-Exoxilb, and formerly Yog-Sothoth. Meanwhile, the other blood types consist of: **Nyldryd** (lit. "champion"), immeasurably powerful; **Fiuuld** (lit. "guardian"), extremely powerful; **Drengdr** (lit. "warrior"), very powerful; **Mikill** (lit. "great"), powerful; and **Lhuor** (lit. "casual"), neutral. Hellions also have rankings. Those rankings consist of: **Tempestas** (lit. "storm"), Einvald's & SS-SSS+; **Valda** (lit. "power"), Nyldryd's & S+-SS; **Tyheth** (lit. "high"), Fiuuld's to Mikill's & B-S; and **Djöfull** (lit. "demon", also 'djofull), anything below Mikill's & F-B.