Psoom

**Psooms** are a species of Ps, created by assimilating the DNA of MasterDoom, a Void Dweller and amplifying it with Void energy from the Void's Maw. Giving birth to devious creatures with a vampiric thirst for fresh blood. Due to their complex ancestry, Psooms possess not only the regenerative abilities of the Ps but have mastery over the powers of the Void itself.

## Culture and Society

Originally a predatory race, the first Psooms; the Pure Psooms were governed by instincts alone and hunted for survival, simple nomadic predators that would stalk the outer region of the UVF, preying on small colonies.

When they arrived on the moon of Rheoa, they made it their permanent home, not only this but soon learning that they could create more of their kind by converting others starting with the Gaian colonists, they splintered into many different tribes, clans and bloodlines having their own hunting grounds and preferences.

## Reproduction

Psooms cannot procreate normal as they are sterile, instead they have adapted a way to overcome this. The blood of Psooms contains a mixture of residual DNA of the host along with active Psoom cells which are infectious in nature, with the Pure Psooms being the most contagious and potent. Using their blood, via by consuming it, the victim will be infected and slowly turn into a Psoom.

## Types and Variants

* **Pure Psoom**: A pure original Psoom, one of the only three Psooms to be born from God-King's assimilation of Doom's DNA. Pure Psooms are stronger and even more dangerous than non-pure Psooms.
* **Psoomling**: A type of Psoom that is created by having an individual being contaminated with the infectious blood of a Psoom, causing the infected to turn into a Psoom. These are the most common Psooms.
* **Psoomhulk**: A uncommon type of Psoom, created from an infusion of unstable Void energies into a candidate that gored themselves on the blood of their own kind. Their diet of concentrated Psoom blood amplifies their powers to a degree that their forms can barely contain. Their lives are much shorter than the others of their kind, either starving to death, unable to accept any lesser blood, or being killed by their own kin as too big a liability. These hulks are powerful and useful siege weapons.
* **Psoomagus**: A rare and mysterious form of Psoom. Emaciated looking Psooms that are masters of deception, using both psychic and Void abilities to confuse and confound targets, manipulating their senses and clouding their minds. They use the stolen blood within their veins to strengthen their attacks, this renders them physically weaker and require additional blood to maintain themselves.

## Psoom Psychic Powers

The Psooms have a number of unique abilities, combing their psychic powers with the dark emptiness of the void. A few even exhibit the power to manipulate blood in unnatural ways.

### Non-Archetypal Powers

Several powers are found among a variety of lineages, but are not directly associated with neither a particular archetype of Psoom, a particular lineage or bloodline.

* **Void Form**: Transform and meld with the Void, becoming a shadowy mist or fog that can traverse obstacles and travel great distances.
* **Void Sphere**: Forms greatly blinding sphere of Void which strips anything inside from its senses.
* **Void Bolt**: Hurls a bolt of Void energy.
* **Voidward**: Creates a sphere of Void energy to protect the caster.
* **Void Blast**: Fires a blast of condensed Void energy.
* **Void Wave**: Unleash a wave of destructive Void energy.
* **Touch of the Void**: Touches their victim and channels the raw entropic power of the Void through them.
* **Gloom Veil**: A rare ability used exclusively by the Psoomagi, which allows them to create a veil of negative psychic energy mixed with that of the Void which envelopes the area around the user, sapping strength, distorting senses and muddling the thoughts of those caught within the area of influence.

### Bloodline & Lineage Powers

#### Lanzar

* **Command**: Forces an individual to obey one's orders by influencing their mind.
* **Heightened Senses**: Psychically raise one's senses to superhuman levels.
* **Rebuke**: Telekinetically propels an object.

#### Drac

* **Dark Form**: Transform into a monstrous form suited well for conflict.
* **Dread Gaze**: Psychically inflict terror in their target.
* **Summon Bats**: Produces a bestial howl that awakens winged creatures of the night and telepathically beckons them to come.

#### Seyrmel

* **Blood Strike**: Forms a projectile of blood which can strike out at victims, when struck the blood would flow back to feed the user.
* **Blood Rupture**: Ruptures the blood vessels of the victim, causing them to bleed from within.
* **Corrosive Blood**: Expel acidic blood from your body as projectiles.
* **Blood Purge**: Forces the target to vomit up blood.

#### Aovkai

* **Iron Sinew**: Muscles grow far greater, giving a boost of pure muscular power.
* **Anger Spark**: Psychically arouse feelings of anger.
* **Void Claws**: Transform hands into claws infused with Void energy.

#### Zephir

* **Void's Shadow**: Conjures up a living shadow from the Void to serve the summoner.
* **Zephir's Demesne**: Blankets an area in pure Void energy that devours everything it touches.
* **Glimpse the Void Beyond**: Open a rift to the Void that mentally overwhelms a victim.
* **Visions of the Void**: Calls upon the power of the Void, granting the Psoom to see a series of prophetic visions.

#### Peatgor

* **Host**: The body becomes a host to a colony of vile insects and worms. They crawl through the flesh and feed on blood, defending their master's body.
* **Necrotic Plague**: With a mere touch, infects the victim with a horrific disease that ravages their body and risks becoming contagious.
* **Raise Thrall**: Calls upon the Void to reanimate a corpse, raising it as a undead minion under the Psoom's command.

#### Vantos

* **Apparitions**: Create multiple moving illusions to trick victims.
* **Insensate**: Dims the target's senses.

#### Selenua

* **Voidflame**: Conjures flames imbued with the Void.
* **Hungry Soil**: The earth swallows the target, burying them alive.
* **Gale Winds**: Summons fierce winds to blow opponents away.
* **Blood Chill**: Freezes the water and other bodily fluids within the victim's own veins.

#### Meniget

* **Blood Shield**: Conjure up a near impenetrable shield made of blood.
* **Void Wave**: Unleash a wave of destructive Void energy.
* **Void Lightening**: Launch bolts of Void energy in the form of electricity.
* **Void Craft**: Craft and shape weaponry from the essence of the Void itself.

#### Tzimar

* **Fleshspike**: Forms a massive spike of blood and flesh rises from the hand, which can be ejected with great and dangerous force.
* **Warp Flesh**: Twist and mutate a victim's body.
* **Flesh Hooks**: Sprout fleshy tendril like hooks from the user's body.
* **Blood Liquefy**: Liquefy a victim's body parts into blood.

#### Barjuhat

* **Bloodlust**: Enter into a frenzy, ignoring all wounds and pain.
* **Feral Speak**: Command and communicate telepathically with animals.
* **Beast Form**: Transform into the form of a wild predatory beast.
* **Animal Swarm**: Morph into a swarm of small creatures.

#### Cahrima

* **Spirit Beast Call**: Summon spirit animals to assist the user.
* **Spectral Form**: Become incorporeal while retaining one's form.

#### Bonusne

* **Silence**: Nullify the sound made by oneself.
* **Void Shriek**: Emit a deafening sonic shriek as a offensive attack.
* **Dark Incarnate**: Infuse with primordial darkness and became the ultimate predator.

#### Mariner

* **Sonic Sight**: Psychically use sonar-like abilities to orientate oneself underwater.
* **Webbing**: Creates webbing between your fingers and toes that allow for faster swimming.

#### Sanguinar

* **Mind** **Meld**: Attune to the minds of others for the purposes of communication, sharing senses, and resisting mental effects.
* **Coagulate**: Physically merge into a giant monstrosity of living flesh.

#### Azustu

* **Earth Meld**: Becomes one with the soil, the Psoom sinks into the earth.
* **Call of the Deep**: Summon huge pale worms from the depths of earth to aid the caller.
* **Shatter**: Cause a victim's bones to break or its organs to rupture.

#### Stormegir

* **Fury of the Storm**: Unleashes a raging storm of spiraling gusts, downpour of freezing rain and lighting arcs on foes.
* **Maw of the Void**: Summons black tentacles from below the water to drag victims down into the dark depths of the Void.

#### Baalite

* **Possession**: Subvert control over a victim's body.
* **Dark Impulse**: Causes a victim to act on their own dark impulses.

#### Pijavuik

* **Blood Form**: Transform into a pool of living blood.
* **Absorption**: Absorb inert blood and viscera in the environment into the Psoom's body.

#### Nesmar

* **Entrance**: Mesmerize the victim into obsessively want to please them.
* **Kiss of Bliss**: Through a bite that brings exquisite bodily pleasure to the recipient.
* **Seductive Allure**: Seduces victims that leave them defenseless, losing the will to resist.

#### Xihih

* **Whispers of the Void**: Inflict madding whispers on a victim.
* **Void Gate**: Opens up a portal that allows travel from place to place.
* **Blood Taste**: Garner a variety of information by tasting a single blood sample.

#### Trene

* **Youthful Form**: Assume the appearance of a young child of the Psoom's choosing.
* **Scent of Fear**: Smell the fear of potential victims.

#### Dimtir

* **Mental Numb**: Drain motivation or incentive to act from victims.
* **Memory Rewrite**: Rewrite the memories of a victim.

#### Keerthi

* **Paralyzing Breath**: Emits a invisible vapor from the Psoom's mouth that paralyzes the victim.
* **Void Fog**: Forms a thick hazy mist.

#### Norveuva

* **Handneedles**: The hand becomes covered in tiny, hair like needles, which can drain blood into the body.
* **Blood Armor**: Crafts a thick scab-like covering of armor around the body from blood.

#### Garl

* **Conceal**: Cloak oneself in the Void to become invisibility for a short time.
* **Daze**: Psychically induce a state of stunned confusion or bewilderment into a target.

#### Havitu

* **Blood Fire**: Create flammable blood from one's own.
* **Blood Toxin**: Transmute some blood into a debilitating poison.

#### Dunbara

* **Primal Awakening**: Awaken the bestial urges within the target.
* **Aspect of the Inner Beast**: Manifest the inner beast from within and give it physical form.

#### Ormegnathi

* **Void Within**: Cover a target in a horrid void conjuration that drains them of blood.
* **Ormegnath's Aspect**: Summons fourth a monstrous construct of blood.
* **Blood Briars**: Create barbed tentacles from the caster's own blood.

#### Elijadir

* **Stasis Form**: Crystallize the blood in the user's body, hardening it until it becomes near impenetrable.
* **Bloodshard Shower**: Shoot out a cluster of crystalized blood projectiles.

#### Setukhar

* **Snake's Gaze**: Immobilize a victim with a mere gaze.
* **Gift of the Serpent**: Slowly erode a victim's willpower, until they succumb to temptations.
* **Blood Coil**: Conjures fourth serpents formed out of blood to assault foes.
* **Setukh's Shadow**: Morph into a giant snake of pure darkness.

#### Chygravn

* **Blood Whip**: Produces a whip made from the Psoom's own blood with the bard end.
* **Void Beam**: Unleashes a beam of highly concentrated Void energy.

#### Voldaran

* **Contort**: Contorts the Psoom's body in a way impossible for most humans.
* **Perplexing Magnetism**: Captivates people causing them to become charmed and bewitched by the Psoom's own unusually attractive physical traits.

#### Atavirre

* **Void Drain**: Feed through the Void, draining both blood and life from victims.

#### Falkren

* **Levitation**: Levitates the user allowing for flight.

#### Malos

* **Attuned Domain**: Senses everything that happens in the Psoom's haven through the senses of sight, hearing and touch.
* **Living Domain**: The Psoom's haven becomes a living thing, changing to match the will of its master.

#### Neynar

* **Inner Void**: Draws the energies of the Void into oneself to become a self-imploding vortex
* **Transubstantiation of the Void**: Gain substance from Void energies.
* **Void's Visage**: Transform the mouth of the caster into a portal to the Void.

#### Hexec

* **Replication**: Any body part that gets severed from the main body will grow into a perfect clone.

#### Kiasfey

* **Alteration**: Modify reality to the user's whims.
* **Lucid Dream**: Control and manipulate the content of a sleeping person's dreams.
* **Mind Rend:** Assault a person's psychic directly through a devastating psionic attack.

#### Aranelok

* **Void Threads**: Produce strands of Void-enforced spider threads to bind and ensnare foes.
* **Spider Crawl**: Grow hook-like hairs on the Psoom's palms and feet allowing the person to crawl on walls like a spider.

#### Larvay

* **Blood Gel**: Secrete sticky gel to immobilize victims.
* **Blood Amber**: Produce an addictive blood-like substance.

#### Dregetti

* **Bone Spike**: Fire a boney spike like projectile at high speed at nearby targets.

## Technology and Inventions

* **Thralls**: A mindless servant completely under the Psoom's thrall. Thralls are undead corpses animated by the power of the Void, and will slowly rot and decay until their usefulness becomes somewhat limited.
* **Wights**: Genetically-enhanced humans given transhuman characteristics inherited through several generations through careful breeding efforts by their masters. Bred to serve as pawns and possible candidates for conversion into more Psooms.