Hive Mind

The Hive Mind in its airborne state

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> "*Considering you had just slain what was the guardian of this land, i'll need a new one. And, what better than to choose the ones that had slain the worm in the first place?*"
> ― The Hive Mind
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The **Hive Mind** is the creator and leader of the Corruption.

## Backstory

Though almost nothing is known about the Hive Mind themselves before their transformation into the corrupt abomination they are today, it is known where they came from and how they got where they are now.

The Hive Mind was a scientist of a nation that was in the Underworld, albeit before Humans managed to evolve to fit the climate. This nation was surprisingly high-tech, significantly outpacing their neighbors in that regard. However, unlike their neighboring civilizations, they refused to worship the Brimstone Elemental that 'ruled' over the place, not believing the Brimstone Elemental's domains over *Chaos* and Rage to not be especially convincing for a civilization as large as them. This resulted in them losing the significant edge of magic, making them about even with the other civilizations at the time.

One of this civilization's main projects at the time was an attempt to create a 'perfect life form', however, little did they know this would eventually turn out to be far from it. The Hive Mind was one of the scientists hired to work on this project. Unfortunately for them, this was right about the time the Brimstone Elemental had enough of this civilization's active refusal to worship them, and decided to rid the civilization.

The nation's technological edge was hardly a match for the Brimstone Elemental's power, and was quickly falling. So, when the Hive Mind heard that the Brimstone Elemental was approaching the lab they were working in, instead of evacuating the place, did the only reasonable thing and injected themselves with an unfinished prototype of the project, transforming them into the eldritch abomination they are today. And surprisingly, this was enough to fend off the elemental, at the cost of most of their power, weakening them significantly before they even created the Corruption.

Given their ability to fend off the nigh-godlike elemental, the Hive Mind believed the project to be a massive success, though they fled to the surface shortly after. Believing The Corruption to be just as was expected of the project, and went on to spread the corruption across the land. Unfortunately for them, this ended up coming to the attention of Cthulhu once they took power. Despite their cruelty, Cthulhu wasn't all that big a fan of The Corruption, and ordered it's destruction. Unlike with the Brimstone Elemental, the Hive Mind was not capable of fending this off, and was forced to flee back to the Underworld. However, they never ended up allying with the Chosen one.

After Cthulhu's fall, the Hive Mind reformed the Corruption, and things went relatively normal for them. But this wasn't the only nuisance Cthulhu would prove. Their brain had still remained and created the Crimson. The Hive Mind surprisingly saw The Crimson for the bloody mess it is, and Cthulhu's brain had not changed opinions on the Corruption since their downfall, and it was also competition to infect the planet to stave out The Slime God with attrition. As a result, the 2 infections entered a sort of competition against each other. The Brain of Cthulhu has the Wall of Flesh sap the Hive Mind's power to thereby weaken the corruption, allowing the Brain to not be hindered as much for a while.

## Role

### Pre-Hardmode Arc

The Hive Mind first appeared right after the defeat of the Eater of Worlds, explaining to its slayers that with it destroyed, they would require a new guardian for the realm, in hopes of recruiting Calamitas for the task, which led to a fight breaking out, ending in the Hive Mind being forced to flee underground.

However, the second time they challenged the Mind, they would attempt to make sure it would be unable to escape. This time, the Mind would be aided in battle by the Crimulan Slime God. However the group would manage to slay both beasts nevertheless, leaving the Corruption vulnerable to being overtaken by the Perforators.

## Abilities

* Corruption manipulation
* Heightened endurance
* Shapeshifting
* Mind control
* Cursed flame manipulation

## Trivia

* The Hive Mind was the 37th character introduced to the story.
* The Hive Mind was the 22nd named character to canonically appear in the roleplay.
* The Hive Mind was the 20th character to be given a character sheet.
* The Hive Mind was the 8th named character to canonically die.
* The Hive Mind's associated font color is a **Indigo-Sienna gradient**.

## Gallery

### **Sprite History**

**NOTICE: It is strongly recommended that you do not bash or discredit any of the following sprites simply because they do not match the current standards of either the source mod, or *Terraria* itself. Time and effort has still gone into them, and they offer insight regarding how far the mod has come over the years.**

Upcoming Hive Mind respriteCurrent Hive Mind airborne spriteCurrent Hive Mind grounded spriteOld Hive Mind airborne spriteOld Hive Mind grounded spriteOlder Hive Mind airborne spriteOlder Hive Mind grounded spriteOldest Hive Mind sprite
### **References**

* The Official Calamity Mod Wiki
* The Official Infernum Mod Wiki
* The Russian Calamity Mod Wiki
* The Calamity Mod Spriter's Resource
* The Calamity Mod Discord server
* The Calamity Mod subreddit
* The Calamity Mod Forum Page
* The Calamity Mod Imgur album
* The Calamity Cut Content document
* Is X Boss Getting Resprited??? document
* The Calamity Mod Theory/Future Content document

## See Also

* The Hive Mind on the official Calamity Mod Wiki.