Devourer

A young Devourer

Darkshade manipulation

Unholy Energy generation

Devourers are a race of non-sentient animal-like shadow demons, usually living and feeding outside Realspace. The Devourers were seen during the Flow Crisis, utilized by demons and the Titan Regime to attack faction controlled space and create chaos across No Man's Space.

## Biology and appearance

Devourers are shadow demons that bear the appearance of large squid-like entities, dominantly black in color. They have multiple red eyes across what appears to be their heads, which is often light grey or bone white in their youth. Black tentacles protrude from across their bodies, and they often appear to be made of tentacles. As they mature and grow larger, they become more solid and squid-like, while their heads turn black like the rest of their bodies. Although their eyes are located in an area that appears to be a head, their mouths are located on the lower sides of their bodies, similarly to ordinary marine squids. Within realspace, Devourers often drill their way into terrestrial surfaces while young, and grow by feeding off of minerals and energy. Outside of realspace, they feed off of pockets of energy and absorbing energy from realms and universes. When they reach adulthood, they become space-breathers, and are able to consume entire planets. They are able to absorb matter and energy with almost all of their bodies, but large objects and supernatural entities require them to use their mouths. They can also manipulate their bodies in various ways, such as sprouting extra tentacles and making spikes emerge from existing tentacles. Being demons, Devourers emit a large amount of unholy energy, and are vulnerable to Holy Energy and White Magic. Unholy Energy and Black Magic will often heal and empower them. They can survive in any environment, holding almost no biological traits that can compare them to mortal beings, as they are comprised of solidified hellshade, allowing them to survive from the void outside realspace to the fires of Hell. Due to their capability of consuming energy and all forms of matter, they are classified as hypervores. It is unknown if they can starve, or how much they need to eat. They cannot seem to eat reality or time. Devourers have no definite genders and reproduce asexually once every 100 Earth years. They lay large eggs which resemble balls of dark biomass, not unlike Z-X9.

### Habitat

General habitat: Any that are not Holy

Gravity: Holds no effect on Devourers

Pressure: Holds no effect on Devourers

Atmosphere: Any that are not Holy

Ambient concentration of Celestial Energy or Magic: Irrelevant unless said magic is White Magic or Holy Energy. Devourers seem to prefer high concentration environments.

## Behavior

Devourers seem unintelligent and violent, consuming anything before it that is not unholy. However, demons are able to tame them, and even control them through a demonic mental link, giving them full control of the Devourers' actions. The Devourers do not resist them. When controlled, Devourers can attack unholy beings as well. They are naturally solitary, drifting through the caverns of Hell, its lava oceans, or through space. They can drift aimlessly for millenniums. They instinctively turn away from anything Holy, and often chase supernatural entities and substances for nutrition rather than mortal ones.