Shemal-Lilitu Bestiary

The laboratories, flesh vats, and dream vaults of dread Shemal-Lilitu have spawned endless horrors through countless eons. The tenure of Ashur-El Artashumara as its keeper has proven to be no exception.

Terrorform
The terrorforms are partly responsible for the processes that allow Shemal-Lilitu to change the terraform worlds. They are microscopic cybernetic lifeforms, made primarily from proteins. Though individually harmless, untold millions work in concert to rearrange matter. With sufficient magnification, they resemble beetles with impish, humanoid facial features.

Tyrantform
The tyrantforms begin their lives as barely sentient puddles of a flesh-like substance and liquid nano-machines. They have an extremely rudimentary psychic ability which allows them to latch onto the general thoughts of a large population. The tyrantforms have a sophisticated algorithm that allows them to sift through these thoughts and pick out perceptions of leaders and heroes. It then shifts its mass to take the forms of these icons and engage in sabotage and deception to reduce a peoples confidence in their leadership. Ashur-El also uses these as body doubles, able to tap into their limited psychic presence to use them as mouthpieces.

Warform
Warforms are a classic Shemal-Lilitu combat beast: enormous quadrupeds with armored scales, mono-molecular claws, and bristling with spikes. The originals had scales of tungsten, but the newer breed have scales of a composite of tungsten, ceramics, and metallic-hydrogen; which causes tiny explosions upon impact which deflect force away from the warform. In addition to it's lethal claws and spikes, warforms can emit deuterium fluoride lasers (caused by the combustion of ethylene and nitrogen trifluoride) through their mouths or eyes. An intentional byproduct of their anatomy is triflic acid, which they weep through their eyes and emit as a corrosive vapor in their exhalation during high stress situations.

Wasteform
Wasteforms resemble humanoid races but reproduce through sporulation. They possess genetic memory that carries across generations, but lack psychic potential. They are susceptible to fungicidal compounds. They're used to create a fifth column among civilizations Ashur-El wishes to subvert or destroy.