Before the recorded age of mammals and reptiles, a race of insects ruled every continent. Only the mountains, through which they could not dig, remained free of their influence. These creatures are known by a dozen names; The Titans, to the Hyperians, Obakemono to the Ribenguans, Khepri to the Khonshans, and Daemons to the Rodentians. In modern times they are known as Exomorphs, for their unique exoskeletal biology. These creatures had no language of their own, barely able to mimic the sounds of ‘endomorphs’, those with internal skeletons. As each exomorph knew what his hive-kin knew, no history, culture, or art is recorded from this time. The few artifacts that remain were treated as cursed relics, symbols of demons and monsters. The first recorded is quoted at the beginning of The Rodeniad, “On the day the sky burned bright, when the heroes rose against their rulers and slew them, the lesser titans disappeared below the earth”.
Since the end of the Titanic age, they have resurfaced many times.
Link: On the Lamb Games
Well I'm a sucker for bug creatures, definitely keeping an eye on these!
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