Shardmind

Accidental Creation

The Living Gate was destroyed, allowing all sorts of madness to spew forth from The Far Realm. Ioun, The God of Knowledge, has used his powers to contain the breach, stopping the bulk of The Far Realm from getting through. He wasn’t fast enough though, this event allowed all sorts of horrors into the other realms, and even led to the rise of The Mind Flayer Empire. There is hope though. When the gate was destroyed tiny broken shards developed sentience. They grew, and formed a society with one goal in mind, rebuild The Living Gate, and kill every last Aberration that came through.

Crystal Beings

A Shardmind is a crystalline creature made up of hundreds of small crystal shards of translucent green, white, red, or amber. The shards assemble into a humanoid form of the Shardmind’s choice. Though the creatures themselves are genderless, some do make their bodies more masculine or feminine, aping the other Races they have encountered. The tiny crystal fragments that make up the body of a Shardmind are in constant motion, slipping gently over each other and moving around its body. The physician, Dr. Lorelei Brycan, once remarked that it moved in a similar way that blood moves through a Human body, almost mimicking the hypnotic pattern. A Shardmind is a living creature; they require rest, and still need to take in oxygen. They don’t however require food or water, and they don’t have sexual organs. Although they don’t reproduce in a conventional way, they are still able to make more Shardminds. It will take a shard from its person and plant it in what they call a Living Garden. The Shardmind will tend this garden for many lifetimes, and eventually a new Shardmind is created.

Emotions Shardminds are often in complete control of their emotions, letting little affect them. When an event that makes them feel great emotion does take place, they lose all control. They feel these events stronger than other races. Their shards, normally in a uniform order, break away and their entire bodies become a mess of swirling rocks. They can fall to the ground, overwhelmed completely by what they are feeling, or maybe, just maybe, you will see what real primal rage looks like.

Fractured Society

The logical, but emotionally distant Shardmind rarely interact with other Races. The few that venture forth into the world can be seen as dispassionate, cold and calculating, often perhaps a little pompous with their self-righteous talks about The Living Gate. Then again, others approach the world with wide eyed wonder, soaking in all that the world has to offer with innocent, almost childlike, curiosity. The Sharminds themselves are split into 3 ways of thinking. They call themselves Thought Builder, God Shard, or Shard Slayer.