The Nascenti
Rarely seen but vast in number, the nascenti are a highly intelligent race of langoustine type creatures that own Hellsborough and the Eastern part of The Dark Peak. They maintain control through the organic network — entirely delegated to the fungal AI and their Exacid henchmen. They live in their strongholds beneath all the reservoirs of the area, including the main sites at Damflask and Ladybower. They are the overlords of humans in Hellsborough, who have no idea their work is undertaken for their overlords and that they are in fact slaves under constant observation.
The Nascenti are as powerful as The Xin and have been at war with them for longer than either species keeps formal records of. This has not resolved anything. Hellsborough continues to function in the space between two species that are too evenly matched to finish what they started.
They are mind readers — not in the romantic sense, but in the sense of receiving ambient signal whether they want to or not. Their coral networks, fused centuries ago with the Mentiloth silk networks, form the structural backbone of the dark net. They know more about what moves through Hellsborough than any other species. Whether they share this is a function of what they want, which changes.
The Exacids work for them. If you have encountered an Exacid, the Nascenti already know you're there.
Field note: they respond to direct eye contact with interest rather than aggression. Averting your gaze reads as guilt. You are almost certainly guilty of something. Choose your expression accordingly.
| Type | Listener |
| HP | 3 |
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