Immortality through Remaking

Fearing the extinction of their race, dark elf cultists, now known as the Remade, turned to the forbidden art of flesh shaping.
The Fleshsmith stitches together the bodies of the fallen, using genetic material from the cave spiders, beasts, and other humanoids to replace any missing limbs or organs. For the Remade, the reshaping process has become a way of achieving immortality, though the side effects that corrode the mind and twist the form are more than most would sacrifice.

Over time, as this process is repeated, the individual loses more and more of themselves, their bodies turning ever more monstrous and their minds becoming crazed. In their twisted form, they are known as the Necro Spiders.

Subterreanean Nightmare

An infested mine, a dwindling race - the underground home of the remade is a domain of skittering terror.

The caves that the Remade call home are infested with enormous cave spiders, vicious arachnid predators who would be the apex predators of the tunnels, if not for the unnatural remade.

As the Dark Elves were driven deeper into the tunnels, they grew a symbiotic relationship with the blind and pallid creatures, adopting behaviours first, then their twisted octopedal forms. This relationship soon grew to a mad obsession with the Cave Arachne that first drove the Remade to intermix their genetics. Obsessed with what they perceived as the perfect biological form, they searched for ways to attain their agility and natural toxins.

Now, the caverns of the Remade are a nightmare of skittering silence and sudden violence. Any foolish enough to brave the tunnels would do well to bring many torches and mind their guard, for there are now worse things than spiders in the caves.

Master Remaker

The Fleshsmith

Mother of the Swarm
The Fleshsmith is both mother and maker of
the Remade. Sequestered away deep in her
subterranean surgical theater, she is the
twisted artist responsible for grafting
together the horrors at her command.
Centuries have passed since madness
drove her from her place of learning and out
into the wilds. In her eternal quest to perfect
her form, she has left in her wake a trail of
torment and death normally reserved for the most
vicious of Warlords.
The unfortunate folks who are dragged into
her deep lair are laid upon by her tools, and
their harvested limbs and organs are used to
shape the next generation of her children.
However, as any good mother, she loves
her creation with a tender fidelity, pained and
saddened whenever one should fall, buy joyful
for the opportunity to give them life once
more.

Dark Elves

Warriors

Twisted Kindred
Dark Elf Warriors are generally male. Like the cultists,
they retain much of their physical bodies and most, if not all
their minds.
Yet many are grafted with twisted limbs or physical features that form natural armor or weapons.

High Priestess

Attendant to the Fleshsmith
The Dark Elf High Priestess is the
Fleshsmith’s handmaiden.
She leads the Remade dark elves who still
retain most of their natural form, assigning
them to missions to return to the surface world
and capture flesh material, and directing them
in dark rituals of deliverance, where the bodies
of the captured and fallen are brought to the
Fleshsmith’s chambers.
In intimate ceremonies, she too collects the
blood of the Fleshsmith, mother to all the
Remade, and brings it to her followers so that
they may drink it. In sharing the blood of their
mother, they gain extended agility and dexterity,
useful in the fight against the Broodmother’s
servants.

Cultists

Frenzied Cavedwellers
Dark Elf Cultists are nimble hunters,
utilizing toxins extracted from the subterranean
arachnids to paralyze their prey.
Though they retain their minds and much
of their bodies, many of them have lost limbs
which the Fleshsmith has replaced with
insectoid parts.
Yet among the Remade, these changes are
considered only to be improvements, enhancing their natural agility and strength.

Skittering Hordes

Drider

Archanoid Monstrosities
Driders are the first of the more twisted forms serving the Fleshsmith.
Brutally efficient in their attacks, they are capable warriors and
ambushers.
They go forth whenever needed, heeding their mother’s direction, and
protecting the Remade from the Broodmother’s attacks.

The Swollen

Filled with Bile
The Swollen play a vital role in both the Remade society and in the
Broodmother’s hive. They are most adept at capturing live specimens
for their Fleshsmith mistress.
Driven to stuff themselves full of loose scraps of flesh and tendon,
the inner workings of their bellies twist and tie this foul matter to
form great messy nets and webs, which they regurgitate and layer
around the deep tunnels. Their glands also produce copious amounts
of digestive acids which are used in the reshaping process, and which
can be spat out at enemies to eat away at flesh and armor.

Servitor

Workers of the Swarm
Necro Servitors are the most common of the twisted form. The vast
majority of the Remade become this grotesque and reformed being
after countless reshaping processes, as their original genetic blueprint
deteriorates over time.
Though awkward and shambling, Necro Servitors can be turned
to all manner of tasks; from brutal melee, to tunneling, or carrying
corpses.
They serve their mad queen wordlessly, as if there were invisible
link between them and their master.

Necro Warriors

Repurposed Fleshmatter
Necro Warriors, like the servitors, have become so
twisted over the years that they have lost their forms
and minds, falling to the bestial intellect of their
spliced arachnid genetics.
They are the front-line soldiers of the Broodmother,
spilling forth from the dark orifices of subterranean
caverns to attack and kill all they find and carrying it
back their queen so that she may feast upon the bounty of unending flesh.

Cave Spiders

The Inspiration
Cave Spiders are found throughout the deep places of Doaden,
fast and deadly beasts adept at hunting any prey of any size that are
unfortunate enough to enter their caves.
It was obsession with the Cave Arachne that first drove the Remade to
intermix their genetics. Obsessed with what they perceived as the perfect
biological form, they searched for ways to attain their agility and natural toxins.

The Fleshsmith's Art

Fleshsmith's Daughters

Warped Children
The Fleshsmith’s Daughters are honed assassins. Agile
and lithesome predators, they are a horrifying and unique
addition to the Remade ranks.
Darting through their cavernous domains with terrifying
ease, these predatory monstrosities fell their prey in
moments, striking from shadows above with cruel talons
before once again disappearing into the gloom.

The Broodmother

Matriarch-Beast
The Broodmother was once the queen of the Remade but
has become irreparably twisted over countless reshapings.
Now nothing more than a prowling monster, she and her
swarms block prey on all, even the Remade. As the old hive
queen, the rest of the Necro Spiders continue to serve her, gravitating towards her through some invisible connection.
Her swarms are constantly at odds with the surviving
Remade, attacking and ambushing them in darkened subterranean tunnels.

The Fleshsmith's Triumverate

Three become One
The Triumvirate is the finest of the Fleshsmith’s
creations. A master of battle, the Triumvirate slays any
foe that dares intrude on his mother’s sacred birthing
chambers.
While much of her Remade are twisted and barely
recognizable flesh-things, the Triumvirate stands out
as a unique creation.
The Fleshsmith has sought to combine the greatest
of warriors together, generals and lieutenants, their
merged minds and additional limbs allow them to
share their strength and combat experience.

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