Psynecerion

Psynecerion (pronounced sigh-neh-serian) are a race of Extra-Dimensional Beings that can change between their natural form and a "human" form. There exists many, many psynecerion in their home-plane of Akrideas ("Abyssal Plane" in their native tongue). However, there are usually only very few of them in a dimension at a time. The only one know to inhabit the plane of Geilinor is the being known as Ahzoh.

Appearance
The appearance of a psynecerion are not very complex. In their Natural Forms they look like ordinary humanoid creatures, with completely pitch black skin, a head that closely resembles a skull, and glowing eyes. Particulary strong ones will have glowing veins that often appear in the colours of the rainbow. They usually have large claws, that are often sharp enough to cut strong metals like a hot knife with butter. Another distinguishing feature is that some of them, particularly older ones, will have tusks. Many psynecerion break off these tusks as they are seen to hinder their ability to feed.

Psynecerion are also able to shapeshift, but they are limited to only humanoid forms. They generally prefer to look like a human since that is what they closely resemble.

Aging
Psynecerion do not grow physically very fast, as such they maybe be considered old beyond numerable years, but are considered by the race as a child. The exact rate of which a psynecerion grows has been estimated at 30,000 Mortal Years is equivalent to 1 Psynecerion Year. Some psynecerion are able to speed up their physical growth by using the Growth Crystal that they are born with by up to 10-20 Psynecerion Years.

Death
While psynecerion have an incredibly long life span, they do die eventually, usually after a million or so Mortal Years, although some particularly powerful ones have gained biological immortality. The bodies of dead psynecerion do not rot away like most organisms but are rather converted into a metal in similar fashion to when Tzhaar turn into Tokkul, but rather than being used as currency, the resultant carcass of the psynecerion become the power source of the race. This material is called in mortal tongue as "The Augment".

Creation, Religion, and Jzakar Uirahd(The Burden)
The origins of the psynecerion are unknown, even to the race itself. However, many stories often told that the all present psynecerion were originated from the Original Six. They were three males and three females, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses, as well as their own colours(except green) of the rainbow. However according to the stories, while they had great power (assumed to have power that were god-like even), they were heavily burdened with it's own drawback known as Jzakar Uirahd(The Burden). The Original Six existed only to absorb the pains and evils of the living things around them. While The Burden seemed to have little effect on them, it eventually had gotten worse, because they could not figure out how to get rid of this evil and this pain that was slowly building up in them.

Today, however, many psynecerion hold this origin story as a great myth, but some do often wonder if it may indeed be true.

Abilities
Psynecerion are beings of darkness, and so they are able o control and manipulate shadows to near limitless potential. they are also able to perform magic of the elements with the same skill as humans, if not slightly more. they are however, unable cast magic of the light variety (e.g. lightning, holy magic, etc.)

Diet
while psynecerion can eat like most normal living organisms, they get most of their power and energy from consuming The Augment and the souls of the living things they hunt. while they often do hunt humans and eat them, they usually give the humans fair game and kill them as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Psynecerion Society and Class System
Much of their Society stems around the Augment, a large central power source in their plane, and it also stems from power gained from creating universes and collecting souls. psynecerion generally are respectful of each other, hold family in high regard, and can be friendly to other living things. Some however can be highly aggressive and sadistic. There are often duels between psynecerion, as when one is killed by another, the winner receives the power of the loser that died, thus increasing his social standing. The more Worlds created also increase that individuals social standing.

Disadvantages
Due to being creatures of darkness, they cannot expose themselves to direct sunlight, much like a vampyre. Some however can learn to withstand small amounts of sunlight and ar able to only expose small amounts of their skin
 * Some psynecerion do indeed carry Jzakar Uirahd with their existence, and so they often try to get into as little conflict as possible to avoid causing much suffering, and in turn their own suffering.