Samesi

''We fear the stranger and sinister more than anything else. Nevertheless, we foolishly believe we would only find it outside our homes and cities. The true darkness does not breed in deserted farms and swamps, but in our very middle. It grows where the light burns the brightest."'' -Iareth, High queen of Sash Anu

Introduction
The Samesi, also known as Bloodscales, The Cursed, The Second Born, Sutekru, and Sethari are a parasitic race capable of infecting and adapting to any other species. They seek to control any society, either in secret or in depraved openness.

Biology
The Samesi are able to adapt to any living species, however they only hatch correctly when their larva is implanted in a intelligent race that has acess to its Born. Animal.Samesi are little more then bloodhungry beasts, strong in flesh but weak in mind. Thinking hosts however create fully grown Samesi.

There are three kinds of Samesi, the True bloods, also known as Nightborn, the Unbloods, also known as the Reborn and the Thinbloods, also known as Wormborn.

Infection and growth
Nightborn can be created threw a larva either impregnating a women or entering the bloodcyclus of a young child. If they succesfully infected a target they build up a Rzya, a so called wormheart. This is the Samesi larva taking shape inside its victim, growing around its spinal cord and slowly taking controll. As soon as this wormheart is fully hatched, it starts devouring the personality of its host.

This change starts between the Age of 5 and 12. The Samesi will start to wispher inside the hosts mind and talk to him openly. Over the next weeks, the host will have heavy nightmares while is body is full awake, meaning that he is suffering insomnia. Sometimes to Samesi mind traps its victim in his mind, showing him a long or eternal vision which he can´t escape while on the outside only minutes pass. A infected child will suffer from halucinations, paranoia and panic attacks. Should the host attempt to tell other about this and the voices its been hearing despite this, the Samesi is able to take controll over them for a few minutes or obfuscate their mind in a way that will make them unable to speak.

After this process is complete, killing and ressurecting it to replace the hosts soul with the Samesis inside its new heart. This procedure is called second birth or awakaning. Most of the times, the victim just dies from the lack of sleep, however those strong in will and able to resist the Samesi visions are pushed to suicide so the transformation can be completed.

Then, the Samesi will have full controll of its host body and starts changing it slowly to fit his needs. When reaching adolescense, a Samesi has fully hatched and taken controll over all body functions which enables him to change his appearence, stop or speed up his own aging process and use all Samesi powers.