Some species info for the Lithid

The Lithid are a highly advanced species, they are advanced mainly due to their ability to warp and feed on the minds of other species, sentient or not. The Lithid's mind warping abilities are known to be so potent that they can turn a simple minded feral beast into a fully sentient minded creature, but the Lithid's always make sure to twist and warp their prey's memories so they are subservient to them.

As to how the Lithid's do this, the tentacles that hang off their face have nerves connecting to their mind, at the end of these tentacles the nerves can send out pulses so powerful they disrupt the neural impulses in other organic minds. This also allows them to read the minds of their prey and learn what they know, as well as then twisting what they know and turning them into loyal servants. The Lithid mental manipulation is so absolute the only thing that can reverse what was done is the Lithid that did it.

There are few things that can resist the Lithid's mental assault, even other Lithid's are not completely immune to it. There is no way to be completely immune to their mental abilities, anything that has memories, that has a mind or knowledge, can be affected and warped into a Lithid minion. While through sheer will one can resist, the Lithid's can keep up their assault for an indefinite amount of time and with their immense strength they can outlast most anything, as most any other species requires sleep at some point where as the Lithid's can do so while still concious, able to rest a certain portion of their mind and swap back and forth.

Also, Lithid's are able to out right take knowledge, or copy it, from their prey. They can also transfer information as well, allowing a single lithid to go out, gather information and then return to have it then copied and given to the other lithids. On top of that all Newborn lithids have the combined knowledge of their Mother and Father.

Further more, the Lithid's are Eyeless creatures, they "see" through various forms of echo location, smell, as well as sensing the electrical pulses from nearby brains. They are also able to latch into the mind of another creature when they are mind-jacking them, and can see through their eyes. Some Lithid are known to keep a preserved decapitated head around so they can "plug" into it and see as most other creatures can.

Lithids are a purely hermaphroditic species to the point where they only need one set of genitals. The Lithid's reproductive organs are two shafts with four testicles, despite the male appearance of the shafts they also function as the Lithid's vagina, with the testicles also serving as ovaries, making their genitals hermaphroditic as well. On top of that, their shafts are prehensile.

As for Lithid Reproduction, they make use of their mind warping abilities, which involve them stuffing their tendril's into their preys ears, combined with their pure physical strength to subdue prey and breed with it. They reproduce via laying eggs inside of hosts, and warping the hosts mind so they are docile and rather simple minded to the point of just taking care of the lithid offspring. How ever the Lithid are also fully capable of reproducing with one another, which involves one lithid implanting it's eggs into the other's testicle sack until it matures and it births the eggs, but the Lithid Queens have an alternative pouch, located in the rectum, to store the eggs until ready to birth them, sometimes even to the point of the eggs hatching.

Now there are 2 lithid races, The Queens and the Grunts. The Queens are ten feet in height on average, but are known to reach upwards of fifteen, highly intelligent but also very beastial. By their very nature the Queens are the predators of the species, stronger, faster, and more intelligent than the Lithid Grunts. Queens possess four arms, allowing them to completely subdue most any prey for their mind warping, breeding, or both. The Lithid Grunts range in height of six to eight feet in height and while not even close to matching the Queens in any area, they are still superior to most other species.

Combine this with the Lithid species having a secondary set of organs they make for a difficult to kill species. Should a Lithid have a lung punctured, the secondary lung kicks in as the first one recovers. This goes for all of their internal organs, even their brains, and the species is capable of regenerating entire limbs if given enough time, roughly a week to fully regrow a limb without any assistance.


And a bit on their culture

Lithids do have a culture, one they put together by learning from other species and continue to advance and change as they learn new things from other species or through their own experiences. The Lithid's culture revolves around the Queens primarily, as they are the most intelligent and strongest, as well as the most virile breeders, of the Lithid species.

The Grunts serve as the messengers, going out to other species to relay commands and the like from their Queens and in times of conflict they are mainly used for recon, spying, and similar jobs, the Queens make up the majority of combat roles due to size and strength with the grunts being the supporting roles.

All through the Lithid's history the Grunt race only attempted one "uprising" and failed simply due to the Queen's strength. The Grunts out number the Queens, but the Queens are so vastly stronger, both physically and with their mental manipulation, they subdued the Grunts in under a few months.

The Queens are known to be ruthless, dominant, intimidating, and out right predatory. The Grunts are predatory as well, though more cunning, preferring to simply out last their prey or trick them into a suitable position to pounce upon their prey. There is a social structure, with the Queens set above the Grunts, and their Servants are at the bottom.

There is even a high born caste of Queens, known as the Council, whom are the final word in any matter that is important or wide spread enough to reach their attention. And above the Council is Lillith, the Empress. Lillith was the first Queen to gain sentience, and the first to start puting the other Queens in line when they were more beastial, bringing them from their feral nature to their role as intelligent predators.

Despite her age, Lillith is still the superior Lithid Queen, so much to the point she is her own race of Lithid, Empress. Thus far there has been no other Empress Lithid, even though Lillith has spawned many children. Thus leading the Lithid to suspect amongst themselves that a new one will only appear when the current one is no longer fit or that there will always only ever be one Empress, Lillith, and that she shall be immortal and only die when the species is to die.