Today, I get to talk about a group of living parasites that are grotesquely attached to the flexile family. Shapeshifters, conquerors and tyrants with the sole purpose of dominating and consuming all life in the universe for the sake of their creator named "Mother". Their odd goopy and slimy appearance allows them to infinitely grow in power and shape shift into whatever they originally devour. Not only copying just voices and looks, but down to their abilities as well, adding them to an infinitely growing collection. What we see to the right of us is its "proper" form without any disguises. It is to note that these creatures can even mold and create new versions of the things they eat and create entirely unique "personas" as well. Even in their weakest state these beasts are capable of conquering entire planets who are unprepared in the matter of weeks! Like a snowball rolling down a hill and picking up speed...

However, as terrifying as they once were most of them have been wiped out before the creation of Cycle 10. A huge portion of them dying out when "Mother" did and or were dispatched beforehand and halted by several legendary heroes, nowadays there's only a select few left. I suppose the most relevant answer to whom is around still is “Aellea” as she’s the Mute God’s wife. I still personally don’t trust having her around, but I suppose it’s not my place to speak. These monsters nearly wiped out our universe at one point and consumed most of the 9th universal cycle. All of it ending in a blazing fire and for Cycle 10 to be born from its ashes. Even with their Mother gone and her influence depleted I still don’t trust them in the slightest. Even now there's entire planets that are just... Them, if that makes any sense. Every person, every living plant, even the soil is just replications and extensions of themselves.

I for a fact do not believe such creatures in this universe should be this powerful. At least not ones that aren’t divine or God-like in nature. These things can infinitely grow out of control, and we already seen what that can lead to with Mother. Despite being nothing but a corpse, her very veins are still stretched out across invisible lines in this universe... and oddly enough, they’re used for FTL travel and teleportation spells as one can travel through them. Personally, I believe that beings who are not divine like most of the pillars should not hold any seats among matters that involve the creation of the universe. However, here Thomza and Aellea both sit across from me... I just hope they know what they're doing and aren't allowing their emotions to lead us to ruin. ~Commander Proto

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A bit of a contrast from the last one aye? Fat friendly dragons in comparison to the monster made out of primordial ooze. Also, as you can tell Proto is getting a bit... Personal with this one. I don't think I need to spell too many things out as I think the context is already there. However, if you wish to see who Mother is, you can view that here: ..And Her Vines Shall Strangle the Universe's Core (or at least in her Mandrake disguise...)

Other than that? I don't have much else to say! Have a nice day everyone and thank you for reading!

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Disclaimer and Copyright: These characters involved, and the artwork belongs to me, TwistedHensley. The Skin to Scales Universe also belongs to me there, TwistedHensley... You get the drill. I want to point out that this is an Epic Dark Fantasy setting with a lot of mythological and religious tones and that there is no real-life connection to any of these events, religions, characters and it is fully, grounded, in fantasy. There is no copyright infringement also intended to other forms of media as Skin to Scales is meant to be its own thing and something I've been working on for a very long time. This is the same setting where faith is a massive part of the magic system, and it is usually meant to have a very bright and colorful art style to help balance the tone.

Other Disclaimer: You are allowed to share my artwork as long as I am credited, but do not upload it anywhere else, edit it and or mark it as your own if that wasn't common sense.

Fun Fact 1: Some like to believe they are artificial Maskless, but these beings cannot learn any scriptwrighting. They're also more closley related to imps and demons instead of faceless.

Fun Fact 2: These beings can only eat recreationally, other than that they can infinitely sustain themselves on nothing.

Fun Fact 3: If a being that is consumed by them knows the same skill, they can double up on it. Growing infinitely and explosively

Fun Fact 4: These monsters are actually in the grand multiverse and are a massive problem. Even having one in a universe can lead to the council of colors destroying it.

Fun Fact 5: Despite being called parasites, the only host they reside in are universes.

Fun Fact 6: They cannot drink from the river of souls as it is extremely poisonous to them, the reason being is that the souls are so refined down that there's nothing to learn.

Fun Fact 7: A misconception is that they can eat books to learn it's content, but somehow, a lot of these creatures hate reading

Fun Fact 8: The only thing that doesn't seemingly grow is intelligence

Fun Fact 9: These creatures have an easier time understanding their limits, there's no point in blowing up half the universe to take care of one soldier, it also completely denies them any source of knowledge and food

Fun Fact 10: Every single Beast of Chaos has a different father/mother, usually altering their personality, goo color, and will usually be created disguised.

Fun Fact 11: Beasts of Chaos are not born male or female, simply they gain their gender and identifier later on in their life cycle

Fun Fact 12: Beasts of Chaos are known to be hunted by Faceless in the Greater Multiverse, viciously too