| REAPERS
Each Kurian
controls a coven of up to thirteen Reapers.
Most people think of the Reapers as individual entities. They
are in fact carefully constructed parts of a larger being: the Kurian Lord. The Reapers are avatars of their Master Kurian. The
Lifeweavers believe that each Reaper was created from cell
matter of the Master Kurian to make the psychic connection that
exists between the pair that much stronger. Depending on the
Kurian's mental ability and skill, he or she can animate up to
five Reapers at once, although it is rare to see a Kurian who
can operate more than three at one time. When their Kurian
puppet master is not pulling the strings, a Reaper will slip
into a deep sleep or behave in a very instinctual manner when
threatened.
Beneath the heavy robes of bullet-resistant material the Kurians
wear is a bony, angular physique of wiry muscle. Their knees and
elbows can bend either way in an unsettling manner. Aside from
the grotesqueness of its motions, this allows the Reaper to coil
its entire body for a leap, climb rapidly, and change position
in a hand-to-hand fight with terrifying speed. Their bones are
not white, but rather a dull black, as are their pointed seizing
teeth within their snake-hinged jaws. Their blood turns into a
thick, tarry substance when exposed to air, so they rarely bleed
to death.
 They have a rudimentary digestive system, leaving more room for
lung and muscle, and feed on the blood of the victims while they
act as psychic modems for the transfer of vital aura. To
accomplish this they use their long, flexible, beaked tongues to
stab into the prey, using their teeth to fix on the victim as a
lamprey does while they pierce poor wretch's heart with their
stabbing lingular syringe. They see poorly in the normal
spectrum of daylight, sun makes them dopey and vulnerable as a
drunk in a fog. At night they read vital auras of living beings
with ease, allowing them to track their prey in all but the
worst terrain. They are hard to kill, vulnerable only to massed
firearms, burning, or decapitation. Battle reports recount
Reapers having a grenade blow up in its face, and still being
able to hunt and kill using only its nose or weakened hearing. |
