Aradhel Notes

"Xenophagy and allotropy are changes in established patterns of biological consumption, by individuals or groups."

The Aradhel, being Xenophagy biologically, work in the same vein as The Thing from the horror movie. During their juvenile phase they are carnivorous and necrophagous, preferring fresh meat rather due to the fact it has richer nutrients, they'll only eat rotting meat if the food source is low. During incubation and breeding they switch to becoming herbivorous due to there being more plentiful plants to feed on to give them more supplements to feed the growing brood, then once the brood are birthed, they will take on necrophagous properties, feeding the young who are too young to hunt their own prey.

Normally an Aradhel lives somewhere between 3-10 eons depending. Normally they're a predatory species preferring to subjugate and hunt their prey before turning the inhabiting planet into a hive as previously mentioned. They live in a Monarchy Cast System, each one working for or protecting the queen who commands them. Much like a monarchical system, once the queen dies the hive must find a new queen or they will die.

The queen is also the most powerful, but can pass her power to another female should they be willing, with the passing of powers the new queen gains everything of the old queen including memories and how to control the hive. The Aradhel vary in size but the queen is like... Unfathomably big. Hybrids are born from an egg, they begin as a slurry of genetic compounds when being developed. The egg they are in is large about six feet in radius, the texture felt is perfectly smooth, no blemishes. The egg is perfectly smooth and pulses a soft blue. The hybrid is developed all the way to a physical adult before finishing the development cycle and then hatches into the new world. And much like a baby, takes its first breaths and then its on its own with only its instincts.

Unlike the pure blooded Aradhel, the hybrid variant are free of the Hive Mind Link that the Pure Bloods have, an additional bonus is that their DNA is much more malleable and immediately undergoes changes to what they eat. Once hatched from the egg, the hybrid will spend several days getting used to its new environment before setting out to hunt. During this, their hunting instincts will refine and sharpen, increasing their intellect and capability.