Post #29045
February 09, 2015, 09:59:35 PM
Ok I guess I should tell you about the bridge between story-archs so you can understand the new character introduced into our story. the changeling mentions while drinking her ale.
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So the changelings were encased in crystal but within they metamorphosed into what some can consider the perfect lifeforms....
They no longer needed food or water to survive... (to grow or replace lost material excluded)
They needed no rest and worked without end...
And They could now adapt to there environments, both physically and mentally to the point of changing to the point of dominating any situation with time.
These new traits with there old traits such as a collective hive mind and fairly alicorn like build allowed them to possibly be a perfect race.
The Queen withermist became a perfect image of a alicorn god yet corrupted by the original curse of Asteral...
But this new form gave her effects that brought her great pain.
For she was connected to the hive mind...yet had individuality the conflicting nature of which brought a madness present in a number of queens over the years.
Even worse was that for over 2,000 years she would serve as a brood mother to the horde...
a fate worse then death, being a brood mother entails eating everything in site becoming nearly stationary and then giving birth to thousands of changelings each day asexually...
even worse a majority of the changelings born from this process were either practically idiots or had some form of physical disability...these became pretty much the drones and simple task workers of the old hives...
The smarter ones usually achieved greater role in the society for some reason these particular changelings were actually smarter than some of the original changelings due to reasons lost to us changelings today...
So the hive had everything it needed to rebuild, and they carved out the deep roads of equestria to form there ever growing underground empire to house a reborn race...
so in the end discord carried out his end of the deal, however he never mentioned the cost of these gifts...
discord turned the old flaw of emotional disconnection into sheer absence and each and every changeling felt hollow...
They simply just would give up living and die due to a lack of feeling...
The old hives days of change reached a near grinding halt....
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There is some background for the next story arch and it will be interesting. the changeling promises as she waits for her glass to be refilled.