Adnihilo

The Adnihilo are viewed as monsters among the other nine races of Harmony and counted among the lesser species due to their predatory nature.

Physical Description
The Adnihilo are a ghostly-pale people, allowing them to blend into the white snow that dominates their polar lands. To compensate for these extremely low temperatures, the internal temperature of the Adnihilo remains at an extremely low 74 degrees. This makes it all but impossible to detect Adnihilo when the ambient temperature is in comfortable ranges for other races.

Protein is very important to the Adnihilo, who have difficulty extracting it from non-meat sources. In their frozen habitat all things must be eaten to survive, including other men. Being the only form of man designed to prey on other men, the Adnihilo have developed very specific traits to excell in this morbid task. Their eyes have developed a Tapetum Lucidum, causing them to 'glow' when a light in shown in their direction. The fingers of the Adnihilo are slender and slightly longer compared to other races, to allow for more efficient extracting of flesh.

Abilities
The Adnihilo brain is one of a hunter, making them supurb trackers and very paitent. This gives them a sense that goes beyond the physical, as their minds are adapted to think like their prey. Their natural cunning makes them effective when focused on hunting and fighting but limits their ability to think in abstract terms. Additionally, Adnihilo brains have a tendancy to "warp" their perception of time when they become focused. Adnihilo can hide for hours without feeling uncomfortable. When infiltrators enter a society they must make sure to keep this aspect in check; more than one has been revealed after accidentally sitting in total silence, staring at nothing, for hours on end. This is known as the "deamon's gaze".

The blood of Adnihilo contains specialized proteins, granting them almost total immunity from frostbite and hyperthermia. These in addition to other abnormalities allow the Adnihilo to enter cryogenic sleep if caught in the snow and ice of their homelands. Given the isolated nature of Adnihilo and rarity of outsiders having the chance to find such bodies, no one knows how long an Adnihilo can survive in this state. What is known is that if the cryogenic sleep lasts for more than a week, the Adnihilo wakes up in a frenzied state with a ravenous hunger, leading some to suspect that 'starvation' in this state may cause permenant brain damage. Large groups have been lost to a single Adnihilo seeking food, having been awoken by some stray signal.

Culture
In the far southern wastes there is little to support human populations and thus the Adnihilio evolved to be predators of both man and beast. Adnihilo have no problems consuming other men, this act being neither immoral of taboo in their culture. This rather unsettling aspect of Adnihilo society makes them feared and hated by many. Most Adnihilo can resist their urge to consume the flesh of man when times demand it but their natural desire to devour others never fully wanes.

The Adnihilo have always been on the fringe of society, dominating the criminal underground in cities they populate.

History
Few Adnihilo have left their southern homeland. Those who have being raiders, adventurers, or outcasts. Babylon wished to exterminate them all but never made the effort to attack their homeland. Recently an army has been founded by the Adnihilo, acting as a terrorist organization known as Black Odyssey.