[color=CECECE][h1][center][b]Birth Of The Swarm[/b][/center][/h1][/color]

[color=C32148][i]Hunger, Ceaseless, Unending, Hunger. That is all they could feel, it washed over them like a tidal wave. It scattered their mind in its fury. They were hungry, oh so hungry, they needed to feast, to consume, to devour. It tried to snap and claw towards something, anything that could sate this pain, but it found nothing. No inkling of sustenance for their deep, endless hunger. The pain only grew and grew, as its desire for something, anything to eat, grew in tide.[/i][/color]

A shard floated through the void, scattered from the Monarch of All, lost and silent. It pulsed a soft red, the divinity within struggling and clawing to release. Then it sensed something, far below it, upon that planet teeming with life, no,  teeming with [i]food[/i]. The shard began to descend, slow at first, but picking up more and more speed, the once soft red began to grow in intensity until it was a harsh blood red. As it sped up, cracks began to form along it, the entity trapped inside clawing for a way out, to reach that sweet scent that consumed its mind. 

The shard reached incredible speeds, finishing its rapid descent by smashing into the earth, an explosion erupted from where it smashed into, stone, dirt, and plants were scattered into the sky and beyond. A massive crater was left of the impact, stretching more than a hundred miles wide, within its center sat a new being. Its form akin to that of a white, chitin covered centipede, with countless skittering legs that sank themselves into the now scattered soil, its stinger-tipped tail swished about, kicking up dirt and stone behind it. At the other end its torso flexed its six new arms, and finally, its head split open, looking like a flower, if it was filled with teeth and led to a hungry gullet, as the new beast roared in announcement of its own creation. Beneath the segmented chitin sickly green flesh could be seen, and from there emerged countless pests, each one more disease ridden and hungry than the last. 

Yesaris, god of Parasites, had emerged. And they were very hungry. 

They knew what they had to do, to consume, to feed, to infect all that laid before them. This land would not do for a feast though, their own creation had stripped it bare, and the lands around the crater were nothing but plants, fine food sure, but nothing worthy of the Great Devourer. They summoned that divinity within them, and set to work. 

First, they went to fix the crater, wasteland would serve no purpose, for nothing could grow or eat there, and as such, nothing could become hosts for their feast. They forced plants to emerge from the soil keeping in line with the plants beyond, mighty evergreen and deciduous trees that towered within the center, casting shade upon the grasses and bushes that sat beneath them, meanwhile the outskirts were host to various shrubs, their roots digging deep into the sides of the crater in order for them to stay in place. They smoothed out the edges of the crater as well, to ensure there would be no true hazard to walk in between. 

With the crater reseeded with life, the plants were set, but they could not be the only hosts, there had to be more, animals of flesh and blood, not to mention the creation of the parasites themselves, those precious things, serving their creator to feed them. And so they set to work once more, crafting forth beasts to live within the great forests of the far south, large great cats and smaller ocelot like cousins, crafty foxes that hunted the underbrush for the hares and maras, burrowing armadillos and skunks, and large deer and guanaco to fit as large ungulates. To fill the skies they created owls, sparrows, woodpeckers, parakeets, and even flightless lesser rhea, and as hunters they crafted falcons, caracara, kestrels, and the scavenging condors. For insects there was no limit, beetles, butterflies, bees, waps, and dragonflies, all sorts of crawlies and buzzers. 

Finally, this was a good land to feast on, first they created mundane parasites, bot flies, fleas, lice, mosquitoes, parasitoid wasps that used other insects to grow their children. They created leeches, parasitic worms that infected intestines, protozoa and even parasitic plants, all sorts of mundane parasitic life. These creatures rapidly spread through the region, setting upon their hosts and slowly but surely feasting upon their bounties. It was filling, Yesaris could feel their hunger settling, yet it wasn’t enough, they needed more, more parasites, more infection, they needed to [i]consume[/i]. 

They returned to the vast crater, and within they crafted a new creation, a fungus, a parasitic fungus, one that could spread and infect all that it touched. But this wouldn’t just be any ordinary fungus, it would be connected, a greater mind dispersed through the various forms and parts, a hivemind, and the more it grew, the smarter it would become. But it needed its start, it would be no fun to just create it throughout the region, no, that would deny the very idea of the creeping infection,  so they would limit it to the crater, and let it spread as it pleased. 

First, they started with a core. The first stage of its great infection, a massive fungal growth, sat within the very center of the crater, exactly where they fell. These growths pulsated a reddish-white, and were filled with the mind that would grow from the fungus’ expansion, it would serve as the first of many, the overseers to the infection. From this Hive Core spread the mycelium network, and erupted spores for the expansion of the parasite. From these came the next form of the hive, that which infected the plants, the networks connected to root systems and inner structures, siphoning off portions of the energy created by their photosynthesis, this energy was used to both feed the hive core and to craft great sporocarps that emerged from trees, just underneath bushes, and towered over the grasses which too were not safe. These sporocarps oozed a thick, purplish honey, which would come of importance later, and would also burst when full of spores, spreading the infection even further, and replacing any lost Producer Forms that had fallen to age or other means. 

Some of these spores would find themselves inhaled by the animals of the region, adhering to nasal cavities deep within the nostrils, where the other form would emerge, that of the Beast. This form was more slow-acting, taking time to spread its mycelium network through the wall of the cavity, into the central nervous system of the brain itself. Here, the network would begin to work its way within, slowly taking control of the functions of the brain and make its way throughout the entire nervous system, in effect replacing it with its own mycelium network, giving it full control of whatever it had made its host. 

The host would still need to be fed though, and so they would feed upon either the other plants and animals, or make their way to the great Producer Forms and feast upon the purple honey that could help sustain them, at least enough for the host to continue to serve its role. Eventually, sporocarps would break through the surface of the skin, emerging and twisting the form of the host, this would serve as another means to spread the infection, and a far more efficient one, as the hosts could travel, allowing it to spread further and further. Though not too far, as if it left the reach of the Hive Core, it would grow disarrayed and practically mindless, and so more would need to be created by the hive itself. 

With the crater becoming consumed by the infection, that of the Parasitus Mentis, Yesaris felt as if their job was done, already they could feel that hunger being saited more and more, but it was not enough. More needed to be done, more corners needed to be infected, and it would take too long for their hive to work its way through it all. They needed to continue their work elsewhere, but not in this form, no it was, too obvious. 

And so they twisted themselves, contorting their limbs and parts into a new shape, one more bipedal and incredibly thin and rather short, with jagged digitigrade insectoid legs and four clawed insectoid arms, all covered in that same white chitin and having that same sickly green flesh beneath while their smaller scorpion tail still swished behind them. They cloaked themselves in a rotten, tattered, hood of their own creation, obscuring their face in eternal shadow, only an ever smiling row of teeth showing. 

Content in their new shape, Yesaris set off, leaving behind their parasitic hive and forests, knowing it would not disappoint, ever growing and infecting until, hopefully, it consumed much of the world in its grasp. Ah, a hungry god could only hope. 

[hider=summary time!]
Yesaris is finally born! They’re so hungry in their shard that they end up crashing upon Galbar in order to feed, making a massive crater in their wake. From there they immediately set about consuming via parasite, but first they have to actually make some hosts first, pretty much reseeding the crater and just making some basic animals throughout the southern tip of Termina, creating the Parasitic Forest, as shortly after they fill it up with a bunch of parasites to feed on the animals and plants there. 
This isn’t enough though, and Yesaris decides to take things to the extreme so they can feel at least slightly less hungry, resulting in them creating Parasitus Mentis, a parasitic fungal hivemind meant to expand and infect practically everything in the region(and Galbar)(yes including other parasites that [i]can[/i] be infected). Chuffed with their work, they take a “nicer” form and depart, hoping to create more parasites.[/hider]

[hider=vigor usage]
2(Discounted from 4)-Create a large environment: Parasitic Forest]
1(Discounted from 3)-Create Parasitus Mentis, a parasitic fungal hivemind that grows smarter as it infects more and more, and contains a few sub forms. [/hider]