Corpus’Nous’Intusipsu

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    Naming Conventions
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    In a formal context they are known as Nous’intus when referring to themselves though they intermittently use the title of Nous’escam when referring purely to their body. Still, the local customs of spacers have seen their title boiled down to simply Nous or Intus due to the frailty of other races to use full titles in active conversation.

    Full Designation
    Corpus’Nous’Intusipsu
    ( Hive-Title )( Hive-Function )(True Self )( Mind )

    General Information
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    They exist as a metric of knowledge. Their mind is a gorged nerve of a greater ephemeral encephalon. Their body is a finely toned tool of medical expertise set to further sate the mind. Which is to say, that Nous’intus operates within the Fringe as a bonesaw to those that seek them out. Holding a stance of neutrality that sees them willing to heal anyone with a take no side policy. This practice has led them to gain in equal measure disdain and praise for their stance. Some mistake it as a moral stance on Intus’s part when in reality they merely see the loss of life as abhorrent by reasoning of their upbringing. This apathetic stance not lost on clients has gained the masked doctor the title of Coldsaw in some circles. The lack of bedside manners no doubt a dent in their record as a professional if such a thing mattered in the Fringe more.

    Still, their practice as a ragtag doctor is supplementary to their true desire as they are more of a field scientist. Seeking complex beasts and critters with unique gene expression by which to expand Corpus’s catalog. Using the baseline of what evolution provides in nature by which to create unique Genome packages that are easy to use for their kin. Burgeoning into their field with a religious zeal to one day create the perfect genome by which to advance all shifters again. Much as alchemists of old once sought elusive magic red stones.
    Physiology & Phenotype
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    The fellow appears like a vagabond from a Glitch commune. Wearing attire that speaks to their sensibilities in the way of function over form. Usually sheathed in a cross of a robe and pallium drapes of either hide or leather construction that always appears fresh. Their most modern amenity being a pair of name brand sneakers peeking out from under their flowing apparel like a sore thumb. Their body hidden away with their face covered by a mask made of bronze. It is worn and oxidizing with a protrusion from its middle as long and sharp as a humming bird’s beak.

    Their stance and posture is off like a spine whipped into kyphosis that leaves their attire to hang loosely over their form like clothes on a drying line. Leaving their gait as wider than most with an ever slight sway highlighted by glass clinking from their various stored vials and flasks.

    What lies under their cloak is a thing known as Nous’escam separate from Istum themselves by virtue of Taxxaldmatism theory of the dual self. Nous’escam as a title is to catch all word for their physical body that as with all shifters is in flux. More so in Istum’s case as a pure borne type that makes express use of their bodily materia as the tool it is. Having a few separate Nous’escam proxies as sometimes Nous’istum is with: Otiumescam, Famesescam, and Chartaescam to name some. All morphologies with an express purpose of such distinction as to require a time of meditation to achieve their culmination. Of note, these names are not the same as titles in their shifter culture with the distinction between forms being phermonal and not verbal in terms of identity.


    Personality & Perspectives
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    They are a rather turgid and aloof individual that is warm to chat though their conversations always veer into off topics as they can’t help but seem to medically analyze their conversation partners. Offering unsolicited medical advice when asked about the weather.

    Things such as euphemisms and fluffy metaphoricals escape Intus rather readily like trying to bottle a gas. Serving as more fluid in hard takes on reality as they cut into topics like a scalpel as they lack subtlety where it is needed though this also feeds into one of their better traits of forward talking. Treating every sentient as a fellow intellectual until they prove otherwise. Their words aimed at creating understanding and improvement by way of their dry remarks that leave little to misunderstand.

    In contradiction to this one might expect them to have hard hitting takes of government and philosophy but are rather open to interpretation on such topics when it relates to the ongoing play of non-shifters. As they struggle to truly relate to it in the way people sometimes struggle to understand art.


    History & Thereafters
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    A process of formalized intrauterine cannibalism saw that Nous’intus came into the world healthy. Their birth being utterly Darwinistic. Rearing in the hive serves to be a communal process as to where podlings are raised in groups at an equal level until the point they are to take roles in the hive. Then, much like stem cells, they specialize and separate to form the biosocial tissues to make a healthy whole. This dry mechanical sorting of people is greased by the process of culture and tradition that sees the hive as one biosocial organism. The normal religion of Taxxaldmatism sharpened by sociology theoreticals. Seeing that a shifter is not just their body and their mind but including the third layer of the exo-mind and the membrane known as glandular fervor. Treating the former as an implication that a shifter’s mind is a part of a greater collective zeitgeist. Treating the latter as a membrane between mind and body yet not to be confused as inherently truthful to the shifter. For emotions are just the body’s way of speaking to the mind by such teachings. Creating a dogma that sees cold logic prevail over emotional imperatives. Some in the hive consider their own intellect as merely fractal. A mere indo-mind to the exo-mind at play.

    The hive itself has interesting quirks compared to the Superhive. Such as having yet to bear a member of a royal caste within its time. Furthermore, holding a freedom of information act which has led to wide scale gene-migration across all caste members by the speaking pools and whispering walls. Other novelties exist within Synapses Ever Tangling but are less relative to the exacts of Mors upbringing past their podling and stemling stage of life. ( Will Cover Their Hive more in a Different Section & In-Game Build )

    Soon they were grown into an operable member of the Nous vein of the Corpus hive that dealt in matters of knowledge. Relating to the acquiring and securing of such materia. The diversity of what suffices as knowledge serves as highly variable leading to vast role diversification across the social strata of that vein of the hive. This is still a time of development and growth for shifters in the hive that at this junction are still only individuals by proxy of their unique scent pattern. A true title earned by how they move forward from here. As is known, the shifter language is loud and it is seen as momentous to have one’s identity gain a vocal element. To have your kin say your name and not just remember you by blending aromatic musks of every other Nous kin. To have even the whispering walls utter your name into far flung futures. The earning of a title is massive and reflective in some ways to other culture’s right of passage. This time serving as stressful to the yet to be named Intus. Who in their studies slowly took the path of medicine. Inspired by the olden tales of Quev-la the poet they seek to do the same in their own way. Practicing on resources in the way of fauna and harvests from the meat-trade with local Floran tribes.

    Furthermore, this bid for a title of self saw them take the challenge of escam. As a shifter can be sharp of wit yet weak in their sinews. The challenge of escam meant as a sort of second birth by which a Shifter now starting to master their flesh is made to live the life of a mere animal, with minimal use of their shifter blessings, until certain esoteric goals are reached. Usually the near dissociation of the shifter in question though that is more reflective of non-shifter thinking. In the case of Intus, they took on the life of a swamp rodent. The experience was an introspective one that sees their body inspired by swamp ecology to this day. Notable experience being forced to eat their rat siblings in a particularly harsh winter. The sacrifice of their mother rat to a predator. To them eventually being a mother of their own brood. Around this time dissociation hits and the hive passes them. Not all of their pod kin made it back, eaten in body or worse in their mind. The sheer psychological weight of it all marks why the challenge of escam is a second birth.

    Years pass as Intus marks their merit by virtue of scalpel and needle. Stretching out like a long finger of the hive feeling the alien textures of the wider verse. Gaining their stance as a local and reliable bonesaw whose price was in pounds not dollars. Progress seemed well but each patronage back to hive slowly grew something of a woe in Intus. Like a cyst it was a small worry at first. Growing larger at their discovery of the Superhive and its utter opposite stance to their own hive. Growing redder at their discovery of the cultural degradation by infected shifters' own biases. The mental cyst prime to burst and reveal its internal kernel of infectious truth. And it did to their horror upon them earning their true name. They had always been a quiet spoken sort. Many of their experiments lay dusty as they waited for just the right one to reveal to their hive kin in a bid of self worth. Eventually, unveiling their creation of a chromosomal package called Pal Packers, by non-shifters. Intended to be universally accessible across all veins of the hive. It lets a shifter brew a cocktail in their body that upon injection of non-sapient shifters will cause them to steadily dehydrate and grow a shell of hydroxyapatite and chitin as they coil tighter and tighter. Forming into a bone ball. Eventually entering a stasis that sees them be shelf stable for years until water is used to awaken them once more. Having wide applications such as in agriculture, culinary arts, chemistry, biology, and of course medicine. The title of Intus earned. Yet, it felt fleeting. The chromosomal package saw wide use in the Nous vein but to their woe it did not become common use in other areas of the hive. The issue was not in the gene parcel itself but a matter of a knowledge barrier. Intus having taken their intellectual merits for granted as they did not consider without the right biochemistry know how most shifters, even with the genes, could not form the correct metabolic pathways to create the cocktail. The difference between the creation of a limb and the creation of unseeable internal intra-cellular pathways was a disparity they never pondered. A difference of intrinsic and implicit was vast.

    The shifter with a name did not take their title lightly. Now seeking a larger space by which to conduct larger experiments for larger yields. To become a shifter of the people for as a cell of the Nous vein it was for them to let the others function with ease. By which they took to making genome packages that any shifter could use regardless of intricate knowledge. Intus rearing into the wider verse with a new found zeal.


    Present & Unknows
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    Bones Yet to Marked