


They are an old species, having remembered a time when the universe was quiet until they were drawn to the Endless Galaxy, hearing was a death cry. The Umbral Choir hail from the void between galaxies. Very few races can begin to compete with their hacking expertise and many of their hacks are only noticed when it's far too late to investigate them. The Umbral Choir have an inherent skill and capacity for manipulating electronics by mere touch. These entities are a superior being in all regards at the cost of more ravenous energy demands. Umbrals can augment themselves by absorbing an intelligent being to become an Umbral Shadow. While dark matter is their preferred sustenance, they can obtain energy from organic biospheres without difficulty. The native environment of the Umbral Choir is the intergalactic medium, where it fed off of dark matter. Attempting to make contact with an individual dying of that world's blight had fragmented it into multiple beings sharing a cognitive link. The Umbral Choir appeared to originally exist as a single organism the size of an ordinary starship until it entered the rift to Coroz, home reality of the Riftborn. When out of hiding, this substance holds the shape of a slug or humanoid. The base biology of the Umbral Choir is an opaque gas that glows blue.

The Umbral Choir is a race of eusocial dark matter beings that hide in scattered places across the Endless galaxy, plotting out the end of the galaxy's misery through subterfuge and manipulation.
