“A jigsaw puzzle that lives, breeds, and thinks.”
—Hanna, Weatherlight navigator

The air was filled with the cracks and snaps of flesh hardening as the new sliver joined the battle.

Though Volrath is long dead, the slivers have become everything he wanted them to be: mindless instruments of destruction and despair.

“When struck, its hide shimmers through sequences of color—a signaling language I am eager to unravel.”
—Rukarumel, field journal

A sliver shares everything with its hive—even its afflictions.

Overcoming extinction has only made the slivers more determined to live.

“Its broad claw suggests a chitinous shield, but in fact it conceals glands that secrete a remarkably swift healing agent.”
—Rukarumel, field journal

No matter how much the slivers change, their collective might remains.

They evolved the ability to concentrate their neural activity into a single pulse, causing a disruptive but usually suicidal blast of psionic energy.

Like a great bellows it hisses, and its kin, both living and dead, are lifted to safety.

The directors of the Riptide Project wanted instant results on the sliver experiments. They got their wish.

“They have long kept us under attack, but we do not lack for ammunition. The very bodies of our foes arm us against them.”
—Adom Capashen, Benalish hero

“This sliver comes into the world a perfect predator. It’s ready to hunt and devour its first meal within seconds of hatching.”
—Rukarumel, field journal

“It is possible that some queens are not born queens, but evolve into that form over time.”
—Rukarumel, field notes

“It would take another apocalypse to stop the slivers now.”
—Riptide Project researcher

“What wears down my people most, I think, is not the danger, but the endless screeching outside our camp.”
—Merrik Aidar, Benalish patrol

A living fossil active after eons of dormancy.

“Nine hells! How does something with no eyes see so far?”
—Max, Benalish scout

These slivers, trapped between worlds since the Rathi overlay, are among the last to claim direct lineage from the lost Sliver Queen.