Hungry eyes fix on the Planet of Arcaricas. The cycle of life and birth for Celestial Dragons is an endless one, as is all Creation. Upon the Dragon's eggs are numerous life forms, and they are unique to each one. Many are there to protect and nurture, some are parasites, like humans, and some simply do not belong in reality. This time is a time of crisis unheard of, as the Abyss breaches reality, the Ghaurchlai are returned from their prison of Ice and the nations gird themselves for war, unaware of what will be unleashed upon all of them. This is the age of Genocide, an age where all will weave a different tune and the Dragon itself is destined to live or die, devoured by the powers with hungry eyes.
Ruled by the WHite Sow, the great Mother, and her consort, the 'King of Tooth and Bone', the Chtikinnen are a disastrously vile creation. When the Lindiri began to 'awaken' the animals, forging Animists from their numbers, they made first Chitkinnen. The use of the sap of the God Tree and subtle magics gave intellect to these creatures, and their immediate action was to seize their creators. They tortured them for years, attempting to gain every secret but many went mad and others withheld the truth. In the end, all the rat-folk achieved was a mess of often conflicting knowledge. They began to use this flawed knowledge and experimented on their own kind. The White Sow and her Nestmind Priests ruled the society, gifted with psychic abilities. They created a nightmarish world, where the least became food and experiments. Others were melded, savaged, mutilated, fed poisons that destroyed their bodies and minds.
Over centuries, they were disparate, and they fled through shadowed paths, colonising nests everywhere, but their vehemence was mixed with fear. Battles with the Lindiri saw thousands die, and many nests were eradicated, and the fear grew. They thought themselves weak, but were eventually driven to attack the humans they lives near and Under. In the Federal West they defeated and destroyed a settlement, an entire army, and they knew they were not as weak as they had believed. Now the Sow calls for war, her centuries long waiting ended, and thousands of her spawn will swarm into the world of man. In many places, they gather, and now they will use all of the hate, the madness, spite and murder to dominate the surface world.