(1.4 only) Darklings

!!! No longer maintained. !!!

A mod that adds a human-like race to the game. An individual of this race is called a "darkling".

Darklings are a mysterious group of people. While their biology is similar enough that human organs can be safely transplanted to them, their anatomy is such, that it brings madness upon those, who wish to study it. They are incredibly strong and can defeat even the greatest of warriors without as much as a bruise. Their natural regeneration makes it so they heal as fast as supersoldiers. Their many limbs make them work faster than most neurotic people. Their long lives allow them to amass experience of multiple generations. And they are surprisingly fertile, often havings twins and triplets.

But there is a second side to this coin. Darklings are malformed, barely seeing one makes you hate them. They are also incredibly ravenous, needing to eat more than three humans together. Also, their super-human strength makes them easy to anger. Darklings enjoy going on killing sprees and there is rarely anything that can stop them.

Many have wondered where the darklings came from. Sadly, it is not known. Many theorise about them being the result of urbworld experiments. Others think of them as aliens from far away star systems. The more deranged speak of ancient fertility rituals which created the first darklings. Surprisingly, darklings often agree with the latter, bringing up their oral tradition of crazed chants and maddening sacrifices.

Whatever's the case, one thing is certain. Darklings are some of the most powerful beings in the world. And if not their unnaturally high metabolism, they would have likely taken over the known universe.







Stats:
-higher and faster unarmed damage
-more organs and limbs
-insane food consumption
-get stronger with age
-faster gestation, fertility and increased chance of twins and triplets
-much higher life expectancy
-compatibility with rim of madness - cosmic horrors
-darklings can have genes, hovewer due to the large amount of aesthethic genes that would require textures, they often break or show up as pink squares
-darkling often have the bloodlust trait

Darklings can appear as slaves (including ancient dangers) or rarely in outlander caravans and raids.

Credit to the creators of rim of madness - cults, the tentacles around the darkling in the preview picture are from that mod, and all credit for those tentacles go to their respective creators.
If the creators of rim of madness - cults tell me to change the preview to not include their content I will be happy to oblige as soon as possible.
I will try to update this mod to newer versions, should the game update. If I don't, anyone has the permission to update this mod.
If you want to use this mod or any of it's assets you're free to do so, but write a comment about you doing that and give credit to me. The textures are what took most of time to make (even though they still look quite bad).