Hive

Hive is a world where arthropod-human hybrids exist. Sometime around the sixth mass-extinction, the stirring of the eldritch entity that comprises Hive's geology (the Brood Mother) uncapped the cells that constitute its organic structure. With the ensuing chaos and dispersal of populations, the arthropods became the first to adapt, developing increasingly potent pheromones that assisted in such routine activities as: finding food and mates, aggregating to take advantage of food resources, protecting sites of oviposition, and escaping predation. It has been found that pheromones may convey different signals when presented in combinations or concentrations.