High Morphoids are a classification of beings that descended and evolved from fractions of the First Ones that spread throughout the multicosmos. Cosmic Horrors and some shapeshifting beings are among the well known groups that belong to this classification. HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu and Azathoth are familiar examples to name.
They tend to possess means of thriving from resources that don't always comply with limitations associated with a universe's laws of physics. While many have been observed partaking in consuming other beings as would be observed of ecosystem networks formed from the interactions of beings below this classification, to maintain their existence, some have adapted means of feeding off the essences of intangible energies. Some are able to tug or manipulate laws of physics in some universes by reaching into higher and lower dimensions. Others use the dimensions mainly for navigating while feeding off the essences of souls they developed a mutual or parasitic relationship with (one form of such being worship).
Example of a High Morphoid (Below), this one possesing a more fathomable appearance compared to unfathomable cousins in the multi cosmos.
History:
Sometime after the First Ones (Equark's Children) came into being and developed intelligence, the fractions that would evolve into what we'd know as "Beings" developed more variety but maintained most the functions and complexities of the First beings where they were descended from. While the First Ones are depicted in the forms of creatures in articles describing their birth, its likely they existed merely as spaces or dimensions or another form of plane that evades description, that was made up entirely of themselves. As Equark's children played and interacted with each other as well as their creator, as the games they played with each other grew more advanced, their fractions began changing shape and developing behaviors that differed from their original counterparts.
The time it took for the process of individualization and fractions developing minds and functions independent from the will and thoughts of their ancestors is often left to speculation. This period in the formation of the early multiverse is usually unfathomably immeasurable by our means of time perception (alongside the fact that much of what existed prior to formation of Eternus's Multiverse didn't survive the Great Devastation), thus will have numbers marked coinciding to major events rather than predetermined measurements of time what we'd consider years, millenniums and so on.
As High Morphoids increased in variety, they also evolved to take up more niches, some even taking up simpler roles and complexity. Where evolution observed by humans (Here in World Alpha and some other universes) often involves organisms gaining complexity, High Morphoids diversified into roles often associated with more familiar perspectives of mortal beings in high positions of power and/or major professions. Some would eventually split off to give rise to the Galactic and Star level Celestials (High and Low Gods and Goddess like beings), the Kingdom below that would descend from the High Morphoids.
High Morphoids wide range of appearances can sometimes make their classification when compared to lower kingdoms murky, especially with some varieties taking up more niches that belong to the realm of machines (Its rumored Caretakers may be some form of Multi cosmic High Morphoid, despite the nature of their fractal realms and technology, further making it difficult what defines their tech and the beings themselves sometimes). Arguably, Coral reefs and some sea animals that behave like plants help put to perspective this kingdom's efficiency of adaptation and take up forms humans wouldn't think twice about, just as much as the lines between classifying animals from plants or High Morphoids blur.
Possessing means to perceive other dimensions above the 3rd dimension can aid in detecting High Morphoids that may be hiding in the fog of space or the rifts between dimensions. Some High Morphoids bodies have been found stretching across rifts and dimensions unnoticed without disrupting or negatively impacting the worlds or beings their roots and tentacles protrude into. In fact, its possible to pass through an instance of these kinds of beings without the unsuspecting creature noticing or experiencing ill effects, which can be compared to walking through ghosts. Some of these beings have been used as means of communicating and traveling between dimensions (some even harvested as ingredients to power or make LOPC devices).
Reproduction:
While High Morphoids are capable of sexual and asexual reproduction, they tend veer more towards splitting fractions of themselves to mold into beings of their own. Whether its to serve a designated purpose or to be let to grow on their own in the wild, unlike most kingdoms below, most High Morphoids don't abide by traditional means of speciation or race. Their means of passing on legacies or continuation of functions is comparable to some microscopic organisms that can more freely gain and swap DNA and not face much issues with incompatibility like with complex organisms. Their range and resourcefulness on the other hand is more akin to Fungi Kingdom organisms on Earth.
Another method which these beings can be conjured is through the simple process of coming with an idea or thought. This method of reproduction can take a considerable amount of power, as the process involves conversion of intangible things and bringing them forth into tangible form. For beings like humans in the Prime Kingdom, that involves the process of resource collection and a multiple step process of using tools available at their disposal to piece together and altering the state of materials into the desired form. Some theorize that only beings like Eldritches and some Galactic Celestials are capable of creating matter, that in the perspective of Primes would be "out of thin air".
Lifeforms and Life's Forms
Aside from the Cosmic Horror branch of these beings, some that frequent into the space of dimensions where Primes dwell, some evolved to benefit the own survival by aiding mortal neighbors, directly and indirectly. Some variety of eldritches will even take niches of inanimate objects while others rely on mimicking the forms of their prime mortal neighbors to evade predators and reducing chances of igniting hostility of sentients. Some even dedicate their larval forms to mimic the appearance of the nearest sentient being.
A Body as an Ecosystem
Whenever microscopic organisms are mentioned, people tend to forget to picture that a Tartigrade is swimming within 3 Dimensional space and not a being trapped in a 2 Dimensional plane. In the same way, Multi cell complex organisms provide refuge for the cells working to keep the body functioning, the body itself considered a whole organism, a whole big little world that houses its own ecosystem of cells.
Some high morphoid creatures evolved for the sole purpose of hosting life, not only involved in creation of lifeforms but dedicating their own body to providing them a world, a platform of reality for them to thrive. In return, sometimes the hosted life will defend these sleeping giants from external threats.
As well as planets, the near limitlessness of their adaptability becomes clearer, certain varieties have taken up bigger roles, their bodies themselves becoming whole Galaxies, clusters, even whole universes that connect to their own kin and holding together multiverses. Organisms are to the world what cells in our own body are to the perspective of Prime Mortals. What if we aren't just a dream Azathoth would conjure in sleep? What role do sentient empires taking baby paced strides into space play within an ecosystem or "Superecosystem" not only beyond universal comprehension, but they weren't aware they're a part of?
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