The Mad Hive
A poisoned mind is dangerous, but a poisoned hive mind is deadly. The Mad Hive is an insectid hive mind that seeks to absorb the whole of Rift World.
History
After initially landing in The Nightlands the Mad Hive expanded rapidly and violently. Their minds had been poisoned by the power of the Astral Plane, believing they knew a way to reach their goddess, The Lost Queen, they forewent their natural pragmatic peaceful ways in favor of savage expansion.
By the time it was discovered by the larger powers, most of The Nightlands had been taken over by the Mad Hive, with the last of the tribes fending them off in Fallen Vamhastra. When the threat was discovered aid from several large powers including Vamhastra Aeros, the Barony of Rust, the Deep Hive, and the Psychonet.
The Mad Hive was physically driven back by the newly formed Council of Night Tribes along with the help of Vamhastra Aeros in repairing the defenses of Fallen Vamhastra and some borrowed military might from the Rust Baron. Meanwhile a secondary strike on the astral plane took the fractured mind of the Mad Hive and broke it so completely that its organization and unity fell to pieces.
By the end of the assault the remaining members of the Mad Hive were driven underground and left to babbling madness. Unfortunately eradicating them entirely appears to be impossible and the specter of their madness looms over The Nightlands in the form of an occasional monstrous, animalistic insectid .
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