| Category | Races |
| Type | small insectoid |
| Creation | 22 Bloom 136 GE |
| Language | Clack |
| Native | Bal-Kriav, Ghífthauk, Osâchar |
In the God Era, the mind flayers of the moon Ráglauth came into possession of an entombed primordial named Axinite. Still living, this being served Penumbra's mentalists like a regenerating battery, a massive storage tank for psychic energy. The city's Creation Creed used this in the making of many wondrous items of psionic nature. Similar to how psychic energy was drained from Axinite's body, which he welcomed, the illithids went a step further. They siphoned off a part of his life energy, creating the Dromite race. In so doing, Axinite planted his own seed of retribution in these creations. He fortified their minds with a hive mentality, making them immune to psychic viruses. As members of the Suellk Empire, they were laborers, soldiers, and fortunately, never a mind flayer's favorite pastime; that is devouring a sentient's brain. The mind flayers behind the creation of the Dromites made the taste of their brains sickening to their kind, as they wanted a population that would not be turned on when an illithid's desire for a brain exceeded its ability to control it.
In the Second Suellk Invasion ( 430 HE - 537 HE ) , under the leadership of Suellk's illithids, armies of githyanki, githzerai, and dromites invaded the realm of Osâchar. One of the civilizations that succumbed in this conflict was the Horgon Empire. Captured Dromites proved most valuable to Horgon, their hive-like mentality greatly needed when contending with their foe's precision strike teams. The demise of Horgon's presence on Osâchar occurred in 537 HE. The remnants of the crumbling empire fled into the stars. One group of Dromites had risen so high in Horgon society that they became an elite force serving Rioch-Textrax, then a Saint of Maen. These dromites were selected to board the Spire of Rioch-Tetrax, saved from being enslaved and eventually farmed as illithid brain-food. Aboard the Spire of Rioch-Tetrax, 12,000 dromites, Horgon citizens of the 3rd privilege - borderline slaves, were taken on the lengthy voyage to the world of Bal-Kriav. Three centuries later, Rioch-Tetrax's spire landed in this world's Chen'gom sector.
In the Durkoth Descent (995 HE - 1355 HE), the Durkoth abandoned their charges, departing the surface for the seas. The Laupha had no interest in continuing their ignoble tasks as overseers, leaving Bal-Kriav's Dromites to their fates. At Nagdúrzol, and settlements on the surface, their lack of medical skills and priests resulted in disease, exacting a heavy toll on the population. Stubbornly resisting change for decades, they finally turned to religion. By this time, half the population had relocated, with many joining ships bound for distant lands, or augmenting the ranks of the pirate enclaves dotting the Buccaneer Archipelago. One of the most prominent of these, a fledgling settlement, is Zerot.
Back on Ghífthauk and her two moons, the Incarsabec Rebellion ( 1531 HE - 1544 HE ) led to a devastating slave uprising that swept across the Incarsabec region and the nearby moons of Ghífthauk. This uprising became the epicenter of a Psychic Storm that continues to this day to ravage the world of Ghífthauk. Remarkably, the Dromites survived this catastrophe thanks to their unique hive mind physiology, even as their illithid masters perished.
The individuals situated too distantly from their peers to forge connections faced the debilitating psychic trauma and unavoidable demise resultant from these mind-ravaging tempests.
Eko, a dromite slave of the Suellk Empire - "Axinite Armor"
The most substantial populations of dromites remain on Ghífthauk and Osâchar
| Trait | Description |
|---|---|
| Racial | as Dromite |
| Axinite Armor | when another Dromite is within 100', both Dromites become immune to psychic viruses |