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Max cleared his throat. "You say the three mortal species, but from my perspective, it doesn't look like the Arisen are Mortal at all."

The Darkling sighed, with a single tear running down his cheek.

"They will forever be one of us. But during the battles of the Great War, their God sacrificed herself to save their species. It was the first time one of the Gods had fallen, and we had no idea what would happen. 

The energy of her life force seeped into her most beloved species and brought them back to life, inhabiting any form of body that they could, mostly the battle robots of the human fleet. Their species was saved, but the Everborn, whose lives extended to a million years, became the Arisen, which are a form of Energy Being that returns to a chosen body when its host is destroyed.