Nighzmarquls

Did you find the more 'monster manual' type post I made of them a while ago?

www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.…

The main thing is Deep Nobles are highly individualistic and their view on an aberration of physical form is not about physical traits, so much as quality of life. Deep Nobles don't purge one another out of malice or fear. They do it out of kindness when they perceive that another is in terminal pain, unable to over come it.

The core of the philosophy of the species could be summed up as they believe life should be lived in quality over quantity. To a deep noble it is trivially easy to 'survive' forever. Given the need they can live slowly and agonizingly on rocks.

But none of them particularly want too.

Their idiosyncrasies are embraced, their differences are celebrated and their societies freely welcome others to explore and be whatever they wish.

However when they consider a living creature other then a Deep Noble at all as morally relevant at all it is either because they are individually interested in the creatures for one reason or another, or out of how they relate to another Deep Noble's Well being. They rarely have any room for empathy for anything like a human being, they on average have as much care for other sentient organisms as human society does for yeast.

As a science fiction trope Deep Nobles are a kind of distorted mirror of what humanity could become. They have won at every biological contest and struggle we ourselves face. They could reproduce spontaneously and endlessly as fast as bacteria. But simply choose not too. They have both the depths of our potential empathy for each other and the capacity for utter callousness for all that which is not included in our culture as important.