The Vanities

The Vanities are a race of highly intelligent beings that exist multidimensionally across dozens of alternate worlds. They were created in an alternate universe by chance when a drop of Hamaveck the Hateful's blood fell accidentally into a gene pool, resulting in the creatures evolving and growing over thousands of years until they became the species called the Vanities.

Biology
The Vanities each share a hive mind and as such are aware of each others thoughts and feelings from a disance and were capable of communication over great distances. In their natural form, the Vanities resemble a black sludge like form that actually forms one large entity, suggesting that they are in fact one huge consciousness. Despite this form, they were capable of both possessing other life forms and growing their own bodies to inhabit, though possession is quicker yet not as reliable as the host is able to fight back. As such most of the Vanities prefer to possess deceased bodies rather than ones with a living consciousness.

Because of the hive minded nature of the Vanities, when one of them is fatally injured, the others can feel a lesser degree of their pain and sense when another has died. Another consequence of their shared mind is that the older members of the species can become directly intergrated as a full part of the consciousness and become creatures of extraordinary empathy with their fellow Vanities, evident by the fact that the leader and oldest known member of the species, Hubris, treated the other members of his species as his family and directly said that he would do absolutely anything for them