The Echinus are a vampire-like sub-race of guross.



Males form smooth like shadow wings -Females are more pointy and somtimes curve.



They have a shadow breath ability that is like a sub power of the fear element that causes the target to be surounded by shadow smoke and see what thy fear or even face the worse version of themselfs.





Echinus wings can enter their bodies, and they often sleep underground.



Some of their history is like a smoke, as they like to keep their secrets.

But what has been known, they drink the blood of mortals in the beginning, Echinus would drink the blood of willing mortals, Dragons, and Other guross not biting but draining a pint of blood, and that lasts them for 2 weeks before they need to feed on blood again.



But when murders happened, where the bodies of dragons and guross alike were drained of blood, and everyone turned their claws to the Echinus, and a vampire hunt caused the Echinus to go into hiding.

And slowly, the murders that were in the light of knowledge stopped, as a select few Echinus had hunted down the murderer, an Echinus called Carmilla. She was always an odd one out of her kind, as she always tests the limits of her kind, as the Echinus that hunted her found out that Carmilla drained all those mortals to gain power, as she could use the mortal powers thanks to drinking all their blood.



They managed to win the battle, as all that was left was a single Eye and a promise that one day her heir would come and claim her power.



So the Echinus constructed a tomb deep underground to keep the last peace of Carmilla safe from anyone's claws, and to this day Echinus have never been seen by guross’s and dragons alike, just fading into myths.



Their natural abilities are dark in nature-- as for drinking blood, they drink any blood offered to them, but for them to drink, let's say a dragon, a sentient creature, by biting their neck is seen as an intimate act of ecstasy, the pleasurable kind, unlike if an Echinus forcibly dragon the blood of the sentient creature it causes negitive effects that differ depending upon the creature. depending upon the creature.