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=== In the nowhere ===
Delvers can be seen by cytonics who attempt to use their powers. Initially, they appear as hundreds of pinpricks of light across a vast blackness, which open to reveal small, white eyes that watch the cytonic.{{book ref|sky1|43}} The effect is often compared the the attention of the entire universe suddenly focusing on the cytonic.{{book ref|sky1|40}} The longer one
The appearance of delver eyes is preceded and accompanied by a pleasant sound, akin to a thousand musical notes playing together in harmony. It grows louder the closer one is to seeing them.{{book ref|sky1|1}}{{book ref|sky1|43}}
=== Hatred of cytonics ===
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Delvers are incapable of most emotions; rather, they reflect all that they sense outside.{{book ref|sky2|44}} This being said, they can hear and perceive any intrusion into the [[nowhere]]. It appears to cause them immense pain; as such, they utterly despise cytonics, and grow more hateful the longer one holds their attention.{{book ref|sky2|31}}{{book ref|sky1|48}} Extreme and prolonged
Once delvers leave nowhere, they can also hear radio communications, which causes the same hateful reaction in them. They perceive both types of signals as noise, making them grow aggressive and go after the strongest source in vicinity.{{book ref|sky2|43}} When they are done, or otherwise run out of targets, delvers will roam outer space for anywhere between several years to several decades before fading back to nowhere.{{book ref|sky2|10}}
=== Cytonic abilities ===
Despite their hatred of [[cytonics]], delvers seem to have at least some of their
* '''Illusions''': much like "mind holograms" used by the [[varvax|Krell]] to deceive human cytonics, delvers can create illusions for people that enter their mazes. The illusions are extremely chaotic, overwhelming and nonsensical; however, each is specific to a particular person. As such, two minds are required to discern them from reality.{{book ref|sky2|43}} Cytonics seem to suffer more from this ability, perceiving powerful emotions and illusions emitted by the delver.{{book ref|sky2|43}}
* '''Sense''': delvers do not possess any discernible eyes; rather, they perceive cytonic and radio signals as sounds.{{book ref|sky2|44}}
* '''Detecting cytonics''':
* '''Teleportation''': delvers are capable of FTL travel while in physical space, and can jump between star systems in an instant.{{book ref|sky2|42}}
Additionally, delvers possess strong telekinetic abilties. They can somehow create and control '''embers''', large rocks akin to asteroids, and shoot them outside of themselves at targets.{{book ref|sky2|43}} Close by, as well as within
=== Direct contact ===
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== Safeguards ==
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=== First appearance ===
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The origins of delvers, if there are any, are unknown, though it's likely they've existed in the [[nowhere]] for thousands, if not millions of years.{{book ref|sky1|54}} Though they existed back in the days of the [[Phone Company]], prior to humanity's expansion outside of the Solar System, even cytonics capable of teleportation weren't capable of seeing them.{{book ref|elysium}}{{wob ref|13429}} [[Superiority]] scholars speculate that a species needs to develop particularly skilled or powerful cytonics for delvers to pay attention.{{book ref|sky2|10}}
The first known appearance of a delver
In total, thirteen delvers emerged into the physical world. They rampaged throughout the galaxy for the next few decades, destroying world after world, before eventually fading away one by one. From then on out, however, they were a constant presence in the [[nowhere]], observing all visitors. For this reason, [[Superiority]], as well as human enclaves, drastically cut down on the use of cytonics and wireless communication, so as to avoid drawing them in again.{{book ref|sky2|10}}
=== Second attempt ===
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=== Reemergence ===
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== Trivia ==
* The name "delver" is mentioned once in ''[[Skyward]]'' before being properly introduced in ''[[Starsight]]''; whenever the delvers are
* There is a deliberate similarity between the appearance of the delver heart and the communication chamber from ''[[Defending Elysium]]''.{{wob ref|13427}}
* Brandon once began writing a science fiction novella called ''The Eyes'', inspired by [[wikipedia:Fermi paradox|Fermi paradox]], the question of why we can't find any aliens despite the statistical probability of their existence. The story remains unfinished, although a chapter of it was posted as a reward on the [[Writing Excuses]] Patreon page.{{bws ref|state-of-the-sanderson-2016|State of the Sanderson 2016|date=2016-12-19}} Its setting was eventually absorbed into the [[
* Much like [[Calamity (Epic)|Calamity]] from [[The Reckoners]] series, delvers are extradimensional beings from a dark and quiet place that hate the noises of our world and the people who make them. When asked about this similarity, Brandon said there is a "very, very loose connection" between them and that [[The Apocalypse Guard]] series was originally intended to be a bridge between these things, though he was unsure if that bridge would remain after he finished fixing the first Apocalypse Guard book.{{wob ref|13608}}
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