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|Ancient things stirred. And in that moment between heartbeats, they not only saw me, but they '''knew''' me.
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The '''delvers''', sometimes called the '''eyes''', are ancient, extra-dimensional
== Appearance ==
|They would not ever leave me alone, and I wanted so badly just to smash them. To smother them beneath my foot so they'd stop piling, and crawling, and clicking, and snapping, and biting, and corrupting, and—
|Delver's thoughts, as perceived by [[Spensa]]{{book ref|sky2|25}}
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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 cytonic "screaming" can and will cause them to transition to the physical world in an attempt to quiet it down.{{book ref|sky2|40
Once delvers leave the 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}}
== History ==
=== 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 occurred during the second of the [[
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}}
== Notes ==
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