Vario

History
Built roughly a few thousand years ago by a race only known as "The Precursors", the Vario ("Var-E-o") began their existence as a race of manufactured slaves, serving as warriors, engineers, farmers, and general servants to their even-more-ancient masters. The Vario commonly possess a bug-like appearance, their exteriors predominantly made of a flexible Chitin-like substance, with the occasional limbs or joints made of an as-of-yet unidentified metal.

It is unknown when or why the Vario were sealed underground, or what happened to the Precursors, only that an event known as "The Great Frost" once swept Abexilas, wiping out almost all life in the region, and, according to some elder Vario, the Precursors sought refuge in, what they described as, 'a world of dreams', leaving their creations behind, in a deep slumber, within the ancient forges from which they "born".