Inhabitants - Though they are all indigenous to the Nest, they are seemingly set in their ways and have separate life cycles.  

• Innocents - The perfect prey, as they are unaware of their own exploitation even in the moment it is happening. They have no way of fighting back, as they lack memories to inform them. 

• Regressed - Unless the shell they inhabit is forcibly broken, they will spend eternity in a comatose. They cannot retain memories in this state. 

• Strigis - Vessels of memory. Often find their selves in situations where they must flee for their lives against the Affectors. They have an advantage that gives them a fighting chance: their wings, and their flock mentality.

• Pharoi - Mother of memory. Immune to the Affectors. They are adaptive and may shape-shift, but will retain some core features reminiscent to those of Strigis, who will instinctively follow the Pharoi for safety. 

Oscillators - They appear to pervade the fabric of reality in The Nest. Pharoi dispute whether they infect the Nest or are naturally interwoven with it. There are conflicting interpretations of their nature. Some creatures seem to be able to manipulate them for their purposes. 

Death - If an inhabitant of the Nest falls prey to an Affector, it will live tormented for eternity unless they go through a transformation that nullifies their physical or psychic wounds. But it is rumored that there is a transformation that can liberate one from pain, permanently. Though it has never been witnessed, some inhabitants have started to seek answers about the ultimate loss of memory. 

Others - If the Affectors come from outside the Nest, then its inhabitants can't be the only sentient beings in the cosmos...