Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Lesser Beasts form from planetary deaths and can be put down rather easily by a single Lyctor.Planet Eater: In their grief and hunger, Beasts devour the energy of other planets as they wander through the universe.The primary way that the Lyctors fight them is by fighting them to the point of mauling them or exhausting them enough that they're able to drag the Beasts' brains to the mouths of Hell in the River. No Kill like Overkill: A full-fledged Resurrection Beast requires it.They aren't independent creatures, but extensions of the Beast itself, like fingers. Mook Maker: Mature Beasts are accompanied by thousands of Heralds, human-sized mix-and-match monsters made out of the dead matter of a Resurrection Beast's corpus, capable of threatening a Lyctor physically even as they wrestle with the Beast spiritually.John says, and thus the Empire believes, they're not truly self-aware or intelligent, which is false they are as self-aware as humans, though potentially only able to communicate with Nona, the "salt thing", their sibling Earth. Genius Loci: All planets are subtly alive, even those without anything like bacteria, full of memories and complexity from their formation and long existences.Eldritch Abomination: Murdered planetary souls, feral with grief and madness, shaped into wildly different forms that appear different to everyone who sees them.The Sixth House theorizes the effect is carried by sight, and so blinded themselves to resist it with some success.
Nona also perceives the blue light emitted by Number Seven/Varun the Eater as being directly responsible for the violence sweeping New Rho, which is populated by regular people.
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