Axiomites possess a wide variety of outward forms, oddly unlike the uniformity displayed by their fellow natives, the hive-dwelling formians. A random cross-section of axiomite society contains those who resemble flawless, perfect humanoids of all descriptions—typically humans, elves, tieflings, dwarves, halflings, giants, and gnomes— but these outward shapes belie their true forms, which can be seen briefly whenever the axiomites move or perform any complex actions. During such moments, their bodies partly dissolve into glowing clouds of golden, crystalline dust. The clouds move and contort on their own accord, temporarily congealing into twisting lines of mathematic symbols and complex tangles of equations. Each axiomite is actually an immortal personification of living, intelligent mathematics approximating a humanoid shape.

Regardless of their outward appearance, axiomites are all of the same general mold, save for a number of unique variants elevated from their common base as members of their ruling hive-mind council, to specialize in such pursuits as merging with and controlling their construct armies of inevitables, and other, more difficult tasks.

Ecology

Axiomites claim to have emerged from the raw mathematical underpinnings of the laws of the cosmos; in effect, they are the cosmos made manifest in order to understand itself. As such, the axiomites predate formians. Although their history would indicate that they originated independently of the existence of mortal souls, much like the proteans, demons, and others who were among the first outsider races, such is not the case. Unlike the forged and constructed inevitables, and also in contrast to the hive-mind formians (who form both from adopted mortal souls and, like terrestrial insects, from their queens’ eggs), new axiomites form from the souls of mortals. This might not have always been the case, and the axiomites speculate that as the cosmos further develops and evolves, they themselves will continue to reflect any emergent laws and paradigms, such as the rise of mortals and their impact. In other words, the first axiomites may not have come from mortal souls, but new ones do.

The transition from mortal soul to axiomite is as mysterious and opaque in many ways as the byzantine mathematics their race obsesses over. Souls unclaimed as well as those not bound by treaty and territorial agreement with the numerous formian clans, migrate naturally toward one of the great axiomite constructions. Rising into the sky, each of the axiomites’ metallic and crystalline monoliths thrums with the whir of internal clockwork mechanisms and reverberations of almost musical tones, like those of great tuning forks. Each structure revolves around a single class of laws and its underlying equations, and each attracts mortal souls who, upon touching and merging with it, reemerge days later as coalescent crystalline motes, wearing their original mortal guise as the pattern for their axiomite incarnation.

Habitat & Society

Unlike the formians, who largely occupy themselves with the endless perfection of their hives, the axiomites are focused as much inward as they are outward. Their society is broken into three parts, one of which devotes itself to the construction, maintenance, and command of the plane’s construct armies of inevitables; another to expansion and construction; and the last to exploring, calculating, and understanding the ultimate laws underlying all of reality.