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When in their infant stage, they resemble ordinary rats. The Beshilu are the rat hosts, and in many ways are the opposite of the Azlu.

Adult Azlu must eat one human a month for sustenence, and constantly weave webs which thicken the Gauntlet around them. These melded Azlu are solitary creatures, but can easily be a match for a pack of Forsaken, since they tend to be the size of cars and often have one set of legs that are enormous bone scythes. After an Azlu melds with enough other Azlu, it consumes a human by biting it and wrapping it in a cocoon, after which it slowly melds its essence with the human, creating a human-spider hybrid. A human possessed in this way is preserved by the Azlu, and will only begin to decay after a month. They have the ability to possess a human by crawling in their ear and eating their brain, which gives them access to the human's memories. They begin life as an ordinary looking spider. The Azlu, or spider hosts, are driven by instinct to strengthen the Gauntlet. This makes it nigh-impossible to permanently destroy a host. When a host hybrid form is destroyed, it dissolves into a scattering swarm of its original form, only one of which contains the spirit shard of the host.

However, hosts are notoriously difficult to kill. The hosts are driven to weaken or strengthen the separation between the spiritual and material world, which can wreak havoc in the area they inhabit therefore, the Forsaken try to destroy them whenever possible. When a host gets large enough, it will consume a human and become a man-animal hybrid similar to a werewolf's Gauru form. Hosts will battle each other to the death and the victor consumes the loser's essence, growing stronger, and becoming a larger version of the animal they resemble. In order to hide from the Forsaken, a host can kill a human and take control of the corpse, though the method of control varies. In this form they are easily destroyed, the same as any other member of the species they resemble. They escaped total destruction by splitting themselves into thousands of spirit shards, each of which inhabited an animal. They are typically descended from powerful Pangaean spirits hunted by Father Wolf for their attacks on humanity. The Hosts ( First Tongue: shartha) are bizarre creatures who, like the Forsaken, are a hybrid of spirit and flesh, man and animal.