Race

Mantis

4 characters with this race in the books read so far.

Name	Kind	Class	Level	First seen	Note
Vrah	npc	—	74	B5 ch. 1	Vrah has risen from level 70 at Zockau to level 74 when she ambushes Carl in the forest, her exoskeleton now studded with heads including Langley’s.
Xindy	npc	Blood Tracker	61	B5 ch. 5	The Dark Hive's flying mantis hunter over the town, the target Carl picks in Ping range when the highest-level hunter is too far away, whom he debuffs with Super Spreader and later shoots out of the sky with rockets; her severed claw comes back to him in a box.
Circe Took	npc	Minor hive queen		B5 ch. 32	A minor mantis hive queen, a former hunter turned amusement-park businesswoman, who moderates Carl’s CrawlCon panel, sponsors the goddess Diwata and comes into the castle as the person driving her.
Edict	npc	Merchant	50	B5 ch. 38	A Dark Hive accountant of Deep Mind sent to Carl as a salesman, who chooses death over dishonour.