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Writings of the Yellowman: About the TCKs
Discovered at the same time as the Great SWAgarthan Migration and the formation of the SWAbureau itself in 216 AE (Alternus Esse), these miniature creatures stood guard in front of the open gates to SWAgartha in lock and tandem, preventing all that tried to pass until verified by the congealed mass via insertion of an "accounting rod," a physical form of identification Farlow citizens had typically been issued long before the conditions for leaving it were reached. Together in idle form, they would take a branching appearance, sort of like the various worldtrees you'd come to encounter on few occasions, and wait, swaying according to motions we're not aware of. It wasn't until people have started colonizing portions of the SWAgarthan landscape once more where these strange things began to do their signature work: construct. The first several structures were an amazing sight to behold, as you can see the progression of information, surrounding material began to be overwhelmed by the mass of microbial many, deconstructed, and then put into use as supports or decor. In a few short hours, a simple shelter was built.
It wasn't until later exploration into the depths of Old SWAgartha's ruins did we uncover monoloithic statues of three, heavily implied to be important facets of the land before us, with one being a chaotic statue of many three-pronged triangular beasts locked hand-in-hand. Genetic testing of several samples of these "TCKs" have resulted in inconclusive results, as the lifeforms themselves are too abstract with unfamiliar organelles, biological and seemingly-artificial, to determine a point of origin. Even the kingdom of origin is a mystery, as they operate on a fundamental ruleset of Protista, biologically function like Fungi, but finally animate and "think" in a fashion most similar to Animalia.