Everyone knew that races not related to nightcrawlers but born with the Shadowlife seed were called Trueborns.
They called themselves this to separate themselves from the Hollow Races… Races born without a Shadowlife seed, like Humans.
Unlike humans or any other Hollow race that had their powers connected to nightcrawlers, the Trueborn had their Shadowlife seed passed down through generations... which allowed it to retain inheritance and pass it to the new generation.
Since Trueborn married within the same race for generations, and had no connections to nightcrawlers… the inheritance remained pure, untainting the Shadowlife's seed with any other powers.
It was like passing down a library filled with books related to a single subject… instead of thousands of unexplored, useless subjects.
