IO Shiamara

The iO Shiamara are a race of humanoid beings from an "adjacent" alternate reality. Much like the Drejj in the Beaten Lands universe, the iO Shiamara are very adept at the creation of technology, which in their universe is called "ultrinking". The Constructors, who base themselves primarily out of the iO Shiamara reality and who exist as parasites inside iO Shiamara brains, take advantage of this fact to create technology including the powerful Constructs, which alter realities themselves.

The iO Shiamara Resistance

Not all are content to let the Constructors have their way with the iO Shiamara. For a variety of reasons, including genetic immunity to Control, many iO Shiamara have joined in resisting the Constructors, and attempting to free the iO Shiamara from thair malign influence. Maurice encounters a group of Resistance members in the Construct in the Blasted Lands, comprised of Amonolee, Swvrma, Eemot, and Vihrau. Later on, two more members of the Resistance come to save him from the Scuumi dungeons, named Ronalee and Tsshst.