![]() After the scientists triggered a cataclysmic resonance cascade event using a particularly potent Xen crystal, a massive interdimensional rift opened. The Nihilanth took notice of this, and grew contemptuous of them, decrying them as simple thieves. Some time prior to the events of Half-Life, the scientists of the Black Mesa Facility located on Earth discovered Xen and began collecting specimens of its flora and fauna for research. Eventually, the Vortigaunts, another species that were victims of the Combine's brutality, escaped to Xen as well, and the Nihilanth promptly enslaved them, forcing them into servitude. In an effort to avoid being hunted down and destroyed by the Combine, the Nihilanth and its minions escaped into the border world, Xen, where they barely managed to survive in a new ecosystem. ![]() What followed was a brutal campaign of genocide against the Nihilanth's species, as the Combine mercilessly invaded their homeworld and drove them to near-extinction, leaving the Nihilanth itself as the sole survivor. The Nihilanth is a member of an alien race that hailed from beyond the Xen dimension, living on their own homeworld in their own universe, long before the Black Mesa Incident.Īn unknown amount of time before the events of Half-Life, the Nihilanth's species came into contact with an immensely powerful interdimensional empire known as the Combine. It also possess the ability to create small portals that teleport the player to a random location within its lair. The Nihilanth is extremely powerful, able to absorb massive damage from the player's weapons before finally being killed, even without the aid of the creature's healing crystals in its chamber. In addition, the Nihilanth also wears metallic wristbands similar to those worn by enslaved Vortigaunts, suggesting it was at one time enslaved by another species (perhaps the Combine). It has unusually long arms, huge hands, and disproportionate fingers. Underneath its third arm is a surgical scar that goes down its abdomen. Like all of the other sapient Xen species, it has 3-fingered hands, multiple eyes, and a third appendage protruding from the middle of its chest. ![]() Its head is so large that it must be kept upright with a small cord/string that extends from the base of the spine to the back of the head. The creature's minuscule legs appear either to be vestigial or the remains of amputation, as the Nihilanth relies on a levitation device for movement. Physically, the Nihilanth resembles a gigantic, abnormally proportioned brownish-gray (pink in some lighting instances) fetus with a massive head atop a smaller body. ![]()
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