Mentor

Their exact average lifespan is unknown, but individuals can survive for centuries. The most famous of them is Akaj. It's worth 200 coins, enough to pay for it, but it rarely leaves its territory. In his memory, people built a small temple at the foot of the mountain: they came there to learn the legends of the littorals and ask the spirit of the mountain for peace.

It is believed that Akaj once helped the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese war (1904–1905): he tried a detachment on impenetrable troops, when the storm hid all the landmarks, and he brought the soldier to the necessary position, he did not let them freeze. Here you go for a long time, it's a long time ago.

Lithomorphs are not born in the usual way and are incapable of independent reproduction. Their appearance is a rare and almost mystical process, tied to an invisible energy shell that permeates the world. This shell feeds on the human aura—the subtle traces of emotion that people leave behind in space. Joy, fear, despair, hope—all this settles in the shells and accumulates. When the excess energy is lost at some point, the shell "pushes" it out, forming a stone heart. Lithomotors are born from this stone.
The source of energy directly determines the nature of existence. A lithomorph, created from a concentration of fear, hatred, or despair, often becomes a murderer: it instinctively protects itself, perceives the world as a threat, and strives to protect itself from it. A creature formed from light emotions—calm, hope, care—usually turns out to be peaceful. However, there are exceptions: "light" lithomors display aggression if they sense danger to those they consider their own.

Adult lithomorphs do not produce offspring, but they are capable of caring for their young. If an adult finds a newborn lithomorph, it may protect it. In such cases, the adults become especially dangerous to anyone who considers the young a threat: even a normally proconic lithomorph is capable of sudden, almost uncontrollable aggression to protect its offspring.

Time runs differently. They age significantly more slowly than humans and live much longer. Their exact average lifespan is unknown, but individuals can survive for centuries. The most famous of them is Akaj. It's worth 200 coins, enough to pay for it; it rarely leaves its territory. In his memory, people built a small temple at the foot of the mountain: they came there to learn the legends of the littorals and ask the spirit of the mountain for peace.

Scientists still don't understand how new lithomorphs even appear: not a single confirmed case of their reproduction has been recorded, and therefore the very fact that the species still exists remains a complete abomination for science.

The stone in the heart of the lithomorph was incredibly valuable: it released a person's energy that people learned to use. In ancient times, for these stones, they persisted wholeheartedly, mercilessly exterminating littorals for the sake of obtaining resources. Later, with the development of technologies, humanity found the ability to extract energy from the stone, not killing its owner, - it reduced the intensity of the industry a little, but it reduced the demand.

The only remarkable property of this energy is its influence on people. She is capable of temporarily regaining strength, dispersing fatigue and obscuring feelings, it acts like a very strong coffee, only the effect lasts longer and is more deeply felt: light clarity appears in my mind, my muscles are filled with additional energy, and the reaction is heard quickly. Because of this, artefacts with energy lithomotors in their pages are used in demand — they are used in emergency services, on complex missions and even in the training of future heroes, although officially such tools are considered controversial and do not enter the standard arsenal.

At the same time, their prodigies couldn't be recognized by their appearance: a menacing-looking lithomorph in the form of a bear or wolf could be miraculous and simply defending its territory without attacking. And the creature in a harmless form—I say, a small animal, or it stood closer, and it instantly changed its shape, throwing itself into the attack. Appearance here was a trap, and any mistaken assessment could cost a person their life.

There was only one characteristic to distinguish a lithomorph from a real-life or human: in their animal form, they always had white fur , and in their human form, white hair . Shades varied: in most of them, the fur or hair was pure white, in some, with a light gray undertone, and very rarely did you encounter a person with a muted gray color. This feature became one of the first signs by which hunters and explorers learned to recognize lithomorphs. In human form, on the contrary, a lithomorph could speak.

In the world of "My Heroic Academy," society is built around special abilities—unique superpowers that manifest in most people by the age of four. Heroes and villains aren't just individual personalities, but entire social institutions: there are hero agencies, ratings, licensing, and special schools like Yuey. Quirks vary widely—from controlling fire to changing body weight—and they determine people's pessia, stats, and even daily habits. In order, professional heroes follow, and conflicts between those possessing these abilities have become part of the public narrative: they write about battles in newspapers, broadcast them on TV, and teach children from an early age how to tell themselves how to talk to the press with participation.

But for a long time until the epoch of peace, inye creatures inhabited them - they were called lithomorphs (from the Greek lithos - "stone" and morphe - "form"). To our days, only scraps of records have survived: old engravings, a few tattered scrolls and rare mentions in folklore. Lithomorphs knew how to change their appearance and sculpt their own body, as if it were pliable clay, obeying only one sile mysli. They could take the form of a wolf, a hare, a leaf or a man — and in each of these forms they moved as naturally as for this form *. He pulsed the dim light directly into the chest and served simultaneously as a source of energy and an anchor, keeping the changeable flesh in the chosen peaceful form—without it, the body of the lithomorph lost its structure and spread like liquid clay.

Lithomorphs were clearly divided into* and murderous ones . The peaceful ones tried to keep their distance from people and settled in remote forests and on uninhabited mountain elephants, avoiding the bustle of cities. Hostiles, on the contrary, often insist on rules on the outskirts of settlements or patrolled territories, which they consider their own.