Changes: Niadra

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"A newly created Zerg Queen. Highly intelligent, inexperienced, and eager to please Kerrigan by following her every command to the letter. Has a motherly demeanour to her brood."

- Character description^(src)

Niadra is a zerg broodmother.

Biography

Niadra was created by Sarah Kerrigan when she battled the protoss on Kaldir. Although she succeeded in preventing them from contacting the Golden Armada, one of the protoss ships attempted to flee from the planet and travel to Shakuras. To prevent them from surviving, Kerrigan placed a parasitic larva within the captured protoss colonist Lasarra and dropped the psionic veil that prevented her from being warped back to her people.

After being teleported to the ship, the protoss attempted to warn the Templar but died as the parasitic larva spawned from her body. Shortly afterwards, it began infesting the local animals kept onboard by the protoss and hid within the ventilation shafts where it found a safe location to mature into a queen. Kerrigan gave her the name Niadra and tasked her with eliminating all the protoss onboard the ship. Niadra and her growing brood moved through the ship destroying the protoss, Niadra herself continuing to evolve and grow her powers by consuming the specimens in the ship.

After reaching the bridge and destroying the last protoss on the ship, Niadra and her brood became the only occupants of the craft. She attempted to contact Kerrigan to inform her of this, but her communications were not responded to. With few other options, Niadra decided to continue the Queen of Blades' last directives: to survive, grow her brood, and destroy the protoss, until the day came when her queen needed her again.^[2]

Game Unit

Larval Form

Niadra's larval form is used briefly. She has no form of offense in this form and must hide to avoid conflict until she can grow to her broodmother form.

Unlike a typical larva, this one has controllable movement and can survive without the creep.

Abilities

Grow

Niadra enters a cocoon and grows to the next stage of her evolution.

Usage

Hotkey	G
Cost	6
Notes	Requires a variable amount of biomass to use.

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Parasitic Invasion

Leap inside neutral critters and take control of them.

Usage

Hotkey	Q
Range	4

v • e

Consume Host

Consume a unit infested by Parasitic Invasion, killing it and gaining biomass.

Usage

Hotkey

W

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Broodmother Forms

As a broodmother, Niadra is a ranged support attacker. She is unsuited to fight enemies alone, and must rely on other units to fight. Niadra is able to quickly breed zerg units to fight for her, and has a regeneration aura that rapidly heals nearby allies. As she continues to consume biomass and evolve, the control she provides and thus the army she can command increases, as does her HP.