Annuated

The Annuated, also known as  The eldest of the Interior People and Their Progenitors are ancient Trill symbionts whose age ranges above 20,000 years old, living in the deepest part of the Caves of Mak'ala'.

The annuated look much similar in shape to their younger decendants, but are approximately 30 metres long and 8 metres in circumfrance. They also spout a number of tenticular projections along their lengths which emit bioplasmic discharges. They are bottom feeders who subsist on nutrient rich hot springs at the base of the Mak'ala cave network.

The annuated spawn eggs that eventually develop into the younger symbionts which are released into the "shallows" of the Mak'ala caves, where they are tended by the Guardians. They also collect the memories of younger trill symbionts who return to the caves to die.

The annuated symbionts are serviced by smaller symbionts whom care for the annuated as well as push the newly spawned eggs into the shallows. These younger symbionts are only between 2 and 5 thousand years old and measure a mere 2 metres in legnth.