Anomaly Hives

In Brief
Somewhere between living organisms and celestial phenomena, Anomaly Hives are regions of distorted reality that purposeless drift in the space between galaxies, devouring all that cross their path. The general anatomy of each is the same, consisting of a large amorphous core wherein the laws of physics are different, and limbs of reconstituted matter, usually resembling the arms of a galaxy which accelerate celestial bodies into their core. These limbs are abnormally sensitive to gravity, being whipped around by the gravity of stars that are light years away, which act in their favor as it pulls them and the rest of the body towards the stars. Objects that fall into an anomaly hive tend to move to a region of lower distortion which slowly alters them, dragging them further and further into the core as it does so like a digestive system of sorts.

The digested matter clumps together inside forming their own miniature universe, sometimes with their own biomes and ecosystems that cannot exist under the normal laws of physics.

Applications
While anomaly hives themselves have little use, being considered little more than curiosities or hazards, they produce aurora worms, peculiar objects that line their entire bodies save for their digestion region like a fur of sorts. Unlike most objects found within anomaly hives that are rendered unusable or destroyed outright by the laws of physics when returned to the universe, aurora worms persist. Resembling glow worms, they can grant sentient beings the power to produce and control localized anomalies. However, it seems that these objects use the host's mind to perform some kind of processing in order to work, one that is incompatible with thoughts that are normally crucial for self-preservation. As a consequence, those who wield can wield their power are generally reckless, incompetent or some combination thereof, leading to aurora worms and the creatures they resemble to being considered as symbols of disaster.

It is theorized that aurora worms are a larvae state of anomaly hives, being a tangible center to an imperceptible core, however it must be noted that none of them have been observed to ever grow, let alone develop into a hive. By themselves these worms do not exhibit any particularly reality bending behavior aside from their existence and their tendency to incite extremely strong pareidolic responses, causing observers to perceive them as each having a face.