Trophic webs have been fractured asunder with bipedal tetrapods dominating the planet as alpha predators. Eons fell through the fissures of time, each year but grains of sand in sediment deposits, conjuring forth the Holocene. Yet in spite of the dispersal of humanoids, a frontier remains uninhabited: the consuming blackness in murky abyssal trenches. Host to unfathomable life forms of awe-inspiring honed brutality, subjugated under the omnipresent crushing weight of that which is above. Eerie aberrations flourish both in bone-chilling, penetrating iciness, and in scalding toxic mixtures, the progeny from eons of selective pressures. Siphonophores, gelatinous colonial masses, haunt twilight. Marine snow drifts from countless organisms above, life-bestowing gifts of epipelagic godesses. Cetacean carcass plunges to benthos, vast feast for Myxini and Chondrichthyes. Bleak - Dire - Abyssal - Trench