Enders are beings of emotional resonance, hollow energy, and raz davit'. They are known to also use infernum, arnum, quaestus, imperium, baleblood, feirua, doom, uafas, hunger, vile energy, rending, tyvka vlast, livadi, lahab al'qalb, mijjit, mansam, Raesian energy, blood energy, other humors, ethereal essence, nommos, blasphemy, d'qiarsea, oalkhaylaoataa, kakraohy, b'qar, gemtkhereg, kor, and gebvel.

Among the main ender nation, a pozhiratel' dush (literally, "soulstealer"; pl. pozhirateli dush) is a special esotercist who combines emotional resonance, hollow energy, raz davit', quaestus, imperium, and blood magic in order to bond slaves to ender nobles and military leaders to turn them into invincible warriors. These warriors make up the Konets Korpus, or Ender Corps.

Originally, enders were magically/genetically engineered by Vesturians from Maskovian soldiers captured in battle in order to create super-soldiers who were inherently terrifying. What they created would ahve been impossible had not the goddess Dostizheniye intervened. What they created had no true soul, no freedom, no ability to resist their intended purpose. What they created was bound intrisically to the Infernal Realms, but certain events in the long history of the ender nations cause major changes. The first, very early in their existence, was the death and resurrection of the Bronccour, a messianic figure on First Shem. An ender named Vanev slew him, and when the Bronccour returned to life as a messiah, enders were freed of their bondage to Vesturia and the Infernal Realms. They became a distinct species, though most ended up re-enslaved by Vesturia. The second major event was the transition and ascension of Aurelia Lucent and her lover, which allowed enders to feel normal human emotions without succumbing to the sadistic senses they were imbued with. They were given agency to be more than they were. Finally, the third event was the creation of Third Shem and several major national splits. Notably, those who remained as part of the Vesturian slave-armies became the konets.

Because the original enders were engineered from soldiers of a patriarchal army, they were all male. The violent evil of Dostizheniye and her followers saw this as a permanent feature to encourage their super-soldiers to be symbols of masculine perfection in their twisted view of gender. As such, to this day, enders among the dokintsya are assigned male at birth. Though it is rare, there are times when an ender child is born in a body others might consider female; these intersex children are raised as male. Any deviation of the rigid gender they are assigned is met with abuse and derision, and usually death, unless the ender flees the dokintsya community.

The Vesturian enders, the konets', are a privileged nation. Though they began as an enslaved group, they have grown into an independent and distinct nation with their own unique rights within the old empire. There are members of the konets' that are part of both the ruling class and the underclasses, like the d'yavol'skiy and Vesturian humans, but most make up a warrior caste within the empire that is somewhere between the two. Konets' originally were created to be part of the Ender Corps. Those who led this force became nobility eventually, while the lower ranks remained commoners, though better off than most commoners.

The most powerful of the konets' are the