Imago

The final installment in the Lilith's Brood trilogy give us a closer, first-person perspective on the Oankali's third gender: the ooloi. Like Akin before it, Jodahs is the first of it's kind: a human born ooloi who struggles to reconcile it's unique combination of human and oankali traits. Unlike Akin, though, Jodhas can modify the genetic structure of living things around it, often subconsciously and without effort, which is dangerous on a planet with so many creatures that can't defend themselves. As such, Jodhas faces a form of exile from its oankali community until it can prove that it has control over it's abilities. It's tumultuous time in metamorphosis is complicated by meeting two fertile humans, with which it desperately wants to mate.