Crayak

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Crayak is a fictional antagonist from the series The Animorphs. He is one of the only three antagonists who is not a Yeerk.

A god-like being, Crayak is described as a blood-red cybernetic eye sitting on a throne miles high. It is a malevolent creature who was cast out of its home galaxy by another creature greater than it. Crayak has a servant called the Drode, who accompanies him and carries out tasks. It is speculated that if a Yeerk dies in a Controller's head, the Controller will see Crayak when the Yeerk is dying. This first and only recorded instance of this happened to Jake; the Yeerk in that process of the fugue to cause him to see Crayak was Temrash 114.

Little is known about Crayak before he arrived in our galaxy. It was only said, in book 26 and again in the Ellimsit Chronicles, that he was driven from his own galaxy by a power greater than he or the Ellimist. It has been speculated that Crayak has since become more powerful than that being, but his game with the Ellimist keeps him in this galaxy.

When it arrived in the Milky Way, it began to play a series of games with the being known as the Ellimist. These games were impossible to "win", as any action taken by the Ellimist resulted in massive death of innocent creatures. Eventually, the Ellimst and Crayak fought a war against each other. But after witnessing the destruction of said war, they agreed never to fight openly again.

Instead, they began a series of games to influence events in the world around them. Treating the people of the galaxy as pawns in a massive game of chess, they chose players (such as the Animorphs and the Yeerks) and gave them the abilities to win little rounds if they could perform correctly.

The exact nature of the Game is uncertain, as are the aims of the parties involved. What is clear, however, is that both parties are absolutely ruthless in their pursuit of victory and are willing to show complete disregard for the lower forms of live in order to attain their desires.

Crayak was described in book 26 as being a perfectionist of sorts. He wants to see the galaxy dominated by a single, powerful species, and to see all weaker forms of life destroyed.

Crayak is one of the only two villains in the series with no given backstory (the other being his servant, the Drode), leading to much speculation and misconception. Many describe him as being "pure evil" despite the fact that one of the overarching messages of the Animorphs series is that there is no such thing as pure evil.