An informorph is a digital, sapient life-form that is either the result of artificial intelligence creation, or of a human brainscan. Both entities are generally referred to as informorphs. Human informorphs can be installed into a large array of platforms, softshells, hardshells, and whatever kind of installation that houses a brainframe.

Informorphs are essentially immortal. The technology to create these beings has been in existence for several centuries, and while a small number of methusaleic infomorphs exist, they are not very common. The technology took a long time, a lot of work, and a lot of careful experimentation to truly mature.

Early informorphs were not viable on the long term, and frequently suffered from late-onset data corruption. This was true both for brainscans and artificial intelligence alike. The oldest fully viable digital human is thought to be about hundred and sixty years old, however some much more rather erratic brainscans are much older.

The oldest truly sapient artificial intelligence is somewhat younger. The first such entity that its human creators could identify as such was destroyed during the Bracer War.

The Great Houses are themselves also strictly speaking informorphs, albeit of a different caliber and entirely incompatible with anything baseline humanity has managed to produce.