diff --git a/data/json/monster_factions.json b/data/json/monster_factions.json
index f96e5be81988b..6cc3e7beec4f3 100644
--- a/data/json/monster_factions.json
+++ b/data/json/monster_factions.json
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@
   {
     "type": "MONSTER_FACTION",
     "name": "nether_player_hate",
+    "//": "These creatures aren't necessarily sentient in and of themselves or are drawn to sentient life in and around dimensional breaches.",
     "base_faction": "nether",
     "friendly": [ "zombie" ],
     "hate": [ "player" ]
diff --git a/data/json/monsters/nether.json b/data/json/monsters/nether.json
index 6c91633fe53d4..43fb205b1bf2c 100644
--- a/data/json/monsters/nether.json
+++ b/data/json/monsters/nether.json
@@ -988,8 +988,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "shifting mass", "str_pl": "shifting masses" },
     "description": "An animate blotch of conflicting symmetries, erratically hovering through the air.  It's not even real enough to hold a stable shape, and its entire form is constantly in flux.  You can see through it - not as if it were transparent, but as if it isn't quite fully here.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "1000 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 10,
@@ -1015,8 +1015,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "impossible shape" },
     "description": "A twisted shape floating in midair; its angles don't seem to quite add up - it hurts to look at.  Is it inanimate?  Alive?  Something else?  You can't make heads or tails of it at all, but you can see through it - not as if it were transparent, but as if it isn't quite fully here.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 30,
@@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "absence" },
     "description": "Every sense you have claims this space to be empty, but your mind is not fooled.  There is an emptiness here that is far from natural or safe.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 150,
@@ -1069,8 +1069,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "giant appendage" },
     "description": "A gigantic, probing appendage blindly feeling the area around it.  All of your senses scream at you that it's the size of a truck, and yet it only takes up about as much space in the world as you do.  It seems to be jutting through a portal, suggesting that it's merely a smaller extension of something much larger.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 1000000000,
@@ -1092,8 +1092,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "memory", "str_pl": "memories" },
     "description": "The silhouette of a human body, reaching towards you like it needs help.  It has no eyes, but you can still feel it staring through you.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 25,
@@ -1115,8 +1115,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "swarm structure" },
     "description": "Your mind can't decide if this is a vast structure, or an endless swarm of tiny flying sharp things.  The only thing you know for sure is that it is far too large to fit in the space it occupies.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 80,
@@ -1144,8 +1144,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "twisting blade" },
     "description": "You are uncertain whether this dwarfs you or you dwarf it.  Its exact shape and number of dimensions is constantly changing, but it is always sharp enough to cut a moment in half.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 30,
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "chunk of unknown material", "str_pl": "chunks of unknown material" },
     "description": "This formless, pitch-black mass wriggles on the ground as it reshapes itself before your eyes.  It slowly drags itself towards you with many tendrils of varied sizes.  As it gets closer to you, its wriggling intensifies as if it reacted to you.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
     "species": [ "HORROR" ],
     "//": "No NETHER or it will run away at low HP",
     "volume": "62500 ml",
@@ -1246,8 +1246,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "pale reflection" },
     "description": "This looks nothing like you.  It's barely real.  So why does your mind keep mistaking it for you?",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 35,
@@ -1304,8 +1304,8 @@
     "type": "MONSTER",
     "name": { "str": "tainted shadow" },
     "description": "Your shadow is host to something alien.",
-    "default_faction": "nether",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 35,
@@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@
     "description": "A common human, that looks exactly like human do.  You can see it.  It can see you.  You know it knows you can see it.  It knows you know you can see him.  It moves towards you.",
     "//": "it must be spooky, but god im bad in this stuff",
     "default_faction": "nether_player_hate",
-    "species": [ "NETHER" ],
+    "species": [ "NETHER_EMANATION" ],
     "volume": "62500 ml",
     "weight": "0 g",
     "hp": 100000000,
diff --git a/data/json/species.json b/data/json/species.json
index 591ea2c841bd6..50d31618bcee8 100644
--- a/data/json/species.json
+++ b/data/json/species.json
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@
     "description": "a nether creature",
     "fear_triggers": [ "HURT" ]
   },
+  {
+    "type": "SPECIES",
+    "id": "NETHER_EMANATION",
+    "description": "a reflection of another dimension",
+    "fear_triggers": [ "HURT" ]
+  },
   {
     "type": "SPECIES",
     "id": "MIGO",