Civilization Name: Masha Ren Mesha (aka The Lands of the People Who Watch)
Civilization Race: Mashakev (aka The Starbreathers)
Race Description: A dark-skinned people, thin and lanky, with no single definite form. They usually stand around six to seven feet tall, half-amorphous, shifting as they please with the constellations above. Two arms, two legs, and two in-between, their greatest activity is in the night, where they can see most easily. Nonetheless, the light sometimes brings good things, even if it is more comfortable to sleep through the hot day.
Deity Name: Kaduun
Deity Description: Kaduun. The Shroudbearer. Bringer of night, concealer of secrets. He who keeps harsh truths edges from cutting, who softens the pain of burning sun. Who, even in the heavens above, brings blankets of cloud overhead and lets down soft rains to feed our crops. To claim that the Shroudbearer has any form one can see clearly is foolishness; he is of shroud and mist.
Deity Spheres: Night, Beauty, Change
Creation Myth: The other gods made their mortals, and whispered to them to follow, to worship. Kaduun frowned at this. He did not like the plotting and scheming of the other gods. Secrets twisted into harsh things, privacy made dangerous to allow, vision clouded by darkness, rather than cleared by it. It made the god sad. So out of the sky, The Shroudbearer plucked pieces of shadow to give life, to be his own children. And when he had gathered up a hundred, a thousand, with the light of day peering through the shadow of night, with arms full, he grew tired. "One more shall I pluck," he said, "and that will be enough." But tired as he was, he could not pull carefully as he did the others, to take only a tiny patch. And the sky tore and tore, a huge gash letting light pour through. But Kaduun stopped himself before the whole piece could come off. "Ah, no!" he cried at his mistake. "Now the night will be bright as the day!"
But as he bemoaned the loss, he noticed that the flap of night did not stay open; it flapped about, covering and uncovering, and dimmed the light that come through even when it was not. Seeing that not all was lost, the Shroudbearer smiled, tired, and placed his new children upon the lands below, as the light of the stars their plucking had left behind shown down. Only one command did he leave them, and that more in hopes of their blossoming than in requirement. "Learn all the mysteries of this world," he said, "and create as many of your own." And then he left, climbing through the hole in the sky to watch his children from high above, happy simply to watch them grow, failing and rising again, learning from each mistake.
Starting Biome: Steppes and highlands(near rivers, of course)
Starting Tree: Science
Specific Interest: Bending the other tech trees to our will. The Gods themselves will know us, and the mysteries of the world will be revealed.
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Topic: Birth of Civilization (OOC) (Read 5172 times)