2 gods... getting some points in religion: belief was a good idea i think.
(well, 3 gods. but it is like they were 2)
later i'll write this turn, it seem it will be interesting.
also... i am near xenopross! it seems dangerous.
oh, dark. don't worry baout telling what my people did. i think you played them very well, exactly what i think serani should be.
also, when i'll have enough EP i'll use some of them in religion: religion. and i already started building it.
sera: sera in serani language is a word that mean "sentient being"; since at the beginning of their language the serani didn't know about other sentient species on this world, sera's main meaning was "member of serani race", and it comes before the name of each male serani(i.e. sera-apani).women have before their name seri (i.e. seri-elone). plural of sera(and seri) is serani. therefore serani is "the sentient people"
sera-apani:one of the ancient elderly who ruled in the first serani village at the time of the arrival of the god endren and the gods joulan and jouli
lath: an ancient unit of length, it is said to be about the length of the arm of an adult male serani. it is unknown what was exactly the length of a lath in the later serani history. no more used today.
secth: ancient unit of time, it is 1/12 of a day. unlike many other unities of time, lenght and weight we know how much a secth is worth because it is still used in some villages, mainly by elder people.
sera-ganali: it was the meeting of the elderly wo ruled the serani before the theocracy. since they didn't know how to write yet, we know very little about them, and only by history books of later ages, mostly religious ones. from the same books come most of our knowledge about that age
serani calendar: the serani calendar, is divided in 15 months of 17 days, and it adds a week at the end of each century, called "the week of gods". it is unknown when this calendar was invented, but it is the best known today and it is used almost everywhere. the year 0 of this calendar is the day of the arrival of the god endren and the gods jouli and joulen in the first serani village
lera: lera is the opposite of sera: while sera mean "sentient being" lera mean "non sentient being" and it comes before the name of each animal. oddly, this doesn't apply to fishes, who doesn't have a prefix o their name.
another meaning of lera is "meat", but it is rarely used in this way.
lera-mabāli: it is one of the biggest known animals on this planet.it a mammal with 4 legs, it is 3 times higher than a serani, it is greenish with a greay head, it has scales on the back and 2 big tusks. while it is an herbivorous, it can be very dangerous when it is in danger, and attack its enemyes by charging them. due to their size, their thick skin and their long tusks, they are very dangerous and there are it is known that in the history more than one village has been destroyed by a charge of this mighty animals.
they used to live in large herds lead by a female and their children stays in the herd for their whole life; for this reason, in the past herds of hundreds of lera-mabali were seen. today only few of them still live in the zoos
sera-apani was near the opening of his hut, watching the fire. endren , jouli and joulan were still there, they have been there for 4 suns without eating, without drinking, just sitting near the fire. around them an aura of power and respect and many serani that watch them few laths away, like it has always been since they first spoke. some people started worshipping them, seeing in them the supernatural beings they were looking for. but now it wasn't time to stop and think, and sera-apani started walking slowly toward a hut; his legs weren't as strong as they were many cycles ago, but it is not for the legs that you become a member of the sera-ganali. the sera-ganali used to be held around the fire every year, in the heart of the village, but the arrival of these 3 beings changed much. the elderly decided to have a meeting that night, and not near the fire but in the hut of the oldest member because nobody would sit near these people that started to be called gods; the decisions to take that night were very important: powerful strangers came to teach, and they said that there was much more out of the borders of the village than it was thought, and mainly that there were other sentient races on this planet.
sera-apani entered the hut, seeing the otehr 4 members already there.
"sorry for being late, friends. i stopped to watch the fire. we can start the meeting now."
"we can understand, apani. today is an important day: we don't know yet if the strangers are really gods, but they are much more than small animals like us and the ones we eat; they are powerful, you can feel it by watching them. many of us are ready to worship them, and many more will do it in the future, but this is an a decision of each one, not our. we are here to speak about the informations they gave us: they told us how much there is out there: new lands, new things to learn and otehr sentient beings, maybe friendly and maybe dangerous. they also told us what they wanted for this village and this world, and we have to listen to them, if not for our believes, for the ones of our people. let the meeting start"
after a secth of speaking, sera-apani finally spoke: "we just don't know enough , and this mean that our main goal must be knowledge of outer world. many people live in this village, and many people i saw that were excited about the news of the strangers. wat i suggest is that we build new village in new lands. many ofthese people will travel there, and we will know more about this world, and we will be able to know more about the regions near us. vote for this."
and he sits down, while the hands of the other serani go up.
"we decided. we will settle new lands. gather food and people, it is an important day for the serani."
few days after the sera-ganali the village was full of activity and life, like it has never been before: food was being gathered, people were preparing for the travel, scouts were speaking about what they found in the new lands, the settlers were spending their last days with their loved one; even the strangers seemed to be part of all this. But not everybody was so happy and excited in the village: an old serani was waiting in his hut for some people to arrive. he was old, but with far less wrinkles and much more strenght than most serani of his age; he was walking in circles near his bed, when 3 young serani arrived. " welcome.i was waiting for you. you were my only apprentices in the art of the herbalists, and only to you i taught what i know about plants, and now i ask you to do something for me: you will have to join the settlers in the new lands. i would prefere that you stayed here with me, but i taught what i could, and now you are needed elsewhere: as you know , there are other sentient races out there, and we are looking for them; most of us, and mainly the elderly, are just happy about this, but they are blind. even Endren warned us about them, they can be dangerous. we can hope that they will be as peaceful as us, but we can't live on a small hope. we have to do something to protect us"
the 3 serani we still standing near the opening of the hut, looking at sera-kemai the herbalist, and listening to him, confused and scared about what he was going to say. serani has always been peaceful, and Endren words warned them not to harm sentient beings; the thought of violence against other people was new and scary. then the old serani spoke again.
"i see in your eyes that you are worried, but don't worry. you fear that i am looking for ways to kill the ones we will meet, but that is not what i want. i'll tell you what is my plan.as you know, while many plants can heal , make you feel better or are just good to eat, there are also the plants you know better, the poisonous plants. some poisons are so strong that they can kill even a lera-mabali in few seconds, but there are others that only stun smaller animals; that is what we know at the moment. but the serani are going to see new lands soon, and if we are lucky we could find plants useful to protect us, the poison of ehich can make animals of our size sleep, or stun them enough that they can't fight. it is possible because some plants that we know already do this to small animals. and here i need your help. you will take your families and go to the new villages, and there you will try to find what we need, while i'll stay here and i'll try finding new plants or mixing the ones we already know. the elders won't meet again for another cycle,and even then they might think that it is not needed. i'll try to ask them to help us, but before we start, better it is. i am only asking this to you as friends, but i hope you will do what i ask. you can go now, and think about it: settlers won't travel today"
the 3 young serani, greeted the herbalist, went back to their huts, and started to plan the journey
month 1, day 1, year 1.
it has been a year since the strangers arrived, never drinking, never eating, never sleeping, never going back in the huts during the storms, they just stayed there, near the fire. but they spoke. they spoke between them, and mainly they spoke to the serani, many times. nobody called them stragers now, because only gods could be like them; now the question wasn't if they were gods or not, but if they had to be worshipped or not.
there was a meeting of all the adults left in the village, a thing never happened in the life of any serani; this time , while they still weren't close to the gods, they were around the fire, mainly because of the 3 gods that were there. the meeting was held to speak about religion: before that time they believed that there were powerful entities on this world, but only now they had proofs about them; even better, they could see and hear them. but would the other serani in the future see and hear the gods? they didn't need to move, but they probably wouldn't stay forever in that small village. this was the main topic of the meeting.
it was decided that everyone who could should make something to preserve the memory of the gods: small statues, engraved wood, painted stones. and a building to keep everything. a hut, bigger than the other ones in the village, where in the future gods could be remembered, and people could pray to them to get their help.
and the construction started, all serani united in this.
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