Dunash - Revision history

Sovereign at 02:19, 30 December 2022

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Sovereign at 22:50, 8 December 2022

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Sovereign at 07:11, 3 December 2022

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Sovereign at 03:11, 24 June 2022

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Sovereign: /* Reproduction, Aging, and Death */

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Reproduction, Aging, and Death

Sovereign: /* Reproduction, Aging, and Death */

2022-06-07T09:13:15Z

Reproduction, Aging, and Death

Sovereign at 11:05, 7 January 2022

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Sovereign: /* Reproduction, Aging, and Death */

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Reproduction, Aging, and Death

Sovereign: /* Religion and Psychology */

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Religion and Psychology

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History

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	''Population:'' 91,000,000, 99% on Icheron; rare in continental Atharen.		''Population:'' 91,000,000, 99% on Icheron; rare in continental Atharen.
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		+	''Distribution:'' Icheron (the Unbreathing Horde), Kisei

	=History=		=History=

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 =Fast Facts=

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 ''Racial Ability:'' True Undeath: Unlike all other races on Atharen, the Dunash are truly immunized from the consequences of death and aging. They may have their organs cut through, their arms and legs dismembered, and may live for a thousand years; in all cases, they continue to survive. The two reliable ways to kill a Dunash are to decapitate them, or to set them on fire. Few other things can truly kill them, and many have learned to repair their bodies with [[Necromancy]].
-''Population:'' 53,000,000, 99% on Icheron; rare in continental Atharen.
+''Population:'' 91,000,000, 99% on Icheron; rare in continental Atharen.
 =History=

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 The vast majority of Dunash that existed in present-day were converted by [[Grave|Blacksworn]] into their undead state, either while alive or after being killed.
-However, Dunash can reproduce, and do so by melding themselves to a tree, field or other body of plant life. They will quite literally begin to merge their cells with the living object they are embedding into, effectively becoming one with that structure, melded with it visibly. Going into hibernation, they will emerge months later attached to a cask of flesh, one they must carefully break open. Most do so with a thin knife, cutting down the center. What emerges is... strangely, a child of their old race. They will grow as a mortal, and be converted by a [[Blacksworn]] at the age of twenty-five. Considering Dunash do not age, any child who is converted will remain a child forever. Thus, they wait until they are sufficiently mature.
+However, Dunash can reproduce, and do so by melding themselves to a tree, field or other body of plant life. They will quite literally begin to merge their cells with the living object they are embedding into, effectively becoming one with that structure, melded with it visibly. Going into hibernation, they will emerge months later attached to a cask of flesh, one they must carefully break open. Most do so with a thin knife, cutting down the center. What emerges is... strangely, a child of their old race. They will grow as a mortal, and be converted by a Blacksworn at the age of twenty-five. Considering Dunash do not age, any child who is converted will remain a child forever. Thus, they wait until they are sufficiently mature.
 This process of reproduction works by threading and converting the reproductive cells of the Dunash through the surrounding life as an incubator. Through the hormones that remain within their body, they produce both a sperm and an egg cell, effectively creating a genetic clone of themselves, though the child born will be more akin to their sibling in genetics than an identical twin.

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 Y'shendra is and has always been the Adac with providence over life. It is no surprise, then, that her favored species is one not only capable of defying death, but creating new life in strange, unconventional ways. To begin with, the Dunash do not sexually reproduce. While they are capable of reproductive behavior, fertilized zygotes within the womb of a Dunash woman will quickly be treated as a foreign aberration, culled via a forced miscarriage. Dunash men appear to be able to initially inseminate women of other species, but after a period of several months, the fetus will wither and rot, leading to an unusual miscarriage that tends to happen over days, decayed pieces of ''something'' emerging at the bottom of the woman's chamber-pot.
-The vast majority of Dunash that existed in present-day were converted by [[Blacksworn]] into their undead state, either while alive or after being killed.
+The vast majority of Dunash that existed in present-day were converted by [[Grave|Blacksworn]] into their undead state, either while alive or after being killed.
 However, Dunash can reproduce, and do so by melding themselves to a tree, field or other body of plant life. They will quite literally begin to merge their cells with the living object they are embedding into, effectively becoming one with that structure, melded with it visibly. Going into hibernation, they will emerge months later attached to a cask of flesh, one they must carefully break open. Most do so with a thin knife, cutting down the center. What emerges is... strangely, a child of their old race. They will grow as a mortal, and be converted by a [[Blacksworn]] at the age of twenty-five. Considering Dunash do not age, any child who is converted will remain a child forever. Thus, they wait until they are sufficiently mature.

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 Of course, this is the public face. There are complexities to Y'shendra's chorus of praise. Few Dunash were made willingly. Most resisted until the end, forced into their new state at the end of a pike, or within the walls of a crumbling city, beaten by siege machines constructed in the [[Bel|Infernal Plane]]. Most, when they awaken as undead, do so screaming in utter agony and terror. A majority find it woefully difficult to adapt to undead life. While most sensations remain the same, few would claim not to have experienced some degree of hollowness since their transformation.
-The sun feels less satisfying on their skin, which chars and chars their skin without the cells themselves ever dying or needing to change. They find their appearance dissatisfying after a while, seeing their features sink in as their skin becomes loose and ragged from exposure. Necromancy becomes the only method of restoring the vitality of their appearance, and many go too far. Like the [[Lich]], many Dunash experience difficulties with their identity as they change their bodies and features. They do not age linearly, but almost evolve across a horizon of strange possibilities; changing to whomever they wish to be through a Necromancer's threads. This perfect undeath yields little challenge, and little sense of true self, ironically creating much of the same conflict as those bound to Muid.
+The sun feels less satisfying on their form, which chars and chars their skin without the cells themselves ever dying or experiencing regrowth. They find their appearance dissatisfying after a while, seeing their features sink in as their skin becomes loose and ragged from exposure. Necromancy becomes the only method of restoring the vitality of their appearance, and many go too far. Like the [[Lich]], many Dunash experience difficulties with their identity as they change their bodies and features. They do not age linearly, but almost evolve across a horizon of strange possibilities; changing to whomever they wish to be through a Necromancer's threads. This perfect undeath yields little challenge, and little sense of true self, ironically creating much of the same conflict as those bound to Muid.
 Not all Dunash feel this way. Some find their undeath to be a true blessing, a catalyst for unlimited possibilities. The ability to learn and expand infinitely, to become great scholars, warriors, craftsmen and rhetoricians all in the same life. To never be bound to the shackles of an afterlife they may not wish to be a part of. Even those who do not internalize these privileges would certainly not claim to loathe Y'shendra. Nearly all Dunash adore her, even if some question whether their new life will ever suit them. Internally, over time, unrest continues to build.

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 More Dunash were made, and sent out through the [[The Barrengates|Barrengate]] of Zahn, which Y'shendra had managed to conquer from [[Valteran]]. Ten, then twenty, then thousands, they flooded through. In years they washed over the valleys locked within Icheron's desert spires, settling villages, building towns. Like with the [[Hyr'Norai]], they were taught all they needed to know to survive. From beyond the Barrengate, Y'shendra guided them, because she needed to. The first ones were not allowed to have their memories; if they could remember, they would only recall decades of gruesome experimentation, the Imprisoned Goddess toying with their forms, testing their limitations; dismantling and remaking them like bundles of wet clay. For this reason, they were made a blank slate, like children, for a time.
-Decades went on. More Dunash were incorporated; these ones through war, the undead villages filling Icheron's interior demanded to conquer the settlements of the living. Each man, woman and child they killed, they took back to their home to be reanimated by one of Y'shendra's Knights. Instilled with the power to convert both living and dead to Dunash, they offered peaceful conversions, but met denial with swift retribution. Like a plague, the undead horde washed over the eastern coast of Icheron, culling and converting millions to their order, only infants spared to be changed a later time. An entire Kingdom was filled before long with undead, and without the need to eat nor much ability to suffer fatigue, the horde continued to rapidly expand.
+Decades went on. More Dunash were incorporated; these ones through war, the undead villages filling Icheron's interior commanded to conquer the settlements of the living. Each man, woman and child they killed, they took back to their home to be reanimated by one of Y'shendra's Knights. Instilled with the power to convert both living and dead to Dunash, they offered peaceful conversions, but met denial with swift retribution. Like a plague, the undead horde washed over the eastern coast of Icheron, culling and converting millions to their order, only infants spared to be changed a later time. An entire Kingdom was filled before long with undead, and without the need to eat nor much ability to suffer fatigue, the horde continued to rapidly expand.
 Though few know the exact month or day the Dunash were plunged into Icheron, scholars of the few surviving nations estimate that they overcame the Kingdom of Samara in the Year 4588, estimated at less than three decades after their emergence. Within six more years, by the turn of the century, they had conquered more than a third of all Icheron. The Dunash forged their own Empire: The Unbreathing Horde. The Horde's capital of Y'lir-Kuznetsk was thereafter built from the ruins of Icheron's greatest city, before the birth of the Horde.