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 After the Sundering, everything changed. A lot of the lesser Endir were hurt and damaged by the mess, even more were rushing around constantly trying to help their Master fix the gaps in Nod. To these lesser Endir, it was an all hands on deck kind of situation. One of the most important jobs for the lesser Endir was corraling the sleeping minds of the mortals, making sure they didn't slip through the holes and cracks and out into the Aetherium Sea.
-They worked hard, and eventually, things were fixed enough that it wasn't a constant struggle for survival and the mortals were given a chance to slowly start rebuilding. Things calmed down enough that some of the lesser Endir were able to start playing with the dreamers again. But something had changed, a piece of Ransera was intrinsically different. What used to be harmless playing clung to these lesser Endir. Their bodies, their forms, their very existence began to shift and shiver. Writhing and changing. They stopped being Endir, the sleeping mind of mortals all over the world poking and prodding and changing the very core of their existence.
+They worked hard, and eventually, things were fixed enough that it wasn't a constant struggle for survival and the mortals were given a chance to slowly start rebuilding. Things calmed down enough that some of the lesser Endir were able to start playing with the dreamers again. But something had changed, a piece of Atharen was intrinsically different. What used to be harmless playing clung to these lesser Endir. Their bodies, their forms, their very existence began to shift and shiver. Writhing and changing. They stopped being Endir, the sleeping mind of mortals all over the world poking and prodding and changing the very core of their existence.
 The interesting thing about Gemlings is that they're the one mortal race that wasn't made by some kind of God or a direct result of the Sundering giving a soul to something that already existed, like the Awoken. The Gemlings were created by the mortal races themselves.
-The Endir who didn't change saw these new creatures, creatures who looked themselves over with poorly hidden glee. They saw these creatures jubilantly and childishly speak to one another, dubbing themselves the Gemlings, and they decided that the Gemlings needed to leave. They couldn't stay in the Land of Nod anymore. They were mortal now, it wouldn't be safe for them. they needed to exist with other mortal races. To exist in a place where they could properly find sustenance for their bodies and exist in Ransera.
+The Endir who didn't change saw these new creatures, creatures who looked themselves over with poorly hidden glee. They saw these creatures jubilantly and childishly speak to one another, dubbing themselves the Gemlings, and they decided that the Gemlings needed to leave. They couldn't stay in the Land of Nod anymore. They were mortal now, it wouldn't be safe for them. they needed to exist with other mortal races. To exist in a place where they could properly find sustenance for their bodies and exist in Atharen.
-The Endir who did not change (carefully) cast the Gemlings from the Land of Nod and straight to Ransera. They were careful to ensure that the... rather odd was the Gemlings were sent to Ransera wouldn't damage them. Odd was perhaps putting it a bit lightly.
+The Endir who did not change (carefully) cast the Gemlings from the Land of Nod and straight to Atharen. They were careful to ensure that the... rather odd was the Gemlings were sent to Atharen wouldn't damage them. Odd was perhaps putting it a bit lightly.
 For the mortal races who didn't know what was going on, the appearance of the Gemlings came as a very potent shock. The Gemlings were cast down from the sky, due to a minor miscalculation on the part of the Endir sending the Gemlings. They plummeted to earth, the impact luckily being mitigated to something nonlethal by the Endir. The mortal races thought that the first couple Gemlings were shooting stars that had fallen down to the earth. They sought far and wide for these fallen stars, thinking them to be valuable treasures that could be used or sold. What they found were the Gemlings, curiously expecting their new environment with unparalleled joy.
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 ===Mystique and Legend===
-Thanks to the nature of their arrival on Ransera, a lot of the mortal races initially thought they to be a number of different things. The theories ranged from good luck or the messenger of the various gods the people of Ransera believed in. There were thought who captured the Gemlings with the intention of selling them or abusing them for a profit. They looked like Gemstones, perhaps they could be sold like them.
+Thanks to the nature of their arrival on Atharen, a lot of the mortal races initially thought they to be a number of different things. The theories ranged from good luck or the messenger of the various gods the people of Atharen believed in. There were thought who captured the Gemlings with the intention of selling them or abusing them for a profit. They looked like Gemstones, perhaps they could be sold like them.
 The Gemlings who were captured proved to be hard to keep in a single place for too long though. They showed an adept ability for sneaking out of the sight of their captors. While those who were vigilant could probably hang on to a Gemling, the child-like nature of the Gemlings came with the child-like ability to disappear at random intervals. That didn't stop the underground market from selling Gemlings or killing them to make jewelry out of their body parts, but it did put a hamper on things.
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 Technically speaking, gemlings don't have mouths. Their bodies are perfectly crafted gem sculptures of what someone imagined a person to look like without any defining features. They have two little dots where their eyes and ears are supposed to be. While these areas function for collecting sensory details, the actual collection of sensory details happens on a level of sensing aetherium. Gemlings are typically born with a natural (but very weak) level of semblance so to speak. One that can't sense auras but they can use it to pick up on things like sounds, scents, and what the world around them looks like. It can roughly be equated to the senses of a normal human sent through a dreamy kind of filter that would make anyone else think something was vaguely off if they switched bodies with a gemling for a day, but they wouldn't be able to pinpoint why.
-Because they don't have many of the biological functions of a normal creature (breathing, a circulatory system, a digestive system), many people assume gemlings don't eat. This is false. One of the things a gemling must do in order to survive is to be able to 'eat' as this is the process through which they can build their body to make new shards to shed. Gemlings don't eat traditionally though. Instead, they have a little hole in their abdomen. This hole is covered by something of a 'plate' which is a thick plate of gemstones that the gemling can intentionally move up or down to cover the hole. 'Food' is placed into the hole and the gemling slowly breaks it down on a level that science in Ransera currently can't explain. The nutrients are then used or stored to make more gemstone for the gemling's body.
+Because they don't have many of the biological functions of a normal creature (breathing, a circulatory system, a digestive system), many people assume gemlings don't eat. This is false. One of the things a gemling must do in order to survive is to be able to 'eat' as this is the process through which they can build their body to make new shards to shed. Gemlings don't eat traditionally though. Instead, they have a little hole in their abdomen. This hole is covered by something of a 'plate' which is a thick plate of gemstones that the gemling can intentionally move up or down to cover the hole. 'Food' is placed into the hole and the gemling slowly breaks it down on a level that science in Atharen currently can't explain. The nutrients are then used or stored to make more gemstone for the gemling's body.
 A gemling that isn't being fed properly will become noticeably skinnier. They may also start to turn colors that aren't normal to their type of gemstone. This is usually the result of a gemling eating too much 'human food' they might not have the appropriate nutritional values the gemling needs to make new gems. In this case, supplementing their diet with their native gemstone or various elemental components of it can restore the gemling to a healthy state.
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 ===Kindly Curiosity===
-Technically not being from Ransera, gemlings often don't know how the world around them works. Because of this, they're often extremely curious about seemingly normal aspects of life. While their curiosity can often lead younger and less experienced gemlings towards danger, most don't seem to care. They embrace adventure and curiosity openly.
+Technically not being from Atharen, gemlings often don't know how the world around them works. Because of this, they're often extremely curious about seemingly normal aspects of life. While their curiosity can often lead younger and less experienced gemlings towards danger, most don't seem to care. They embrace adventure and curiosity openly.
 Some people have described the gemlings to bear a striking resemblance to crows. By all means, they're bright, but not that bright. For example, a gemling understand that there is an economy and roughly knows what it is. They understand the fact that most things in life require currency to be exchanged for goods. The fine details like how much things cost tend to get lost in translation though. A gemling might attempt to participate by trying to give you 10df, but the taco you're trying to sell is most definitely more than 10df. The gemling will not understand this. They will simply understand that the taco costs money and they have 10df, therefore they can exchange it for the taco. This applies to many other things too, like taking trinkets when they adventure and leaving something of 'equal value' behind.
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 ===Child-Like===
-Gemlings have exceptionally short lifespans compared to a lot of the other races on Ransera. Some of the longer lives races might even have the opportunity to befriend 10s of generations of gemlings all stemming from the single gemling they met as a child. This short lifespan, unfortunately, leads the gemlings to be childish for most of their lives. Compare that with their relative newness to the world and the fact they don't mature quicker than other races, and you've got a recipe for a species that remains in a perpetually child-like state.
+Gemlings have exceptionally short lifespans compared to a lot of the other races on Atharen. Some of the longer lives races might even have the opportunity to befriend 10s of generations of gemlings all stemming from the single gemling they met as a child. This short lifespan, unfortunately, leads the gemlings to be childish for most of their lives. Compare that with their relative newness to the world and the fact they don't mature quicker than other races, and you've got a recipe for a species that remains in a perpetually child-like state.
 Make no mistake though, this is neither a good nor a bad thing. While gemlings do possess a good number of negative traits associated with children, it also means they possess a lot of the positive traits associated with them. One of the things people often tend to mention with gemlings, for better and for worse, is their overall lack of a filter. Just like with children though, it's possible to stumble upon a gemling that acts noticeably more mature than other gemlings might.

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