Moroi - Revision history

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 ''Lifespan:'' Adult (18 years), Elder (90 years), Deathly (120 years)
-''Notable Features:'' Horns, Glowing Golden Rings, Ivory-Gold Eyes, Red, Purple, Onyx, Peach or Pale Skin, Constellation Tattoos, Tails
+''Notable Features:'' Horns, Glowing Golden Rings, Purple, Red or Black Eyes, Red, Purple, Onyx, Peach or Pale Skin, Constellation Tattoos, Tails
 ''Player Restrictions:'' None

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	''Population:'' 6,000 on Atharen		''Population:'' 6,000 on Atharen
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		+	''Distribution:'' Mornoth's Mountains

	=History=		=History=

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 The Adac immediately left behind a tremendous mark. They introduced materials foreign to the planet of Kornos, and helped the Moroi build the greatest wonder of their world, the Keminalis. A massive telescope colored black and gold, the structure was capable of peering out even beyond their galaxy, staring through and beyond the dark unknown. As the Moroi learned of space, they began to understand how their own world worked. Theories blossomed, scientific concept becoming the core of their society. From the beginning, they had always loved viewing the vast beyond. It became a singular goal of their race to go as far enough as to be able to explore it. And that meant growth, and change.
-While the Adac continued to help guide their progress, at some point they began to disappear, one after the next. Their great allies in the stars went away, and so they were left to navigate their uncertain future alone. Despite this, the Moroi did well. They advanced quickly, through era and hurdle after another. Some few thousand years after Atharen had been created, they were a truly advanced race. Kornos had been converted into an Ecumenopolis (or a planetwide city) known as Byzantium. They had learned to overcome the apocalyptic hurdles that held them apart from progress, and unified as one nation. An era of prosperity overcame them, and even in the darkness of their quiet galaxy, the Moroi looked outward with promise. They had already found worlds teeming with life, and they were near enough to building a vessel capable of reaching them.
+While the Adac continued to help guide their progress, at some point they began to disappear, one after the next. Their great allies in the stars went away, and so they were left to navigate their uncertain future alone. Despite this, the Moroi did well. They advanced quickly, through era and hurdle after another. Some few thousand years after Atharen had been created, they were a truly advanced race. Kornos had been converted into an Ecumenopolis (or a planetwide city) known as Aderkai. They had learned to overcome the apocalyptic hurdles that held them apart from progress, and unified as one nation. An era of prosperity overcame them, and even in the darkness of their quiet galaxy, the Moroi looked outward with promise. They had already found worlds teeming with life, and they were near enough to building a vessel capable of reaching them.
 It was then that they began to notice something, through the eyes of the Keminalis. The Megascope as they called it had always possessed the ability to view magic through a lens that had at once helped them to understand the ethereal nature of their universe, the Moroi conceptualizing Magithermal Entropy and other arcane laws by viewing reactions and arcane waste through that lens. This lens was also how they kept track of other races: their advancement, their locations. At one point in time, they believed themselves to have found the home of the Adac, a great beacon of light within empty space, always shining brightly along the scope's peripheral no matter where they looked. As they peered more and more across the [[Outlands]], they found that more and more of these sources of energy had gone dark. Equivalently, for every lost signature of energy, one began to grow more and more. At the core of their universe burgeoned what began to appear as a force for total destruction: an adversary they began to recognize far too late.
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 Finally, the Moroi had left Kornos to explore the stars beyond - only their ancestral dream had only come at the end of their race. As the people aboard that vessel sailed through the empty skies, the population of Kornos was harvested to extinction, every last liter of arcana extracted from their grand machines, drunk like liquor by the insatiable monster they left behind.
-The vessel, its name translating to 'The Promise', landed on Tarkus not long after. Propelled by advanced magic that allowed it to fold through space, it only took a few months before they arrived at their intended destination. Not long after landing, they were met with a delegation of odd, green-colored men and women who identified themselves as the [[Krish|Krishkir]], the rulers of that world. Though curt and seemingly impolite, they declared their intentions for peaceful coexistence, and first contact appeared to go reasonably well. For a few months, the Moroi lived within their ship and in small camps they had set up outside of its boundaries. They were frequently met by a Krish scholar by the name of Kixan, who appeared deeply fascinated by their species, inquiring as to how they had managed to cross what his people called the 'Great Divide', the world they had come from, and whether or not they had emerged from some unknown corner of 'Atharen'. It was the first they had ever heard of the world, and so the two shared knowledge: of Kornos and Byzantium, of Atharen, of the Outsider that had destroyed their land.
+The vessel, its name translating to 'The Promise', landed on Tarkus not long after. Propelled by advanced magic that allowed it to fold through space, it only took a few months before they arrived at their intended destination. Not long after landing, they were met with a delegation of odd, green-colored men and women who identified themselves as the [[Krish|Krishkir]], the rulers of that world. Though curt and seemingly impolite, they declared their intentions for peaceful coexistence, and first contact appeared to go reasonably well. For a few months, the Moroi lived within their ship and in small camps they had set up outside of its boundaries. They were frequently met by a Krish scholar by the name of Kixan, who appeared deeply fascinated by their species, inquiring as to how they had managed to cross what his people called the 'Great Divide', the world they had come from, and whether or not they had emerged from some unknown corner of 'Atharen'. It was the first they had ever heard of the world, and so the two shared knowledge: of Kornos and Aderkai, of Atharen, of the Outsider that had destroyed their land.
 Kixan informed them before long that his people were terrible brutes, and he needed aide in building a megaportal so that he could guide the Moroi to safety. Using what resources they had left within their vessel, they helped to build and construct an Interplanar Portal through Kixan's [[Resonance]], one they came to power in the coming days. As the man predicted, however, his people attacked before long. They intended to eradicate the Moroi, and destroy their vessel so it did not lure the Outsider to their home. Nearly half of all of the Moroi present were killed, and the Promise was left a smoldering ruin, though with Kixan keeping true to his word. The Interplanar Portal opened, and thousands of the Moroi flooded through; the very last in their galaxy, flooding into Atharen as they were hunted and lashed by barbed flails from behind.
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 The Moroi are not typically known to be 'religious', though there are concepts akin to some sort of theism that are commonplace among them. To begin with, the Moroi have known of the Adac, or the [[Gods|Living Gods]] of Atharen for some time, and as architects and guides of their early-middle advancements, they have long admired and even revered them. It was a stunning surprise for them to learn that the land they found was the one forged by the remnants of that race, though the Adac remaining appear not to match with the ones they initially encountered.
-The Moroi would recant ancient stories of a 'Jyrak', a 'Lyxan' and a 'Masena', the three Adac who frequented Kornos and helped them to build the mega-structure of Byzantium. Extensive research into the Adac of Atharen has led them to conclude that all three of those great beings who once shepherded their race must now be dead, though with the absence of the Living Gods, none would speak to them to confirm. It is said that these Gods were responsible for the construction of the Vaults of Kornos, helping them to store knowledge and ancient technologies that would persist regardless of whatever crisis that faced them.
+The Moroi would recant ancient stories of a 'Jyrak', a 'Lyxan' and a 'Masena', the three Adac who frequented Kornos and helped them to build the mega-structure of Aderkai. Extensive research into the Adac of Atharen has led them to conclude that all three of those great beings who once shepherded their race must now be dead, though with the absence of the Living Gods, none would speak to them to confirm. It is said that these Gods were responsible for the construction of the Vaults of Kornos, helping them to store knowledge and ancient technologies that would persist regardless of whatever crisis that faced them.
 Aside from their reverence for Gods that no longer appear to live, the Moroi generally carry faith in the cosmos, believing the universe itself to be the manifestation of some greater conscious or will. It is their view that the Outsider acts as a disease within the greater cosmos, a virus that the universe has not yet learned to counteract, but one day will. This conceptualization of the universe itself as a sort of dormant, breathing entity has typically led them to consider the Adac almost as cells within that larger structure, forging creation and helping shepherd growth and vitality to the inner structures and lifeforms within.

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 ''Player Restrictions:'' None
-''Racial Ability:'' Travelers: The Moroi have an innate ability to navigate using stars and their constellations. They have an instinctive awareness of the direction of constellations relative to their own location, allowing them to always be able to determine their relative distance and direction. Because of this, they rarely become truly lost on long journeys.
+''Racial Ability:'' Travelers: The Moroi have an innate ability to navigate using stars and their constellations. They have an instinctive awareness of the direction of constellations relative to their own location, allowing them to always be able to determine their relative distance and direction. Because of this, they rarely become truly lost on long journeys. Additionally, the Moroi instinctually designate one place as their 'home', and will always know the direction they need to go to return to it.
 ''Population:'' 6,000 on Atharen

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	Moroi art is, unsurprisingly, astrological in nature. Even their writing itself is a form of astrological art, and this only expands as they paint and draw. They are known also to be skilled designers, weaving cosmological designs into the structures of their home, and their clothing. Aside from this, they are also known to be poets, with their poetry tending towards optimistic lines of thinking, though in recent decades many Moroi have written great poetry and novels around their grief; the loss of their entire world, their family and the things familiar to them. As much as braving their 'New World' brings many a form of satisfaction, nearly all Moroi still grieve deeply what was lost, and this is often seen in their art.		Moroi art is, unsurprisingly, astrological in nature. Even their writing itself is a form of astrological art, and this only expands as they paint and draw. They are known also to be skilled designers, weaving cosmological designs into the structures of their home, and their clothing. Aside from this, they are also known to be poets, with their poetry tending towards optimistic lines of thinking, though in recent decades many Moroi have written great poetry and novels around their grief; the loss of their entire world, their family and the things familiar to them. As much as braving their 'New World' brings many a form of satisfaction, nearly all Moroi still grieve deeply what was lost, and this is often seen in their art.
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		+	A common form of art is that of constellation tattoos, typically inscribed into the face or collar area of a Moroi, and usually drawn somehow in relation to their astrological-chart, though they can take from a variety of different influences. These vary greatly in size, scope and even color, and not all Moroi have them.

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 =Reproduction, Aging, and Death=
-The Moroi are largely similar to the majority of the other races on Atharen in that they reproduce between one male and one female of their species. Though not the typical norm, many Moroi appear fairly androgynous, largely due to the fact that their race naturally has a half-chromosome attached to their second (either X or Y), resulting in men with very masculine or typically feminine appearances, and women with very feminine or typically masculine appearances. Because of this, Moroi can often identify differently than with their 'biological sex', given that their chromosomes could result in a 'female' Moroi looking entirely like a man, and vice-versa.
+The Moroi are largely similar to the majority of the other races on Atharen in that they reproduce between one male and one female of their species. Though not the typical norm, many Moroi appear fairly androgynous, largely due to the fact that their race naturally has a half-chromosome attached to their second (either X or Y), resulting in males with very masculine or typically feminine appearances, and females with very feminine or typically masculine appearances. Because of this, Moroi can often identify differently than with their 'biological sex', given that their chromosomes could result in a 'female' Moroi looking entirely like a man, and vice-versa.
 The reproductive cycle of a Moroi does not differ much from a human's. Conception usually occurs within three weeks after insemination, and after roughly eight months total, a Moroi will usually give birth to one or two children. Moroi very commonly conceive twins, who are rarely identical, but can be. These twin-births tend to make up around forty percent of all Moroi pregnancies, though a Moroi who gives birth generally takes some time to recover from the pregnancy.