Moroi
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Fast Facts
Height: 5’4"-6' Males, 5’-5'8" Females
Weight: 120-180(lbs) Males, 100-150(lbs) Females
Lifespan: Adult (18 years), Elder (100 years), Deathly (120 years)
Notable Features: Horns, Glowing Golden Rings, Ivory-Gold Eyes, Red, Purple, Onyx, Peach or Pale Skin, Constellation Tattoos
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 in long journeys.
Population: 6,000 on Atharen
History
The Moroi carry with them the longest history of any known race. While the Hyr'Norai were the first people on Atharen, extensively tracing their ancestry back nearly 5000 years ago, the peoples of the Outlands can cling to stories that span much further back. It is said that the Moroi initially evolved on the planet Kornos three hundred thousand years ago, diverging from a more primitive species of horned, gremlin-like people, hunched over and crude. The more poised and intelligent products of their evolution slowly began to spread and in time, came to rule Kornos as its leading race.
Kornos was a planet primarily consumed by jungle, with occasional plains lying in-between, beautiful coasts and tall mountains. The Moroi quickly settled into the valleys of their planet at first, whichever they could find around rivers and lakes, before eventually expanding to settle the mountains themselves. Learning to build terraces on high structures, and to travel between their high peaks through complex tunnel and bridge systems, they slowly mastered their world over time. It is said by the living scholars of their race that this expansion of knowledge is what drew the Adac to them, an interstellar species of immense arcane depth. Masters over reality, formers and shapers of the environment surrounding them, some of these Adac found the Moroi home and made contact with their race.
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.
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.
The Outsider discovered their planet after cleaning up the waste of other advanced civilizations, the Adac included in that number. Many believe that pointing at its energy signature through the Megascope was what led it to discover their people, as only weeks after their first extensive study did it appear on Kornos. The result was immediate, and devastating. A peaceful, disarmed people, they were helpless to its destruction. Their magical technology was devoured, their people slaughtered by the billions, their souls harvested into the maw of the great predator. Like a force of the end-times, it cleaved through their planet, their only hope the stars beyond. Through the scope they looked back towards that one remaining signature they could find: a planet still rife with people, a landmass both large and scattered, perhaps enough that the Outsider might fail to notice it. The final measures of their voyage were put into place, and ten thousand were placed on a vessel set to explore beyond the boundaries of their galaxy.
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.
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