Primordials
Description
The original inhabitants of the universe, the Primordials were beings of immense size and power. They were formed of the raw, elemental and cosmological energies that roiled across the early universe. While not the same class as gods, their power rivaled that of the Weavers in their comprehension and manipulation of the material plane. When they take solid form in the material plane, it is often as fragments of their full being presented as some element of the natural energies that they are made from.
In their full form, they straddle realities and dimensions, and occupy a timeless and borderless space. While they do not age, however, they were almost completely wiped out by the Weavers during The Formational Wars. There are rumours that a few survived and retreated to remote hiding places at the edges of the universe.
Some of those survivors chose to align with the Weavers, and they were each granted a planet to shape and form. The cost, was they must sacrifice their physical form to the world, tying their spirit and energy there.Additional Information
Social Structure
Primordials are extremely solitary beings, preferring to exist in isolation. They interacted with each other when necessary to accomplish their goals, but these interactions often in conflict as often as cooperation until the existential threat of conflict with the Weavers drew them together.
Average Intelligence
The average Primordial holds within themselves the wisdom and intelligence that comes from their connection with and knowledge of the entirety of the natural forces in the universe. They are capable of complex thought, and extreme foresight, although these abilities are often overcome by their susceptibility to raw emotion informed by the elemental energies around them.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Primordials have a true name known to other Primordials in their ancient language. While this name doesn't hold any power, it is often not shared with mortals. They bear a hosts of other names they choose and offer to those outside of their kind with which they interact, and which often reflects the natural elements they represent.
Courtship Ideals
Procreation primordials involves the interaction of two disparate elemental forces, and as such their courtship often involves brief interaction of a primal nature, sometimes conflict and sometimes passion.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
Primordial is their primary language, and holds a single shared dialect amongst themselves. The elementals and other beings of primordial descent often speak the same language with varying accents and dialects.
Historical Figures
Kapheira, The Giver, the worshipped figurehead of the Flock, led a geurilla campaign against the The Saikar Coalition. She was confronted by Giraffe Punk in 2223 AD, after dealing significant damage to human institutions, structures, and people. She is a being of earthen energies.
Kikothumia, The Tidebringer, one of the other few surviving primordials in the modern era, is a water primordial who took refuge in the Hyperion system after she learned of her close friend Kapheira had gone there after her sanity began to slip.
Primordials colouration and body forms are informed by the elements that each is made of.
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