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runewuff [2019-12-31 21:31:29 +0000 UTC]
Looks much better with a background!
I'd think twice about facing an old ozcura, because they have overcome the main flaw of their race - inexperience. Like the big fish at the bottom of the lake, they have lived long for a reason.
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runewuff [2019-10-29 06:16:54 +0000 UTC]
I thought the Ozcura lifespan was short? ...does this mean they could theoretically live a long time if they weren't neglected and sacrificed to war, poverty, and disease?
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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to runewuff [2019-11-03 23:53:10 +0000 UTC]
That and she’s a quadroon, 3/4ths Drow elf. Her father was a first generation orc/drow hybrid, If I’ve guessed right, just an experimental stud, with no purpose but to rape “Old Mothers”, like his Orc father before him, and probably a source for 90% of most Ozcura’s most consistent orcishness.
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runewuff In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2019-11-05 02:26:19 +0000 UTC]
Oy, I barely understand that... I think!
I honestly think even Shabazik has but scratched the surface of the absolute weirdness of a culture led by demons that, to solve a problem would rather selectively-breed its people, rather than develop a new technology...
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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to runewuff [2019-11-05 08:04:26 +0000 UTC]
I think the ‘demons’ originated as a purely biotech civilization that by fate or sheer bad luck wound up competing for resources, OR, more likely, they intercepted by their own constant SETI search, the terraforming computer system’s (that the humans employed) various radio wave communications. We may be dealing with professional parasites, who look for advanced civilizations and then find some way or the other to leech off of them. I’m convinced that this terraforming project took probably around half a million years, and was subsequently mostly automated and the colonists jumped forward through time through relativistic time dilation, but came out of it every 100,000 years or so to check the progress and fine tune it. I further speculate that during one of these inspections, an attempted Coup D'état for control of the colonial leadership, or some similar conspiratorial crime involving at least 100 or more individuals, was attempted and thwarted. Or maybe they didn’t commit any crimes and were just insanely impatient to start life on the surface. Regardless of the WHY, for some reason, a group of at least 100 men and women, by choice or by force, went down to the surface of Aires much earlier than planned, when it was JUST barely habitable for human life, and they went with almost nothing. They were not expected to survive. So you can imagine the other colonists’ surprise when, several hundred thousand years later, they discovered that the 100+ not only DID survive but their descendants had diversified into a dozen new hominid species and dozens of subspecies and even more races within each group.
But something ELSE had come to Aires while they were outside normal SpaceTime In dilation, an ancient race of parasites that feed off of other civilizations, either until they destroy them by using them up, or are successfully driven away. They had wandered a very long time, almost a million years since their last victims, then, at last, picked up Old Earth’s radio signals and began moving in that direction. However, as time went on, they detected a different signal from a different direction, as Aires is within 20 or so light years of earth, as I understand it, and headed in that direction. There they found a half finished new planet with miserable primitives barely surviving. Not the kind of civilization they were accustomed to, they made the most of it and helped their new hosts and slaves by accelerating their evolution so to survive better through selective breeding, which they stopped for a very long time when they had enough to serve their needs. Only when the other colonists returned did they realize they would have to fight to keep what they had stolen, so began to breed warrior races specifically suited to fighting the humans and kanov (Neanderthal clones?). Of course, I’m still not sure why new Eden fell, but Demon sabotage is a Likely contributor. They had to level the playing field.
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runewuff In reply to Touch-Not-This-Cat [2019-11-07 10:20:01 +0000 UTC]
Ummm... I barely understood the first one?
I think the demons of Aiers are a lot less "sci-fi" and a lot more "fantasy magic." A DnD Wizard might have the best shot at understanding what they are, but they might be simply so evil/corrupt it would unnerve them. (Roll Fear Check)
TBH the whole soulstone business is giving me the stupid idea they're like an evil version of steven universe gems, only without the ability to project a body, and more ability to project power (magic) XD
If I absolutely HAD to stake my ideas down where they currently are, I'd go with dimensional-beings, for whom biological existence is held in contempt as primitive, the way modern humans domesticate animals.
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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to runewuff [2019-11-07 20:57:33 +0000 UTC]
Well, the other interpretation is that this world had previously been inhabited by magical, mineral based life with a toxic atmosphere (to humans) and had to adapt when we begin to terraform it, not realizing it already had its own exotic biosphere.
Also, there are clues that they don’t actually believe themselves to be ‘demons’, in the Christian sense, not the original soul stones, and that magic-like biotech is the basis for their artificial bodies.
Still a very open question.
I’m absolutely confident about my theory for non-human hominid origins, however.
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Shabazik In reply to runewuff [2019-10-29 09:49:46 +0000 UTC]
Indeed is short! But there are some exceptions like here, on the first generations, created with demonic magic!
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larqven [2019-10-28 14:48:24 +0000 UTC]
"I look incredibly old to you, yes? In 500 years, look as well as me--you will not!" paraphrasing Yoda from "Empire Strikes Back".
Tulkhut managed to remain the king of Entartea? I don't know why, but, despite his successes, for some reason I didn't think he amounted to much other than creating ozcuras. Perhaps because he created ozcuras!
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Shabazik In reply to larqven [2019-10-28 16:03:04 +0000 UTC]
Entartea was small, i significant enough -like Dbejor as well-, lacking human or elven population, and were close to Kanovait. Because all of this, during the first war of the power, the whide axis didnt went there.
So, suddenly, tulkhut and guildarmash, who have been secondary demons ruliying over a backwater place on Polforia found themselves being some of the most powerful remaining dark kings!
The remnants of Entartea and Dbejor would be some of the most powerful ones for long, until the ascendance of the witch king!
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DeeKov [2019-10-28 08:42:39 +0000 UTC]
the old one is so badass ! ^^
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Shabazik In reply to DeeKov [2019-10-28 15:59:03 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!
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bastler [2019-10-28 06:13:13 +0000 UTC]
I think I remember that Ozcuras had dark elven blood in them.
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Shabazik In reply to bastler [2019-10-28 15:58:58 +0000 UTC]
Indeed. And here is one of the earlier examples!
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cullyferg2010 [2019-10-28 04:09:57 +0000 UTC]
Talk about a thousand kilometers of old road!
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Burksaurus [2019-10-28 03:47:17 +0000 UTC]
Nice job.
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Veteran1972 [2019-10-28 02:59:53 +0000 UTC]
Deadliest warrior on the field.
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brashieel [2019-10-28 01:24:59 +0000 UTC]
Appropriately mysterious!
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bunny75 [2019-10-28 01:09:29 +0000 UTC]
Oh my. I thought that for ozcura, "ancient" would mean anything more than 10 years ago.
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Shabazik In reply to bunny75 [2019-10-28 01:15:40 +0000 UTC]
Normally it does!
She's an exception!! :U
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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to Shabazik [2019-10-28 16:12:33 +0000 UTC]
Meaning she’s a mostly Drow prototype. Already equivalent to a 75 year old (but FIT) human at 500, she’s obviously not a pure elf, as thats about 100 years too soon, but likely her mother was. Her father was probably a half Orc.
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