Post by Cadet S'Blen on Oct 30, 2011 9:07:21 GMT -5
Original Species
Species Name: Balorian
Home planet: Kardon II- The Second planet in the Kardon System, which features three planets, Kardon I, II and III. Kardon I is a Class A planet, rife with Volcanic Activity and unable to sustain life. Kardon II is a Class O planet, and is 80% water, and the only planet capable of sustaining life. Kardon III is a Class Y Planet, otherwise know as a Demon Planet. It is extreamly volatile, and not uncapable of sustaining any life. (Delta Quadrent)
Features & Biology: Due to the nature of their home world, the Balorians currently resemble walking fish. They have gills on either side of their necks. They are compleatly blue in colour.
They are strict vegatarians, and have the penalty for eating meat is death, weather you are live on the planet, or don't.
The average height for the male is 6'6" and the average height for the female 6'0"
They are completly bold and their eyes are all pitch black.
Talents & Beliefs: Although a scientific people, they also have a religious side and belive in a varity of Gods, howerver they have 4 main Gods: Ferox. His wife Flavia and their two sons, Caudex and Quintus. There most religious day is known as The day of Ferox. It is a day when they celebrate the creation of the world.
They have many legends and fables, and their temple walls are all adorned with tapestry that show different ones. In the temple of Caduex, is a tapestry that shows their creation myth. It goes like this:
In the beginning there was nothing and the universe was no more than blackness and chaos. But somehow, a single being known only as Ferox, managed to find his way across and thus the first being was made. Being alone in world, Ferox put himself into a thousound year coma. When the end of the thousound years came, he awoke to find another being had entered the universe. A women named Flavia. He imdiatly took her as his wife. Soon they had two sons. They were called Caduex and his brother, Quintus. As they grew, the brothers were constantly trying to outdo each other in their tricks. To begin with, Caduex created the star system that was later known as Kardon. Quintus claimed he could do better and created the 3 planets, Kardon I, II and III. Once again Caduex claimed he was the superior and he created the Balorians.
Their most famous legend though is the story of Cauis. This tapestry is the one that hangs in the Temple of Ferox. It is richly made, and is lined with their most precious materials. The Legend goes thus:
Many years after Ferox had created the world, Kardon was thriving. But soon it appeared that the Gods were becoming lazy, and as such, Balorian life was in trouble of failing, and the world of Kardon II was in danger of being destroyed. In order to prevent this, the Lord High president decided to select a champian from his personal guard. After Cauis was selected, he ws given weapons powerful enough to hurt Gods, and a shield strong enough to withstand the Gods attacks. Cauis set forth for the underwater kingdom of Hortensia, the resting place of the Gods. Once there he found that Quintus had become jelous of his family taking all the credit for the world creation, so had trapped them in a cage. After a fight, with Quintus, Cauis found a way to free the rest of the Gods, and, combining their powers, they managed to defeat Quintus.
Average lifespan: The Balorians can live to tremendous ages. The oldest age a Balorian has been to live to is 1000. It is
History of said race: The Balorians started out in the same way that humans did. As a single celled organism. As they evolved, they became more and more fish like, in order to be able to survive on Kardon. In the beginning of their race, they were know to be a violent people, and they have had many wars.
One of their most famous wars is known as the 1000 year war. This war raged between the three central cities of Balor, Ferox, Flavia and Cauis. The war becan because the leader of Cauis killed the leader of Flavia, and blamed it on the leader of Ferox, which in turn caused Ferox to start a war with Cauis, who was originally backed by Flavia, untill they learned the truth, at which point, they became independent once again. They tried to make peace with Ferox, but Ferox refused, and so bloody war rage for 1000 years. The war finally came to an end, when three young men, one from each city, Drustan from Cauis, Morcant from Flavia and Ninian from Ferox, all met to try and discuss a possible peace treaty. They were all tired of the constant fighting, and after many months of secret meetings, and negotiations, they finally managed to settle on a sutiable treaty. All that was left, was to convince the current leaders of the cities to meet so that the peace treaty could be enforced. After tricking them all into one place. Drustan, Morcant and Ninian all managed convinve the elders that it was possible for the cities to work together, useing themselves as examples. After a while, the leaders saw sense, and the war came to an end.
Since that day, not a single war has emeraged again, and the peoples of Kardon II have all managed to uphold their ends of the peace treaty.
Misc.:
- When underwater they tend to wear little to no clothing. When on what little land there is males tend to don trousers and shoes. Usually they won't wear a shirt. Females tend to wear the same, however they will wear a shirt.
- They have a democracy, and a leader is elected every 20 years.
- Their main language is Balorian, which sounds exactly similar to the the speech of Dolphins, although they do speak English.
- Their leader is called the Lord High President.
