Civilizations Overview

     The people of Atys are known as homins. The four homin races (the Fyros, the Matis, the Tryker and the Zorai) each came into the world with a particular role in the conservation of Atys sown into their genetic composition. They have hence structured their civilizations with their innate territorial preference.

Mythology

     The homins lived on an impoverished planet until the Great Dragon, the prince of darkness, seduced them with visions of crystal waters and a land of plenty. After leading them to Atys, the Dragon endeavored to extinguish the sunlight there and in the cold and dark reduce the homins to slavery. But Jena, Goddess of the sun, creator of Atys, got wind of the Dragon’s plans and filled his body with eternal fire to prevent him from breathing cold and extinguishing the living light. The Goddess then conjured the light anew, provoking the Green Rising, so that the homins could again live in harmony in a bountiful world.

     Jena sent her disciples, the Karavan Guardians, to establish the homins in different parts of the planet so that each race would have a role in its conservation. Ever since, faithful homins have learned to express their gratitude in worship to Jena and with offerings via her disciples. As for the Dragon, he took refuge in the dark bowels of Atys where he now slumbers. The homins are forbidden to descend underground into the Prime Roots in quest of the Dragon’s lair for fear of stirring its wrath.

Prophecy

     Before the Great Dragon dies he will rise again to expulse all the fire from his body so causing the end of Atys. Those remaining faithful to the teachings of Jena and residing on the surface of Atys shall be rescued and shepherded to a new world of plenty.

Factions

     The major Atysian forces, the Kami and the Karavan, are at the very least held in awe if not venerated by homins. They possess intimate knowledge of the world at large as far back as creation and constitute an authority on the arts of magic or technology.

     The heedful homin will be aware that the individual's relationship with these superior beings will one way or another have a direct impact on her or his future. Other minor forces include the tribes of dissident homins and the inferior primates which are by no means to be underestimated.