![]() But really they were good-hearted homins who simply harbored a love for play and trickery and a passion for adventure. These wily hedonists were smaller in stature than the other homins and their nimbleness and sleight of hand gave them a reputation for thieving. The eccentric and spirited Trykers made their home in the lake lands. To steer homins on the path to salvation they wielded weird technology capable of taking life or resurrecting it at the lift of a finger and offered great rewards for "favors" done. They were Jena's faithful disciples, that was reason enough to want to gain their favor! For Jena was the supreme goddess, the Life Giver of Atys, and the Karavan were invested with a mission to uphold homin faith in her. Over time, their natural penchant for the powerful and the lordly led them to build up a very strong relationship with the Karavan. In their craving for power, these regal lords quickly extended their dominions to the outer limits of the forest lands. The Matis settled in the forests of Atys where they soon laid down the foundations of a monarchy. Each civilization had an innate predilection for a distinct environment. These four homin peoples evolved independently into four intricate cultures which in turn developed into civilizations. And there too, Atys supported life superbly.Ītys came to be inhabited by humanoid beings known as Homins : the Matis, the Trykers, the Fyros and the Zoraïs. ![]() This never-ending labyrinth of verdant caverns and underground galleries hosted a world of its own which came to be known as the Prime Roots.Īnd reaching high up into the sky above the Bark, like a tree extending its branches towards the sun, the tendrils entwined into an immense network of interwoven Canopies. The surface of Atys soon revealed a prodigious variety of vibrant ecosystems as the swelling vegetal matter emerged from an ocean of mist into continents.īeneath the surface of each new layer of ligneous crust, a parallel bionetwork was also evolving, intricately weaved together with the mathematical grace that Nature only knows. The primeval roots were soon sprouting green tendrils into the sky, fowl were soaring on the wing, and beasts romping in the frenetic miracle of Life.Īnd still the green planet's tendrils thrived in an inexorable outward surge towards the sun forming many thousands of meters of organic strata. Seeds of existence were sown on the wind. ![]() The Life Giver then heaved the planet's crust in spasms until the first breath was wrenched from her bosom in a throbbing burst of energy. ![]() This is a brief overview and summary of major events in the history of Atys, for other various tales of the living planet and its people see The Chronicles of Atys.įar across the universe there was a great fusion of matter, and a unique world came into being.Ītys, the green planet, was born. ![]()
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