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The races among the Gaians |
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While the tests with the TDHP Device have been even more impressive that I ever thought it would be, I must focus on my research for tonight. I have secure info that something is about to happen in Gaia of great importance. My personal intel may be very small and limited, but it is more effective than G.I.T. nowadays. As I write this, I feel amazed about how much this thought affects me. I feel... sad. It is like their function as an intelligence team is much less important than the persons they are; as far as I know this to be true, I never felt this way... But I guess I do now. And this terrifies me.
Gaians are fashion-seeker heart-driven shapeshifters, and this all have affected me as I stand here. Sometimes I felt like surrending to their life style, but I know the dangers of this. But this moment, stuck inside this universe, I feel even more guided by those characteristics, as they were urges. What may happen if I fail at remaining hearless... I only hope to find an solution soon.
So, on the work. My previous entry lists four distinct sources for racial variation among the Gaian species, but overall, there are two triggers for those changes: an agent or an skin. While the first alters the bio structure in a semi-permanent state, the second can be activated, as much as a regular transformation action, and remain in effect - act a racial trait - as long as the skin is active. However, while the skins are plenty around Gaia nowadays, the races generated by the agents are the most influential, numerous and prosperous around Gaia. Let us begin our study with then.
GAIANS
The original racial trait of a Gaian is compared to the most common species around infinity: the humans. They are the most numerous among the races, and they are the base for all "gaianoid" races.
ZOMBIES
The first distinct race to appear openly in Gaia, and one of the most important. There are actually three races of zombies in Gaia, but they all share the same origins and biological traits. Result of the negligence of the G-corp, the first Zombie race were as contagious and deadly than most zombies of the universe. With an infectious bite, they could turn anyone in zombies with a few attacks. After a while, this power faded and the zombies could become gaians after that... but some refused to. Eventually, all the original zombies agents expired, turning all zombies into gaians against their will. But nowadays, the agent to turn into zombies came once again to acess of regular gaians, during 2010 easter event, but this time, in a much more controlled manner: as a skin.
GROMBIES
The second type of zombies in Gaia. Coming short after the erradication of the zombies in 2005, the Grombies were caused by the bite of infected Grunnies, a ferocious green lagomorph. The gaians infected by the grunnies had three distinct stages, with the last one having a Grunny attached to the Gaian in a paraticial relation. The Grombies could be cured with the same vial that cured the Zombie condition, but many choosed to remain like this, as still some remain nowadays. There is no agent or skin that can replicated this effect, so Grombies are rare and proud veterans among the Gaian species.
GLOMBIES
The third type of zombies in Gaia appeared during an olympic event in 2008. Also called Glompies, those zombies are the most harmless of all. Infected gaians possess no hungry for brains, like the first kind of zombies, but seems devoid of warmth and/or affection, and constatly seek for living beings to hug. The Gaians can adquire the agent of this race in shops, and either drink it while alive, or apply it on dead bodies.
ZURGS
The most unique of all Gaian races have the most beautifully tragic story - an story that I lived. The zurgs are actually an alien race of the Gaia universe. Their arrival in the world of Gaia was full of mystery and cryptic messages, and while they claimed to have came in peace, it was their own kin who could not adapt into the ways of the gaians, and a logical methodic race found thenselves helpless to the power of the "feelings", making then depart for good. But, since day one, they left the first agent know by Gaia, the Zurg Drink. Even since, gaians have embraced the Zurg race, adapting into their culture while the original Zurg never could adapt into theirs. Still, the zurg way of life still lives on nowadays.
VAMPIRES
The universal legendary race also found its way into Gaia. Existing since immemorial times in Gaia's history, the vampires only revealed thenselves in 2007. While many search for peaceful lifes nowadays, the oldest and most powerful vampires seems to be responsible for all the greatest treats and disasters in Gaia. They are blood drinkers, but don't need it to live, and sun doesn't kill then, but render then rather unable.
DARK ELVES
Revealed in 2008, during an olympic event, the Dark Elves are a race of Gaians that exist in the underworld of Duren. They deal with the black market and "non-regular" deals, but ever since their public appearance, many Gaians became adepts of this magical race. They seen calm, cold and wise creatures, but their reasons to remain in darkness and criminality are as unknow as the existance of a light elf race...
ORCS
Also revealed in the olympic event of 2008, the Orcs are underground gaians that seems to live peaceful and simple lifes. They are capable and hard working, but prefer to remain out of sight for most of the time. Beside the sport event, not once the orcs made their appearances in public again. A few gaians adopted the Orcish way of life, but many actually started to behave in a more stereotypical way, acting like brute and savage warriors.
CENTAURS
Pretty much like the orcs, the Centaurs are a race of Gaians who live simple lifes and didn't show thenselves too much after the 2008 olympic event. They, however, seen to have an more active approach to their ways, as they intend to fight to protect the nature. They also seem to have some "bureaucratic" influence over Gaian society - probably related to nature and creature protection laws.
IMPS
The imps are actually many races of creatures, and some can be obtained by gaians. The most notorious are the Angel Imp and the Devil Imp, races introduced in the Olympic event of 2008. Ever since, many gaians choose to become imps and have the most angelic or demonic look they could have. There are plenty of other imp races around Gaia, like the Flower Imps and the Gimpi, and defective hybrid of Angel and Devil Imps.
SENTINEL AND OVERSEER MINIONS
With a lack of a proper term, there are two races of creature... actually three races of creatures born from the conflict in Halloween 2009, when the demigods Sentinel and Overseer raised to confront each other. Those who followed each of those gods were gifted with their powers. And while the Overseer followers became pale skin marine angel gaians, the Sentinel followers became red skin spiked devil gaians. In the end, Sentinel won the battle, and all gifted by the Overseer lost the racial power, becomings instead the Potatoseers, humanoid potatos infested with a single worm. But there was those truly faithfull to the Overseer that remained with their original gifts, without changing even nowadays...
GHOSTS
The latest race to obtain public notoriety in Gaia are... ghosts. Due to an skin, Gaians can jump the gap of life and death, and became ghost in life. With this, they gain all the abilities of a ghost, like passing through walls and becoming invisible, but they can come back to life by just removing their "ghost skins".
After all those races, there are plenty more other agents and skins around Gaia, or even combinations that lead to other races: Fauns, saurians, lycantropes, demons, angels and all sorts of antrophomorfic creatures exist around Gaia, but they exist in small numbers all around the world. A deeper research are required to understand which ones are truly large races of influence in the world of Gaia, and how their cultures distinguish from anothers among the Gaian civilization.
I have a lot of work to do until I can make this subject clear. And beside this one, there are many subjects to trace before I can define the basic lines of what Gaia truly is... I better rest for now.
 Gameplay Hero · Wed Nov 17, 2010 @ 01:29am · 0 Comments |
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