Behind Kalahya: A Brief Account of the Incorporeal Fellowship
We’ve been exploring the people and places behind our upcoming novel, pictured below.
We’re hoping to whet your appetite, and introduce you to the mythology surrounding our heroes and villains, as well as define some of the unique language and terms specific to this universe.
Of course we also want to entertain, too.
Our next series of blogs/notes/entries are going to be about The Incorporeal Fellowship, a universal-wide effort to bring about stability and balance. We’re going to explain the fellowship’s history, the dark ages that proceeded it, how mutations came about, and the heroes that formed it. We’ll provide small doses so it’s digestible and easy to follow. This history comes from the Corpus Galacticum, a compendium of historical facts, accounts of unprecedented events, political stratagems, social and spiritual standards, and profiles of those who have made significant contributions to the known universe. These writings in the Corpus Galacticum are attributed to historians, astronomers, clerics, scientists, and also contain excerpts from the Galactic Ethical Conclave and the Annals of Inquiry.
If you’re just joining us, or want to remind yourself what our space opera is all about, we introduced the foundations and concepts of what led us to this story here. We also shared some ancient mythology from this universe here and here. We even had David, a pro VO artist, record himself reading the scrolls, and we put some video to it here and here. (part III still to come). We introduced the main characters here.
And now we introduce:
The Incorporeal Fellowship
A Brief Account by Master Historian
Jahrahr Tuhlkeen
INCEPTION
Leading up to the final century of the 9th millennium BTE (Before Talderon Era), violence and chaos ruled most civilizations in the galaxies. The universe had barely survived the six hundred-year Ethnopecuniary Wars, during which enemies and allies became all but indistinguishable from one another. Alliances were established on the basis of immediate necessity, not on long-term benefits of mutual importance. Today’s foe was tomorrow’s ally. As violence, corruption and abuse spread from planet to planet and galaxy to galaxy, chaos reigned throughout the known civilizations.
Chaos ruled for hundreds upon hundreds of years.
Many accounts of this dark period in history have vanished, negating our ability to pen the details for posterity. All that remains are the remnants of the destruction, whispers of what was witnessed, and validations of events too terrible to disremember.
What is known is that entire planets fell under the control of despotic rulers or invaders, bent on plundering whatever minerals and commodities that particular world produced in meaningful quantity. The inhabitants of the occupied planets were typically enslaved and worked to death. Slavery served to keep the conquered from forming meaningful opposition to those in control and, as the death toll mounted, it reduced the number of possible mutineers that might come forth to threaten their authority.
War and slavery were de rigueur
In desperation, vast numbers of species began to migrate to other planetary systems, and even distant galaxies. This period in intergalactic history became known as ‘The Age of Anarchic Disarray”.
As new civilizations began to appear in far flung corners of the universe, the effects of previously unknown phenomena began to produce innumerable mutations. Most of these mutations were fatal, and resulted in the annihilation of millions of species, sometimes entire planets. But a limited number of beings not only survived the effects, but did, in fact, gain significantly in physical strength, size, and mental abilities.
Tarseus Prime, a mid-size planet in the Parathakan system, became an unlikely ray of hope for the countless civilizations that were systematically tearing themselves apart.
Due to a fortuitous combination of cosmic and genealogical events, Tarseus Prime, along with other more obscure planets and systems, began to produce an inordinate amount of mutations during the last century of the 9th millennium, leading up to what became known as the Talderon Era (TE).
EMERGENCE OF MINDERS
Two beings, Daalakaal Shawnde and Moderlan Flath, transmutants with extensive mental superiority and stability, arose on Terseus Prime. They perceived each other’s existence, and resolved to meet to discuss how best to use their extraordinary abilities to bring an end to the universal chaos.
It soon became evident to both that they could vastly expand their mental powers through a series of challenges they designed themselves, resulting in highly enhanced abilities, one of which was teleportation. Their subsequent explorations led them to discover the existence of others with unique abilities, not quite to the level they themselves possessed, but significantly sophisticated. These mutants were scattered among assorted systems throughout the universe.
As Daalakaal’s and Moderlan’s abilities to enter and influence the minds of most species in the universe expanded, they comprehended the exclusivity of their own transmutation, and the mutations of other beings with analogous mental aptitudes. As such, they understood the need to classify and declare a new species that would best describe the entire grouping of superior mental mutations. Thus, the term Minder was born.
Gene mutations led to a new classification of species
*photo from bebee.com
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