..Turn
three? ;---;
So uh.. Can anyone gimmee a synopsis and how little Limmy can fit in?
We're ignoring the gods for the creation game - Divineborn deities are prohibited from revealing themselves by Serenity, and Mortalborn deities will be retroactively written into the history once the Creation phase is over.
As for what's happened so far, we made some termite people (the Minla). They form hives with work divided among a number of physical castes, roughly divided into Workers, Warriors, and one Mother-Queen. They're very hierarchical in the way they think, and communicate naturally through simple telepathy, pheremones/scents, and dancing/gesturing. They're extremely adaptable, leading to great genetic diversity, including a mutation that gives some of them a light-focusing lens organ on their backs which lets them focus sunlight as a simple laser.
The Momhu were also created, as vast floating beings that can shift between dimensions and can feed on energy as well as matter, and are found grazing throughout the Worldmachine.
Once placed into creation, they developed a religious/spiritual practice centred around consuming their dead, which supposedly allows their souls passage to the afterlife ("The Great Hive"), which developed a simple international hierarchy with a number of different types of priest. This spiritual tradition quickly got out of control as many Minla decided that they should consume not just their dead, but *everything* in order to send it on to the Great Hive. A cataclysmic period of hostility between these heretical Minla and those following the orthodox form of the religion saw the all-consuming heretics win by sheer numbers. Minla civilisation was still very undeveloped at this point (they were basically the giant psychic termite equivalent of cavemen), so this conflict and the unsustainability of the all-consuming heresy damaged Minla civilisation considerably.
After some time the Minla had stripped large swathes of the Cradle bare, and were dwindling in number. However migrating Momhu brought the seeds of a foreign ecosystem from elsewhere in the Worldmachine, accidentally reseeding these barren lands with alien fauna and flora. Some Minla formed new hives in these areas, and came to worship the Momhu and abandoned the practice of eating everything. One of these Hives discovered the effects of Pillar Ink, which allowed them to make a caste of magically superintelligent, subservient scholars. These scholars discovered the Five Magics and encoded its principles in the first system of writing, allowing it to be taught to the Hive as a whole. Said Hive is now the most successful and most powerful Hive by far, having easily defeated its fellow Momhu worshippers in a recent war, and the remaining all-consuming fanatics dwindling in number as they obsessively denude the lands around them.
