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| Ethereal Looks and Transient Vibes |
Destiny's Awoken always seemed like a concept that lost a little bit of something in its transition from concept to in-game. In-game, they just seemed like blue people to me. They didn't have the mystic and otherworldly look that their original art had. They lost the "otherness" in their look. Their lore is quite interesting, but I can't help but lament how their design changed to look in-game.
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| Look! It's...just a blue person |
The Heirs to Humanity
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| Warden Heirs are a rarity |
The Heirs are an species of psychic posthumans who live amongst the ruins of the Asteroid Belt. More than mere MES afflicted humans, they are natural fonts of meta-dimensional energies. Their stark blue-white skin has an ethereal almost luminescent quality to it. Their eyes are perfectly white pits that see beyond where we cannot. Their hair is so white as to practically shine and moves in wind that is not our own. Perhaps this is the same cosmic wind that allows them to effortlessly defy gravity and pass through the air, paying no heed to the rules of our reality.
The Heirs are living multidimensional anomalies and despite being an offshoot of humanity, their forms only have notional similarities to that of the human form. They require food, air, and water. They can become fatigued and require rest, or be injured and bleed. This is all because they are beings that still have a notion of humanity. The concept is potent enough to tie and direct the flow of their energies to the form and limitations of human flesh. They are self-defining in a sense.
Their exact origins are a mystery but what is known is this: they were once something greater and are now something lesser. For the Heirs are a stagnant species. Not that their population doesn't ebb and flow, but rather that all the Heirs that will ever be have been. Aside from those made in the lost events of the End, no new Heirs will ever be created. This is because Heirs are not born. They arrive. From eruptions and gusts of pure meta-dimensional energies, they are incarnated in our reality. Unchanging and mature, fully mentally developed but with feelings of having traveled long and far. Heirs are perhaps incapable of fully understanding exactly why, but they are all too aware that they feel restrained in their current existence. Like a prisoner who has forgotten what the skies themselves look like, they know they have gone away from something incredible but cannot find the words to describe its wonder.
The Heirs are living multidimensional anomalies and despite being an offshoot of humanity, their forms only have notional similarities to that of the human form. They require food, air, and water. They can become fatigued and require rest, or be injured and bleed. This is all because they are beings that still have a notion of humanity. The concept is potent enough to tie and direct the flow of their energies to the form and limitations of human flesh. They are self-defining in a sense.
Their exact origins are a mystery but what is known is this: they were once something greater and are now something lesser. For the Heirs are a stagnant species. Not that their population doesn't ebb and flow, but rather that all the Heirs that will ever be have been. Aside from those made in the lost events of the End, no new Heirs will ever be created. This is because Heirs are not born. They arrive. From eruptions and gusts of pure meta-dimensional energies, they are incarnated in our reality. Unchanging and mature, fully mentally developed but with feelings of having traveled long and far. Heirs are perhaps incapable of fully understanding exactly why, but they are all too aware that they feel restrained in their current existence. Like a prisoner who has forgotten what the skies themselves look like, they know they have gone away from something incredible but cannot find the words to describe its wonder.
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| Did I mention that I love the environmental art too? |
On the Verge
Mankind took full advantage of the Asteroid Belt during the Prosperity Era. Massive mining operations were launched to full the construction of orbital infrastructure for the planets and moons during the waves of human colonization. Hulking colony ships, massive orbital rings, numerous cylinder stations, mighty Mandate fleets, and more were created during this time. During the End, it was all turned to ruin and wreckage. Unable to flee the system or weather the storm, destruction swept through the system. It is among these corpses of mankind's mightiest machines and structures that the Heirs have created the impossible cities of their domain, the Verge.
Distant and aloof from the Redoubt and the BLACK SUN, the Heirs of the Verge are ruled totally by the Twin Kings, two arch-psions who founded the Verge and have weathered the trials of many centuries. While not cruel, they are quite used to having their way and would like to maintain the current way of things.
Not all Heirs live in the Verge, however. No small amount made their way to Earth and now reside in the Redoubt. These "grounded" Heirs are more in touch with the human side of their existence due to being away from their impossible cities and musings of higher existences.
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| Through the Verge |
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