Primordial Evolution Game/Lufae

The Lufae are a tribe of geists living on the southern slopes of the great mountain range at the center of the southern continent. They lived primitive lives, fearfull of the "looming void" of the plains, hunting bladeshwirms and other small game for survival. It was only relatively recently when they rose to their current strenght, small shifts in culture and social norms resulted in the tribe starting to grow in numbers and expand. Their rise to the peak of their power however, was due to a small and secretive group of females, called the Flesh Singers. They were originally healers and primitive surgeons, but due their curiosity about the workings of the body, mostly captive swirm's, they set down on a path that changed the Lufae forever.

In the shaddows of the Lufae nation, hidden from the eyes of the public, they studied and practiced their gruesome art with religious zeal. Eventually, they found themselves with unprecedented understanding of the bodies of many living beings. However, without the introduction of a peculiar new factor, the symbiotic emils slime, the Singers would most likely remained as an obscure club for physiology enthusiasts. The emils held untold potential in it, which the singers were quick to latch on to. They studied the material for years, bred it and examined it, developing breeds with different traits and properties, in a mad quest to master this strange substance. Soon, the realized potential of the material started seeping into the daily life of the Lufae, from armor, weapons and day to day items made from hard, emils shells, to strange, poorly understood golems animated by artificial muscles based on the slime, entered the lufae society.

Their mastery and knowledge over this substance allowed the singers to become one ofthe most influental powers in the nation, perhaps even the most influental. This increase in power did not come without costs however. The singers became more factionalized, separating themselves into numerous covens specialized in certain things, and the rulers of the nation became more aware of their existence. For a time however, this "golden age" of nearly constant advancement continued. Powered by the technology of the singers, the Lufae were able to reclaim their flooded tunnel networks, develop new and powerful tools and equipment, and to grow in numbers exponentially. The Singers also developed the soundscape, a modified blung field tended by enslaved puruus, which the tribe then seeded to the plains, as the organic formations and sounds produced by the field allowed the geists to navigate the "void" of the plains better. However, there were also problems, internal strife between religious factions, catastrophes and the nearly constant threat of attack from the neighboring tribes.

Eventually this "golden age" came to a cataclysmic end. After years of conflict against invasive and hostile species, one of the singer covens developed a weapon to win against the threats assailing the tribe. Based on growing the poorly understood cedya fungi over a large emils skeleton, in order to create a supersized "titan", the sect unleashed this weapon against the enemies of the tribe, and in doing so, doomed themselves, and set forth a chain of events whose effects can still be felt by not just the Lufae, but by the neighboring tribes as well. The titan released massive quantities of spores, which quickly took root in the nutrient rich soundscape, spawning hordes upon hordes of ravenous Cedyas, which became a constant bane on the Lufae, and their neighbors. This event, and the following years of strugle against the monstorous cedyas, drew unwanted attention to the singers. The coven responsible, was quickly put to internal investigation by the singers themselves, but in doing so, they provoked a radical response from the suspects. They released one of their other titans, which wrought havoc all across the central holdings of the Lufae, and was only stopped by the combined efforts of 3 bio golems and a monstorous experimental subject. During this cataclysm, the Royal forces seized the main Lair of the singers, but they were too late to stop a large group of renegade singers from fleeing. These radicals also attracted many religious extremists from the southern holds of the Lufae, resulting in a mass exodus from their lands. These exiles where then split up, the other group ended up on the western shores of the Great chasm, and were forced to eke out an existence in the hostile Dream forests. They became the Dahao Lu. The other group ended up in the plains, where the wild soundscape grew thick. They managed to take substancial amount of resources and knowledge with them, and quickly built a new lair in where to hide. They became the Ifal Fa.

The Lufae themselves, were forever changed by the cataclysm. Much of knowledge of the singers was lost or stolen during the chaos, fighting and the subsequent trials where the Royal court judged those singers who were unable to hide or worm their way out of the heat. Efforts to reunify the tribe, were held, to some success. Many of the traditionalist shamans and wyvern riders, were adamant about refusing the blasphemous and dangerous "magics" of the singers, or at least putting a tight leash on them, so that history could not repeat itself. However, due to the immidiate benefits of their technology, and the poweful postitions many singers had managed to claim, Lufae nation eventually more or less embraced most of the technology of the singers. At the heart of the problem the Traditionalists had with the singers, was a religious question, and because of this, many of the hard liners retreated away from the heartlands of the "sinful" Lufae society, to the mountain settlement of Lupai Kaath, where the pieous could practice their faith without the taint of the mainstream society.

The modern Lufae are a nation led by the King Nahel the IInd. Much of the technology of the Singers has been adopted and modified for large scale production, and the remnants of the singers themselves are still among the nation, some are still doing their religious work by deveoping emils based tech, which they believe to be the key to understanding the "Song of Life". Some are also trying their best to reclaim knowledge that was lost during the cataclysm. However, perhaps most influentally, many of them have started preaching their own faith among the Lufae population, which glorifies their achievements and beliefs, framing them as the "Prophets of Life." Many hardlining shamans believe that the beliefs and deeds of the singers are offsetting the ballance of the "World Song, and thus, they try their best at working against the Singers. However, the majority of the population trust the words of the singers, for the proofs of their claims lay all across the Lufae lands for them to "see". Their poor understanding of technology makes much of the stuff based on the tech of the singers to be magical. Because of this, the Singers are still very much a part of Lufae nation, though they no longer share that name. No longer unified as an organization, but trough faith, the Prophets still work towards their own goals, much like their mothers did, in the past.