Exalted: Texts

On the Aquatic races in the Merido Trench [fragment]
From the diaries of Daimyo Merido Hayabusa Kabutomushi, given to Tokumei by V'Neef Tokel in Riven when they met."[...] 'One thing is clear - these creatures exhibit a uniformity of both shape and behaviour that indicates they should be set aside from usual pelagothropic organisms. According to what we know of Wyld Ecology pelagothropes caused by exposure to the Wyld are typically chimaera created individually and with such varied genetic and physiological differences as to no longer be capable of fertile hybridization long enough to develop into a species. [a footnote mentions exceptions including the siaka-men of Luthe and seal-people of the far north]""This leads me to believe that these are in fact remnants of one of the aquatic Pelagial races of antiquity that have somehow persisted to the current era. There are two such candidates that this might be. Either these are the remnants of the so-called Niobraran League, which were as far as we know exterminated wholesale by the Solar Deliberative at some middle point of their reign, or the so-called 'Sea People' they engineered to carry said extermination out. I am disinclined to believe the latter - as certain recurring mutations in the local population and our limited contact with the Sea People of the open ocean would indicate, the Sea People are more fishlike than crustacean. But if these pelagials are indeed survivors of the Niobraran League, what then? Could there be whole colonies of these creatures out there in the ocean? Are they still guided by the Voice in the Trench or others of the Cetacean Race? My own studies of the latter based on the remains at Lathe sadly proved inconclusive, and texts of the time that have survived are scarce. Those texts we do have reference other, more definitive works of scholars at the time such as Apollyon, Suzerain and Brahe that, if any copies still exist, must lie somewhere in the ruins of Njorlona. And there they must remain, for despite our eternal vigil over the ruins of Njorlona we no longer have the means to explore below the surface, and gods and the divine Shogun willing nothing that might still dwell in that forsaken place shall ever make its way to the surface.'"[The remainder of the text is unrelated essays and other letters]

The Death Poetic
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