Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170903174256

Merians, just like the Rin, have plenty of off shoots and sub species from their original founding. Although unlike the Rin the Merians have really not attempted to bring any of these races into the greater fold instead treating them as separate races entirely and for certain breeds either exiles or enemies.

The Merians main trait is the red skin and special facial markings/features they bear marking most of their sub species either have or are slightly altered. Now the Merians themselves both are known and call themselves 'Pure Bloods' who either ignore or rule over the subspecies in question. Now for the major sub species:

- the Nektans are by far the oldest sub species who arose in the earliest days of Merian culture. While the Merians lived upon the fertile plains and river valleys the Nektans lived in the vast deserts and mountains of their homeworld. It is because of this they became a rugged and warrior people who throughout their history have warred with their Merian cousins. Long ago during the Merians 'Age of Unification' the Nektans where driven from their homeworld and cast out across the stars for eons during the 'Time of Exodus' they searched for a world to call their own eventually finding the world now known as 'Amenti' from Amenti they began to build a Empire of their own expanded far and wide and enslaving all those they saw as below them. It was thousands of years later that the Nektans and Merians met once again and the 'Wars of Wrath' started this time on a galactic scale.

- the 'Tainted' are a mutated and slave caste of almost all Merian Empire across the universe. They descend from lost colonist trapped upon the radiated world of 'Pharo' from here their bodies where twisted and shaped into the forms they are today. They tend to be brute warriors or menial laborers or rather low intellect and high muscle mass. They tend to take the form of shock troops or body guards upon the field of battle.

- the 'Devolved' are a ancient cult/empire made up of a large proportion of the Merian psychics. Due to the nature of both the Merians and their psychics they are treated as outcasts and in most cases are left to die at birth within the vast deserts most Merians call home. Long ago a group of these outcasts survived in the mountains collecting the children and raising them as their own. They eventually spread far out among the stars making a Empire of their own one dedicated to ritual, dogma, and the sacrifice of other psychics. Now they also collect psychics to raise as their own and expand their ranks those that are sacrificed tend to be older psychics 'beyond redemption' who's only purpose is to be offered to the Gods. It is because of this the Devolved tend to be rather feared throughout the universe as well as constantly being attacked and attacking. Most Devolved are simply called 'witches' by the universe at large. 