Meir
The only people of Elshore not born of it. The Meir crossed the dark in generation ships and settled the living arcology of Vaparium Place Vaparium The Sovereign Arcology of Vaparium, the Meir homeland in the south and the most technologically advanced structure on Elshore., the House of Blood, in the south. Immense, four-armed, and astonishingly long-lived, they keep to themselves, militarily neutral and bound by a morality of sanctuary.
Key traits
- Immense, elongated, alien humanoids on long digitigrade legs ending in three-part hooves; some 360 to 385 cm tall.
- Four fully functional arms in two symmetrical pairs, each hand finely articulated for precise work at scale.
- Hairless, matte skin that darkens with age, from pearl-white and ivory in youth to deep slate and basalt-blue in maturity.
- A tall, narrow skull widening toward the crown Place The Crown A newer foundry like a wide crown, a ring of tall pale spires flaring around a central stepped tower of lit decks, the broadest of the network., large dark forward-facing eyes, no external ears, and almost no nose.
- A natural lifespan of some 900 to 1,000 years; a single-sex people who reproduce through their own technology.
- A voice of low harmonic pulses and vibration, felt as much as heard; their native Waihy Language Waihy Waihy is the living language of the Meir, brought to Elshore with the Vaparium and maintained without compromise or borrowing from any planetborn tongue. cannot be fully spoken by those born on Elshore.
- Bearers of a technology beyond the old empire's, settled in the southern arcology of Vaparium and neutral by long custom.