Summary
TBW.
The first beings to ever walk the world, they have become lost to time itself and are the ancestors of nearly every intelligent species in our world to date. They created humanity from a drop of their blood and grew us to be naught more than slaves. Even the most ancient of their technology is quite simply unfathomable to us. Even now we hold stories of the Golden-Eyed Butchers for good reason.
— Head of the Halls of Merlin, Avenfel Battenwood
Culture
The strongest aspect of The Firstborn's social behavior was based on two core concepts: Knowledge, and Exploration. These two defining traits are what pushed the species out across the first continent, and their forms were perfectly designed to encourage this behavior. Stubbornly spreading across environments that they had no resistance against by relying on their technology and magic. Driven by their pride, arrogance, curiosity and need for more land in order to fuel their incredible metabolism that allowed for their great genetic gifts. As such, they spread over the continent at tremendous speeds well before the Great Rupture.
Unlike their long-lived descendants that only were capable of breeding within a certain amount of time, The Firstborn entered puberty at incredibly high speeds, around the same point that humans did. Similarly, they were able to breed as often as humans, this is once more theorized to be so due to the hope that they would rapidly grow in population to enhance the speed of new species evolving from them. This is, notably, one of the few traits that humans retained from The Firstborn.
When it comes to concepts such as "gender", and "beauty", The Firstborn were completely opposite of their modern descendants. The concept of "Beauty" was nothing as it is for modern species when it came to The Firstborn. Instead, most of the species were "Sapiosexual", due to their eternal hunger for knowledge, and understanding. Individuals that held those aspects were attractive to most. This, of course, changed as the eras shifted and the species began to evolve into different requirements and preferences expanding through the millennia.
Comparatively, their concepts of genders were far more ancient and primitive. Being one of the original species created by the primordial entity, The Firstborn followed the concepts of natural laws, meaning it took one male, and one female to create life. Due to this, the concept of "Gender Identity" beyond these two roles didn't exist until the later species began to evolve, as such it was often that even if two of the same sex were mates, they often still bred with others of their species outside that circle to continue the growth of the species.
General
Alternative Names:
Betrayers
Heavens Eyes
Butchers
Starforgers
Changebringers
Origin:
Lifespan:
10,000 Years
Status :
Extinct
Average Physiology
Height: 10’8” (325 cm)
Hair: None
Eyes: Golden
Skin: Pale
Notable Traits: High variety in facial and body structure appearing like a mix of the other modern humanoid species. They have four digits on their hands and feet.
As far as clothing was concerned, from what can be guessed from fossil records, tombs, and paintings left from their great civilizations, The Firstborn generally preferred to remain nude. As a species, they generally saw no issue with showing off their bodies. Should they require protection, or wish to flaunt something they had acquired such as enchanted cloth, jewelry, and so forth, however, they would have no issue wearing them for such reasons. However, there was no sense of shame or insecurity in The Firstborn when it came to their nudity otherwise.
When it came to communication between the species, Interestingly enough, the language of The Firstborn was a unique hybrid of every language spoken today. Intriguingly, however, fossils indicate the lack of any form of normal communication materials at all in the last few eras of their known existence. As such it is theorized that the oldest of The Firstborn near the end of their eras had no need for such primitive methods of conversation and had evolved to the point of using magic casually for telepathic and empathic communication instead.