Panthalassans

Name: Panthalassans
Homeworld: Rayearth
Notes: An ancient species, the Panthalassans, or Pantharassans depending on dialect, were potentially the first sentient species to evolve on Rayearth hundreds of millions of years ago when the continents were one known as Pangaea. Evolving in the super ocean surrounding Pangaea, known as Panthalassa, they were humanoid enough to be easily be mistaken for humans of past and present, on both Rayearth and other worlds before and since. However, distinct from humans, Panthalassans have no issue transitioning between aquatic and atmospheric respiration.
Powerful hydrokinetics, the Panthalassans were unable to maintain a single, unified government. This is because a rogue, parasitical non-corporeal being 'cursed' the bloodline of the royal family after it was defeated and exiled from the world. Though twin births were nothing uncommon, twins born into the royal family were especially significant: one would be 'cursed' to fall into darkness, leading to the eventual resurrection of that dark being. Unfortunately, Aqua Regina, a benevolent non-corporeal being who protected the world, didn't have the power to break the 'curse' after the majority of it was used to defeat her dark counterpart.
Because of the 'curse', the Panthalassans devolved into a near constant civil war. This decimated the civilization they had built up as the two sides, one of darkness and the other of light, fought in the name of their 'gods', as, after a while, both non-corporeal being had fallen into the mythos in those roles. Their cities long fallen into ruin, their culture crumbling, the Panthalassans were easily on their way to wiping themselves off the face of the planet.
A few farther seeing Panthalassans hid themselves away and put themselves into stasis. They wanted to at least ensure the survival of their species into distant future. However, both the Kodaibito and Panthalassan presence on Rayearth was decimated with the meteorite strike that exterminated large saurian life. When humans began to evolve, while the remnants of the Kodaibito species eventually decided to move off world, the remaining Panthalassans began to merge with the human population, though some isolated populations kept the pure strain alive. Throughout time, all three groups of Panthalassans, the ones in stasis, the pureblood colonies, and the mixed descents in the human world each continue to survive into modern times. Initially suspicious of the off-worlders when the Zodiac Empire showed up on Rayearth, those that knew the truth of themselves, kept themselves concealed.
It took a modern pure blood royal Panthalassan twin birth to eventually bring the population to public attention. The 'dark' twin grew and continued the 'curse' of trying to resurrect his 'dark god'. However, with the help of others, and the somewhat re-energized Aqua Regina, he was purified and the last remnants of her dark counterpart from the past erased from existence.
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