Londurilli

The **Londurilli** ("Wanderers") or the **First Men** are a race of humans that live at the northwestern side of the Galaxy.

## Symbols

One well-known Londurilli symbol was a blue gate around an incomplete hexagon of four stars. Below the gate are two spirals, forming like a yin-yang or a "6-9".

The gate represents the Londurilli being near the fortress ruins left behind by the Celestials and the demons. The spirals represent harmony, and the four stars represent technological advancement.

## History

The Londurilli were descendants of Assuweksas humans that boarded the Star of Erzesas and its fleet, passing through a portal to a distant planet away from the Anevondir Empire. From these 7,200 humans that settled, a network of colonies was established, culminating into the Londuril civilization.

The Pilakurum Nabenans first encountered them from a picnic that happened to wander into a Londurilli garden, mistaking it for a ruin. The Nabenan picnickers were surprised by the extremely advanced civilisation that they found, so they send diplomats to meet the Londurilli Kingdom. Both states established steady relations, although the Pilakurum mocked them as "weaker copies of ourselves".

When the Sozaril demons rampaged across the northern Galaxy, they stopped at the Londurilli. Although they were demonic spellcasters and mages, the sight of the Londurilli's advanced technology frightened the infernal hosts, allowing the human Londurilli to bombard and annihilate them with only plasma fire. In return, the Nabenans thanked the Londurilli, even bowed to their feet in gratitude.

For thousands of years, the Old Londurils grew undisturbed as they dominated the uninhabited galactic northwest, isolating their swathe of the Galaxy to avoid invasion. However, sixteen great disasters affected the Old Londuril civilisation:

* War of the Three Princes (first)
* Magahinkan Plague (second)
* Darkening of Parselia (third) - the destruction of the nation of Parselia by hundreds of solar storms and supernovas.
* Parhelia Kinslaying (fifth)
* The Great Nets (eighth) - angered by the Sky-tyrants' genocide of their own people, slave rebellions broke out all over the civilisation. It led to the defeat of the Sky-tyrants and the abolition of slavery for thousands of years. Later Second Galactic Empire
* Solar Storm of Hastaivan (seventh)
* The Crimson Tyrant (ninth) - a tyrant who committed a great genocide, until he was consumed by a Voidstorm that swept across his fleet.
* Wannerilas Invasion (tenth) - the suvokkon and other parasitical monsters invaded them from the south. Third Galactic Empire
* The Frigid War (twelfth) - the Londurilli civilisation is torn between two presidents.
* The Bloodlord's Invasion (thirteenth) - the emperor of the Fourth Galactic Empire invaded the Londurilli civilisation from the east. He was defeated.

Some of the emperors of the Novantirna civilisation were of Londurilli human descent.

During the Fifth Age, an atheistic civilisation of mages and spellcasters was among the Londurilli's most fervent allies. Together, the two civilisations waged war against many demonic tyrants and horrors from the Void.

During the Fifth Galactic Empire, the Londurilli were invaded by the Freyrgardians, who saw them as an easy target for plundering. They also had allies form an atheistic civilisation of spellcasters and mages, who aided their defences against the spacefaring Norse raiders.

The Armasols, a human civilisation during the Seventh Age, were of mixed Norse and Londurilli ancestry. They were considered among the most beautiful humans in the Galaxy, yet they were derisively known as "jewel-eyes" because of their eye colour. They were defeated and annexed into the Lysandrean Empire as subjects.

The Londurilli reestablished contact with their former homeworld on the Eighth Age, as they were invited by explorers sent by the Ecumene alliance.

During the Sixteenth Age, the Londurilli were united under three powerful states: the Kingdom of Tar'hontil in the north, the Kingdom of Anwekkor to the west, and the Tôlandan Republic to the south. The Tôlandanni were skilled hunters of monsters and demons; The Tar'hontilli were skilled craftspeople and smiths; and the Anwekkori were explorers who discovered other galaxies.

The three realms were careful in regards to their Jerdiskar relatives - they were very disappointed with the HSP of the Gauvajut Empire and the Denlotia, which they considered as a very wrong way to improve humanity. They preferred that humanity should be educated, not forced, in order to create a more ideal society.

To punish the Gauvajut Empire for the HSP, they refused to aid the last Gauvajut emperor, and they refused to intervene as his killer's armies were thrown into chaos. Only the Anwekkor aided the Little Gauvajut Empire in spite of the latter's cultural taboo, simply for being a faithful descendant of the Gauvajut civilisation. When it fell to the First Vozonid Empire, the Anwekkor evacuated many Enclavers to their homeworlds. Fifty years later, they opened relations with the First Vozonid Empire, on the condition that the Enclavers were given their own autonomous territory, which the Vozonids had to accept in order to become an ally.

According to a surviving account by Grand Vizier Durindanas Mehurilli, his people understood that the Denlotians were a people tormented by the ruin of the Third World War, but the cruelty they unleashed against everyone suspected of celebrating pain and sacrifice would only destroy themselves.

Nonetheless, they sent their warriors to defend their allies from the Terran warlords, all the way to aiding the reconstruction of the world after the ruin of the Reorganisation Wars.

The dominance of the Terrans, Konjors, and Imperial Igarins plunged the Galaxy to another age of war and ruin. This made the Londurilli kingdoms form another empire, a confederation, to defend themselves and various non-Londuril and alien subjects. Some of these subjects were elevated to kingdoms, as constituent states eligible for their own militaries.

It also reduced whatever friends the Londurilli had outside, leaving only the Malendors and the Resparins. Over time, the Resparins replaced the Malendors as their closest allies, as the Londurilli were upset that the Malendors enslaved many planets.

In modern times, the Londurilli were organised into a league of kingdoms and republics, known as the Federal Empire. It is surrounded by various allies, peoples it aided and fortified against angered raiders who denounced its refusal to expand as an empire as weakness.

## Physiology

The Londurilli looked like their Assuwelli ancestors: brown-skinned and tan, having wavy black hair and occasional bright eyes. Some Londurilli became pale due to colder climates, and other Londurilli became darker-skinned as they lived on sunnier or arid planets.

## Government

### Londurilli Empire (Sarmelonid Era)

In the early Sarmelonid Era, the Londurilli kingdoms banded together into an elective monarchy, stylised as an "empire" to make themselves imposing to the other civilisations and discourage invasions. Every few decades, the various kingdoms and republics elected one of their rulers as the Emperor of the Londurilli.

Some dynasties were considered heroic, earning them a century of rule. However, if the current monarch of the Londurilli is seen as corrupt or broke the more serious laws of the empire, he is denounced and imprisoned. The kingdoms' people's then decide whether to choose one of his relatives or sons, or elect a new dynasty.

### Londurilli Federal Empire

The modern Londurilli revived their age-old elective monarchy, styling themselves as a "Federal Empire" made of various nations. The "Empire" part was kept, again, to warn enemies from any invasions. However, they are not a real empire, because any territories they took from their enemies outside their vast realm was given over to the locals.

The locals decide whether to be a protectorate, or to have their own state, but either way, they cannot become subjects of the empire. If they choose to be protectorates, the Londurilli will aid in their own development, until they are strong and rich enough to become sovereign states. If they choose immediate independence, the Londurilli still use their vast wealth to aid their rebuilding, although how much wealth do they receive is up to any delegates chosen by the citizens. More often, the governments of these new states are the ones who send the delegates.

This, however, is seen as weakness to the other empires of the Galaxy, leading to more invasions. As a result, the protectorates and allies outside the Londurilli realm are heavily-fortified, reliant on trading networks to contact distant allies.

## Military

The Londurilli adapted their traditional culture into their newfound alien technology.

Some soldiers pilot floating disks with gun platforms, quickly swooping over foes to rain down a barrage of plasma fire. This was inspired by the chariots used by their Assuwelli ancestors. Nobles sometimes ride on larger platforms surrounded by up to four or eight gun platforms, while some gun platforms also have cannons. These flying platforms are simply known as "chariots", "Hulagantas" (pl. Hulakandes).

Some Londurilli ride on great birds, or cat-like beasts with four, sail-like ears.

Londurilli technology was derived from a mixture of Anevondir and Celestial machinery, allowing them to remain more advanced than most of the Galaxy, or almost the level of the Novantirnas and Malendors further east. Their technology also allowed them to destroy the parasitic aliens of the south, and the occasional demonic raid. That could be why the Malendors liked them, as an equal bastion of civilisation in an ever-shifting Galaxy.

## Culture

The Londurilli were an artistic culture, adapting their ancient traditions into a spacefaring, technologically-advanced lifestyle. Efficiency is among their highest moral values.

Londurilli cities and castles were known for being built on great cliffs.

In Londurilli star maps, Bulundia is a legendary kingdom of golden cities and lazy people located at the east or southeast of Londurilli space. It is also a placeholder name for a generic location.

Tea is the most common drink in the Londurilli realms, below water. Many teas are brewed from the myriads of herbs and flowers in their lush planets.

### Elixirs

Londurilli tend to take elixirs synthesised and mined from minerals. Unlike the HSP and others used on Jerde, they only need to drink the elixirs every month instead of every day or week. While the elixirs are mostly used to help them control their own attitudes, they do not make the drinkers docile or lessen their creativity. The elixirs instead made them more focused, more rational.

Without the elixirs, they can still think like normal people, but many would feel as if they are being tempted to do unethical things, or they do not have a certain "sense". Some feel frustrated without a monthly dose of "the blue tea", but they either wait or accept training themselves to be more disciplined without the elixir.

### What is a civilisation?

To Londurilli, any country with sufficient technology and ethics is a "civilisation". Even if they are the mightiest country in the Galaxy, with the latest and the deadliest machinery, without any justice or discipline, that empire cannot be a "civilisation".

Londurilli tend to favour people from "civilisations" above other nations they have relations with. They are still friendly to poorer or smaller cultures, but are known for funding rebellions against hostile colonialists. They themselves refuse to expand beyond the northwestern galaxy.

## Londurilli language

See also: Assuwelli glossary, Gauvajut glossary

### Classical Londurilli glossary

c - "ch"

* hulagandas, hulagantas (pl. hulagantes) - chariot; a flying gun platform
* -lli - (genitive)
* sappeja- - to purify
* uwancawanc, wencwanc - lightning
* waksora- - to strike down
* wednau - realm
* wetlaua - to praise
* wiwea- - to come, to arrive
* wietras - visitation

## Religion

The most popular deities in Londurilli religion include Tarhunza (Tar'hontas), Han'hena, Waksares, and Wientres.

See also: Gauvajut mythology

## Notable Londurilli people

* King Eskalbaras
* King Palamidas Tarkasnawalli
* Raundamar - an arrogant explorer and cartographer during the Thirteenth Galactic Empire
* Palagwinas - a king with a hundred knights
* Sappares and Sigwarandi - two princes of the east and west. Prince Sappares went insane after he fought against powerful demons.
* Grand Vizier Durindanas Mehurilli - an official who visited the dystopian society of the Denlotia.
* Arnugalvo - a handsome ethnic Londurilli human who serves as a knight in Anchanok.

## Diplomatic relations

### Imdegab

The Imdegabat were the second civilisation to encounter the Londurilli. At first, they mocked and dismissed the Londurilli as weaker copies of themselves for their more fragile and shorter frame, referring them even in official documents as "Little Men", "Manlings", or "Dolls".

### Malendor Supercorporation

Further in the east, the Sadravaes ancestors of the Malendors welcomed and supported the Londurilli, for being another civilisation dedicated to justice and harmony. They are sometimes called "our red brothers" (confusing the humans' brown skin for a red colour, or referring to their royal flags), or "our western brothers" for having a similar focus on harmony.

Because they were the only humans they encountered in ancient times, Sadravaes and Charvasaries civilisations depicted nearly all humans as brown-skinned and black-haired. One archaic description of them was "smaller Pilakurumat men, but with hearts as bright as lanterns".

Due to that inaccurate view, the later primitive Norse humans were wrongly assumed to be Vigefionian clones instead of humans, already disliked like other clones and manufactured creatures, such as the similar Brosaddar of old. It was later when Charvasari scientists found out that the Norse were truly from the same species as the Londurilli, not stray Vigefionians.

During Sarmelonid times, the Londurilli aided Rigara in founding the Malendor Supercorporation. However, upon finding out that the Malendors enslaved various peoples, the disappointed Londurilli favoured the newly-formed Resparin nations for their opposition to slavery.

### Jerde

Jerdiskar are known in Londurilli historical records as "the Old Men", "the Old World" or "the First World".

They eagerly welcomed expeditions from the Ecumene as allies. It was from the post-Ecumene human nations from which the Londurilli learned about Jerde, even in panicked, distorted legends and tall tales.

But the various wars and tyrannies that broke out in the Sixteenth Age made Jerdiskar more unwelcome. The Londurilli lamented that the Jerdiskar became more degraded, driven mad by hunger, death, murder, and destruction to create a coercive society.

Their only allies in the Sarmelonid Era were the Malendors, the Resparin nations, and various Norse states, the Baranorian Confederation (descendants of the Ecumene and later Jerdiskar expeditions), and a few friendly Terrans. All of them are seen as worthy equals and the last true civilisations in a chaotic Galaxy.

The Vozonids under the Sarmelonid dynasties were also an ally until Maudolinir's and Ratirminoz's actions ruined the Vozonid realm, causing the Londurilli emperors to fund rebellions to punish the Vozonid Empire. Even in modern times, the nations of the Free World continue to have friendly relations with the Londurilli realms, due to their opposition to the warmongers on the world and the Galaxy.

### Terrans

Like many civilisations throughout the Galaxy, the Terrans are seen as a curse, a demonic horde of barbarians worse than the Jerdiskar.

A few Terran states who defected or allied with the Londurilli and Malendors remained in good terms with the Londurilli. They were also favoured for sharing valuable information about the Terran hordes, to find the weaknesses in the latter's technology and social corruption.

Because the Terrans were unnerved by their unusually "nice" attitude and reliance on elixirs to avoid destructive behaviours, they referred the Londurilli as "poodles" or "elves".

## Trivia

* Like their Assuwelli ancestors and their Gauvajut relatives, the Londurilli were inspired by the Hittites and pictures of Syrian people.
* In 2022, he considered basing them on the Saracens of mediaeval European legends, as the Saracens were related to the Syrians as Arabs. He also based their technology on the science fiction machinery seen in ARK: Survival Evolved.
	+ He also noticed that from their Mesopotamian aesthetic, they may look like smaller versions of the Imdegabat, whom he based on Anunnaki aliens and Babylonians. This resulted in the Imdegabat mocking the industrious Londurilli for their shorter size, as though their similar appearance would make them mockeries of the arrogant Imdegabat.
	+ He also added their relations with the more paranoid and warlike Gauvajuts, whom the Londurilli condemned as manipulative tyrants driven mad by fear.
* In 2023, the Londurilli are depicted as a philosophical culture, influenced by their advanced civilisation (compared with contemporary cultures, even Jerdiskar) and their isolation from other galactic civilisations. So they were also based on Buddhist art and ancient China.