Vondunke/History

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For the **Vondunke** it all began around the **Çūdren Winds**. Eruptions of superheated elements from the planets crust and mantel into the unspeakably cold seas above, better known as Hydrothermal Vents. Such places as the Çūdren Winds were the only hospitable ones to found on the frozen world of **Arçælo**, a large moon to an even larger gas giant named **Glanorth**. The surface of Arçælo was bitter cold and totally barren, heated only by the faint and dim light which reached it from Glanorth's orbital parent. The small, red, sun of **Vorfare**.

During the early solar expansion period a war broke out among the dominant factions over supremacy called the **Werewolf Wars**, named after the use of genetically altered soldiers dubbed "Werewolves".

# Legacy

This section is all canonical if you can decipher it but I am reworking it into one piece of focused lore, not an exhaustive account.

The now mighty race of the **Vondunke** began as a rather primitive aquatic species in the dark abyss of Arçælo’s oceans. Preying on smaller fish and large bacterial colonies in the ecology of the deep sea, built around the hydro-thermic vents known as the .

Arçælo’s was a large moon of Glanorth, bound in ice which incubated it's subsurface oceans. But as Glanorth's migrated into the inner Vorfare system, the dim red sun began to thaw Arçælo’s ice resulting in the world's first spring. Glanorth's magnetosphere worked to protect Arçælo from Vorfare's most intense radiation permitting life to climb to the surface.

The Vondunke basic social unit is a pod type as they lived a semi nomadic life. They found themselves well accustomed to both the abyss and shallower waters while most other creatures remained locked to the deep. The first tools used by the Vondunke are bones from long fish like creatures commonly which would double as a quick bite for the Vondunke. They found that they could beach themselves on large Ice bergs for extended periods of time and developed technology allowing them to become amphibious.

They initially were divided into two castes: The **Drones** and the **Function**. The Drones specialized in physical manual labor. The smaller of these could be hunters while the larger would be designated warriors. The Vondunke physiology had nerve pockets that served as kind of memory clusters that could be opened and closed to alter the function of the brain hence the name of the second caste. Members of the Function with larger pockets would be designated to record history, lore, and sciences. These were termed as scribes and were known collectively as the Tome.

## History

The very first traces of the Vondunke species can be traced back to the Çūdren Winds ("Luϑov Çūdren") Hydrothermic Vents just south of the Equator near modern day P.A. 623,009. The species dominated the white abyss ecology as a secondary predator through intelligence and advanced coordination with other Vondunke. Their only other real competitor was the another race of Içvolen the Siedunke. In P.A. 273,520 Arçælo experienced its first total thaw near the Equator. Microbial life quickly adapted to the new environments and spread all the way to the Surface before it refroze. After only 500 years a new ecosystem was born and Arçælo finally exited its Ice Age. Larger and larger life emerged towards the surface until it was able to support species as large as the Vondunke. It was around this time that the oldest existing lore of civilization dates to.

P.A. 270,765 brought around the first Vondunke nation, a coalition between the Mavara and Noyamo tribes called the Apoç Choke (The Ancient Accord). The Choke-State established the Փolkoth mythos descended from earlier legendary tales, they are responsible for the birth of call hunting and invented the first grasp from the exotendons of several fish species. Apoç Choke found its demise in the P.A. 270,601 when the tribes were driven off and dispersed by the great Çakona tribe who innovated and adopted many of the Apoçorh cultural and technological aspects. It is unclear whether the Çakona invented or integrated Algal Channel Farming in either case they were the first example of its widespread use. Algal Channel Farming is the construction of large organic waste piles used to grow vast blankets of edible algae. The Çakona P.A. 270,701 fully applied this way of life soon after allying with several surrounding Vondunke hunter groups eventually causing a conflict with the Apoç Choke, leading to the grasp skirmishes culminating in the 2nd Causeway Battle of 270,603 with a decisive Çakona victory collapsing and partially integrating the Mavara and Noyamo tribes.

Several Channel Farming groups called the Panala formed during the P.A. 270,600s and 270,500s until the arrival of an old Vondunke predator, The Krakkens. The Çakona and other Panala groups were dispersed across the Equator and into the more temperate Stratus regions. As Arçælo warmed several areas in the temperate bands carried atop the surface of the oceans swathes of ice bergs called Shtrathio or Strati, these bergs developed unique wildlife populations around them become subsystem's of the larger Ocean Ecosystem. Several clans in the southern Stratus banded together forming the Kalūtrona Choke in P.A. 270,494-493. Competition with the Siedunke increased specialization among several of its clans and Berg Farming was invented some time in the 480s. To the north came the invention of the Spike a precursor to the Dagger and Lance, the spike was most successfully used amongst the Çvananū clans part of the old Trathakor. One member of this sub-race was Dravath a half mythical character reported to have avenged his dead fiancé single handedly killing both a Krakken and a Vraven.

The Kalūtrona Choke by P.A. 270,449 was rivaled by the Çvotho Choke, born from earlier competing tribes. Over the next half century the two polities clashed on several occasions over the Klioma Stratus current. In P.A. 269,997 the Kalūtrona finally gained the upper hand pushing the Çvotho north and solidifying their control over the major waterway. The following year was highlighted, first during the Freeze and again during the Thaw, by a pair of beautiful long period comets called the Celestial Pair, witnessing and recording their great victory. During this time the Kalūtrona developed the Phaka Mythos and Paraennia Philosophy, recorded by the ancient Tellers (Ūrthū) as Vondunke civilization reached new heights. The Kalūtrona clan leaders established the five Etrekiok Codes in 269, 990 P.A. passed on through oral tradition as "The Order of Things". The first code ensured that the hunter who got the kill was entitled to the choice part of the catch, If the hunter was Juvenile his guardian got second choice and so on. The second outlined criminal acts, the third responsibilities, the fourth punishments, and finally rituals both scientific and superstitious. The code was passed down in a thirteen hundred word chant.

North at the border of the Stratus zone and the Equatorial zone the Neyeke tribe formed the foundation of the Vragro Choke in P.A. 269,979 and soon came into contact with the Çvotho Choke the two groups remained in a steady peace and often cooperated with one another forming the Nathara Metapod. The Çvotho developed the winged javelin, primarily used to distract or herd pray while hunting. The winged javelin was made from knotting together the vertebrae of a Dyanatra Fish with its large dorsal. The Neyeke improved upon this idea by attaching a floatation device forming the broadhead kite, also called a banner shaft. Over the next seventy years by P.A. 268,979 it had progressed into many different tools from flag coms to war javelins.

Meanwhile in the south the Kalūtrona Choke became more aggressive establishing the first Vondunke hierarchy beyond the tribe as Verada became the judge of the Klioma Order. The Kalūtrona choke became the Kalūtrona Megapod with its constituent tribes and clans losing their ancestral identities. The Phaka Mythos changed over time becoming the Cults of Kioka but the laws stayed the same. Except for the addition of the Kioka Phonology, given each sound a poetic value so that the whole chant added to 40,000 (16,384) thus insuring its continuation. In P.A. 268,954 in the Poçopho Stratus current the Unmu Choke formed from fleeing resistance to the Klioma Order in the nearby Klioma Stratus current.

## Legacy

Though this content remains largely canonical this is the legacy history of the Vondunke

The Vondunke had one natural predator called Krakkens. They also competed with a slightly less intelligent, non sentient species, **The Siedunke**, who are more akin to Octopi.

Nine Orders (or Tribes) would rise up as the first Vondunke civilizations . Their names have been largely forgotten but are remembered as: The Arçælo Order, The Northern Order, The High Order, The Vent Tribes , The Equatorial Order, The Temperate Order, The Northeast Polar, The Temperate Order of Smoke, and he South Order, the species as a whole numbered 500 thousand. There were four different life style's for the Vondunke, Most were hunters who hunted within a certain area fearing Krakkens especially in the north and teaming/competing with the Siedunke especially in the south. There were the Venters, who hunted in the depths of the oceans and used vents to advance tech, Some developed cities of sorts on the great bergs, and finally the South Order farmed muscles in deep sea caves often fearing Siedunke raids.

During this early period the Vondunke had no interest in the stars. They were content to vie for power over their tiny world located in a remote part of the galaxy. They couldn’t possibly know what lay beyond the expanse. Or perhaps even more alien to them was who they would become.

### Oceans Rise, Krakkens Fall (WIP)

As the domain of the Vondunke began to expand with their primitive technologies they were able to get to and eat such algal life. Technology however was very slow for the Vondunke, limited by ocean culture, manipulation limits, ocean physics, and a lower baseline intelligence. The biggest thing in their favor was competition.

Arçælo orbited, tidally locked to Glanorth, on the dayside it was just hot enough to melt the ice, but there was a area of the planet in perpetual ice, an area under an constant total eclipse. This area was called "The Veiled" around the ice were the twilight geysers. These were very powerful, able to project boiling water thousands of feet into the air (lower gravity ;). Around these geysers were various forms of extremophiles such as Packet Algae.

Sky Bergs, large berg communities with sky blue fields of algae

### The Terrestrial Age (WIP)

Nowhere on Arçælo was science more prevalent than the Arçælo Northern Order. Over decades it had accumulated the most extensive libraries known to the Arçæliok Cephalopods. It catalogued stars and archaic physics, philosophy and prevalent mythos, law, lineages, and crafts. Those who dwelt in the bergs growing algal, and using advanced fishing and trapping methods became known as the "pTrer".

### The Space Age & Vorfarorh Expansion (WIP)

Arçælo would soon after be joined by other worlds with the title "Home to the Vondunke" first by pTrocdad, then Sibera, then Gasaθer, and Dvolem.

## Timeline

* 650,000 years ago. The Vondunke species arose on Arcaelo
* 300,000 years ago. The Vondunke species has spread across the whole of Arcaelo, the ice begins to melt
* 280,000 years ago. The Vondunke species develop berg communities and early caste systems lead to microevolutions
* 260,000 years ago. The Vondunke develop agriculture and the "Sky Bergs" are born
* 220,000 years ago. The Vondunke have developed vent, clam, berg, and nomadic communities, caste systems among some orders cement
* 190,000 years ago. The Vondunke drive the Krakken to extinction as the great orders develop various niches.
* ~67,250 years ago. The Vondunke develop space flight beginning the "Mechanical Revolution"
* ~65,400 years ago. The Vondunke nations form the UVE (United Vondunke Entities)
* ~65,500 years ago. The Vondunke leave the Vorfare system in the "Great Departure"
* ~64,000 years ago. The First Bloom & Bluff
* ~62,350 years ago. The UVE is disbanded to form the temporary SVC (Supreme Vondunke Council)
* ~54,500 years ago. The Second Bloom & Bluff
* ~48,500 years ago. The Third Bloom & Bluff
* ~47,800 years ago. The Great Debate
* ~47,850 years ago. The SVC is disbanded to form the VSE (The Supreme Entity, Vondunke)
* ~40,000 years ago. The Fourth Bloom & Bluff and the beginning of the Grey War
* ~36,000 years ago. The Fifth Bloom & Bluff and the close of the Grey War
* ~32,525 years ago. The Sixth Bloom & Bluff
* ~32,475 years ago, The Comb of Oblivion galactic bombardment
* ~29,450 years ago. The Seventh Bloom & Bluff
* ~28,400 years ago. The Great Reordering
* ~4,750 years ago. The Sixteenth Bloom & Bluff
* ~4,500 years ago. Two VSE federates secede from the VSE forming the SC (State of Çeleo or Çeleo)
* ~750 years ago. The Seventeenth Bloom

1. ↑ Luϑov Çūdren
2. ↑ Located just south of the equator near modern day fTræđraϑ
3. ↑ Political state based on pact principles
4. ↑ For a given definition of sentience