Aesuran

The Aesurians are a race of Aeon; a godlike species that once lived in abundance on the planet Aeos. While considered the same 'species' as angelic Aethyrians and the human-like Termians, the Aesurans are one of the oldest and most powerful races on Aeos, considered gods in their own right, possessing a number of unique and extremely-powerful abilities, appearing in a much wider and diverse verity of physical appearance. Their ability to breed with any living thing is thought to have been attributed with the creation of neohumans, and neonism on other planets, or at least propagating something already present in the makeup of Humans and other species; This was known as the Demigod Theory.

### **Culture**

Before The Great War, a civil war that ended up with one of the most powerful Aesurians, Xeus, being banished to Earth, Aesurians on Aeos seemed to be very solitary, rarely interacting with other natives to Aeos such as the Aethyrians, Termians or the Thera species and only came together for meetings in what was known as the Divine Council where they would discuss anything and everything affecting their world. It was in one of these council meetings that Xeus begot a civil rebellion that led to a war against his brother Aluren.

Post civil war, the banished Aesurians first found themselves on the island of Atlantis on Earth, where they built a huge, single empire, early humans worshipped them as true gods. But the glorious city began suffering attacks at the hands and claws of giant entities known as the Titans, created by the Ga'n who already had a plan to rule Earth as their own. Further disagreements with the direction of Atlantis and trying to find out where the Titians were originating, the Aesurians further split their kind into factions known as Pantheons; during this process many began breeding with normal humans and producing Halfbreeds. Poseidon, however decided to stay as the island was destroyed, saving the Atlantian humans by transforming them into a water-breathing race who would live hidden beneath the waves.

Over the centuries these Pantheons seemed to fair better under the rule of individual Aesurians; likely being that the solitary nature of Aesurians was causing frayed relations with eachother; they needed space to be gods. Xeus, however couldn't help but interfere; he wanted all of Earth and he wanted the 'demons' known as the Ga'n and their Titans eliminated.

Klaytos, then known as Hephaestus created many weapons and devices to empower his fellow gods and worshippers to fight the Titans and save Humanity so they may worship him; Xeus defied his wife Hera and began repopulating the lands with halfbreeds to be his army of gods,

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### **History**

A species of extremely biologically advanced beings the Aesurians of Aeos are some of the earliest known beings evolved in the Andromeda galaxy, known to have actually created the planet Aeos by forming it out of asteroids and rocks before Earth's sun even ignited; it may have been that they created Aeos currently out of a previous planet that was somehow destroyed; the exact origin, evolution or formation the these entities is uncertain, although they can and do perpetuate with eachother sexually in terms of reproduction, existing Dragons such as Clay only barely remember his early days and that he was the product of an Aesurian before him known as Tyr

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While other Aesurians are later mentioned on Earth, it was the trinity of three brothers Klaytos, Aluren, and Xeus predominately featuring in the majority of legends and historical accounts of this early era of Aeos representing creation, sustainment and destruction respectively.

One theory to the original origins of the Dragons is that they were simply formed out of the primordial early chaos of the big bang as all matter was, but with vast cosmic powers, before the formation of planets; meaning that they may have been some of the first creatures in existence, and that they, or similar entities might exist in other Galaxies across the universe; So far the only Dragons to leave Andromeda came to the Milky Way, and only a few planets at that.

The Dragons, according to Clay, created Aeos from dust and rocks and subsequently all life on the planet; Early primitive Aeons worshipped the Dragons as living gods, eventually allowing some to achieve a winged form as a release of their full potential; Termians in that instance all had the potential to become Aeons.

Over the centuries nations, divisions and feuds increased as the Dragons presence diminished; weather though lack of breeding in their ranks, or simply a lack of interest, a prominent nation, known as (Old) Wingfeild was established that regarded the Dragons as another species, like them, and who wanted equal footing.

Many other groups found the idea heretical, not least some of the Dragons themselves, while other Dragons thought this idea of cohabitation as equals fair. The Majority of Dragons, unfortunately did not agree and a war between two Dragon groups quickly erupted, amongst this the Wingfeild Aeons battled for their right alongside the Dragons that agreed with their stance.

The resulting conflict was so powerful that the planet erupted in geological turmoil, partly due to the intensity of the sonn and fighting, and partly to to disruption to large sonnstone deposits, particularly gravonyte, the land of Aeos began to split, shifting large areas skywards. During the fighting many lost their lives, many Dragons perished too, although moreso others; the Thera tribes in particular suffered badly and almost went extinct.

The planet itself stopped rotating bathing one side in light while the other eternal darkness.

After the War a great divide known as the Skysea was created between the ground, known now as Greater Termia or simply Termia, and the Stratos layer also known as the Skylands where the Sera family and their royal ascended under the protection of Aluren live. The entire nation of Wingfeild was part of the land that ended up becoming one of the biggest laputa islands in Stratos. The Royals, and Aluren, who's group of dragons saw the Aeon's want to rule as their equals as fair came to rule the Skylands, while Xeus and Klaytos sided with the idea they should be worshipped (although Klaytos was actually always on the fence about this).

After the Great War things seemed to settle and Xeus was reluctantly allowed back, although Xeus was reluctant to settle with the idea, knew he and his brothers would have to help reposition Aeos' two moons in a certain orbit to redistribute and block sunlight accordingly; the project was massive and time-consuming but it had to be done to save the planet from being half frozen and half boiled.

When all seemed settled again and the Brothers looked to their numbers the Dragons and numbers of other races few and rare, and all three looked to do something the original Dragon society forbade; to breed with Aeons and Termians: Doing so would create the first Aegons, one of them the royal prince Anri, whose mother, Rina was close to Aluren and eventually bore him a child. Aluren then essentially became the King of Wingfeild, though he did not see himself as such and left much of the responsibility to Rina.

Despite his later reputation on Earth, Xeus and Clay were actually against the idea at first, and with the formation of other rebellious and powerful factions of the Termians and even some of the Ascended Aeons in the form the nation of Arcadia; the Arcadians saw the Dragons as overbearing, controlling and not worthy of equality, let alone worship and appointing one as king angered them greatly; In most aspects the Arcadians weren't just an antithesis to Wingfeild, but became more and more dominating, absorbing smaller independent nations that were weakened by the Great War. They saw the dragons as demons and were horrified to find out they had been breeding with Aeons.

After a while more infighting occurred, and Xeus grew more and more frustrated and angry at his brother's distance and dominance and to the growing threat of Arcadia that had successfully grown to a massive Empire in this time; during this time Xeus began plotting with other Dragons to wipe out the Aegons, seeing them as heretical.

Xeus had very few backers to his cause, though through manipulation and focusing on Arcadia he gained the following of several Dragons, notably his younger brothers Hades and Poseidon who agreed that the Aegons needed to go; A few, notably Hera, Klaytos and Hermes were concerned that these Aeon-Dragon hybrids were in fact more powerful than either parent; an effect that was later noted in Anri and Ellie, but warned that, despite agreeing to back a war based on the lack of action on the Arcadians, believed that Xeus may be acting rashly and out of jealousy and to not target the Aegons for being halfbreeds, but attain control of Wingfeild and change policies.

Nevertheless Hera stuck with Xeus when he made that exact decision, and another war, later known as the Dragon Rebellion wreaked more havoc. By this time a young Anri was powerful enough in the use of his abilities to almost stand up to Xeus himself, albeit with the help of the Royal Guard, but could not face his immense power alone and almost died; with Anri not yet properly refined his power over pure sonn.

While the actual war was short, Aluren and the remaining guard manage to banish the rebellious Dragons as far away as possible whilst slightly weakening them, stranding them on a planet in another galaxy altogether known as Earth; the event was so monumental it left a spacial distortion, known as The Jaunt, on Aeos that essentially stretched from there to Earth, leaving a kind of link to Earth, unknown to Aeons at the time.

Try as they may, the Dragons that were stranded on Earth could not return to Aeos; it was simply too far away and their powers too limited, and now in any cases protected from further access by a multitude of sonnists, the Royal Guard and by Aluren and the few dragons that remained loyal to him. So the Dragons took advantage of their situation, splitting up into smaller groups and settling in different parts of Earth; while their power was heavily limited, were still more powerful than any being on this planet it seemed, and the local Humans began to worship them as gods and deities, just as they wanted on Aeos.

However Earth was not free from other alien interference, and the shapeshifting Ga'n, whose ancestors were originally from Earth and who had fought a war with the Danu, came back to the planet after millennia aiding the Zeltura build their enormous empire in the Milky Way, had also settled in secret, masquerading as Humans.

Annoyed that these strange entities had usurped their original plan on ruling Earth and subjugating the Humans before them, the reptilian shapeshifters began using their advanced alchemical and genetic technology to create monsters and creatures known as Titans; but each time the Dragons would win.

During these unprecedented times of gods, Xeus began doing the thing he originally hated, he strayed from the love of Hera and began mating with Humans; remarkably some of these females gave birth to powerful halfbreeds who became the demigods of myth and legends. Eventually this begot the neohuman line within Humanity.

Klaytos served as Xeus' blacksmith for a time, under his middle name of Hephaestus where he made a profit selling enhanced weapons to Humans, in particular those who Xeus targeted, allowing him to manipulate his territory and those who rule to fine degrees, keeping everyone in line.

For a while the Gods of Olympus, and other communities of Dragons across the planet lived in harmony, but as always tensions and deceit grew within, notably over Xeus overindulgence; some of the gods had seen the error of their ways and attempted to help humanity evolve and grow, others, such as Hades felt that Xeus didn't go far enough and believed all Human life was worthless and to be destroyed; one of the biggest feuds was between the three brothers, Xeus, Poseidon and Hades over the direction of Olympus; Poseidon felt sorry for Hera in particular, Hades was furious with his brother for creating the very thing he hated on Aeos and promised he would build a 'hell' for Humans so that even their very souls would not escape his torture. Which he did.

Klaytos, as ever, was caught between it all, and on the fence about his loyalties.

While tales of powerful heroes such as Hercules were made popular in Greek stories, much of Xeus' personal life revolved around one of his other sons, Taranis, who made a reputation for himself as a storm-god in ancient Britain, in particular Xeus knew that out of all of his children, Taranis was the most powerful; and after telling his son the stories, and lies, of how they were banished from their world, Taranis always wished to go there to kill Aluren.

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### **Appearance**

Aesurians, unlike the more standardised "angel-like" appearance of Atheryians, can appear in a verity of shapes, from humanoid to more animal-like; often a lizard-like aspect can be seen in their forms, pointing to the original Aeon idea that all Aeons evolved from what they called "Dragons"; the Aesurian race were seen as still closely related to these more wild and primordial entities, both in terms of appearance and power.

### **Physiology and Capabilities**

Aesurians are extremely powerful, godlike beings that are able to affect matter and energy on a cosmic level, however over the eons individuals have specialised into certain branches; though most Aesurians have at least the following capabilities at their disposal:

* **Godlike Strength:** Stories, myths and sources on Aeos suggest that even two or three were capable of shifting entire moons, as they did with Aeos' moons after the Great War stopped the planet rotating, meaning that even the weakest of Aesurians was able to handle a few hundred tonnes with ease.
* **Godlike Durability:** Aesurians, in all of their forms maintained a near-indestructible level of physical integrity, only able to be severally harmed by similar or equal strengths from other Aesurians, though particularly powerful Atheryians and Aegons have caused minor damage to their bodies.
* **Energy-Based Healing Factor:** Aesurians can heal near-instantaneously if ever severely injured by actively absorbing more sonn than they naturally do, almost like taking a breath.
* **Godlike Stamina:** They are capable of near-continuous physical activity without tiring in the slightest; during the Great War Aesurian factions continuously fought for months on end without stopping, immune to tiredness and lethargicness utterly. Aesurians do not sleep and have no real need to eat outside of absorbing energy to repair themselves; some, however do enjoy eating fruit for the pleasure of taste.
* **Self Sustainment:** Aesurians possess insane amounts of sonn reservoirs that constantly replenish and enable them to survive total vacuum, underwater or in any environment indefinitely.
* **Shapeshifting:** Many Aesurians are capable of altering their appearance at a subatomic and quantum level whilst retaining all their capabilities though the ability takes a lot of practice and there are many who cannot do it.
* **Godlike Senses:** All Aesurians can see and sense the world far beyond that of any Human into the 4th dimension, most of these senses border on remote viewing.
* **Energy and Matter Manipulation:** Through their natural interactions with sonn, they can control energy and matter through force of will alone; these abilities vary slightly with each Aesurians and seem to specialise in various types; this had led to many of them being associated with certain elements and representations both on Earth and Aeos.
	+ **Psionics:** Many Aesurians could access psionic energy allowing instances of telepathy, telekinesis and empathy, although these seemed to vary with each individual.
* **Levitation and Flight:** Many Aesurians can levitate and fly by having fine control over the physics of their own atoms or gravitational potential or by simply using cosmic or psionic energies, particularly the most powerful of their kind, this includes the ability to fly through space unaided at faster-that-light speeds. This ability also took control and practice, though it did seem to occur more naturally to certain individual Aesurians moreso than others, particularly Klaytos and Persephone, couldn't bear even the thought of flying as it made the feel nauseous.
* **Teleportation:** Some are capable of transmitting themselves through space at will, during flight they can use this ability to travel across galaxies, although at such distances this takes planning and vast amounts of focus and inter-galactic travel is usually only done through the use of transit sonnstones and sonngate arches to guarantee arrival at a destination.
* **Immortality:** All Aesurians are biologically immortal, although they claim they do age, do so on such a miniscule scale that entire suns can burn out before they reach the middle of their lives, and even suggestions that should they fully die, can be reborn through related bloodlines within a single generation, and over time regain their personality and memories.

### **Weaknesses**

There was very little that could injure or kill a Aesurians permanently, aside from other Aesurians, but were also able to be killed by the few Halfbreeds and Aegons that could muster the power to do so: in particular they were often dealt with by magic involving the ritual 'shunting' of their own spirit or life-force from their bodies and banishing it to a higher dimension, or some retainer, but this was difficult to do.

The powers of some Aesurians could be 'toned down' by limiting them to a single form, essentially sealing a vast majority of their capacity via Aeon Sealing Rite as was the case with Clay, but the rite itself only partly works with Aesurians, as they are so powerful, even if limited to a single form, still possess a massive amount of power; but less enough to be defeated or killed properly. All Aesurians seem to be limited by their environment, as they feed off the natural abundancy of mana in the universe, a planet like Earth that has it in lesser amounts than Aeos, will cause their power to weaken considerably. To this end many Aesurians used weapon-focuses on Earth to harness the full extent of their powers.