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For millennia have the Aed Kaenë, a cousin species to Humans, held influence over the Auburn Isles and Stan Yera, as well as distant lands such as the August/Latin Empire.
Typically, a Kaenë has flesh pale as snow, while having the same array of hair and eye colours as their human cousins. They are rather tall in comparison to humans (some records going as high as 7’8”) and opaque-grey stripes, almost lashes, cover their torsos.
Many believe these people originated on the Stan Yera in the northeastern-most areas of the North Pacific continent, suggested by innumerable anthropological and carbon dating tests throughout recent history. The Aed Kaenë as a whole did not flourish on these isles, given the distinct lack of any settlements in the majority of the isles. Many known settlements are in fact found on the Eastern coast of the Stan Yeran isles. This is believed to be influenced by their religion, the worship of the Sun itself and the fact it rises in the East.
At some point between 2000-1000 BCE, almost the entirety of Aed Kaenë civilization migrated west to the Auburn Isles, of which they named Raë'é, for reasons which no known Aed Kaenë history has annals or legends of. One popular theory (popularised by mankind’s authors and playwrights), is the one of a plague wrought upon them by their own selfish misuse of their magecraft, which transformed many into the ‘wendigos’ which now prowl the Stan Yeran wilderness, although no known evidence suggests to this.
Their new home of Raë'é was, to their dismay, was inhabited by humans. A short period of peace persisted but, inevitably, war came. Little time progressed before the Aed Kaenë’s foreign combat tactics and magecraft - a talent unknown to mankind entirely - overwhelmed the men and what once was desperate war was now outright and senseless genocide. From the ashes of human tribe, stood the battle-hardened and powerful Aed Kaenë.
Little of the Aed Kaenë empire itself is known, outside of a migrant assemblage which embarked South nearby to the modern Imperium Augustum, until its demise almost 750-1000 years after its rise. At this point, large raiding parties of humans of unknown origin began toppling one Aed Kaenë city after another, despite odds which should have leaned against them. The men had done what the Aed Kaenë had done to them so long ago and named their new home Cronaal.
The humans were bloodthirsty, some believe vengeful, and as such, many Aed Kaenë were imprisoned against their will; not only were they used as slaves, but many men tortured them for pleasure. Over the course of the following few hundred years, as human civilization grew, this torture developed into an art form, an entire species of people bred and engineered into being the ultimate tools for rape, slavery and torture; even to the point of founding special breeding facilities using aphrodisiacs.
King Foltest, of the 1500s, favoured submerging young Aed Kaenë girls into large vats of heated oil, which he then set alight with a torch while observing them, watching the young girls burn alive. Another well known display of hatred are the ‘gut gardens’ which many nobles had within their properties during the 17th and 18th centuries. In most cases, the guts and innards of several hundred Aed Kaenë were strewn across an array of sculptures made from their bone; the innards replaced weekly to avoid smells.
It was not until the late 19th century when the Aed Kaenë were given any form of human rights within society when King Stennis IV, in a sudden outburst of pro-AK acts, criminalised the act of slavery. Within recent decades, men and Aed Kaenë coexist in what appears to be harmony, and although a handful of groups seeking to harm the other species have appeared throughout this period, none grew a popular following.
One notable Aed Kaenë that appears time and time again throughout the history of the Auburn Isles is one known as Faekhal, with variants of the name varying from Fekhal to Elihal where most - if not all - accounts of him describe him as a powerful sorcerer of great capabilities, who utilises the sun in a manner unknown, even to the mages spoken of in the greatest Aed Kaenë legends.
In the 5th century, Faekhal is described to have kidnapped Aed Kaenë slaves and training secret enclaves of mages in their long-forgotten magic. In the closing years of the 16th century, an Aed Kaenë by the name of Fekhal is said to have saved the life of King Foltest, forever changing his perception of the Aed Kaenë. Not only in history, but as recent as the 20th century has Faekhal influenced the rights of Aed Kaenë across the Auburn Isles, being described as a “hidden force” who spearheaded progress towards suffrage and land-rights for Aed Kaenë.
In the recently famous ‘Kiyan Account’, a journal entry by Kiyan Bréacc II of Kingsferry written in 1402, Faekhal is described to be of short stature and that the structure of his skull is almost akin to that of a bird of prey, such as an Eagle, with hair “darker than a starless night” and eyes reminiscent of the ocean. An unusual amount of detail of his clothing is also revealed, illustrating how he wears “a cape draped around the right shoulder, stitched into the sleeve-hem of a slick black robe tied together at the waist by a leather belt trimmed with a sickly grey cotton, the inside lining wraps around onto the cuffs of the cloak, revealing a deep velvet black“.
Kiyan also claimed within these pages that Faekhal was an “immortal emperor”, and suggests he may have also been the last before the navies of the barbarian men came, whilst also claiming that Faekhal bore unmatched magical capability, honed by thousands of years of practice, and a distinct control over the physical constructs that pieced together time and space itself, capable of bending it to his infinite, duplicitous will.
Few modern day observers take stock in Kiyan’s journals on this specific Kaenë and rumours of his immortality, but it is certain that he or they have left an irreversible mark on the history of the Auburn Isles.
Typically, a Kaenë has flesh pale as snow, while having the same array of hair and eye colours as their human cousins. They are rather tall in comparison to humans (some records going as high as 7’8”) and opaque-grey stripes, almost lashes, cover their torsos.
Many believe these people originated on the Stan Yera in the northeastern-most areas of the North Pacific continent, suggested by innumerable anthropological and carbon dating tests throughout recent history. The Aed Kaenë as a whole did not flourish on these isles, given the distinct lack of any settlements in the majority of the isles. Many known settlements are in fact found on the Eastern coast of the Stan Yeran isles. This is believed to be influenced by their religion, the worship of the Sun itself and the fact it rises in the East.
At some point between 2000-1000 BCE, almost the entirety of Aed Kaenë civilization migrated west to the Auburn Isles, of which they named Raë'é, for reasons which no known Aed Kaenë history has annals or legends of. One popular theory (popularised by mankind’s authors and playwrights), is the one of a plague wrought upon them by their own selfish misuse of their magecraft, which transformed many into the ‘wendigos’ which now prowl the Stan Yeran wilderness, although no known evidence suggests to this.
Their new home of Raë'é was, to their dismay, was inhabited by humans. A short period of peace persisted but, inevitably, war came. Little time progressed before the Aed Kaenë’s foreign combat tactics and magecraft - a talent unknown to mankind entirely - overwhelmed the men and what once was desperate war was now outright and senseless genocide. From the ashes of human tribe, stood the battle-hardened and powerful Aed Kaenë.
Little of the Aed Kaenë empire itself is known, outside of a migrant assemblage which embarked South nearby to the modern Imperium Augustum, until its demise almost 750-1000 years after its rise. At this point, large raiding parties of humans of unknown origin began toppling one Aed Kaenë city after another, despite odds which should have leaned against them. The men had done what the Aed Kaenë had done to them so long ago and named their new home Cronaal.
The humans were bloodthirsty, some believe vengeful, and as such, many Aed Kaenë were imprisoned against their will; not only were they used as slaves, but many men tortured them for pleasure. Over the course of the following few hundred years, as human civilization grew, this torture developed into an art form, an entire species of people bred and engineered into being the ultimate tools for rape, slavery and torture; even to the point of founding special breeding facilities using aphrodisiacs.
King Foltest, of the 1500s, favoured submerging young Aed Kaenë girls into large vats of heated oil, which he then set alight with a torch while observing them, watching the young girls burn alive. Another well known display of hatred are the ‘gut gardens’ which many nobles had within their properties during the 17th and 18th centuries. In most cases, the guts and innards of several hundred Aed Kaenë were strewn across an array of sculptures made from their bone; the innards replaced weekly to avoid smells.
It was not until the late 19th century when the Aed Kaenë were given any form of human rights within society when King Stennis IV, in a sudden outburst of pro-AK acts, criminalised the act of slavery. Within recent decades, men and Aed Kaenë coexist in what appears to be harmony, and although a handful of groups seeking to harm the other species have appeared throughout this period, none grew a popular following.
“I bear not only my kin’s pale flesh, but also every last one their struggles.”
-Faekhal
One notable Aed Kaenë that appears time and time again throughout the history of the Auburn Isles is one known as Faekhal, with variants of the name varying from Fekhal to Elihal where most - if not all - accounts of him describe him as a powerful sorcerer of great capabilities, who utilises the sun in a manner unknown, even to the mages spoken of in the greatest Aed Kaenë legends.
In the 5th century, Faekhal is described to have kidnapped Aed Kaenë slaves and training secret enclaves of mages in their long-forgotten magic. In the closing years of the 16th century, an Aed Kaenë by the name of Fekhal is said to have saved the life of King Foltest, forever changing his perception of the Aed Kaenë. Not only in history, but as recent as the 20th century has Faekhal influenced the rights of Aed Kaenë across the Auburn Isles, being described as a “hidden force” who spearheaded progress towards suffrage and land-rights for Aed Kaenë.
In the recently famous ‘Kiyan Account’, a journal entry by Kiyan Bréacc II of Kingsferry written in 1402, Faekhal is described to be of short stature and that the structure of his skull is almost akin to that of a bird of prey, such as an Eagle, with hair “darker than a starless night” and eyes reminiscent of the ocean. An unusual amount of detail of his clothing is also revealed, illustrating how he wears “a cape draped around the right shoulder, stitched into the sleeve-hem of a slick black robe tied together at the waist by a leather belt trimmed with a sickly grey cotton, the inside lining wraps around onto the cuffs of the cloak, revealing a deep velvet black“.
Kiyan also claimed within these pages that Faekhal was an “immortal emperor”, and suggests he may have also been the last before the navies of the barbarian men came, whilst also claiming that Faekhal bore unmatched magical capability, honed by thousands of years of practice, and a distinct control over the physical constructs that pieced together time and space itself, capable of bending it to his infinite, duplicitous will.
Few modern day observers take stock in Kiyan’s journals on this specific Kaenë and rumours of his immortality, but it is certain that he or they have left an irreversible mark on the history of the Auburn Isles.