Nizen (race)

Quick description

The Nizen are the direct descendants of the first 5 beings created by the gods (The Nizen, The Phoenix, The Dragon, The Sea Serpent and The Fenrir) and also the ancestors to most humanoids. The Nizen specifically were created to keep company to the gods, infact all of the older Nizen have personally met most if not all gods. They Live extremely long lives with only 6 Nizen deaths being recorded, none of them being by old age. The Nizen are considered the fathers of magic being the first species to weild it, perfect it and make it accessible to other species.

The power of the Nizen

A single Nizen is said to be as strong as a nation with many older Nizen being told by the gods that they have about half their power, with the original Nizen being confirmed to be as strong is not stronger than the weaker gods. Due to their incredible strength, percieved immortality and ability to use magic many civilizations have mistaken them for gods, basing religions and cults around them. Infact legends like that the gods created humans in their image is derived from the fact that in appearance humans and nizen are identical.

The Immortality of Nizen

The first Nizen is said to be over 300 million years old with the second generation being 150 million years old, the third being 50 million years old with this trend continuing until the 9th generation. An important thing to note is that Nizen age is measured only while the nizen is awake and so the long sleeps the nizens take are not accounted for. Due to nizen living so long they have witnessed hundreds of civilizations rise and collapse in the blink of ah eye and thus do not form meaningful attachments to places, people or objects outside of other nizen and nizen possesions.

Nizen social structures

Generally nizen travel together in small groups which will eventually meet other groups and merge until enough nizen have been gathered to perform traditional rituals after which the cycle repeats. Older Nizen are considered to be more important and are higher up in the hierarchy since a younger nizen usually has no chance against an older one, when more nizen of the same age are in a group they lead together taking decisions as a council. Rarely nizen will purposefully decide to go rogue and wander the earth alone or in a hermetic group, usually fighting other nizen or powerful beasts, this decision is usually taken by the oldest or youngest of nizen as the oldest nizen do it for seek of thrill in their long live and young nizen because of being surrounded by species far weaker then them, younger nizen usually return to other groups after finding out they aren’t as immortal as they think. It Aalso isn’t uncommon to find a nizen wandering alone in search of a group or settling down for a couple hundred of years.

Nizen artifacts and recording

Nizen artifacts and ruins are scattered all around the world, being what many civilizations built their whole nations on. Nizen artifacts are most commonly everyday objects of a nizen that is asleep and in many instances have taken back upon waking up, more rarely are nizen jewlery, accessories, armour and weapons which are always kept with the nizen even when sleeping.

Recovered and recorded artifacts include:


 * Clear water (A	mirror which can return you to any place it has been.
 * Air slicer	(A knife which cut through any material apart from it’s holster	with ease)
 * The crystal of control	(A crystal which would float around the user granting it telekinetic	abilities
 * The living Golems	(An army of highly advanced indestructible golems which posses	conscious souls)
 * The fire breather	(A gauntlet shaped like a dragon’s head which can shoot massive	flames)
 * The hammer of light	(A massive hammer weighing tonnes which can be easily picked up my	the handle)
 * The emperor’s cloth (A	red scarf-like cloth which repels anything that would harm it’s	wearer)

Numerous Legendary unconfirmed artifacts and structures are said to exist like The Towers of Power which are massive crystal structures which the nizen erected to allow chanting to be possible.

Several journals and diaries have been left behind together with books containing extremely valuable knowledge. These books are written in Native Nizen which is incredibly hard to translate for non nizen.

Nizen Sleeps

When enough nizen meet they start work on their favourite ritual celebration, The Ambrosia fest, a party-like event where nizen eat as much Ambrosia as their hearts desire, this makes the nizen stronger permanently but comes at the cost of having to sleep for a very long time. Infact nizen spend over 90% of their life asleep and is the reason why they count their age in time they’ve been awake. The amount the nizen sleep is directly proportional to their age and amount of Ambrosia they’ve had. The fes goes on for about 100 – 200 years straight and the nizen usually sleep beween 5 thousand and 1 million years. Upon waiting up they may find that they are in a completely different place compared to where they fell asleep or that the terrain around them has changed drastically. At first the nizen will be very weak compared to before their sleep but still far stronger than any human, over the course of a few thousand years their strength will return to it’s original glory and then increase even more due to the Ambrosia’s effects.

Ambrosia

Ambrosia is a drink/food created by the nizen which used to be a gift for the gods, many human religions think of Ambrosia as something that grants immortality but in reality it increases the strength of who consumes it and heals wounds. It get you drunk far more than even pure alcohol and can be lethal to humans in anything more than micro quantities. It has a beautiful golden colour and a perfect aroma, consistency wise it looks like honey but it’s flavour is far better than any other food. Ambrosia is created by mixing honey with many types of carefully selected fruits and flowers and is then topped off by Ichor, it’s then left to age for tens of thousands of years which is the most important step, as if the Ambrosia hasn’t been aged enough none of it’s positive effects will manifest and will possibly be leathal.

Ichor

Ichor is the blood of nizen whichis said to be the physical manifestation of their vitality and soul, being a pure gold colour and very shiny and reflective. Ichor is a powerful magical container and catalyst used to power extreme magic devices and create Ambrosia. Ichor has the propert of absorbing life force and magic from the area around it making it also extremely dangerous, another property it has is to store and release this power after it’s been outside of a body for long enough, which is exactly how properly aged Ambrosia grants extreme power.

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