Da-Codian civilization

"Long ago, time so ancient that history has turned to myth, there once was a great island empire. It was a grand kingdom with lands stretching far and its coffers full, but its people soon took to decentness and arrogance. So proud and foolish they had become they spat at the gods and only spoke of their greatness. As their evil grew the waves soon threatened to destroy them, only the still faithful, the still pure foresaw this great catastrophe. When the sea came to swallow them all, their once great cities were left to ruin, the waves scraping what left. Only those still faithful were saved, huddled in a temple made for their God." An excerpt from the history of the already collapsed Mapetra, they were almost right except for something: The people who were swallowed by the waves were saved.

History
This survivors were saved by an entity known as Da-Cod Biasi (A Cod God in Paxian), described as a massive Leviathan like those that Inhabited Eldham and Rathnir long time ago. They worshipped it as a god and in exchange they aquired the knowledge to breath underwater. Over the Millennia, this people aquired similar physical attributes to the ones presented in Merfolk.

It would not be until the Paxian period that they would be mentioned by some sealers and villagers, later to be rediscovered during the beginnings of the Intermediate period and ends of the Jagdasian period. Apparently they inhabited the ocean monuments built by their ancestors thousands of years ago, when the humans and other races exploited the prismarine found on this monuments they had to escape and fleed to the east.

Not even in Eldham were they spared, the migrations kept keeping worse and worse until they fleed again to the east. As if it were a race where the beings from the surface followed them, destroying more of the monuments of their ancestors and leaving them with no home. Finally, they discovered a way they could live almost in peace, settling on the last monuments they found and finally rebuilding their once great civilization.

Fractured but united by their same culture, city-states were formed simulating their ancestral land and thanking Da-Cod for the gift of sedentarism. With their resentment and reborn wickedness, they pushed isolationism away and established contact with the coastal towns, offering wealth in exchange for promises and favors. Little do those peoples know that they would fall into their trap and be tempted by greed.

Slowly spreading across the continents of Tremors, they shall retake their lost glory and prepare to invade the surface in the name of the eternal order imposed by the cod god: The order of the sea and the lack of change, the regression of life to where it came from.

More info in the Eternal Order of Da-Cod

Culture
The saviour of the ancient civilization that reigned the planet tens of thousands of years ago was Da-Cod Biasi, a cosmic entity of unknown power that told these people how their gods abandoned them on their most harsh moment and that it was the actual god who saved them, destined to find the new home of the Da-Codians and embrace the cruelty and beauty of the unchangeable water. This messiah turned into the pillar of all their culture and religion, opposite to the goals of Entropy to end the world instead of maintaining it in eternal order. The monuments wouldn´t be made for their weak surface ancestors but to remind them how Da-Cod saved them.

They build their structures and houses based on the architecture from the ancient ruins of their fallen civilization; Granite, Stone bricks, Sandstone and Prismarine are the main blocks used to build their houses as they have nothing else to use. To breath underwater they were gifted by Da-Cod the knowledge to build the turtle shells and magma stations, which would be eventually adapted by posterior civilizations that found their ruins. Altough they have an archaic knowledge of architecture, they are just as skilled as other cultures to brew, enchant and mine. Specially because they can get access to all of those ocean resources for themselves.

Their culinary arts are limited to seafood: Mushrooms, Kelp and Fish are the main stuff in the diet of a Da-Codian. Rotten flesh is a luxury and don´t talk about surface food. The turtles farms are not made to consume the turtles but to make turtle shells. Sometimes they are called the Dolphin riders because of their main method of transportation throught the oceans: the Da-Codians use leads to trap Dolphins and form a bond with them, giving them a name and identity. This relation between Dolphins and Da-Codians was teached by Da-Cod, to secure the cooperation of "the eternals" and accept the Dolphins as citizens. After all they are one of the most intelligent animals and are conscious of their existence.

Government
The Peuzhirwalo (Nation cities in Paxian) are the most complex organizations of the Da-Codian civilization. They are divided in many city states that oftenly last just a pair of decades because of their uneffective government system. Yet that didn´t stopped them from keeping their system because that´s what Da-Cod wants.

Mindra Saiora:
The highest authority on the city, oftenly the most skilled magic user of its city and bishop of Da-Cod, it connects the realm of the mortals with Da-Cod and its speech is absolute therefore.

Etrolis:
The 2nd in command, they work as ministers that help the Saiora on its work and technically control the city despite their lower rank on the hierarchy, the list of Etrolis is this:

* Shrazietroli (Defense minister)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                *Etraetroli (Magic minister)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          *Treuraetroli (Fishing minister)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   *Gnetrietroli (Mining minister)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        *Shñemetroli (Justice minister)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            *Hehenetroli (Economy minister)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                *Noimetroli (Diplomacy ministry)

Alhala:
They are the leaders of the people chosen by them, they represents the needs and desires of the neighborhoods nearby the city. They talk with the Etrolis and the Saiora directly.

Endra:
The peasants and citizens, soldiers and workers, everyone that sustains the pillars of the city and are granted the riches from the Saiora for their hard work.