Drin Honne

The superintelligent Gauthra that inhabited the western regions of the Continent. Transient beings, they disappeared from existence with the inception of Time. The Drin Honne were world travelers and originated from a world called Odifar, having come to this one after a great catastrophe alluded to in some of their works. They are ageless, sexless, formless creatures, without any need to eat or sleep but requiring a continual supply of water and sun to regulate the consistency of their gelatinous bodies. They are comprehensible only in a theoretical, timeless space. Indeed, their existence seems to contradict the flow of time, meaning wherever Time moves, they cease to be. Their name comes from Middlemindre meaning “wise ones.” They were an industrious people, areligious, motivated entirely by a curiosity for the world and the desire to understand and document its workings. Their experiments led them to create great machines called [??] which harnessed electricity to perform useful tasks and store and transfer information. When they came to Earth, there were plans and blueprints to create a [??] that operated off the Mindreland Power but this device, called the [??], never came to fruition and has become the object of glory for many a researcher. Three prominent subraces of the Drin Honne existed on Earth.

Westland Odifarsa

Inhabited the city of Cantra and west all the way to the coast. These were the first beings to arrive from Odifar after the Catastrophe. Though the trip was one-way, they brought much of their equipment and knowledge with them and their lands soon flourished with art, research, and cataloguing of new knowledge. It was they who first documented the Power lying beneath the world and their writings which motivated modern study of it. Much of what they created was lost, however, due to decay and destruction at the hands of later peoples.

Mindresull

These separated from the Westland migrants early on and settled in the lands east of the Cantran mountains to leave a much simpler life. The Catastrophe they escaped from on Odifar was caused in part by their dogged research and prying into things unexplained and this group was of the mentality that such studies must be taboo to ensure their long-term survival. Still, there was no shortage of invention and ingenuity on their part and their people lived in formidable cities with many luxuries. But their strict taboo on written records means that many of their ideas has been lost. Tensions often ran high between the Westlanders and the Mindresull, occasionally amounting to violence as suggested by the blueprints for machines of war. However this never broke out into full-fledged war and was limited to skirmishes on the mountainous border.

Belsh Minnowene

The second wave of Drin Honne to come from Odifar to the Continent. This group had tried to survive after the Catastrophe on their home world but suffered immensely by doing so. Defeated, they came to Earth to join their brothers but were not received well. Unlike the Mindresull, the Belsh Minnowene had lost their superintelligence and innovative natures in their time on Odifar, degenerating to an intelligence only slightly above the average human. They were considered useless and inferior and as a result--as the Drin Honne have no concept of kindness or sympathy--cast out utterly and forced into a life of hardship. That being said, it is this group whose writings remain most extant and viable, perhaps because of their similarity to human scripture rather than those otherworldly tomes burned by the religious and superstitious. Also curious, it was this group which survived into the first moments of Time the longest. The other Drin Honne vaporized in seconds whereas the Belsh Minnowene slowly diffused over a period of several days and thus had time to preserve their greatest works and technologies (pale shadows of their brother’s creations but great to them nonetheless) in safekeeping. The name Belsh Minnowene translates roughly to “Latecomer” or “Those who come to help after the victory is already achieved.”

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Gauthra