Seprevoi

Seprevois evolved from the simian creatures of their home world. They are covered in fine, short hair ranging in color from dark brown to pale blond, except for the black skin of their faces and hands. Seprevois have six elongated fingers on each hand, each featuring an additional joint compared to a human's hand. Seprevois’ four feet have three unjointed toes each.

Civilization and Culture

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Barely capable of sustained extra-atmospheric survival at the time of their planetary evacuation, seprevois only recently made contact with other sapient, spacefaring creatures due to the advent of Drift technology. Without access to the resources on the planet’s surface and lacking the ability to travel farther than neighboring planets in their own system, seprevois did not experience the same rate of technological advancement as did other races, and instead they have built their society around the resources and technology at hand. As such, the Seprevoi Council enforces strict rationing of food, industrial materials, life support resources, and even living space.
Advanced technology and expanded resources from trade have lessened the necessity for such restrictions, so the ruling elites were replaced by a growing oligarchy, as members of the council scramble to claim ownership of burgeoning industries and growth opportunities to ensure their continued relevance and political influence.
The exponential advances in seprevoi technology have caused a schism within the traditional society, as a growing population embraces change and rebukes the religious taboos regarding the planet below. These so-called Returners believe that new environmental controls, reconnaissance techniques, and transportation technologies give them the ability to return safely to the planet’s surface, and they scoff at claims that no seprevoi can survive on the planet regardless of what magic or technology is employed to protect them. What the Returners have in idealism and drive they lack in actual knowledge of the world they hope to restore. Aware of this large blind spot, the movement’s leader, Hestereth (CN female seprevoi envoy), has been urging anyone she can to travel to the planet or explore it remotely via magic or technology to build knowledge of what existed before her people left their world.
Those who cling to ancient traditions believe that nothing, no matter how advanced, can protect them from the wrath of the gods, preaching that seprevois must pay eternal penance for some long-forgotten crime committed by the entire species. The Exilytes, the cult-like organization that permeates every level of seprevoi society, maintain a heavy influence in the Seprevoi Council and have used their sway to hold back the magical, social, and technological development of the species.