toodeep wrote:
We knew humanity existed on the continent before the coming of the human gods (pengik right?),
I think you may be over simplifying your humans.
Magic of Arcanis pg118-119 wrote:
The Pengik people are a conundrum to most scholars. While viewed as primitive, they have a very sophisticated social structure, and have astonished visitors with their advanced knowledge of medicine, plants and magic. Even more disturbing, especially to the few missionaries that have braved the Pricklespur Forest, are their stories about their creation and history. Most have discounted the stories of Serpent Gods as stories incorporated by the Pengik due to contact with Elorii, but others take their tales more seriously.
The truth of their tales lies closer to the surface that is commonly thought and none know this more fully than the Afatkuq. The cunning, but arrogant, Sethregorans allowed their Pengik servants to much access to their stores of knowledge, even allowing them to participate as assistants in some of their experiments. They took the knowledge offered, concentrating on certain aspects that they saw as useful too their people. Ever resourceful, they quickly
honed and mastered powerful medical techniques.
Generations passed before the Sseth realized that their servants had grown powerful off of their knowledge. Unfortunately for the Sseth, it was too late to undo what they saw as damage.
While the stories describe the Pengik as rising up against their masters, the truth imparted to the Afatkuq is that they fought to preserve their people. Realizing a failure, the Ssethregoran sought to erase their mistake, but that mistake fought back. The Afatkuq were critical in the preservation of the Pengik, for their ability to augment the body allowed the Pengik to overcome their masters, forcing them from the Priklespur. Some of the guardian creatures of the forest that are found today were the product of the Afatkuq’s surgery, and to this day, no Ssethregoran enters the forest
unchallenged.
Magic of Arcanis pg 94 wrote:
The Pengik, interestingly, were not surprised when the Elorii discovered their elemental affinities, and accepted Eloran teachings as an inevitability rather than as a new technique.
The Pengik are a creation of Technomancy from the Ssethregoran Empire that had expanded up to the Hinterlands. They are human in appearance but can tap into an elemental nature. Like the Undir and water, or the Kio and air. The Pengik can choose any element they wish but still only one. They might not be human at all. In the same way a val'Inares is a Val, but really they have a very different base structure from the other families that does create differences.
Anyway back to humans.
There could be 3 types of humanity.
1. Ones that were on Arcanis before the Other arrived (Ssanu had to make Pengik from something)
2. Ones that came with the Other
3. Ones that came with the Pantheon of Man
PoM men only knew that they couldn't breed with humans that were here before them but they didn't know who they were meeting.
There are too many sub groups of humans, Gold flecked eyes (Savosh), Kio, Naori, Undir, Pengik, Altherian, Myrantian, Chani, Harnen, Yhing Hir, Andyar, etc. with too many creation stories for us to be certain of lineage.
Who was here first? Who are the Children of the Other? We will have to wait and see.