Post by ☠War☢Gerbil☠ on Mar 8, 2011 21:53:31 GMT -5
Species Name: Kaung'aavi aka: The Kaung
Species Type: Humanoid
Planet of Origin: Shokuur
Average Maximum age: 150 galactic standard years
Age of Maturation: 25
Average Height:
Average Weight:
Notable biological features: Skeletal heads, black skin, large hand claws(warriors).
Number of limbs and Type: 2 arms, 2 legs.
Appearance: Kaung'aavi Seer
Kaung'aavi Warrior
Culture: The Kaung'aavi, Kaung for short, are a species of proud and violent humanoids that evolved on Sho'kuur. Kaung have a larger than average number of individuals able to use the Force in their species, so high in fact that the entire species is considered strongly force-sensitive. This abundant force sensitivity resulted from a symbiotic relationship with the dark side of the force. Adult Kaung characteristically have skin of a midnight black hue, although infants of the species appear in a lighter shade of grey.
Though they are in an almost constant state of war, their civilization is quite culturally sophisticated; they see these acts not as cruel or barbaric, but simply basic aspects of existence. They are notable for engaging in supposedly primitive practices such as sentient sacrifices in the name of their gods. Kaung culture includes the Kaung language, a rigid and stratified caste-based society, live sentient sacrifices to the Kaung deities, and use of ancient and arcane alchemy and magic. For the Kaung, war and violence are just as much a part of the natural order of life as peace or serenity.
Kaung are born into their caste. All rankings hold respect for each other because each rank has an important job. However, a higher ranking Kaung does not show respect or disrespect to lower ranks. It is simply understood that they respect them while maintaining authority. Lower ranking Kaung must show respect to higher ranks, but they do not do this out of fear of repercussions. The caste system is such a staple of Kaung'aavi life individuals bare no ill feelings towards those who give them orders. Structure and discipline is what has kept them alive and so every Kaung strives to do their best in the rank bestowed upon them. The only ways for a Kaung to change their rank in society is by great military achievements(for warriors) or bestowed the title of Prime by the previous Prime Seer(for seers). By age 5 it is apparent what caste a Kaung'aavi child is destined for. The following is a chain of command from highest power to least influential in the Kaung'aavi caste system.
Every Kaung'aavi tribe has a Prime Seer, the undisputed leader of the tribe. War leaders and Seers answer to the Prime Seer of their tribe. Seers, the minority of Kaung that exhibit a higher force prowess than others, undergo religious training in adolescence. Both males and females can become Seers. As adults they run anything religious, political, and medical related.
A war centered culture(much like the Spartans) all males, with the exception of the Seer caste, begin warrior training at the age of 7 which they will continue for the rest of their lives. Before their first battle a young Kaung'aavi warrior cuts off his hair as form of passage into manhood. By the time a warrior reaches maturation they look dramatically different from non-warriors. This is because Kaung warriors eat with every meal a sort of paste composed primarily of a plant only native to Shokuur that has extraordinary steroid-like effects on the body. Warriors also, right before entering battle, snort a fine powder from the crushed leaf of a different plant which induces a battle frenzy state of mind. This does not affect their appearance though.
Female Kaung, although lacking much say in politics, are very important to the Kaung'aavi way of life. They run the large Kaung villages in all ways albeit militarily or politically. They maintain upkeep, gather and prepare food, raise and teach the children, bury the dead, and any other task not in the jurisdiction of the military or religious Seers.
As far as technology goes the Kaung are primitive. Before the Templar of Shokuur dissipated they were teaching various branches of technology to the Kaung as well as harnessing the dark side of the force. When the templars killed each other off in a colossal civil war however, the Kaung were left teacher-less. Lacking industry any form of advanced technology receded into the recesses of time and Kaung'aavi lore.
The Kaung did not lose grasp of the templar force teachings though. Their most advanced form of technology is the holocron. Unable to make new ones, though the Kaung'aavi keep their caches of templar holocrons secret except to Seers. Indeed when tribes wage war against other tribes capturing rival tribe holocrons is counted as a great victory as tribal Seers don't always have the same knowledge of force powers as the next tribe.
The beings who taught the Kaung how to harness the force, the Templar of Shokuur, are viewed as demigods in Kaung'aavi religion. Before the Templar arrived the Seers ran religion based off of scientifically insignificant rituals whose power came from belief and superstition(much like voodoo). After the Templar taught the Kaung Seers how to command the force and use alchemy, religion, while still largely belief and superstition oriented, gained a whole new chapter of supernatural workings and tangible creations. Things energized with and/or radiating dark side energy are considered sacred.
History: Around 6,900BBY in the wake of the Hundred-Year Darkness a small band of Dark Jedi escaped the rounding up of defeated Exile forces and fled from persecution. They traveled into what at the time was Unknown Space. The cultists wound up in the Tarshagal System. When they emerged from hyperspace, they found themselves gazing down on an uncharted world. They descended to the surface of the planet Shokuur; there they found a humanoid sentient species calling themselves the Kaung'aavi. The dark sider cultists awed the primitive species with their display of Force power and were regarded as demi-gods sent from the heavens to lead and enlighten the Kaung.
They became the rulers of the Kaung'aavi and founded a new cult of force users dubbed the Templar of Shokuur. Templar were composed of the offspring of the cultists as well as Kaung'aavi with high midi-chlorian counts and showing great potential. Their leader being called the Zen'ari, or "High Templar" of the Kaung'aavi. The first High Templar was an zabrak named Krassus Xang. Xang began uniting warring Kaung tribes into a new planet wide empire lead by Templar instead of native Kaung'aavi. Over time the original Templar and the Kaung interbred to make the two groups indistinguishable from one another, and the Empire continued to be lead by a succession of High Templar. Deceased High Templar were entombed in the various natural caves and caverns of Shokuur instead of cremated on massive funeral pyres as Kaung'aavi Kings had been. Their tombs were filled with the treasures they had accumulated during their life, as well as strong dark side energies. Often the tomb would also house the spirit of the Templar lord himself, who remained attached to his body and possessions through the Force.
At the apex of the Templars power, around 6,300BBY, there were a good 10 or so planets encompassed into the Templari Empire. All of these worlds were in the Outer Rim, at the time Unknown Space; thus the Templar went unnoticed by the rest of the Galaxy.
Around 6,000BBY the Templar of Shokuur went into a power struggle the cause of which is unknown. Perhaps a prominent High Templar died thus causing a power vacuum. What ever the reason, the empire descended into a civil war. Imperial planets in different systems became cut off from the happenings in the rest of the empire and thus became enveloped in their own sub civil wars. On all worlds the High Templar warlords vying for power fully annihilated each other in their obsession for control. Even Templar forces on Shokuur, dubbed the holiest planet in the Empire, splintered and waged bloody cataclysmic wars in the jungles and swamps.
The outcome was that all original non-kaung templar were killed off. Shokuur, the only remaining planet in the galaxy with Kaung'aavi, was plunged back into its pre-templar state. The Kaung spread back across the planet into tribes ran by force trained Kaung dubbed Seers. Seers of each generation continued to pick out and train other force sensitive Kaung'aavi just like the Templar had done so long ago. Although they fight each other over territory, politics, and minor religious differences, all Kaung'aavi await the return of their demi-gods, the return of the Templar
Species Type: Humanoid
Planet of Origin: Shokuur
Average Maximum age: 150 galactic standard years
Age of Maturation: 25
Average Height:
- Warriors: 7 feet
- Seers: 5'10
Average Weight:
- Warriors: 280 lb.
- Seers: 130
Notable biological features: Skeletal heads, black skin, large hand claws(warriors).
Number of limbs and Type: 2 arms, 2 legs.
Appearance: Kaung'aavi Seer
Kaung'aavi Warrior
Culture: The Kaung'aavi, Kaung for short, are a species of proud and violent humanoids that evolved on Sho'kuur. Kaung have a larger than average number of individuals able to use the Force in their species, so high in fact that the entire species is considered strongly force-sensitive. This abundant force sensitivity resulted from a symbiotic relationship with the dark side of the force. Adult Kaung characteristically have skin of a midnight black hue, although infants of the species appear in a lighter shade of grey.
Though they are in an almost constant state of war, their civilization is quite culturally sophisticated; they see these acts not as cruel or barbaric, but simply basic aspects of existence. They are notable for engaging in supposedly primitive practices such as sentient sacrifices in the name of their gods. Kaung culture includes the Kaung language, a rigid and stratified caste-based society, live sentient sacrifices to the Kaung deities, and use of ancient and arcane alchemy and magic. For the Kaung, war and violence are just as much a part of the natural order of life as peace or serenity.
Kaung are born into their caste. All rankings hold respect for each other because each rank has an important job. However, a higher ranking Kaung does not show respect or disrespect to lower ranks. It is simply understood that they respect them while maintaining authority. Lower ranking Kaung must show respect to higher ranks, but they do not do this out of fear of repercussions. The caste system is such a staple of Kaung'aavi life individuals bare no ill feelings towards those who give them orders. Structure and discipline is what has kept them alive and so every Kaung strives to do their best in the rank bestowed upon them. The only ways for a Kaung to change their rank in society is by great military achievements(for warriors) or bestowed the title of Prime by the previous Prime Seer(for seers). By age 5 it is apparent what caste a Kaung'aavi child is destined for. The following is a chain of command from highest power to least influential in the Kaung'aavi caste system.
- Prime Seer
v - Seer
v - War Leader (highest military rank)
- Task Master (mid military rank)
- Warrior (the back bone main fighter rank)
v - Females(those that aren't Seer's)
v - Children
Every Kaung'aavi tribe has a Prime Seer, the undisputed leader of the tribe. War leaders and Seers answer to the Prime Seer of their tribe. Seers, the minority of Kaung that exhibit a higher force prowess than others, undergo religious training in adolescence. Both males and females can become Seers. As adults they run anything religious, political, and medical related.
A war centered culture(much like the Spartans) all males, with the exception of the Seer caste, begin warrior training at the age of 7 which they will continue for the rest of their lives. Before their first battle a young Kaung'aavi warrior cuts off his hair as form of passage into manhood. By the time a warrior reaches maturation they look dramatically different from non-warriors. This is because Kaung warriors eat with every meal a sort of paste composed primarily of a plant only native to Shokuur that has extraordinary steroid-like effects on the body. Warriors also, right before entering battle, snort a fine powder from the crushed leaf of a different plant which induces a battle frenzy state of mind. This does not affect their appearance though.
Female Kaung, although lacking much say in politics, are very important to the Kaung'aavi way of life. They run the large Kaung villages in all ways albeit militarily or politically. They maintain upkeep, gather and prepare food, raise and teach the children, bury the dead, and any other task not in the jurisdiction of the military or religious Seers.
As far as technology goes the Kaung are primitive. Before the Templar of Shokuur dissipated they were teaching various branches of technology to the Kaung as well as harnessing the dark side of the force. When the templars killed each other off in a colossal civil war however, the Kaung were left teacher-less. Lacking industry any form of advanced technology receded into the recesses of time and Kaung'aavi lore.
The Kaung did not lose grasp of the templar force teachings though. Their most advanced form of technology is the holocron. Unable to make new ones, though the Kaung'aavi keep their caches of templar holocrons secret except to Seers. Indeed when tribes wage war against other tribes capturing rival tribe holocrons is counted as a great victory as tribal Seers don't always have the same knowledge of force powers as the next tribe.
The beings who taught the Kaung how to harness the force, the Templar of Shokuur, are viewed as demigods in Kaung'aavi religion. Before the Templar arrived the Seers ran religion based off of scientifically insignificant rituals whose power came from belief and superstition(much like voodoo). After the Templar taught the Kaung Seers how to command the force and use alchemy, religion, while still largely belief and superstition oriented, gained a whole new chapter of supernatural workings and tangible creations. Things energized with and/or radiating dark side energy are considered sacred.
History: Around 6,900BBY in the wake of the Hundred-Year Darkness a small band of Dark Jedi escaped the rounding up of defeated Exile forces and fled from persecution. They traveled into what at the time was Unknown Space. The cultists wound up in the Tarshagal System. When they emerged from hyperspace, they found themselves gazing down on an uncharted world. They descended to the surface of the planet Shokuur; there they found a humanoid sentient species calling themselves the Kaung'aavi. The dark sider cultists awed the primitive species with their display of Force power and were regarded as demi-gods sent from the heavens to lead and enlighten the Kaung.
They became the rulers of the Kaung'aavi and founded a new cult of force users dubbed the Templar of Shokuur. Templar were composed of the offspring of the cultists as well as Kaung'aavi with high midi-chlorian counts and showing great potential. Their leader being called the Zen'ari, or "High Templar" of the Kaung'aavi. The first High Templar was an zabrak named Krassus Xang. Xang began uniting warring Kaung tribes into a new planet wide empire lead by Templar instead of native Kaung'aavi. Over time the original Templar and the Kaung interbred to make the two groups indistinguishable from one another, and the Empire continued to be lead by a succession of High Templar. Deceased High Templar were entombed in the various natural caves and caverns of Shokuur instead of cremated on massive funeral pyres as Kaung'aavi Kings had been. Their tombs were filled with the treasures they had accumulated during their life, as well as strong dark side energies. Often the tomb would also house the spirit of the Templar lord himself, who remained attached to his body and possessions through the Force.
At the apex of the Templars power, around 6,300BBY, there were a good 10 or so planets encompassed into the Templari Empire. All of these worlds were in the Outer Rim, at the time Unknown Space; thus the Templar went unnoticed by the rest of the Galaxy.
Around 6,000BBY the Templar of Shokuur went into a power struggle the cause of which is unknown. Perhaps a prominent High Templar died thus causing a power vacuum. What ever the reason, the empire descended into a civil war. Imperial planets in different systems became cut off from the happenings in the rest of the empire and thus became enveloped in their own sub civil wars. On all worlds the High Templar warlords vying for power fully annihilated each other in their obsession for control. Even Templar forces on Shokuur, dubbed the holiest planet in the Empire, splintered and waged bloody cataclysmic wars in the jungles and swamps.
The outcome was that all original non-kaung templar were killed off. Shokuur, the only remaining planet in the galaxy with Kaung'aavi, was plunged back into its pre-templar state. The Kaung spread back across the planet into tribes ran by force trained Kaung dubbed Seers. Seers of each generation continued to pick out and train other force sensitive Kaung'aavi just like the Templar had done so long ago. Although they fight each other over territory, politics, and minor religious differences, all Kaung'aavi await the return of their demi-gods, the return of the Templar
