History

 Long ago before the Rixen cities we know of today, there was a vast and colorful forest full of unique flora and fauna. This was a time before civilization was even a thought in our ancestors’ brain, before tool use, before… the crumbling.

We were a simple species of mammals classified as “Kósmima Thirío” or “Gem Beast”. We were omnivores that fed on plants and smaller animals, and were hunted by larger species lost to time. Despite this, with the info we have it seemed to have been a peaceful world.

  A few hundred centuries into this peaceful existence, a strange light shown in the sky and little glowing creatures that our ancestors call “Wimsdol” floated down, and blessed our ancestors with knowledge and emotions. 

 With this new mind, our bodies followed suit becoming “Kósmimae Myaló”, the gem mind Rixgems. Our stance went from quadrupedal to bipedal, claws became fingers. We started to create new things, new sounds and sights and smells and tastes. It seemed like with the Wimsdol helping us we were unstoppable in what we could do… 

but the things we were doing had unintended consequences on our planet…

 Our cities cut off migration routes and creatures looking for the food they needed wandered in to feed on our livestock and crops, and in our arrogance we killed them with weapons and chemicals. 

We didn’t think about what the chemicals would do after killing them, we didn’t think about how the ecosystem would react, we didn’t think about it the way the Wimsdol hoped for us to. Eventually, when we noticed how our actions, our waste and ecological footprint was affecting the plants and creatures we wanted to thrive… it was too late.

Before our eyes, our world started to die in what we call “the crumbling”. The Wimsdol left us. Half of the species we wanted to save were already extinct, ecosystems fell apart and our own food supply became limited. We were on the brink of a planet-wide collapse. In a last ditch effort, we imported various flora and fauna from other worlds to try and stabilize the ecosystem enough to recover.

 And… It worked. We saw the foreign plants and creatures take on the necessary roles for each ecosystem. The world was once again thriving.

 A lot has changed since then, most of us today don’t even realize how close to extinction we were. The only reminder remains hidden in our genome, from travels long ago.