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Draxxan
An endangered species. Asavar is the first one anyone has seen in centuries. Outside of the large size, their race appears human, for all intents and purpose, but it is what is inside that the difference between the Draxxan and Humans appear. Draxxan live for centuries, they are physically stronger and tougher then normal humans, but their emotions are far greater and intense. No human, perhaps, no being can understand the depth of emotion Draxxan feel. Their rage is all consuming, their love all binding, their sorrow soul crushing and their pain blinding. If a Draxxan's emotions were the sun, the same emotion of a human would be a mere flickering candle.
This intense way of feeling can drive them insane, as such, controlling their emotions becomes paramount. Some do it through, well, sheer control. Master their emotions and their emotional responses, others focus their minds on a single facet of life, a single dedication in an attempt to channel all the emotion for a better purpose. This makes Draxxan incredibly dangerous as while they are often incredibly driven, they also tend to be dangerously unstable and, at the worst, obsessive.
But this is not what led to their near extinction, it is the soul binding that did. When a Draxxan meets a special being, one connected to them by fate, there is a chance a bond will be established. This most often happens between lovers, but it is not always so. Close comrades in arms or even family members may have this bond establish between them, and there is only ever one bond for any Draxxan. This bond is a linking of the souls and a melding of the mind. Between two Draxxan it is a thing of beauty. Their emotions are shared, and so, easier to control, their destines entwined in life and in death, so if the bond mate perishes, the other shall as well as the psychic backlash of losing their bond mate is too much for their mind's to handle. This bond lowers their breeding rate as a Draxxan can only have children with his bond mate and no amount of effort or magic can change that, as such, when the bond forms between two non-lovers, the Draxxan race takes another blow.
But the worst... is when a Draxxan establishes a bond with another species. The other species cannot feel the Draxxan's feelings, they cannot hear their thoughts, if the Draxxan perishes, they will live. But the Draxxan still feels everything from the other. The other species emotions will bombard the Draxxan pushing their reserves to the limit just to keep up with all the bombarding emotions on their own, if the Draxxan bond mate dies, despite the other species being in no danger should the opposite occur, the Draxxan will die. If this bond mate of another species betrays the Draxxan either through laying with another or betraying their trust, it will drive the Draxxan mad with grief and shatter their control making them enter a state known only as, 'Drakhan', the Black Rage from which the Draxxan will never emerge from.
The threat that destroyed the Draxxan race... was the Draxxan. Their exposure to the other races doomed them to a death sentence they never recovered from.
An endangered species. Asavar is the first one anyone has seen in centuries. Outside of the large size, their race appears human, for all intents and purpose, but it is what is inside that the difference between the Draxxan and Humans appear. Draxxan live for centuries, they are physically stronger and tougher then normal humans, but their emotions are far greater and intense. No human, perhaps, no being can understand the depth of emotion Draxxan feel. Their rage is all consuming, their love all binding, their sorrow soul crushing and their pain blinding. If a Draxxan's emotions were the sun, the same emotion of a human would be a mere flickering candle.
This intense way of feeling can drive them insane, as such, controlling their emotions becomes paramount. Some do it through, well, sheer control. Master their emotions and their emotional responses, others focus their minds on a single facet of life, a single dedication in an attempt to channel all the emotion for a better purpose. This makes Draxxan incredibly dangerous as while they are often incredibly driven, they also tend to be dangerously unstable and, at the worst, obsessive.
But this is not what led to their near extinction, it is the soul binding that did. When a Draxxan meets a special being, one connected to them by fate, there is a chance a bond will be established. This most often happens between lovers, but it is not always so. Close comrades in arms or even family members may have this bond establish between them, and there is only ever one bond for any Draxxan. This bond is a linking of the souls and a melding of the mind. Between two Draxxan it is a thing of beauty. Their emotions are shared, and so, easier to control, their destines entwined in life and in death, so if the bond mate perishes, the other shall as well as the psychic backlash of losing their bond mate is too much for their mind's to handle. This bond lowers their breeding rate as a Draxxan can only have children with his bond mate and no amount of effort or magic can change that, as such, when the bond forms between two non-lovers, the Draxxan race takes another blow.
But the worst... is when a Draxxan establishes a bond with another species. The other species cannot feel the Draxxan's feelings, they cannot hear their thoughts, if the Draxxan perishes, they will live. But the Draxxan still feels everything from the other. The other species emotions will bombard the Draxxan pushing their reserves to the limit just to keep up with all the bombarding emotions on their own, if the Draxxan bond mate dies, despite the other species being in no danger should the opposite occur, the Draxxan will die. If this bond mate of another species betrays the Draxxan either through laying with another or betraying their trust, it will drive the Draxxan mad with grief and shatter their control making them enter a state known only as, 'Drakhan', the Black Rage from which the Draxxan will never emerge from.
The threat that destroyed the Draxxan race... was the Draxxan. Their exposure to the other races doomed them to a death sentence they never recovered from.