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The people of [[Birinji]] are dedicated to peace, wisdom, and contemplation. One day they're visited by three [[Kotturuh]], standing still as statues until the leader Majoral approaches them. One Kotturuh explains that they are tasting the [[crystal moth|crystal moths]]' futures, and that they see potential. | The people of [[Birinji]] are dedicated to peace, wisdom, and contemplation. One day they're visited by three [[Kotturuh]], standing still as statues until the leader Majoral approaches them. One Kotturuh explains that they are tasting the [[crystal moth|crystal moths]]' futures, and that they see potential. | ||
The Kotturuh are on Birinji to perform their "Great Task," as they have always done and always will: it is their duty and mission to visit every world and assess every | The Kotturuh are on Birinji to perform their "Great Task," as they have always done and always will: it is their duty and mission to visit every world and assess every species, bringing the gift of death to all life. Majoral doesn't understand, and the Kotturuh explains that her people once had promise, having built cities and travelled far and wide and made peace with empires, but not anymore because they refused to trade with [[Species (The Dawn of the Kotturuh)|one species]]. Denied supplies, the species became warlike, and in a few centuries will destroy the moon and in an "eventual reprisal" will accidentally target the second sun, making it go [[nova]]. | ||
Majoral speaks up for her people, stating that these events haven't happened yet, that the Kotturuh talks as though the people of Birinji are guilty of something they knew nothing about. He simply tells her that [[eternity]] is wasted on her people. Majoral has the tribe mothers gather weapons, but the Kotturuh clarifies that they mean no harm, and are simply adjusting the "lifespan" of their species, though Majoral doesn't know what a lifespan is. Her people would have lived and proliferated for ever, but will now take up as much of the universe as they deserve. | Majoral speaks up for her people, stating that these events haven't happened yet, that the Kotturuh talks as though the people of Birinji are guilty of something they knew nothing about. He simply tells her that [[eternity]] is wasted on her people. Majoral has the tribe mothers gather weapons, but the Kotturuh clarifies that they mean no harm, and are simply adjusting the "lifespan" of their species, though Majoral doesn't know what a lifespan is. Her people would have lived and proliferated for ever, but will now take up as much of the universe as they deserve. | ||
