First of the Sun

First of the Sun
Shards	None
Investitures	Aviar
Universe	Cosmere

First of the Sun is a minor Shardworld. The world has not yet developed spacefaring technology, but they have been visited by the Ones Above, a spacefaring race from another world.

Geography

The Eelakin Islands are the homeland of the Eelakin people. It is about three weeks of rowing from the Panatheon. The Mainland is a large continent inhabited, close to the Panatheon. The Panatheon is a group of about forty islands. One island is Sori, and the largest island is Patji. Patji is a place of inhospitable peaks, sharp cliffs, and deep jungle.

Culture

Eelakins are solitary trappers from the Eelakin isles. They value the ability to survive on ones own. They speak very little, and will sometimes go weeks without speaking. Each carries a book, on which they record their life. On the last page, they leave a brief message to whichever hunter finds them when they die, often requesting their rival trapper to care for their birds. They live a very harsh and difficult way of life. They rely on their Aviar to protect them, and develop very strong bonds with their birds. The Mainlanders tend to romanticize their ability to live with the forest, when in fact the trappers would much rather live on islands with no predators. They don't often ask questions about the ways of things, instead simply accepting it as a way of life. They name their children according to when they were born, and in what number they were in of all their children. If somebody were named Eleventh of the Morning, they would be their parent's eleventh child, and born during the morning. Mainlandersare much more scientifically developed than the Eelakins. They questions things, and seek to develop scientifically advanced technology. They consider themselves much more advanced that the Eelakins, although they respect the Eelakins for their toughness and resilience, and their ability to live on the Panatheon. The Ones Above are a spacefaring race of people who are very likely not from First of the Sun. They bring in advanced technology, but are careful not to allow the Mainlanders to advance beyond what they are safely able to advance. They leave notes in their devices, seemingly by accident, to help the Mainlanders along.

Magic

Many of the animals on the Pantheon are able to detect the thoughts of other creatures on the planet. There are enormous sea creatures that hunt by detecting the thought patterns of other creatures, and hunt them. Hunters of the Panatheon use their Aviars to mask their thoughts. There are plants that send out the thoughts of frightened, wounded, animals, in order to draw predators, which fight near their trunk. The tree feeds off the blood. Enormous birds called Nightmaws find prey sensing their emotions. Aviar, birds prized by the trappers for their ability to block the trappers thought waves, defending them from predators, live only on the Pantheon. If you grow an Aviar from an egg somewhere else, they will not have this ability. The Aviar go to a certain place on Patji when they are young, and when they leave, they are able to block the trappers thoughts from predators who sense them. Nobody except for Sixth of the Dusk knows that the birds get infected with a parisite worm there, and the worm actually does the work. If you bring a different species of bird to that area, they will develop a different power. Sixth of the Dusk's bird, Sax, shows him images of his own corpse in places where if he were to go, he might die. This warns him of these places, and he stays away.

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