![]() Trouble is, their pride in being able to create a civilization has made it so a few of them believe they can create worlds from nothing, which they can't actually do. Proud Scholar Race: The D'ni are capable of using books, knowledge, and maps to develop Ages to live in.They've been underground for long enough that their eyes have weakened, forcing them to wear goggles in bright sunlight. Mole Men: The other thing that defines them aside from the Art. ![]() ![]() Master Race: They see themselves as this, a bias which eventually leads to their demise.Long-Lived: The D'ni seem to have a 400 year life-span, which is significantly longer-lived than an average human life-span.In fact, they are a longer-lived subspecies of Homo sapiens. Human Alien: Apart from their pale eyes and gaunt features, they're visually identical to humans.In Book of Ti'ana, the D'ni express doubt about the possibility of humanoid life existing on earth, despite their civilization having been here for many generations. Gadgeteer Genius: The D'ni are notable for their remarkable engineering skills.Even though they made their official home in a depressing and relatively small underground cavern on Earth, they used linking to get all of their resources and space for expansion, to the point that they had no idea that humans existed on the surface of their nominal "homeworld". Dimensional Traveller: Their entire civilization was built around Rehgehstoy, the art of writing books that could link to other Ages.Sirrus in particular shows this off, as he tries to be a Man of Wealth and Taste while taxing and/or stelaing money from inhabitants of the Ages. Too bad for them that it ended up becoming a Full-Circle Revolution with a few of them, as they ended up just as bad. Defector from Decadence: Originally, their entire civilization broke away from the decadent corruption of the Ronay.Arc Number: Five and multiples of five occur frequently in their culture.For it was in their enlightenment that they considered themselves better, better than the least. This shadow came over them, this shadow of light. Remarkable places giving life and taking life. These Ages that you travel, too, were their Ages. Even Yeesha admits there was a time she felt the same. Gehn is a great example, thinking himself a god, and Sirrus and Achenar both seem to have fallen into this trap as well. It seems you can't swing a stick in D'ni history without hitting a King or other important figure who became drunk on his own skill and committed horrid atrocities to the inhabitants of the Ages because he developed a God complex. The process of Age Writing does not actually create worlds from nothing, but many of its practitioners seemed to forget this after a while. And Man Grew Proud: The D'ni as a whole seemed to have a problem with this.They were destroyed by a deadly plague at the end of Book of Ti'ana, scattering the survivors to the wind. They had mastered the art of traveling to other worlds, known as Ages, by writing about them in descriptive books. An ancient civilization that once existed in the desert under New Mexico or the Middle East, the D'ni arrived on Earth many thousands of years ago after their homeworld's sun began to die.
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