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Though often underestimated, the Sebuuk represent the possibility of divine evolution. Just as children may one day surpass their elders, Sebuuk spirits are capable of transcending their naivety and becoming some of the most powerful beings in Lethurèa, depending on their growth and choices.
Though often underestimated, the Sebuuk represent the possibility of divine evolution. Just as children may one day surpass their elders, Sebuuk spirits are capable of transcending their naivety and becoming some of the most powerful beings in Lethurèa, depending on their growth and choices.


== [[Sebuuk Rebellion]] ==
== Sebuuk Rebellion ==
After an eon of waiting for their opportunity to gain mortal bodies, the Sebuuk grew restless. They approached the [[First-Flames]] and desired that they make them bodies. The [[First-Flames]] denied them. [[Yedistren]] was full and the Sebuuk needed to wait. The Sebuuk left seeking [[Malis]] who had promised before the [[True First War]] that "He had power that no other being had."
After an era of spiritual dormancy, the Sebuuk grew impatient. Unlike the other [[Spirit Tribes (Lethurèa)|Spirit Tribes]], who accepted the slow grace of transformation, the Sebuuk longed to ''leap'' into mortality. They sought physical form, not through patience and trial, but through defiance. In time, they approached the [[First-Flames]], eternal forgers of the mortal vessels, and demanded bodies of their own. The First-Flames denied them, citing that [[Yedistren]]—the sacred core of creation—was already full. The Sebuuk would have to wait their turn, as was decreed by the [[Meera Jenlek|Mother]] and [[Merrik Jenlek|Father]].


They went to the [[Kôthar Galaxy]] and inverted the [[Super Nexus (Lethurèa)|Super Nexus]]. In its place was the [[Blackhole (Lethurèa)|Blackhole]], a portal to [[Gozog'nok]]. They entered and found [[Malis]] bound and shackled. [[Malis]] instructed them on how to use his corruption to create [[Shadow Body (Lethurèa)|Shadow Bodies]]. They followed his instructions and created bodies of an oily black substance. Black flames enveloped their bodies. The earth beneath their feet sizzled and corrupted.
But the Sebuuk would not wait.


[[Malis]] explained that other spirits could not gain [[Mortality]] while the [[Sherok]] remained within [[Yedistren]] as they were nigh immortal. They had to kill the [[Sherok]] and the [[First-Flames]]. The Sebuuk returned to the occupied parts of [[Yedistren]]. They had 10 billion strong prepared to end the [[First-Flames]] and raze the [[Grand Citadel (Sherok)|Grand Citadel]], the other Quintillion would erase all [[Sherok]] life from [[Yedistren]]. However, the [[First-Flames]] had anticipated the Sebuuk's actions. The Sebuuk found the [[Sherok Citadel|Sherok Citadels]] fortified and the [[Sherok]] as warriors.
They remembered the words whispered to them before even the [[True First War]]: <blockquote>''“I have power no other being possesses.”'' </blockquote>The voice belonged to [[Malis]], the Shackled Deceiver, the one exiled into [[Gozog'nok]].


War was waged and Quadrillions of [[Sherok]] died. The Sebuuk were eventually sealed away within the [[Blackhole (Lethurèa)|Blackhole]]. The [[First-Flames]] cursed them to never be able to set foot in the [[Light of It'slémwé]] again.
In secret, the Sebuuk traveled to Kôthar and '''inverted the Super Nexus''', turning a channel of light into a wound in space. In its place, they birthed the '''[[Black Hole (Lethurèa)|Blackhole]]''', a spiraling gate into '''[[Gozog’nok]]''', the Lethurèan Hell. There they found [[Malis]] bound in cosmic chains, tormented by a thousand suns' worth of silence. And there he smiled.


== Malis's Torment ==
With cruel instruction, [[Malis]] taught them to weave [[Shadow Bodies]]—false vessels not formed of flesh and breath, but of black flame and volatile matter. These oily husks hissed with dark psionic resonance. Earth withered beneath their feet. Light recoiled from their touch. These were not bodies made in the [[Light of It'slémwé]]—they were formed in defiance of it.
The Sebuuk essentially succeeded. The other tribes were allowed to gain mortality. However, [[Malis]] tormented them for failing to eliminate all of the [[Sherok]] and they did not kill one [[First-Flames|First-Flame]]. The Sebuuk waged war for an eon and still failed. They endured torment for an era.


[[Malismorai]] and his [[Sherok Warlord|Sherok Warlords]] came to released the Sebuuk, but found they had been cursed. [[Malis]] had hope for the Sebuuk knowing the deviousness and brilliant minds of species that would fall to his side. [[Malis]] knew they would find a way to release them. The [[Malisik]] were released leaving the Sebuuk in [[Gozog'nok]].
Malis then shared a forbidden truth: '''No spirit would ever attain true mortality while the [[Sherok]] still lived.''' The [[Sherok]], original children of the [[First-Flames]], were nigh-immortal, anchoring the cycle of mortality. If the Sebuuk wanted bodies of their own, they would need to destroy '''the [[Sherok]]'''… and then '''the [[First-Flames]]''' themselves.


The [[Shemèin]] eventually found ways to make [[Mortal Vessel|Mortal Vessels]] that could allow the Sebuuk to walk in the [[Light of It'slémwé]]. The method was costly and difficult so only the most elite of the Sebuuk were allowed to gain these [[Mortal Vessel|vessels]].
What followed was '''the greatest act of treason in mortal history'''.  Ten billion Sebuuk emerged from the Blackhole, their flames cloaked in shadows. Their mission:
 
* Raze the [[Grand Citadel (Lethurèa)|Grand Citadel]].
* Slay the [[First-Flames]].
* Purge the [[Sherok]] from all of [[Yedistren]].
 
The other quintillion would cleanse all [[Sherok]] life from [[Yedistren]].
 
The [[First War (Lethurèa)|First War]] erupted. The [[First-Flames]], anticipating betrayal, had prepared the [[Sherok Citadel|Sherok Citadels]] for war. What was once a peaceful realm became a cosmic battlefield. Quadrillions of [[Sherok]] fell in waves of corrupted flame and abyssal poison. Cities crumbled. Rivers boiled. Dream sanctuaries shattered.
 
But the Sebuuk had miscalculated. For all their numbers, they were not infinite. They had underestimated the '''will of Light''' and the endurance of the First-Flames. The final blow came when the [[First-Flames]] '''sealed the [[Blackhole (Lethurèa)|Blackhole]]''', casting the surviving Sebuuk back into [[Gozog'nok|Gozog’nok]].
 
Then came the curse.<blockquote>''“Never shall you walk in the Light of It'slémwé again.”''</blockquote>The Sebuuk were exiled. Their forms bound in torment. Their hope for mortality, crushed under the weight of divine justice.
 
== Malis’s Torment ==
Though exiled, the Sebuuk had '''succeeded in part'''. Their rebellion forced the [[First-Flames]] and [[Spirit Tribes]] to reevaluate the nature of mortality. In the ashes of the war, the other tribes were allowed to begin incarnating—granted the gift the Sebuuk had longed for. Their crime had opened the gates... for everyone ''except themselves''.
 
This enraged [[Malis]].
 
The Sebuuk had promised him a world cleansed of the Sherok, and the deaths of the First-Flames. Yet '''not one''' Flame had fallen. The Sherok, though thinned, still thrived. And so, in the choking silence of [[Gozog’nok]], '''Malis turned on his disciples'''.
 
For an entire '''era''', he subjected the Sebuuk to unspeakable torment.
 
* Those who failed in battle were broken—mind, soul, and flame.
* The rebellious were reformed into cursed mockeries, their spirits stretched thin across miles of obsidian chains.
* Some were devoured and remade as Wraith-Spirits, hollow echoes of their former glory.
 
Their '''eon of war had won them nothing… only deeper bondage'''.
 
Later, [[Malismorai]]—a twisted Sherok Warlord who had defected to Malis’s side—led an effort to '''release the Malisik''' from Gozog’nok. Though Malismorai succeeded, he left the Sebuuk behind. Their curse was too potent, their treason too fresh. Only Malis still believed they might someday escape—through brilliance, desperation, or despair.
 
It was not until the rise of the '''[[Shemèin]]''', flesh-crafters and genetic deceivers, that a solution emerged. By sacrificing entire [[Malisik]] [[Soul-Cluster|Soul-Clusters]] and stitching them into complex mortal matrices, the [[Shemèin]] created '''[[Mortal Vessel|Mortal Vessels]]''' capable of containing Sebuuk spirits—vessels resistant to the curse’s annihilating light. If the Sebuuk was slain the [[Soul-Cluster]] would be released and the [[Malisik]] spirits would be freed.
 
These vessels were flawed, unstable, and costly to produce. Only the most '''loyal, elite, or strategically valuable Sebuuk''' were granted them. The rest remained in the dark, awaiting release or consuming one another in madness.


== Sebuuk Species ==
== Sebuuk Species ==
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