Renaissance

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Since their break and evolution from the Eithelat, they adjusted to living in far harsher terrains, somehow entirely abandoning their old forms, adopting a more frightening visage. Their biggest change from Eithelat being their wing and tail morphologies, adapting flight control to their wings entirely, shifting their tail to a new purpose, a ballast. Their weighted tail also provides defence as well as offence if used as a thagomiser.

Eithelat have a longer body in their renaissance form, and the Djeart retained that, only now as a terrifying display of body horror, as if shedding and unzipping their own flesh when they change forms. This form has its length limits, but most wouldn't be able to tell with how much they simulate a tape measure.

Illandrach Epoch

The Djeart moved into some of the most hazardous lands on the continent they named Djer.

More watercourse than land existed, trapped next to the ocean, much of it hypersaline, and existed mostly as a wasteland.

A lovely place for the Djeart.

Tampering with the very edges of existence is one of their best pastimes, and the first major transmutation caused by the Djeart.

They attempted to remove the salt from the water, only they were one and the same, alive, and was either killed, or disappeared entirely.

Either way, Djeart proclaimed victory and enjoyed their, now newly dry, wasteland.

Just before Quaternion Crescendo

The most unprecedented of their heka-warping being what led to the evolution and creation of the Gattling and Kiamat, respectively.

Evidently the ends justify the means, and was enjoyable.

The sovereign, Pero, "Head of the House", comes from a lineage of past rulers. A Perotek, "Head of the House of Your Own", is an elected official usually chosen in the event of no other heirs to the house. The military will hold elections that are heavily weighed by civilian influence; pleasing the populace being the number one concern, as Djeart are quick to displeasure, and dealing with an enraged Djeart can be frightening. They usually favour the fiercest combatants to lead them, as a good fight always proves entertaining.

Each district is headed by a Heritep, which have the power to rule their district distinctly from the Pero. This gives them plenty of flexibility for how they want to run their territory, and being a nomarch is too lucrative to risk losing to hubris.

Next in the ranking are military, and any officials working directly under either Pero or Heritep, such as scribes. Under them are farmers, artisans, merchants, and servants.

They believe the essence of life comes from the heart, and when life dies the hearts return to their source, where the Keeper resides and allows life to continue on. To accomplish this the heart is removed and buried to return it to Umeon, the is then body burned, and from here they believe the planet absorbs and holds the essence of the person and of the Keeper.

Djeart hold their beliefs in a different angle: the Keeper they know and believe in doesn't exist in actuality and they know it, but believe in the concept of it—similar to the concept of luck or fate. In order for it to exist they must believe in it, and to believe in it allows their spines to unite at their final resting place, Abax Teset.

They use the language of the Mentandgar, Tefer, but with their own dialect, which has a heavy emphasis on using older words.