Daamin
Small in number and stature, peaceful and philosophic.
Physically, the Daamin resemble meter-tall bunny rabbits of various mixed colors, with fur so fine that it demands to be stroked. As physical contact with other species is very painful to the Daamin, it is forbidden to touch one.
The Daamin spend a large part of their lives in an alternate mental state calledForever Dreams, a state of nonlinear causality.
One of the Seven Races of the Pylistroph.
To the Terran Empire, the Daamin are known as the Kien Khwei. In the Scattered Worlds, the Daamin are often referred to as The Elders.
The titular head of the Daamin race is referred to as The Senior. The ruling council of the Daamin is referred to as The Wise.
The Flight of the Daamin is the crucial event of Daamin history.
Some Daamin Tribes:
- Trnas (specialty: Humans)
- Nes (specialty: general Gathered Worlds studies)
- Bruv (seers)
- Ki
- Plenr (specialty: knowledge theory/librarians)
- Qin (specialty: genetics)
- Sicne
- Rel (devotees of Maranna)
Daamin reproduction resembles a Greek tragedy crossed with the mating of fish and worked backwards over several years.
Basically, one Daam drops an unfertilized egg. Years earlier another Daam, figuring out exactly where the egg will be dropped, arranges to have it fertilized at some time after it is dropped. Both the egg and the fertilizing material are carried by any of several intermediate lower animals.
The whole thing rather seems like a large-scale chess game, and is further complicated by the fact that the Daamin are female most of the time, and only develop the ability to fertilize or drop eggs under certain conditions -- conditions which vary with the individual and the tribe.
Nowadays, it's all done with machines anyway, but the primitive Daamin versions of Romeo and Juliet probably sounded more like Tristram Shandy.