RP ARGENTUM: The Cascading Falls of Luna
Moon: The Cascading Falls of Luna.
Luna is a small moon-sized planetoid that unlike real life Earth contains vast amounts of water not just on its surface, but also within the planets mantle depths as well (although there is some volcanic activity and stone, but there's far more water on the surface and beneath it than Earth. The combination of volcanic activity and strong water presence caused the planet to essentially become a series of tall cliffs and precipices with water that surges in spiderwebbed and vein like aquifers that jut out all around the surface. There are some flatter areas at medium elevations on the planet's surface levels, but even these have waterfalls and fountains and springs and geysers and springs and such frequently appearing all around. When looked at as a whole. Luna is essentially a series of cascading waterfalls of random heights and depths that feed into rivers and caves and small oceans, where the water sinks deep into the planet only to be recycled by natural processes back upward into the planet's massive aquifer system.
The temperature is normally more tropical and lush arboreal foliage and ferns cover much of the surface, along with flowers and grasses of many types as well. Although there are patches of rock and cliffs and such here and there. Although there's normally a multiple waterfalls within sight almost anywhere one may look. But all the jutting spires and cliffs make for perfect perching spaces for the Lunarians and other flying species when they aren't soaring through the air.
There is an event that happened in this planetoid's past that changed it forever. The Lunarians call it the Moonfall, an event that was so dramatic that it became etched into their racial memory. But in the past, there was a swarm of silver-infused meteors that bombarded Luna. Thankfully they were relatively smaller so didn't destroy the planetoid, although it did massively alter ecosystems and kill some wildlife. But there was one meteor that was big. A giant crystalline thing about the size of a few city blocks on all sides interlaced with the most alchemically pure silver possible. And it glows with a soft pearly light and emitted an invisible field of radiation that would eventually give rise to the Lunarians. And within it, is a pulsing silvery humanoid-shaped light that the Lunarians would one day figure out was the sleeping form of Argentum, the First Moon. This crystal edifice is called the Moon-Core, and is a sacred and mystical site to the Lunarians.
People: The Lunarians (and Raptorans).
The Lunarians are not a god-people. Well, they are now technically but they weren't always. Then again, they weren't always as evolved and sapient as they are today either. Not before the Crystal Moon-Core plummeted onto Luna from the Void during the Moonfall, anyway.
You see...the species that would one day become the Lunarians was originally less-evolved creatures that were almost entirely animals, called the Raptoran. They were a race of bird-like mammals and were extremely bestial and primitive creatures, until the Moonfall happened. But then everything changed. The Presence of the First Moon affected Luna in deep and intricate ways, with one of them being that due to some odd and coincidental 1 in a million chance feature in their DNA, they began to spontaneously evolve rapidly due to the Moon-Core's Radiation. Every generation was very obviously more evolved than the preceding one until eventually the Lunarians of today came into being.
And you see...their intelligence also grew, from that of animal-like to full humanoid sentience. And these creatures, the Lunarians, figured out that it was the presence of the Moon-Core and the First Moon within it that caused them to change and evolve, for in the farthest reaches of Luna some of the original Raptorans still exist as they were out of range of the radiation. But even now, in the lifetimes of the Lunarians, those Raptorans that get with a 20 mile radius of the Moon-Core begin evolving over time until they eventually become full Lunarians too. So it's no mystery about what happened and how it happened. And at this Revelation, the Lunarians began to worship the First Moon that slept within the Moon-Core as the god it just happened to actually be. And their seers and witches had foretold that one day, the First Moon of moons would wake up from his sleep and walk the world aside mortals while himself remaining divine.
The Lunarians appear as humanoids with skin tones ranging from pale to soft blue, and every Lunarian has a pair of bird-like wings that they can use to fly. Their feathers can come in as many different types of color schemes as real life birds have, and no Lunarian's wings look 100% identical although general patterns and color schemes do run in families and change genetically over time. They have a more superstitious culture whose magical tradition can best be described as some practitioners being more shamanistic and others being more like witches (less in the satanic sense and more in a Celtic sense), and astrological bodies are important symbols with the Moon obviously holding special prestige and importance. They are beginning to discover the basics of science as well but as always are still evolving.
Raptorans and Lunarians have a special relationship to this day. The former are normally extremely willful animals, but are easily tamed by Lunarians who seem to share a sort of mild empathic connection to them. Sort of like man and dogs. Raptoran's do evolve into Lunarians when they are close enough to the Moon-Core, although this process does take multiple generations to happen but as Raptorans reproduce faster than Lunarians, this isn't as daunting as you'd think. Although if a partially evolved raptoran starts mating and living away from the proximity of the Moon-Core the evolution will eventually be lost and have to begin again in future generations. Although all full Lunarians breed true even away from the Moon-Core. Raptorans do find the Moon-Core and Argentum appealing, even fi they don't understand why. It's something on a deep genetic level.
