Kimovihni

Kimovihni believe themselves to be destined for something greater. They tore success and an empire from the ashes of their world. To them, no others struggled as they did. They did not flee peacefully into the stars to hope for salvation, they crafted their empire from the harsh life of the void. Distinctly cervine, the Kimovihni are expansionistic, territory-obsessed and maintain an ancient herd-animal want for sex, territory and the loyalty over their herd. Yet today, they’ve expanded that territorial need to the stars, and beyond their own territory. They have crafted a nation of many, they gladly bask in the riches it has given them.

Physical Description

A cervine people, the kimovihni vary in appearance by the domains of the great warlords, based on ancestral hardships that caused slight deviations to each sept of their species as they were mostly isolated from each other from centuries. They are all as a rule, upright humanoids with antlers of some variety, cervine features, hooves, and opportunistic omnivorous diets, preferring, generally, plant-based diets. Their guts are capable of complex digestion but abandoned a diet primarily of raw vegetation laced plants long before their flight from their homeworld. Their hands tend to have large, blunt nails or ‘hoof fingers’, and they are on average 5-6 feet tall for females, and 7-8 feet tall for males, relatively powerful but lean in builds.

Heritages

Kimovihni heritages were diverse from the beginning, making up the ethnic elites of their homeworld, each ethnicity are highly morphically divergent with different builds, antlers and appearances.

• Selari Tall and elegant, they have broad antlers with many points among the males, they consider themselves to be the bearers of great wisdom and descended from the religious elites. They resemble most antler-baring deer.
• Chkarri Powerful and sturdy, they were born of the harsh climates of the frozen south of their world. They believe themselves to be the even-handed barers of justice and law and value honor above all other things. They resemble elk, reindeer and moose.
• Kinani The diminutive kinani are small and wide eyed, but not skittish. They are known for bravery and courage and are far less self-serving than the rest of the kimovihni. They resemble dik-diks or pudus most strongly. They descend from many islands of their homeworld.
• Shevnikti Sly and manipulative, the shevnikti are famed for their ability to manipulate social situations and carry many cultural ritual practices. They were born of the wetlands in the great taigas and were those who started the Great War that ended their society. They resemble tusked deer and fanged deer.
• Nagari The only heritage not born of elites, they were common laborers. They believe they are the most pragmatic of their people and take pride in their origins as of the lower class. The nagari are most similar to pronghorns and antelopes.

History

The kimovihni history is related to the other three remnants of their society. They were mostly made up of the elites of ancient Alba, the clan Kimmigan were a religious movement that aimed to escape destruction, while the unfortunate masses were the survivors that still cling to the irradiated wasteland of their homeworld. After taking to the stars, they continued their tradition as rulers and are typically regarded as decadent, debauched and imperialistic. Upon reaching the stars and founding New Alba, they rapidly expanded in a fashion not dissimilar to the human Solar Empire. Conquering and integrating numerous aliens they encountered. From human settlers at the Solar Empire’s frontiers to most notably, the Varrk, which they use as soldiers and laborers.

Society

Kimivihni tend to want territory, subjects, and a reason to prove themself to their greater whole and to themselves. At some banal level, the average kimivihni has expanded ancestral need for sex and territory to add power, servants and pride to the mix. Disregarded by outsiders as decadent and debauched hedonists, they would consider themselves as simply embracing the joys of life as they become available. They are singularly self-oriented, with females wanting to flock to a powerful male for some ancestral need for protection, while the males wish to prove their worth to accumulate large harems. Internally, they ruthlessly compete. Females sabotage other females for favor, and males will fight duels of honor with other males to acquire women they feel they deserve. Kimovihni names are usually long, melodic and tend to mean various grand things in their language. Like ‘ruler’ or ‘warrior’ or ‘most beautiful.’ Example Names: Wimblus, Kimbida, Yandyarid, Humhunna, Vibbwowindus

Beliefs

Kimovihni are not particularly religious, but many still hold that the goddess Seta guided them to the stars and heaped upon them bounties in exchange for their hardship. They on average continue this belief into secular practices, holding a firm cultural norm that hardship leads to greater bounties. This firm belief is so deeply rooted that the kimovihni are both difficult to demoralize and to convince that they are not going to gain any ground in a conflict.