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Perseige

(2020)
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The universe exploded. The temperature dropped and plasma froze into atoms. Sticky molecules bonded together. Nurtured in four levels of pre and post atomic structure, life took root. Billions of years passed before a social level of organization grew from these physical foundations.

Sexual and parental love brought success to the human species. Societies flourished, each a function of language. Evolution might have given humans the best society and the best language, but the planet they lived on was too small. Cultures gobbled each other, and the sole survivor grew rigid because of the lack of outside influences.

Collapse was inevitable, the end of the Old Eld. Scholars speculate that the collapse was engineered to recreate linguistic and social diversity and give evolution a second chance.

Born into this diversity, few know about conditions in the city of Perseige. The four kingdoms along the Lym River have their own concepts...


Genre: Science Fiction

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