The Erileynians

Erileyn is a Earth-like planet of blue oceans and green land in equal measure. There are two main types of Draconians. One dwells in the waters; the other on land.

The Draconians on this planet are more serpentine in nature. The sea dwellers, the Wyluri, live off the "land" and are nomadic. They have a head similar to that of an alligator with rather short snouts. Generally, they have red eyes and no legs. They do have arms and hands, but since they rarely go above the surface or traverse along the bottom of the ocean, they do not require legs or feet. On the rare occasion they do appear on land, they simply slide "standing;" upright. Their eyes have two sets of lenses. Their primary lens is for their underwater habitation to adjust for clarity, pressure, and depth. Their secondary lens is for the use of land where the sunlight is filtered and diffused from the atmosphere. The secondary closes over the primary like built-in sunglasses. Some have cobra-like hoods. They have reptilian, scaly flaps extending from bone-like horns, angling back from the top of their heads.

The Wyluri dwell in water caverns often connected by a network of tunnel systems deep into the ocean floor, along trenches, or oceanic mountains.

The land dwellers are the Qurii (KUR-I). They are incapable of living underwater. The sea dwellers are amphibious, able to breath in water and on land. The Qurii do not have that ability.

The Qurii also live off of the land, but have built townships of clay and wood to farm and raise cattle. They live simply and modestly with little in ways of possessions or luxuries except metallic jewelry which symbolizes and marks stations of social status. Jewelry such as ankle bracelets and a chest plate that covers their left side and straps over and around their neck. A second plate covers their left shoulder blade. This is where their heart is located. The plate has two purposes: tribal identification and protection. Protection during battles, but also from a species of animals on the planet that hunts the Qurii for their hearts as it feeds on the two-chambered organ and nothing else from its kills. Emblazoned on the chest plate is the symbol or insignia of their tribe.

The physical features of the Qurii vary like all races depending on environmental conditions of the areas they must adapt to. From the edge of forehead to the base of their spine runs a sail approximately six inches long. Two additional sails extend from the temples and connects at the top of the skull. They are bi-pedal. Swift and agile. Average human height, and the males do not have tails. The females have long slender tails used to cradle and carry small children.

The Qurii and the sea dwelling Draconians, the Wyluri, live in relative peace. They have no reason to quarrel with one another. It does not mean there has never been conflict, however. But generally, the Wyluri do not surface except during specific times of the year in worship and celebration of the sun and moon in which they come upon land for their ceremonies and rites. The Wyluri, offer the Qurii food from the deepest depths of the ocean for the rite of worship.

The Wyluri worship the sun and moon, recognizing them as parent gods: their creators and caretakers. They regard the sun as the Daybringer, and their moon as the Dreambringer. Their god of reality; their goddess of manifestation. "Dream it; live it."

The Qurii are fundamentally not dissimilar to their aquatic brethren in spiritual beliefs. They, too, worship the sun and moon, which there is just one of each. But they also worship the surrounding planets of the system as gods. Two can be seen in the night sky as large glowing orbs no bigger than a pebble. The two planets are by far the brightest luminaries in the night sky second to their yellow moon. Their planet is one of five planets in the star system.