Children of Ilma

The Children of Ilma, called Naha'chell in their own tongue, are a now-extinct humanoid race who inhabited the Wilderlands. They were supposedly created by the goddess Ilma during the Theilic Age. They were eradicated by the lineage nova launched by the aeons.

The Children were tall, beautiful humanoids with elongated heads and vibrant green skin. Their bodies produced chlorophyll, which helped them to survive effortlessly in the vicious environment of the Wilderlands. The Children possessed great intelligence and established an advanced civilization during the Theilic Age. In the social system of Theilon, they held the unique caste of "Heightened Being". They lived in relative seclusion, only ever coming into contact with savage elves or primitive human tribes, which they would enslave to carry out their menial labor for them.

The Children were monotheistic, and their view of their divine mother was quite abstract; their belief was summarized as "God equals Life, Life equals God"; the sun was seen as the face of God. Their religion decreed that the great purpose of the race was to reach a "paradise planet" La'hatacan ("close to the Sun"), a splinter of the original Elo supposedly orbiting the Sun between Vaen and E2. To achieve this purpose, they researched and apparently succeeded in achieving space travel. To keep them from breaking the planetary quarantine, the Throne, the ruling body of the aeons, issued the Bulla of Extinction, authorizing the complete extermination of their race by a lineage nova.

Despite their apparent extinction, many alternate theories on the fate of Naha'chell persist. Some insist that the leaders of the Children somehow survived the nova, perhaps by becoming iteration jumpers. A popular theory states that the Children developed a way to cheat the Soulcreek and reincarnated as dao, another race who emerged with similar goals. Some say that the extinction story is merely a cover-up by the aeonic propaganda to hide the successful transportation of the entire race. The appearance of the extraterrestrial xlith in the ruins of the Naha'chell cities furthermore seems to convince many that the Children did manage to contact another planet.