Well folks, The following is a bit of history that can be gathered from the tomes found in the open study of Ring Manor, the Populi family home. What you read are written by someone unknown at the time, though Maris and Queit Populi suspect it was Maris' father who found the time and the boredom to write down the family history, mixed with their religion as unhinged and loosely founded as it is:

The Chimera Populi, a creature that was built by the Hybusia Biotechenogly Firm esitmated four to five hundred years ago. During a time where there was a city lying southwest from the main city of Rhy'Din was at its peak. This city is called or was I should say Heeja. The population was predominatly humans, or creatures disguised as them, so the climate was rather vicious toward those of other races. The economy of the city was mostly based from the engineering and trade of its goods controlled by Hybusia. However, a small group of gentic engineers and biochemists where asided to assigned to create a solider for Rhy'Din's increasing and causality filled guild wars, most of which held in secert. However, The group, headed by a man calling himself Storm Newland found it better than build a solider for others' gain, make it for their own. This was done with motive held lying in wait upon completion. At the time in Rhy'Din, the influx of our normal population, from the banished angels, to the all powerful superbeings from other worlds shot up, the Rhy'Din population was very mixed and varied, by today standards. Those in charge of what the called the Populi project collected samples from many speices and started to analyze them to find the mix of ablities.The goal overall was to create the perfect being, since magic was coming back in the fashion trend of war, it was also decided that both skill and resistence in magic was needed, for physical wounds, or any other ones that were taken, some form of regeneration should be thrown in, charsima and speed, strength and steath, many things were considered and ultimately decided that they should use the following: Giant for strength primarily, Elf for the charsima beauty and speed in addition to enchanced senses, dragon for magical skill but it would have to vary by breed unless they found a chomatic dragon, drawf for further added resistences to magic and physical harm that the dragon didn't have natural, human for the ability to learn quickly and a vast number of things, and troll for the natural regeneration. However I'm sure this all just didn't happen over night and serveral errors in the combination must have been made proir to the offical first sightnings in the public records of Heeja of any Populi. The Hybusia people and most of Heeja was also decidely agonstic for their faith. However that didn't mean that the gods weren't watching at all. In fact the 'perfect' being gave an interest in one group of gods in particular. These Gods are ones that acutally sent out one of their own to deal with it, for their own reasons that I have theories of but nothing confirmed, this requires too much time to investigate throughly. The god sent down I've only known as Aaris, apparently a Luck god. Tends to be this Divine Cllique's first option before any further action, simply because by throwing in the random elements of natural life, he can fix things to be a certain way. Aaris' meddling was simple, get on the inside, see what their exact plan is and then throw in the monkey wrech to see what would happen and then his people would make their next move. I found that what happened was when they finally had a working set of samples that would be spliced together and the being was forming, Aaris stuck, using luck to creeate two, twins if one would see that way. This threw off the plan since the current being was suppose to be either one a prototype chimera (contrusted beings of flesh and blood either by magic or this method of technolgy which is the offical term for them despite tradition of using animals for this purpose) The test subject now became two. Aaris stay only to find what would happen with the second. The group kept both children for the while, naming them Joseph and Jeditah Populi, giving them the family name the same as the project name "Populi" Ironic, Populi comes from an Earth tongue, meaning "Of the People" but the planned exploitation of the babes was for a few not all people. I knew Joseph had Earth orgins as well but unsure the meaning, Jeditah was completely lost upon me, still to this day. I've heard some names had no meaning and perhaps this was one of those said names.

One of the oddest traits the original Populi chimeras displayed was rapid growth. Some dragons and elves obtain adulthood much quicker than say a drawf or human, considering the lifespan of humans is much shorter than an elves, especially the slyvan's lifespan which was the source of the Populi chimera elven contribuation, which is immortal. Nonetheless, in a few months the children has reached the age of young children, not toddlers but ones equal both in intellect and physical maturity of children born eight or nine years before them. The faculity came to the conlusion that one child should be kept to train, and the other sent off to school to learn a normal life until failure with the first occured. Basicly drop one off somewhere and leave, a spare subject. Scienists could be so cold in my opinion. Jeditah was selected as the child to be abandoned in a Boarding School, fairly elite but also had a bad reputaion for Hazing amongest the teenaged classes. I later learned that a member of the company's board of directors had a son enrolled there as well, that child didn't know of the project but he soon would be entwine into this story as I move forward with it.

Joseph learned every form of warfare with all weapons, tatics. All forms of magic, his skill was great but soon his arrogance would keep up to him quickly. That's another story further down in this tome. Jeditah's life was growing worse with each passing day, the growth traited noted earlier, all but vanish once he was introduced to children around his 'age' I should duely note that they growth although it can be fast but exposure to a different social setting will tweak itself natural as if by insticnt to match the social seetting that a Populi finds his or her self in, Jeditahs case found itself aging with the rest of the human children in his class. Joseph aged daily until he was the average age of the staff training him. I haven't been able to figure out why exactly the Populi do this but it's a rather interesting trait.

I will continue more on this on the next page.

And thus the first page of this tome is closed. Check again readers for the next glimse into the history of this family of Rhy'Din.

Jeditah's flight from the broading school is an odd subject since religion in Rhy'Din and anything that deals with the gods of the world just makes things very uneasy even back during that time and this current era in its history. But nonetheless, this part of the family is vital to understand just how some of the other traits the later generations mainly the currently surviving generation of the clan possess.

Jeditah ran as far from Heeja he could, before he collasped in a meadow. Thare he met a man who called himself Mirsha. Per the Populi folklore, Mirsha is their faith's overall reigning god, the Overseer. He offered Jeditah to come with him and teach him things about himself and meet his colleagues, being the other gods of the faith. Jeditah per offical records from Heeja, disappeared without a trace after the incendent that caused his flight intially. This is true but however what happened that he was taken to another plane of Rhy'Din, the divine planes, which all overlay and are unknown to most folks, only those of devote faith to any religion have been to feel the presence of these other plances of Rhy'Din. Mirsha's other divine powers in arms included his own wife Gaia, who per their folklore created all the native life. Piros the lord of magical energies and operator of the Nexus. Tolreed, a humorous god who really had no realm of control but often played jokes with the Nexus on people, still does if I'm not mistaken, Aaris whom was duscussed earlier, the Master of luck and chance, the overseers of afterlife: Marth (heavens) and at the time Lucifer (now banished and the Inferno replaced him) Raisen the divine warriro to defend them against other dieties in the other planes, and finally the elemental gods, most notable are the Silent Blade the lightning god and the Inferno, the fire god. Through these beings, Jeditah learned of his chimeric orgin and learned of his inate magical skills. However untrained Jeditah proved not to be the warrior that his brother Joseph was shaping to be. The gods offered a paladinhood in exchange for Jedittah being trainied in the magical arts and arts of war from them. Jeditah did take the offer as a chance to learn something new.

Jeditah completed the training in about a year, however the details of his training only extends to the fact that Jeditah was gifted with Mirsha's personal set of armor. The Armor of Mirsha is the basis as it turns out later for the greatsword known as the Irgaak crafted by Maris Populi. This armor made Jeditah powerful defensively and offesnively could be mallable enough to suit whatever it needed to do. I digress, the only strange thing about the training of Jeditah I only heard through hearsay was that a person wearing similar looking armor cause a rampage through a Terran city, but it was not confirmed as to this date so only rumor, nothing more.

Upon Jeditah's return to the mortal plane, his first desire and order was to return to the place he was born, the lab he was created by the Hybusia, now ran by Lance Vietotelli at the time, he was spared in Jeditah's slaughter, Jeditah's rampage in the lab but the media accounts had called him the name of "Unpopulis" which just simply means "Not of the People" . Now Joesph wasn't there nor was Storm Newland, both of whom were visiting the city of Rhy'Din for a meeting with a supplier of goods to continue the manufacture of the Populi chimeras. Which thankfully as far as I know only one outside Joseph and Jeditah was acutally produced, but that one will come into play later (meaning that the current Populi chimeras are not built but born by mortal women and not a lab project). Lance although spared disappeared from the company, this when the infamay of his as a highly skilled theif was rumored and or recorded.

Magic wise, Joseph's skills compared to Jeditah's was superior however Joesph was pigheaded and arrogant. Upon his return and learning of the destruction of his home, he outed himself to the publis as a the chimera super solider and vowed that he'd stopped the evil called Unpopulis, unknown to him that it was his own brother. This gandered the praise and siding of the public of Joesph, who by all means after this public outing, was now a local god of sorts with the amount worship he recieved, Newland's plan exactly with the chimeras anyway. However the first meeting which was publicly displayed all over the city of Heeja, proved to the people that their 'god' of Joseph Populi was nothing more than a mere overconfident loser. Jeditah, whom was much better in acutal combat and having the Armor of Mirsha proved that Joseph's flashy style of combat was basicly worthless and not worth much of anything.

The brothers fought each three after that, proving each time, that Jeditah was just better than his brother. However Newland had some tricks up his sleeve that he pulled during the final battle between the two. However I will pick up on that when you turn to the next page.