Editing Burun Lore (section)

=== On [[Bur]] ===

On the world of [[Bur]], two intelligent species resided: The Burun and a race called the [[Fiazhat]]. Whereas the Burun preferred the dark and the swamps, the Fiazhat stayed on solid ground. <ref name=ReportToNiarltah>2004/08 [[From the Darkness Born]] - [[Report to Niarltah]]</ref>

Thousands of years ago, fire rained from the sky and the second world of [[Bur]] crumpled in the sky and fell to the world of Bur. Fire leapt across the [[Iallootu]] lands and scoured the swamps. Burun and Fiazhat alike were drawn into the flames and devoured.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> 

The [[Falatacot]] made visits to the world of [[Bur]] and influenced the direction of this world on a grand scale.<ref name=PackKukuur>2004/11 [[On Bended Knee]] - [[Pack Burun Kukuur]]</ref><ref name=TownNetworkPainting>2010/06 [[Shifting Gears]] - [[Burun (Town Network Painting)]]</ref> They arrived in the places where the Fiazhat supped on the land and grew strong. They came with promises and dreams that they used to bewitch the Fiazhat and fill their heads with thoughts of their worlds. The Burun however, having access to the memory of their world, by eating the fungus [[Mucor]], knew these promises to be false.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> The Fiazhat built structures of hardened sand, carved images in the stone and hissed and sang the songs of the false beings. All this crept forward and grew for five thousand cycles.During that time the burning lands scoured the world and drew the swamp homes of the Burun to near nothingness.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> 

The Sclavus were created by fusing the lives and spirits of the male [[Falatacot]] and creatures called the Fiazhatin.<ref name=Ibrexi>2004/04 [[A New Threat]] - [[Ibrexi Jikti's Journal]]</ref><ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> Charging forth at the behest of their false gods. They grew hoods that sheltered them from [[The Sleeping One]]s eye. Two sets of arms grew from their bodies and they rose from their bellies to powerful tails. They crafted long sticks into devices meant for poking and killing. They took the sinew of the [[Iallootu]] and strapped them to the saplings of the [[Alooki]]. They hollowed the shells of the [[Gantha Roa]] and wore them in plates tied with more sinew. They grew lustful of blood and sought war on all life.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> The Falatacot appear to have frequented Bur on multiple occasions, which led to the Fiazhat's belief that they were some sort of gods. The Burun grew to hate the Falatacot for this. They felt the Falatacot were a pox on the land, and were determined to eradicate them and those who worshipped them.<ref>2004/07 [[Treaties in Stone]] - [[Origin of the Moar]]</ref>


For the next eight thousand cycles they make war and try to force themselves into the swamps. They fail as the Burun develop stronger rites to drive their foes away. But Fiazhat numbers grow and the first clutches rise and follow one another through the mire migrating away from the encroaching Fiazhat threat. <ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> Many of the Burun that wield the powerful rites grow fat with power, some growing so fat that they perish in an explosive display of color. The Burun walk across the burning land for the first time and press the Fiazhat back from the swamps. They become as brutal as their brothers sparing none of the slithering Fiazhat that they defeat. Burun turn to eating the flesh of their brothers to consume their souls and purge the defilers of [[The Sleeping One]]'s way from the world. Teachings of this way become common place and the Burun clutches become maddened with power. They enact great rites to call the tears of the sleeping one and rains fall for a full cycle.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/>

As a reaction to the meddling in the magics of [[Bur]] of the Dark Sisters, the followers of the Light brought the [[Moar]] there.<ref name=MoarsI>2004/07 [[Treaties in Stone]] - [[History of the Moars on Dereth, Part I]]</ref> The moar went from harmless beast to beasts that breathed fire, ice or acid. Their small claws dripped ichor that charged the wounds they cut. Still prey, the moar became dangerous and the Burun developed arts to protect themselves through chants and rites.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> After they began their society on Bur and were stricken by the malice of the Burun, the Dark Sisters abandoned the world of Bur. They took with them a supply of the serpent-like creatures and sealed the access to the world. The Dark Sisters were content to leave the world to doom after they had collected their followers.<ref name=MoarsI>2004/07 [[Treaties in Stone]] - [[History of the Moars on Dereth, Part I]]</ref> again the Falatacot return, and the Light Sisters mingle with the moar. The moar are changed in appearance, temperament and ability. Their talons drip ichor that now mimics their strange and powerful breath. The newly evolved Moarsmen were bred into two castes. The feral Moarsmen were sent back across the vast divide to Bur. Here it was hoped that they would serve as a balance between the zealous Fiazhat and the subversive Burun.<ref name=MoarsII>2004/07 [[Treaties in Stone]] - [[History of the Moars on Dereth, Part II]]</ref> However, they become predators of the Burun and the Burun clutches that had threatened to crush the Fiazhat are suddenly put on the defensive against the wild intellect of the moar.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/>

The Falatacot disappear from the world and the Fiazhat who are left behind fall into a time of fear. They build six grand temples in the locations where their gods have made their presence known. Giant, tentacled eyes are built in the places where the gray-violet tunnels appeared. Knowledge is gathered and placed into these buildings. The Fiazhat begin to fight amongst themselves over the next thousand cycles each vying for control over the temples that have been constructed. In the swamps, the wars between the Burun and the moar intensify.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/>

The mucor senses a shift in the world. The magic transported by the false gods of the Fiazhat causes a catastrophic shift at the core of the world. Earthquakes tear open and swallow the swamps into subterranean lairs then close over again in the ensuing madness. Burun are split into two pairs surface dwellers and those that were drawn into the deep mire without the light of [[The Sleeping One]]. The climate shift causes the rains to cease and the land begins to burn once more.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/><ref name=AcrossTeaser3/>

The Surface dwelling Burun are forced to exist on smaller creatures. They are free of the moar, but their diet diminishes and they evolve into lither creatures. The mucor are drawn beneath the world and the little magic that the Burun of the surface can muster is a pale comparison to what they once commanded. They live in fear and fight a losing war against the Fiazhat for the next one thousand cycles. Subterranean Burun evolve into two castes. The caverns are large and devoid of any light save for the [[Koru Koru]]. In the dark, the Burun are hunted by the [[Moar]. The first evolve into hardy combatants, towering beasts of power. The second evolve into giants filled with the power of magic. They survive in a symbotic tandem for the next thousand cycles. The bloated Burun have a cunning command over the warriors and all but control their small minds. Six leaders are chosen. These leaders are all bloated beasts who have grown fat on the power of the world. <ref name=ReportToNiarltah/><ref name=AcrossTeaser3/>

After a long dry period and subsequently twenty cycles of rain a pit opens in the greatest burning land and an earthquake shifts the subterranean layer back to the surface. The Burun who have lived beneath the surface of the world for so long return to the great swamps and press the surface dwelling Burun into service. The six great leaders of the Burun organize their clutches and move toward the former burning lands. The surface Burun pressed into service by their masters begin to shed the madness of the years as they are exposed to the mucor again. The Burun masters quickly restrict the intake of the mucor from the lesser Burun and hunt and execute those who violate the edicts.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/>

Over the long course of time, since the fall of the Falatacot civilization, the Burun have fought to reclaim their world. They succeed in almost completely eradicating their brother race, the Fiazhat and almost all of Bur is covered in swamps.<ref name=ReportToNiarltah/> Their prophecies spoke of a time when the gates between worlds would open again, and they could take their vengeance upon the Fiazhat's gods.<ref name=PackKukuur/><ref name=TownNetworkPainting/>