Trenoc CULTURE

At the time when the Soroteth were patiently advancing themselves and developing their technological powers, the rest of the Trenoc were engaged in their millennia old perpetual feuding. The Soroteth wanted to avoid contact with the rest of their race, however despite their best efforts to hide their existence they have had a subtle effect on the early Trenoc, which despite turbulent environment of the warring clans have proved strangely permanent.

This article shall discuss the influence of the Soroteth from two different modes, the first from their accidental observation by the Early Trenoc, and secondly by the formalized ‘last meeting’ in which the Soroteth announced their existence before leaving their homeworld.

Throughout most of Soroteth history their activities have been strictly limited to their own continent, but with increasing technological pace, and their thirst for knowledge to further explore the world around them, the Soroteth would start to appear in the mythologies of the peoples around them. Their most influential effect was from their orbital construction work, the Early Trenoc though not possessing astronomical tools did know how the path of the planets and stars worked, and so the new lights in the sky, from satellites and space stations, and also later, the orbital tether did catch their attention. In these past times, with little technological development, these moving lights fuelled myths and legends about various deities storming about the heavens.

The interpretation of the lights however was as varied as the clans that thought on the surface of Trenoret, the Northern tribes of Karos believed that these lights were the souls of the dead ascending, and believed that they were omens of death. On the slightly more sophisticated continent of Hajahn, they noted that most of these lights obyed certain paths in the skies, and thought of these lights as minor celestial bodies, called by them the children of the moon (as they could only be seen by night). There are hints of more intricate mythologies concerning these lights, though little evidence remains from these times of war, it is thought that every tribe were away of these lights in the sky, and in some way they are important, as we see from homelands of nearly every tribe that depict them, though many do not elucidate the attached beliefs.

The orbital tether constructed by the Soroteth was better hidden than their satellite, they had anticipated the impact of observation of such a structure on the nearby colonized lands, and went to great lengths to minimize its visibility, painting it dark black, though effective, the cable still showed up from time to time in the sky above the early Trenoc, and had been incorporated into their beliefs about the world. Only appearing as a partial line in the sky, the Trenoc did not truly understand its significance, and only the people of eastern Jarok, and western Hajahn could really see a significant length of its structure.

After the true birth of Trenoc civilization, few saw the decline of these lights in the sky, though the loss of the tether was noted a few decades after the Soroteth’s meetings.

Though the lights in the sky were the most lasting and permanent feature of the Soroteth on the Early Trenoc cultures, there are surviving stories of other encounters, most pronouncedly with probably what were Soroteth aircraft and ships, which had been recorded by the early Trenoc, though these sightings were few and far between and had not really developed as part of their religions or mythologies, they occasionally developed into tales, and nearly always ships were conceived as being sea monsters, and aircraft as mythical avian forms.

It has also been suggested that the Soroteth had introduced agents on the Trenoc continents to monitor their progress and gain information before their meetings, but it is hard to decipher from the stories of great mages, and sorcerers whether they could have been Soroteth agents. It is known however that the Trenoc had recovered many articles from Soroteth culture, though many of these were destroyed by the expansion of the church in the start of true Trenoc civilization.

The most influential meeting with the Soroteth would be their formal encounter before their departure from Trenoret. Meetings were made across all the populated continents, it is suggested that over 600 meetings had actually been made, it is not clear however how many Soroteth were actually met as it is quite likely that one group of Soroteth met with many different tribal groups. Nearly all recordings of these events describe the Soroteth arriving in aircraft of some description, though the early Trenoc interpreted these vehicles as giant birds and such like. The stories of the meetings are in themselves are lengthy articles, but the most important points concerning their influence will be mentioned here. In all instances the Soroteth visitors were able to communicate clearly with the tribes they contacted (further suggesting Soroteth infiltration of tribal cultures prior to contact), though some observers noted that they could also speak in a different tongue to each other. The Soroteth also wore a standard form of clothing, a sort of loose fitting robe that has endured throughout Trenoc culture ever since, this outside of the content of the meetings has been one of the most enduring impressions made on the Trenoc culture.

The meetings themselves discussed a great deal of information, and it was this content that had influenced the Trenoc the most. The Soroteth had designed their meetings less to convey who they were and there story, but to impress upon the Trenoc that they as a people had become magnificent through cooperation. The meetings were in short a series of moral lessons that tried to show the Trenoc the rudiments of civilization. Whether the Trenoc at the time fully understood what was being told to them, the roots of civilization were surely sown by this encounter. The Soroteth also left artifacts from their meetings, usually engraved tablets highlighting the principles they were trying to explain. These tablets have almost been as important as the meetings themselves, as there messages have lasted long since the meetings drew to a close, new ages have always found new meaning in the tablets after fresh analysis. These objects have become the most revered artifacts for the Trenoc civilization, and have been a source of inspiration through the ages, not only in thought but also pieces to inspire the arts. Until modern times when more modern Soroteth artifacts could be recovered, from space and from Soret, these tablets kept alive the spirit of the Soroteth and provided a guide for the Trenoc.

In conclusion the Soroteth had achieved almost perfectly what they had set out to achieve, that is minimal intervention and attention to themselves when they had not desired to be seen, and at the right moment to achieve exactly the intellectual effect they had set out to achieve.