Machavann

Description


The Great God of the Phytonide army.

History
Long ago they were a humanoid, if not completely human, civilization. However, due to their actions the plant experienced global level pollution, their world turned into a wasteland not suitable for life and bring the remains of their civilization close to extinction. But they managed to survive by intensive magic genetic splicing - they turn themselves into human-plant hybrids that can survive the harshest environments. That way they were able to stay alive and to re-populate their planet, while keep changing themselves genetically. And they've gone very far with those changes - not much human remained in them.

Tonzar was the main ideologist of the war and had found a way out of their disastrous situation. With ether he planned to change the very biology of race, to adapt it to the changes occurring on the Koh. He wanted to transform his race into a plant like species that could adapt and survive on the poisoned planet's surface.

The first successful results of his experiments were extremely impressive. Tonzar managed to introduce into the bodies of volunteers a fundamentally different mechanism of power, based on photosynthesis. It seemed the perfect solution to the problem of the hunger that resulted after the war. Tonzar received the approval and assistance of his colleagues, and continued to develop his success while gradually becoming a more and more significant figure to their new society. Since not all mages who participated in the war were immortal, Tonzar and a few of his colleagues were eventually the only witnesses to the pre-war past. For them, it was easy to reshape history to fit their needs, and with it the whole of society.

Eventually, they developed a biotech advanced enough for space travel under the guise of their Great God Mahavann, who proceeded with colonizing other planets turning them into green beautiful worlds full of plant life, without consideration of local population who simply got consumed. At some point, his colonization space-fleet met a great resistance from technologically advanced civilization who does not want to be turned into a compost for flowers. That forced Mahavann to produce combat capable ships and combat capable phytonides through more genetic changes. He eventually turned that civilization into a compost as well leaving another beautiful garden-planet behind.