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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 465085" data-attributes="member: 8530">History of the Biosphere:While Li-Tak had prolonged his life through the use of magic, he realized that his days were coming to an end, and that without his protection the Hengeyokai race was in  jeopardy from the outside world.    Using a unique combination of artifacts, both magical and druidic, he  tapped into the mystic energies of the planet and created a devise to project a spherical field of magic in a twenty-mile radius around the castle in all directions.  He infused this sphere with the power of anti-magic, so that any slaver who breached the walls of the sphere would have known spells negated and any magic item would cease functioning for 6-24 hours.  This would prevent salvers from entering the “Biosphere” and using magic to capture the Hengeyokai residents.   The sphere was translucent and ethereal, to allow for light and weather to pass through it, and groundwater below, as the sphere is projected below the castle as well.  The sole exception was the first 100 feet of sphere wall above the ground, which was a tinted an opaque gray color to keep the outside world from seeing inside.   The sphere could also be seen from many miles away, at dawn or dusk, when the sun was barely over the horizon and it’s light strikes against the sphere at a unique angle that causes a reflection off the dome. Li-Tak passed away 325 years ago. During his life he had mated with a small group of female Hengeyokai who lived with him at the castle and produced children.  These hybrid-race offspring were never accepted by the other Hengeyokai, and lived out their lives inside of the castle.   Approximately 250 years ago the last two surviving children prepared a crypt for the father’s body within the ancient temple near the castle, and then sealed themselves inside of it, entrusting the Hengeyokai Elders with the only key to this Tomb.   The Hengeyokai continued to avoid the castle itself, as Li-Tak and his offspring had sealed it off with powerful wards, to prevent the mechanism that projected the sphere from being disturbed.  While the sphere afforded some protection, large slaving parties were still able to mount invasions into the land of the Hengeyokai, relying on shear force rather than magic and attacking the seven villages situated closest to the sphere’s outer wall.   These villages were abandoned, with the population moving to the five inland villages, each located between five and nine miles from to the castle   A Hengeyokai army was formed to prevent slaver parties from being able to successfully travel this far inland.   While all Hengeyokai tend to get along, regardless of alignment, the five villages evolved so that the various sub-races started to congregate with “like minded folk”.  As a result, each village now has a majority population of those with similar alignments, the villages representing Lawful Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Evil, Chaotic Evil, and Neutral.   Each village has a population between 500 and 1,000 Hengeyokai, with an equal number living in the lands outside of each village, who they consider themselves affiliated with.</blockquote>

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