Sleepers

Sleepers are walking among us since thousands of years to watch over the destiny of humanity on all populated planets. It is to limit the ploys of demon Fate to secure the survival of humans and sleepers.

The planet Sroja has been the hub of this secret organization for millennias. Butthe Myrmidons of Fate gained much power over centuries with the existence of the Shadow Lord. So, they had driven back sleepers to their home planet. Sleepers had to flee and to cover their tracks. Since then they have been settled hidden on the planet Dersa.

Sleepers are long-living beings which are walking among us hidden in the underground trough centuries. Even if they seem invulnerable on first sight, they can die on sanctuaries in ritual duels because there they are vulnerable as any other human. They can also die outside these places when the vital body functions are destroyed for a period of several days. Even if the body stays in a self-healing and energy saving trance similar to a rigor mortis, this state cannot be maintained forever. Death occurs when the energy of the body and soul have been fully consumed. Non life endangering injuries heal entirely within few days driven by an nonnatural appetite.

Sleepers characteristically don not age and attract attention through their blond almost white hair like an albino. Every sleeper features an individual supernatural talent by birth which qualifies them for special tasks. They furthermore speak and understand all languages, a special form of telepathy. Therefore, they cannot write any language except their own. The sleeper's ancient language went lost over centuries. It is ambivalent and very difficult to translate. That is why a modern form of the language has been established over the millennias.

Sleepers lack of one gift despite their superior powers: They cannot reproduce themselves even if they are born as children of human parents. They find their fellows following their instincts.

Sleepers own swords of unexpected hardness for their missions even having evolved to space travelling. These weapons don't wear off as usual due their protection by the Father of Gods. These swords are not manufactured but sleepers find them by fortune mostly in the first hundred years of life.

Older generations of sleepers prefer a basic position in sword fights where the sword points like a spear above the head with a bent sword arm and the opposite arm balancing out. Younger sleepers prefer a more aggressive stile due to the extinction attempts by the Myrmidons of Fate which try to eliminate their rivals already in preparation of the fight.

Sleepers are not allowed to fight each other due they are summoned by the Father of Gods to protect humans. Attacks fall back to the one which attacks another sleeper. The only exception are fights on sanctuaries.