Besides the Stars, each Progenitor also has their own personal posse of creations, known as Moonlings, Sunlings or Voidlings depending on who they serve. They come in various shapes and sizes, fitting their purpose to their creator, but are made exclusively of their creator's element. They are capable of rudimentary problem-solving, and depending on the task they are presented with, they have the potential to develop more complex individual minds in order to complete their mission. Regardless of cognitive ability, they are purely and fully dedicated to their Progenitor and the task they have been assigned, and will stop at nothing to accomplish it, including harm to themselves and others. Because of the Progenitors' little active involvement with the universe they embody, the Lings are rarely seen outside the First Gardens in the center of the universe, where the Progenitors confine themselves to. If you see a Sunling, Moonling, or Voidling know you are witnessing a momentous occasion, and be in awe. Also be very, very afraid, no matter what they tell you.
Below is a list of the types of Lings with short descriptions of each, in order of amount of known individuals in that catagory, when the first has the least members sighted.
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Sunlings are the servants personally created by Aelia, also known as Energy. They are each composed of pure energy, in its various forms- some are made with energy that, when interactive with other features of their environment, sheds additional light or is otherwise visible, such as electricity or intense heat, some are made of light itself, and some are invisibile to the mortal eye, only detectable by their influence on their surroundings or special instruments. All types are equally common, and a single Sunling is capable of transforming from one energy type to another, if given an external method to do so- such as a light Sunling using a solar panel to become an electricity Sunling. Sunlings mostly travel as their energy type would: an electricity Sunling would be able to conduct through metal, light Sunlings can beem across great distances at incredible speeds, heat Sunlings can move through heat-conductive material easier than through insulated ones. They can, however, move their form willingly when no easy means of conducting themselves are available, though doing so is far slower than even average mortal movement speed.
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Moonlings are the servants personally created by Ayla, also known as Matter. They are made of various pure materials from the periodic table, with the lower periodic elements more common than the higher. Though they are often made with materials reactive to external chemicals, they can choose whether their body reacts to other chemicals as the inanimate version of it would regularely, and a Moonling that allows some part of themselves to react chemically with an external source will maintain control of that part. They can also replace parts of their body with the pure material they were originally made from or materials whose molocules include their base material. Two Moonlings, if their materials can chemically bond, might choose to do so, creating a single larger Moonling composed entirely of the molocules made from the combination of their base chemicals. Such a Moonling could choose to then seperate again, in which case both Moonlings maintain the memories of the events that occured while they merged as if they were their own. Because most Moonlings lack in personality and advanced cognitive ability, it is unclear what a mix of Moonlings who do possess their own will might act like, and due to the rarity of Lings in general we are left to only speculate.
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Voidlings are the most plentiful and yet the most mysterious of the Lings. They are difficult to spot, even when present, due to the fact they have only ever presented themselves as shadows cast by nothing. It is theorized they are capable of shifting the shape of the shadow they form as to hide themselves from view, but it is unclear if the 'true' Ling is the shadow itself or an invisible entity somehow casting said shadow. They cannot interact with physical objects directly, and instead do so by manipulating the naturally occurring voidstuff present at their location, creating arcane effects regardless of local Stardust, to which they don't seem to adhere to. Because they generally lack higher cognitive functions, such displays of magic, while seemingly limitless in scope, are never very complex, and rarely contradict local astronomy.
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