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“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years
as a merc, it’s stay away from the Bugs and
Lizards. They’re both hidin’ somethin’!”
Orphaned Races
examines two of the sentient races of the Fading Suns™
universe: The insectoid Ascorbites and the reptilian Hironem.
• The Ascorbites, native to the Decados-ruled jungle planet of Severus, are
perhaps the least understood race in the Known Worlds. Their alien culture
—formed by a hive-mind — has proved resistant to most of humanity’s
attempts to understand it. What’s more, the Church claims that the race
worships dark entities — gods the Ascorbites claim will one day return to
drive the “soft-flesh” humans into slavery.
• The Hironem, native to the Decados-ruled planet of Cadiz, revere their
ancient culture-bringer gods, who are now believed to have been renegades
from the advanced Vau Hegemony. These gods gave the Hironem their
caste system and set a secession of God-Kings to rule them. Some humans
wonder: Did these Vau “gods” also leave another, hidden legacy in the
genetics and culture of the Hironem that is yet to be revealed?
Each book in the
Alien Expeditions
series examines one or more alien races,
detailing their histories, cultures and planets of origin from multiple
perspectives.
Orphaned Races
features dual-stats for both Holistic’s Victory
Point System and the d20 System (these rules require the use of the
Dungeons & Dragons® Players Handbook, Third Edition, published by
Wizards of the Coast®).
Price: $20.00
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“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years
as a merc, it’s stay away from the Bugs and
Lizards. They’re both hidin’ somethin’!”
Orphaned Races
examines two of the sentient races of the Fading Suns™
universe: The insectoid Ascorbites and the reptilian Hironem.
• The Ascorbites, native to the Decados-ruled jungle planet of Severus, are
perhaps the least understood race in the Known Worlds. Their alien culture
—formed by a hive-mind — has proved resistant to most of humanity’s
attempts to understand it. What’s more, the Church claims that the race
worships dark entities — gods the Ascorbites claim will one day return to
drive the “soft-flesh” humans into slavery.
• The Hironem, native to the Decados-ruled planet of Cadiz, revere their
ancient culture-bringer gods, who are now believed to have been renegades
from the advanced Vau Hegemony. These gods gave the Hironem their
caste system and set a secession of God-Kings to rule them. Some humans
wonder: Did these Vau “gods” also leave another, hidden legacy in the
genetics and culture of the Hironem that is yet to be revealed?
Each book in the
Alien Expeditions
series examines one or more alien races,
detailing their histories, cultures and planets of origin from multiple
perspectives.
Orphaned Races
features dual-stats for both Holistic’s Victory
Point System and the d20 System (these rules require the use of the
Dungeons & Dragons® Players Handbook, Third Edition, published by
Wizards of the Coast®).
C
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by Gabriel Zarate
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Credits
Writing:
Gabriel Zarate
Alustro’s Journal:
Bill Bridges
d20 System conversions:
Gabriel Zarate and Andy Harmon
Development and typesetting:
Bill Bridges
Art direction:
John Bridges
Cover art:
John Bridges
Interior art:
John Bridges, Ron Spencer, Jason Waltrip, John Waltrip
Emblems:
The emblems on the front cover represent a glyph used by Ascorbite
Mi’tlazh
ambassadors (its meaning is unknown)
and a symbol of the Hironem God-King.
Pilgrims:
Who can fathom the alien races? I regret that I never tried. Myriad mysteries are spread before us like jewels in a kingly
raiment, yet we shun them like albinos weaned in a dark sewer, pained by their glittering light. All men are some day faced
with the choice: the sewer or the jewels.
I hate the stench of this place.
— Deacon Andre Torenson,
Notes on a Banal Existance
Holistic Design Inc.
5295 Hwy 78, D-337
Stone Mountain, GA 30087
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pressly denied, except for the purpose of reviews.
Fading Suns
and
Orphaned Races: Ascorbites & Hironem
are trade-
marks and copyrights of Holistic Design Inc.
The mention of or reference to any companies or products in these pages is not a challenge to the trademarks or
copyrights concerned.
Printed in the US of A
C
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Contents
Alustro’s Journal: Blood Debt
4
Introduction
8
A Song in the Darkness: Ascorbites
10
The Heavens Denied: Hironem
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