New cover and New race

Ive designed a new cover that is now on the character creation portion of theory, and im also working on a new race: The Asiri. here's a preview:


The war between Ural and the forces of the altay had been a raging stalemate for years. The altay began doing research into kez artifacts to try and find a way to turn the tide in their favor; To end the war once and for all. In time, they discovered an ancient kez process in which they took volunteers from their society and put them on an uninhabited planet. Then, using chronomagic they accelerated time on the planet so that years were passing in seconds. The inhabitants would then breed their strongest and smartest to create a society of extremely powerful mages and warriors in only a matter of months. The altay attempted this feat on a neigboring planet known as ###NAMETHISPLANET###. They sent a colony of 100 people, including warriors, mages, and history keepers, then began the process. The planet sank into a monochrome darkness as time began to accelerate. Immediately, all attempts to contact the planet or its inhabitants was lost and any attempt to physically move through the time rift ripped ships apart. The colony was alone in the dark as 1700 years passed every month. Within the first 100 years the history keepers were lost, and the altay on the planet forgot who they were or why they were there. They began to form their own society, their own culture. After three months of real time (4,100 years colony time), the Chronorift dissipated and the planet came out of its accelerated state. Attempts to contact the people from space were met with radio silence, so a reconaissance ship was sent to the surface. The altay discovered a much different type of colony had spread and consumed the planet under a single flag. They called themselves The Asiri. Their physicality was drastically different from the altay. Their skin ranged from grey to ashen, they had two rows of teeth and sunken hollow eyes. They had about twice the muscle mass of an altay. They were hostile. None of the reconaissance troops made it back alive, they were ripped apart upon first contact. Study of this race from space showed that these Asiri lived in a Theocracy, ruled by a line of God-Kings known as the Viscer. Punishment for even the smallest crime was met with ritualistic mass murder known as Excoriation. Attempts to meet the asiri with diplomacy were met with such a fate. Finally, the altay determined that the asiri presented more of a threat than a promise, so the decision was made to scrap the project; To assassinate the viscer and allow the society to crumble from the inside. The operation was initially a success, altay forces got on the ground and managed to infiltrate asiri society. However, the viscer's elite guards known as the Extinerate slaughtered the assassins without quarter. Survivors were excoriated; and the project was abandoned entirely.