Disclaimer: It's in chapter one. Chances are that if you're reading this, you're used to me saying this in each of the subsequent chapters of all of my other fanfics.
Chapter 2: Pre-History Namekku-sei
It's theorized that when Namekku-sei-jin became bipedal, they immediately began study into sorcery, having the side effect of loosing superstition quickly instead of basing their society around it. Where as most societies fell quickly to fabricated gods as a crutch, the Nameks found stability in their arts of manipulating magic and had no use for creating gods to describe forces that they already understood. They did, however, after understanding more about magic, realize that magical forces can be controlled and personified, so their word for a "god" was, and still is, used as a scientific term.
The "priests" were, as in many pre-history societies, the highest in social stature. They were regarded with special respect for their skills as high sorcerers and established themselves as the leaders of separate tribes across the planet. There's little information about the tribes, but there's evidence that they were always at war with each other over land, and the ones that lost the battles either had to allow themselves to be enslaved, killed themselves, or migrated elsewhere. Because of the Namekku-sei-jin pattern of explosive population climbs, new land was often necessary, and invading into the land of other tribes became common.
The tribes evolved into small nations, lead by an aristocratic family that descended from the high priest that had been established as the leader. Even though all political institutions were maintained by the strongest sorcerers in the family, everyone within the family (and every family, down to the poorest) had to answer to the eldest female, characterizing the underscoring matriarchy in Namekku-sei-jin society.
Another institution began to rise along with the increase of wars: the guilds of the warrior and healer types. The barracks became another political complex, where the strongest warriors and the best healers gained the respect of the civilians since they were the force that allowed them to expand into other lands. Great warrior and healer families became the first prospects of getting married into the ruling family, planting the seeds of the future warrior aristocracy that the Namekku-sei-jin are ruled by today.
During this political progress, several different high sorcerers began to create their own systems in which they could record what they observed, which would eventually be brought together in the rising magic guilds to evolve into one language, and the guilds began to unify and turn into the Committee of Ledger, dedicated to the control of choosing the symbols used.
The race had been in existence for roughly 800(a/n) of their years before the invention of writing, and it only took about 60 before it was used for anything other than recording spells and observations in the study of sorcery. About the same time it was beginning to be used to record current events, war was being discussed in political terms, since many of the families now knew each other through the Committee of Ledger, establishing the marriage between the aristocratic families as a way to legally bind two nations together as one, named in favor of the bride's family.
As can be expected with such a quick evolution of thought, they're pre-history was very short; it didn't even last 1000 years. But, despite this, they still remained as close to nature as ever instead of trying to overcome it with technology, using the technology to increase their intuitive relationship with nature. Much later on, we'll discover why this connection with their planet nearly cost their existence. Another attributer to this rapid sophistication was the sheer optimism from the good weather that Namekku-sei tended to have, allowing good growing seasons and increase in produce. This should be mentioned now as there are few recordings of terrible weather, but each instance plays a huge role in their history.
(a/n) 800 years on Namekku-sei is about 400 years on Earth, since 2 years pass on Namekku-sei for every year on Earth (It passes in 180 Earth days, which isn't exactly half a year, but it only effects if you're trying to be precise).
This one also ended up pretty short, but, like it said, they didn't have much of a pre-history.
