The first generation of the Awoken consisted of reborn humans from Yang Liwei, including 30,111 women, 10,295 men, and 485 other. She refuses that God-trap.' - Marasenna, Ecstasiate I She makes it real with a thought, and in that thought she falls herself, undoes her transient divinity, binds herself and all those after her into the law. The Distributary years ' A paradise world: twin-ringed, impossible beauty, and a sky milk-bright with stars. Together with the ship's captain Alis Li, who awakened the same way, Mara Sov induced other disembodied humans from the Yang Liwei to awaken as well and reincarnate into new blue-skinned, star-eyed bodies, having only vague memories about their past. She reassembled her own disembodied conscience, manipulated the Distributary's physical laws to shape it into an earthly paradise of a planet and created a new body for herself. Mara Sov, a low-ranking crewmember, was the first person to enter the kugelblitz just before the ship. The Yang Liwei's 891 crewmembers and 40,000 passengers were annihilated and lost their physical forms, becoming beings of pure potential. During the initial sparring between the two acausal entities, the ship was at the centerpiece of a kugelblitz, a black hole-like anomaly in space time that sucked it and all its inhabitants into a newborn pocket universe. The ship refused to take a side when the Darkness attacked the Traveler. In Forsaken, it is revealed the Awoken are the descendants of the crew and passengers of the Yang Liwei, codenamed Exodus Green, a generation ship that left Earth shortly before the Collapse in an attempt to find a way to live without the Traveler.

Earthborn Awoken sometimes venture out to the Reef, hoping to learn its secrets-but find no special welcome from the reclusive Queen. Today many Awoken live in the Reef, aloof and mysterious, but others returned to Earth, where their descendants now fight for the City. After their race was formed, they took up residence in the Asteroid Belt, constructing cities and habitats like the Dreaming City. Something happened to them out on the edge of the deep Black, and they were forever changed.

It is said the Awoken were born in the Collapse, descended from those humans who tried to flee its wrath. History Origins ' How did the Awoken survive?' The Awoken do not have paracausal abilities, but are intertwined with the fabric of existence thus, they do not age past a certain point when in the Distributary. This is a side effect of them being from the Distributary, a type of pocket universe within our main universe, created by Mara Sov. The Techeuns are a particularly notable example, though ordinary Awoken can also experience visions in the form of dreams. Д«eyond physical appearances, the Awoken seem to possess powers and abilities beyond their human ancestors. They also have luminescent eyes with glowing irises. Reef-Born Awoken are standoffish and resemble baseline humans, with the notable exception of having pale blue, purple, green, or gray skin. Overview ' The Awoken did not have a choice. This Awoken kingdom was plunged into disarray by consecutive disasters of the Wolf rebellion, the Taken War, and the Scorn insurrection, eventually relying on the Vanguard's help to survive. Thousands of Awoken abandoned the expedition and found their way to the Last City to reunite with humanity and give rise to new Earthborn Awoken, while Mara Sov carved out a recluse kingdom in the Reef and reigned over Reefborn Awoken and subjugated Fallen. At some point in their history, a massive expedition fleet led by Mara Sov and her brother Uldren Sov left the anomaly and returned to the Solar system. Time in the Distributary, the homeworld of the Awoken, flows differently, and Awoken society has had thousands upon thousands of years to flourish and build. They descend from the crew and passengers of the Yang Liwei, a colony ship that disappeared in a spacetime anomaly during the Collapse. The Awoken are a humanoid race sharing common ancestry with Earth humans. We, together, have transcended such unimaginative limitations.' - Grimoire card blurb ' The others sing this song of Light and Dark.

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