Millions of years ago, the Tiamat put their mark on Tellurian DNA.

 Millions of years ago, the Tiamat put their mark on Tellurian DNA.

Although there are no ways to prove this, theories are that Tiamat placed reptilian remnants in the Tellurian genetic code and brain structures to make them a manageable slave species.

The Tiamat abandoned their failed Tellurian experiments to their own devices. What little advancements which evolved for the following millions of years did little to change how the primitive Tellurians lived close to the edge of being an endangered species.

The legacy of Tiamat makes Tellurians susceptible to being unfeeling and inflexible, territorial and aggressive, hierarchical and controlling, authoritarian and obsessive, ritualistic and paranoid. “The reptile always wins” is the credo given to marketing and propagandists alike.

A great deal of Tellurian behaviour originates deep within their brain.

The most ancient and primitive is the so-called "reptilian brain", which controls the most fundamental animal instincts of survival and reproduction: Fear, rage, hunger and desire.

Overlaying the reptilian brain is the limbic, in charge of emotions.

The outermost layer is the neo-cortex, capable of higher thought and operates in various forms of reasoning. This outermost layer was applied in a slap-dash manner over the limbic system with a few laminants.

Reptilian survival is binary fight or flight reflex. It doesn’t use reason to learn from its mistakes, nor use emotions to curb its reactions; it merely acts.

When the reptile is activated, it has priority over the limbic and neo-cortex; emotion and reason is excluded.

To give into the reptile is to give up adapting and developing, it is giving up the higher mind in favour of the lower instincts.

Susceptible to these reptilian instincts, Tellurians place themselves under the tyranny of those who would enslave it by exploiting those instincts.

Many societies are composed of people who are not much more than expressions of their base reptilian instincts. Leadership designed intentions to overstimulate the reptilian to keep the masses in a collective state of fear, lethargy, apathy and ignorance.

The brain keeps all of the structures from which it was developed, the reptilian remnants of Tiamat cannot be excised from the Tellurians.

For a million years, the various Tellurian Homonids were mostly unsuccessful, rarely did their population reach the numbers that would have them be classified as anything other than an endangered species.

Three hundred thousand years ago, Trantorian scientists controversially first attempted to splice some of their own genetic sequence onto the indigenous Tellurian hominids. Six other attempts over the following 230,000 years was hoped to be enough to allow Tellurians to be able to individually overcome their innate reptilian aspects, but it was not enough to wipe out the base reptile hardwired into them.

It was a risky and controversial experiment that seemed doomed to failure, even with the Trantorian series of experiments, the Tellurian species nearly went extinct twice, 72,000 and 12,200 years ago.

Tellurians as a species cannot be cured of the reptile, they have to each overcome it individually.