Cielcin [DRAFT]
Should I chronicle the war, then? Start with the alien Cielcin howling out of space in ships like castles of ice? You can find the war stories, read the death counts. The statistics. No context can make you understand the cost. Cities razed, planets burned. Countless billions of our people ripped from their worlds to serve as meat and slaves for those Pale monsters.
— Hadrian Marlowe, Empire of Silence, Chapter 1
The Cielcin are a spacefaring, humanoid, and carnivorous alien species featured in the Sun Eater, a science fantasy series authored by Christopher Ruocchio. The first novel, Empire of Silence, opens with protagonist Hadrian Marlowe's proclamation that he is the man despised and revered for ending the crusade against the Cielcin, the destruction of a star system's sun, the annihilation of billions of lives, and the extinction of humanity's greatest enemy [1].
Anatomy and Physiology
Physical Attributes
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Reproduction
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Culture and Society
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[e.g. Language]
[e.g. Religion]
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History
Preceding the Books
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[e.g. Early History]
In Empire of Silence
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[e.g. Invasion of Emesh]
In The Lesser Devil (Novella)
In Howling Dark
In Queen Amid Ashes (Novella)
In Ashes of Man
In The Dregs of Empire (Novella)
In Tales of the Sun Eater & Other Stories
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The Demons of Arae
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Prominent Figures and Factions
Characters
| Character | Description |
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| [e.g. Syriani Dorayaica] | [e.g. The Shiomu (prophet) of the Cielcin and Aeta ba-Aetane (Prince of Princes).] |
Factions
| Faction | Description |
|---|---|
| [e.g. Line of Zahaka] | [e.g. Descendants of Zahaka, follower of Elu.] |
Trivia
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See Also
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