The Afaguzdsuverudnuv: The Time of Storm Life

In the mythology of the Hoetsho people, the world was shaped by a great thunderstorm. So when it was proved that Cabava was a different tree entirely from Quareya, they associated Quareya with the legendary thunderstorm that had made the world as they knew it. The association turned out to be prophetic: The Afaguzdsuverudnuv did have a lot of storms. They were the kind with fire, though.

The Afaguzdsuverudnuv marked the transition from an atmosphere where the main reactive gas was hydrogen to one where it was oxygen, since the new dominant tree of life transpired oxygen. As autotrophic dzeQuareya life took over a cooling world, Shunnudloah (Hoetsho: one land) began to break up. Water covered volcanically active areas, and the massive strings of geothermal pools which had supported so much dzeCabava diversity were destroyed. Amoeboid grazers were one of the groups that died out.

While this was a time of great change in lithosphere and the atmosphere, the biosphere did not diversify in any way anyone but a microbiologist could appreciate--with one exception. By the end of the period, there were multicellular dzeQuareya autotrophs. These formed carpets of ñåich not unlike Kilawana before them.

Mosñåich: Literally just "small grass" in Kilo, dzeMosñåichvi were short green filaments that grew on tidal flats, tidal pools, and other shallow areas of saltwater. Bright green due to their chlorophyll, they were responsible for the conversion of the atmosphere. Like Kilawa before them, Mosñåich quickly spread across the entire planet. Anywhere an aquatic plant could grow, they did. At this time they had no predators, suffered from astonishingly few diseases, and enjoyed optimum conditions. Of course, that situation wouldn't last long (the Afaguzdsuverudnuv is actually one of the shortest time periods in the chronology of Eclek) but those were the halcyon days of ñåich.

DzeMosñåichvi reproduce sexually, by releasing free-swimming gametes into the water. When two gametes from different filaments meet each other, they combine and fall to the substrate to take root.

 

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