Lodust

The Lodust are the second sub species of humans in the Forlorn Universe.

Abilites and Traits
The Lodust are the only beings capable of controlling the elemental spirits other than the god of that element themself. The Lodust can draw upon the elemental spirits of the world by summoning them, and then controlling them through a telepathic link until they are dismissed. The Lodust usually only employ one spirit at a time, but there have been stories of those able to control more than one simultaneously. The Lodust require less sleep than ordinary humans, needing only a maximum of four hours in order to fully restore their bodies. Physically, the Lodust are frequently seperated by humans by their eye color, which usually is unordinary. Lodust eye color is generally orange, yellow, violet, or red. The Lodust command of spirits has to do with their imbuement with an force known as essence; which replaces the ordinary human energy. Because of this, Lodust are unable to cast conventional magic, instead relying on their spirits to utilize it for them. Essence is significantly more powerful than Energy, and if harvested can work miracles.

History
The Lodust were created upon the human race's reinvention through the eyes of the Gods, after the Meldum people were all but wiped out by the evil Demon God Gemwrithe. There was a genetic mutation, which created two seperate sub species of humans, the Lodust and the Metamorphs. The Lodust were exceedingly more common than the Metamorphs to begin with, appearing once out of twenty humans, as opposed to the Metamorphs once out of every one hundred. The Lodust were feared by the humans for the spirits they command. Humans didn't understand what exactly the Lodust familiars were, and accused them of summoning demons and practicing black magic. The Lodust were hunted down and brutally massacered by humans out of their fear for the Lodust's strange ability. The resulting purge thinned the Lodust so much that their number became rarer than Metamorphs by a large margin of one out of every one thousand people. To escape the purges, it is said that the Lodust fled and formed a society somewhere in the world to escape the persecution of the humans, but it's location is unknown.