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The [[Duamvi]] are a race from the [[Spirit Plane]], who serve the Triad of Angels in cohorts of unique training. The
first of these came to [[Sapience]] by accident. Preceptor [[Merkava]], [[Nianvi]], and [[Asim]] arrived via the [[Orb of the Dawn]], but it broke in their flight from encroaching shadow in their war-torn plane. Servants of [[Ael'mael]], they 
brought the [[Templar]] teachings to the [[Paladins]], and helped them grow with more potent skills with which to 
fight. They have since established a home in [[Enorian]], followed decades later by Exarch [[Aban]] and his contingent 
of [[Akkari]] warriors.
 
Unique in their anatomy, Duamvi are a symbiotic race. A host must willingly accept their Duamvi counterpart, a
being that appears as changing, trailing light. This union is a complete merging of the two: not two 
consciousnesses but one, Spirit and Body empowering each other. This ritual is closely protected by the 
Akkari, who safeguard the process within their Bastion.
 
Native hosts of the Spirit Plane were bred for the purpose of this unity. Exarch Aban is the strongest known
of these Duamvi, blessed by [[Ubarin]] and Ascended above his kin. Mortals from the [[Prime Material Plane]] may not 
be as ideal, but their substance of mixed elements both allows Duamvi to better acclimate to the Prime Plane, 
while also providing constraints they would not face in their homeland.
 
Duamvi can be slain, but their bonded souls find order and draw back towards the Spirit in the Prime Material
Plane. This vulnerability is painful for both.
[[Category:Races]][[Category:Planar Races]]