The culture that calls Hawklore its birthplace is as unique as the god that created it in his image. A culture where people are all, in a way, family. The Children of Hawken.
Made in his image
Around the time the Divinity Hawken arrived at the lands that would become Hawklore, other powerful gods created mortal children modeled after the form that Ishvana had given them. This powerless and mortal form is what we call humans. Hawken decided that he, too, wished to create his own mortals.
But the future God-King had little interest in repeating the blueprint that his mother-creator, Garuyda, had used for the Karu. He had deeper plans for the mortals he would create. Instead of letting the will of the Ether and the Etherforce play out, he put his very own will into the genetics of his mortals — to the point where they even share his likeness. These humans are called the Children of Hawken, though they call themselves the hak-ori when around each other.
The bond between Hawken and his Children goes deep, extremely deep. Each of the Children has a connection to Hawken as if he was a close relative. For some, he comes off like a grandfather; for others, he’s like a dad. Either way, it gives him a subtle bit of familial mental control over all the Children of Hawken.
The Cobalt Mutation
Hawken seems to have changed something in the hak-ori’s DNA, increasing the odds of each one having the Cobalt Mutation — the seemingly random genetic mutation that allows humans to touch Azurean Crystal without being poisoned. Each generation of hak-ori has an increased rate of the mutation. On average, less than 1 percent of the population in other countries had the gene at the time of discovery. Hawklore now sits at 9 percent with the Cobalt Mutation, while the world average is 3 percent. That, coupled with the sense of duty the Children have, has led Hawklore to have the highest number of Crystal Priests despite only having the fourth highest population of the major nations.