I guess I don't understand the question. Let me try again.Sweforce wrote:This is why I mentioned the loroi union, to include the other members as well, not just the loroi. I guess that would place this in the misc races thread but to place them in both is a bit silly. Since the question was about the loroi but included the believes of just about anyone, including the loroi I placed it here. For instance we know that the barsam are suspicions about the loroi even if they are allies.
The Soia-Liron races are believed by most archaeologists to have been the product of an ancient civilization that spanned well beyond current known space, and so it is considered quite possible, if not probable, that there are as-yet undiscovered remnants of this civilization (or its descendants) waiting to be discovered. However, scientific speculation on this subject is limited by a lack of evidence on which to form a hypothesis. There might be millions of other Soia-Liron enclaves throughout the galaxy, or they might be unique to the Local Bubble.
In terms of the speculation of popular culture, the origin of the Soia-Liron races is really only a subject of interest to the three Soia-Liron races themselves; a typical Delrias citizen, for example, does not spend much time daydreaming about whether or not there are undiscovered Loroi kin somewhere in the galaxy.
As has been mentioned, the Loroi believe they are direct descendants of the Soia, and they have found lost Loroi colonies before, and so would not be surprised to find new ones in the future. Some would be surprised if they didn't ever find more Loroi splinter colonies. But as I alluded to above, the only stories the Loroi tell are ones of the past which they believe to be true.
The Barsam do have something of a media culture, but the secular portion of it is mostly devoted to political, technical or business pursuits. The religious portion of it is sort of a combination of ceremony, oration, and music. Barsam parables are usually not taken as literally as the Loroi heroic myths, and they may be allegorical or entirely fictional, but they are not usually speculative. The Barsam religion preaches that the Soia-Liron races were created by angelic extra-dimensional powers (who they call the "Gatherers") in the image of primitive local races and then scattered by a sort of "expulsion from Eden." The Barsam have never discovered other Barsam splinter colonies, but they have found the Nibiren, whom they believe they were created in the image of. The Barsam assume that Soia-Liron races will be found all over the galaxy, and so they would not be at all surprised to find lost colonies of Loroi or Barsam relatives, or other as yet unimagined blue-skinned variants. The chief Barsam issue with the Loroi in this matter is that they consider the Loroi claim to be direct descendants of the Gatherers as arrogant at the very least, if not actually blasphemous. On the contrary, some Barsam clerics place the Loroi in the role of a Lucifer, as being renegade servants of the Gatherers chiefly responsible for the expulsion from paradise.
The Neridi have a diverse media culture that is probably the most like ours among the Soia-Liron races, and they do have arts that we would recognize as theater and teleplay. Officially the Neridi endorse the Loroi view of their Soia origins. In popular culture, some works support the Loroi view, some support the Barsam view, and some are agnostic, but for the most part they like to poke fun at their blue cousins rather than take the matter too seriously.