Matriarchs

Now, I really need to stop talking about my adorable little sister. Or else, I'm afraid whoever is reading this story, is good to start eyeing her. 

Well, I can't really blame them, when my sister is as cute as she is, and it is just natural for everyone to adore her.

I should probably move on, and talk about the topic at hand, both literally and figuratively.

The white book.

The catalyst that brought me to this place.

I first heard about this book, when my sister came up to me a few days ago and asked whether I had bought her a new book. 

I denied it and asked why she asked, and she told me that she found a new white book on her desk that looked really fancy, and wondered if I had left it there. 

She didn't even try to open it, since it looked really expensive and important-looking, and she thought it was mine.

After looking at the book in her room, which seemed to be a novel, I asked if she had bought it by accident. But she firmly denied it, saying that there's no way she could have accidentally bought such a fancy-looking book. And even if she did buy it by accident, she didn't know how it ended up on her desk. 

For some reason, this whole incident seemed really suspicious, so I called up my parents to see if they were the ones who kept the book on her desk. But as it turned out, it wasn't them.

This only creeped me out even more, as other than me and my parents, no other person has entered my sister's room. 

I even checked the security system I installed all over the house, and found no one breaking into the house like I thought. 

To get to the bottom of this mystery, I brought in a team to see if there were any tunnels leading into the house, and even used some satellite imagery, to see if there was any point in time anyone snuck in, which was to no avail.

The issue of the book appearing all of a sudden wasn't really an issue to me. It was the fact that someone or something managed to sneak into my beloved sister's room, and put a book on her desk, when I've been staying at home the whole time, this past week. 

It put me on edge so much, that I even bought out a few houses around my house and installed security teams in each house, to constantly monitor the neighborhood for any suspicious movements. 

Not to mention, that I personally started driving my sister to school and back, and hired someone to go undercover in the school to protect my sister.

Even with all those measures, I couldn't rest easy, so I started sleeping on the floor of my sister's bedroom. And even then, I didn't sleep at night, constantly looking out for anything that could enter the room.

After a few days of searching non-stop for any loopholes, I still couldn't find how or who placed the book on her desk.

But while I was brainstorming ways in which the book could have landed there, I realised that I totally forgot to check out the most important piece of evidence, the book itself.

It was last night, after tucking my sister into bed, that I sat at her desk with a dim lamp on, and started to read the book, which made me unable to sleep for a few days.

I already knew that the book was a novel when I skimmed through it before. But I didn't know what type of novel it was.

To my surprise, it turned out to be similar to those light novels my sister read, where the protagonist gets transported to a new world and starts his own adventures there.

But in this book, it was about a man who gets transported into a modern world full of demi-humans, after reading a mysterious book. 

The protagonist learns from reading the story in the book he found the previous night, that the only way to leave this world was to do exactly what the main character did in the book he read, which was something, that seemed to come straight out of a smut novel.

Apparently, in this world the protagonist was transported to, there was a term that not many knew. And was only used by scientists and researchers, who studied the origin of each race and their lineage and pedigree, called ' Ancestral Bloodline'.

The Ancestral Bloodline is basically the pure blood of the first-generation matriarch, of each race. 

The first-generation matriarch being, the Eve of each race, first mutated from being human, to whatever race they belonged to, thousands of years ago.

Although it was said in the novel that the protagonist read, that researchers were still studying how different races came from normal human beings, and weren't really coming close to reaching the truth anytime yet, they still made some remarkable discoveries related to it.

It was found out by them that, each individual race, aside from humans, started with a single female member of their race called the 'Primodorial Ancestor' or 'Matriarch', similar to how it was said that Adam and Eve, were the first two humans to ever exist in the Bible. 

But unlike Adam and Eve who were created by God, the Matriarch of each individual race was born from a completely normal human female.

But even though they were birthed by their human mother and also had a completely normal human father, the matriarchs for some reason went through some mutation or metamorphosis in the womb, by which they turned into demi-humans, who had characteristics normal humans didn't possess. 

They were the first members of their race, and were henceforth called Matriarchs.

It was also found out, that all the Matriarchs of each race were born in the same generation, as if it were predetermined that there would be a change in the diversity of the world from then on.

Scientists then hypothesised that the Matriarchs, then found suitable humans to mate with and started to procreate an entire new generation. 

The second generation then procreated with other humans, to create the third generation and continued on the cycle, until the blood of the newest generation was diluted enough for them to be able to safely procreate among themselves, instead of human beings, as they found people of their own race more attractive in their eyes and easier to live with.

After many generations, the population of each race grew, until it is what it is today, and it all started with their founding Matriarch. 

The later generations also started to treat the Matriarch as their founding ancestor; and started to treat her as a Saint by paying their respects to her like a holy figure. 

This practice was still being held in the present age of that world, where shrines were built all over the place, that people went to pay their respects to and get blessings from their ancestors. 

All the races unanimously called their ancestors, the 'Holy Mother' and treated her like a religious figure.

Most people believed that this was how each race was started, and didn't really doubt it, as it seemed the most believable and had evidence to back up the theory.

But in truth, there were some changes to the story they hypothesised, which was told in the prologue of the novel the protagonist read. 

The prologue also had some other information written about the world, which I'll get to later on.