BLACKLIGHT EVOLVED: LORE
THE BLACKLIGHT PROJECT
It all started with an idea, from
a dragon whose homeland was far from The Scarred Wasteland; this dragon with his cold eyes and colder demeanor hailed from a singularly fitting place: The Southern Icefield. His real name was long forgotten and now he only went by an old, old nickname he had received from someone in his distant past: Merci. Spelled like Thank you, spoken like Mercy. But there was no mercy in this Dragon’s iced over heart. No, he was a creature with a plan, driven and determined with single-minded tenacity to see his goal met. He left the land of his birth, and journeyed for the Plaguelands.
It was a harsh, unforgiving environment he found himself in, but he himself was harsh and unforgiving, and he thrived. He found everything he could possibly need for his task there in the wastes. Strains that he could study, pull apart, and change, with his brilliance, in hopes of meeting his goal: a virus that made one stronger, instead of weaker. His work, his research, and his experiments continued apace, and in time, he had found himself an unhatched egg, stolen by some crafty Beast from some unwitting dragon. He killed the Beast and took the egg for his own-- for his work. He had a strain to test on it, and test he did, but sadly, it was a failure. The dragon was born, but no different from any other hatchling. This he left at the entrance to a nearby lair to be taken in; he had no use for a hungry mouth when there was work to be done.
Time passed. Failure after failure. He began to have more and more trouble procuring “subjects” for his work. But then he met her.
A Guardian named Elizabeth who took interest in his work. Something about her genes, her makeup, something must have agreed with the strain he had created, because it took-- and she was changed. She had become something… more. She was stronger, and faster, and more resilient. She no longer caught ill from the millions of strains of diseases named and unnamed running rampant in the Scarred Wasteland.
She had Evolved.
Merci in turn infected another Dragon,
a Ridgeback named Zeus that he had taken a strangely strong liking to. And together, they found and infected even more dragons, spreading Blacklight like wildfire. Those infected even bore hatchlings infected with the Virus from birth. And now?
Now they want to spread it to all of Sornieth.
EVOLVE.
