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THE RECORD
This archive collects the state of the world, the known factions, the infected types, and the people tied to them. It is meant to read like a field record, not a legend.
This archive collects the state of the world, the known factions, the infected types, and the people tied to them. It is meant to read like a field record, not a legend.
About 150 years after Judgment, the old world is gone. Humanity survives inside fortress settlements, armed trade routes, and infected territory that never stopped changing.
On July 9, 2035, the meteor later designated Judgment struck a Siberian permafrost basin. The impact was catastrophic but not yet world ending. A crater tore open across the tundra, shockwaves rolled across the region, and dust choked the sky around the site.
Within weeks, an international research expedition entered the crater to assess the object. Scientists, military observers, and government representatives documented strange residue on the inner walls, abnormal biological activity in frozen ground, and internal material unlike anything on Earth. Under pressure to push deeper, the expedition drilled into the meteor core.
The drill ruptured a chamber of living matter. Pressurized dark fluid burst across the camp through torn suits, open cuts, and exposed skin. Over the next seventy two hours the site collapsed from within as the first infected researchers transformed. One survivor escaped the perimeter carrying the parasite out of the crater. That breach became the first step in the end of the old world.
Perseus is not a simple disease. It behaves like an invasive living organism that consumes a host and rebuilds it from the inside. Infection spreads through contaminated blood, bodily fluids, and unsanitized wounds. Once it reaches circulation, recovery is no longer expected.
The earliest victims showed fever, pain, disorientation, and brief periods of unnatural calm before the body began to change. Bones distorted, muscle thickened, organs restructured, and the host remained conscious through much of it. The infected did not die and return. They lived through the conversion into something new.
After the crater breach, the parasite moved faster than governments could understand it. It followed transport hubs, food movement, refugee lines, field hospitals, and every mistake made during emergency response. Quarantines came late, borders failed, and major cities fell in sequence.
Within a little more than a year, national governments had ceased to function as real powers. Military cordons broke, communications fractured, and surviving populations retreated into whatever could still be defended. Nations disappeared. Settlements, factions, enclaves, and moving survivor groups replaced them.
Humanity survives in a brutal patchwork. Fortress cities, religious states, military powers, coastal trade settlements, and isolated strongholds hold what territory they can. Outside those walls lie infected zones, altered coastlines, hostile wildlife, parasitic plant growth, and ruins that still attract scavengers despite the risk.
Daily life is shaped by blood discipline. Wounds are treated like emergencies. Medical checks, quarantine, and controlled contact are ordinary parts of survival. Trade still exists, but it is short, tense, and usually armed. The world did not recover after Judgment. It adapted into something harder, meaner, and permanently unstable.
The first known outbreak began at the Siberian crash site when the Judgment meteor was opened and the organism inside was exposed. The breach was not a slow leak. Contaminated fluid sprayed across the crater edge, hit the recovery team at close range, and turned a controlled research operation into a bloodborne infection event within moments.
What made the site collapse so quickly was proximity. The researchers were working inside the impact perimeter, handling debris, equipment, and injured personnel in the same space where the fluid had landed. Once blood contact was established, the parasite no longer depended on the meteor itself. It moved through open wounds, emergency treatment, and direct exposure between team members, which is why the first massacre happened almost immediately around the crater.
This archive still records Dr. Sebas as patient zero, not because he was necessarily the first body exposed, but because he was the only researcher confirmed to leave the initial slaughter alive. By the time the site failed, the outbreak had already crossed the line from isolated breach to active spread, and the crash zone became the first human ground the parasite successfully turned into a source of transmission.
The infected are not undead. They are living hosts changed by the parasite.
Infection happens through blood contact. Bites, deep scratches, blood splatter into open wounds, unsanitized injuries, and tainted bodily fluids can all transmit the parasite. Casual contact, air, and decay do not. Symptoms begin with fever, pain, and neurological stress. Mutation follows over several days. There is no recovery.
The host stays conscious during the change. Bones thicken or lengthen, muscles expand, and organs restructure. The final result is a living predator that needs blood to sustain its altered body. If the parasite is not destroyed within roughly 35 seconds of exposure, it can enter circulation and the host is no longer considered clear.
Humanoid infected with basic herd behavior, heavy body distortion, and direct aggression.
Common specimen archiveEvolved commons with unique traits such as armor growth, sensory changes, or altered limbs.
Aberration A
Aberration B
Aberration C
Aberration DRefined aberrations with stronger tactical behavior and more destructive physical functions.
Agent A
Agent B
Agent C
Agent DThe highest known host evolution. Lords can speak, reason, adapt, and influence both humans and infected.
Lord A
Lord B
Lord C
Lord DRisveglio is a unique power event tied to advanced infected. Each case appears differently. The prevailing theory is that it reflects the original host's deepest desire after the parasite distorts it into a usable force.
Titans are rare entities that no longer read as a normal evolved host. Only fifteen are known worldwide.
Titan A
Titan B
Titan C
Titan DAnimals infected by Perseus. Their changes often amplify aggression, size, or physical function.
Faunal A
Faunal BPlant based infection forms with growth spread, toxic output, and territorial root systems.
Floral A
Floral BThis page uses faction names from your pasted lore where they were available. Church of Saint Amenadiel, Pearl Academy, Romulus, and Shimazaki Fortress are drawn from that file. Saxon and The Bay are added from your character roster so the character sorting matches the factions page.
A theocratic stronghold in the hills and coast of Marseil. Its people believe prayer, fasting, and controlled ritual can restrain the parasite and keep the faithful stable for longer.
A desert settlement centered on the Pandemonium. Romulus runs on strict hierarchy, combat value, and control of scarce water, routes, and labor.
A fortified campus settlement in Midas. The academy keeps a council system, role based civic order, and hard quarantine procedure around every arrival.
A fortified island settlement tied to Shinsekai. It holds the coast through controlled entry, layered walls, and a defense first culture.
A compact but active faction built around guarded routes, paid security, and controlled exchange. Saxon keeps influence through movement, supply, and negotiated access.
A coastal faction that survives on harbor salvage, small boat traffic, and tight community control. The Bay is practical, local, and wary of outsiders.
A short set of known sites tied to movement, faction control, and survival.
The original impact basin. Access is limited. Records stop often around the inner edge.
The main fortress and command center of Romulus, suspended over canyon ground and defended as a state center.
The outer defense ring around Pearl Academy, reinforced with scrap, electrified lines, and layered checkpoints.
Prayer halls, quarantine chambers, and training grounds built into old sacred stone structures.
A convoy road under Saxon control where access depends on payment, permit, and escort strength.
A working harbor of patched hulls, netted piers, and local market sheds. The Bay watches every entry point.