Vescrutia: Legacy

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Terra is a cursed world where energy (Naten) is nearly extinct. Visitors from other worlds quickly find their powers fading, their minds fogging, and their memories slipping. Terra isn’t just resistant to the extraordinary—it actively hunts it.

Four Planetary curses govern the rules of suppression, reinforced by entities unseen, and enforced by factions unaware they serve something far more ancient.


1. No Evil
Prevents the Populace from perceiving corruption, lies, or wrongness in their world. They’re locked in a loop of rationalizing cruelty, ignoring injustice, and accepting absurdity.

2. Congress
Naten becomes harder to use the more doubters are present. In cities filled with mundane minds, supernatural power is often impossible to manifest.

3. The Veil
Censors conversation. Attempting to explain spiritual truth, Naten, or the hidden world to Sleepwalkers results in distorted language, emotional breakdown, or social collapse.

Ravager:Shroud

“You will not hear them. You will not see them. You never knew you were being hunted-until it killed you.”

The Shroud are nightmare for the awakened and the last thing seen by newly awakened. In terms of power they move as apex predators—beings not bound by the curses. They freely move through cities and wilderness, invisible to all non-Naten beings. They exist to "destroy awakening Naten users," striking them when and where ever they come to awareness.

• Cannot be seen or recorded.
• Only detectable by Naten users moments before attack.
• Immune to all curses.
• Hunted all awakened, partially awakened, or emotionally unstable users.
• Serve a higher power, likely The Horsemen

The Sovereign Order

“Control creates peace.”

A global, militarized force who operate as one government. Their 'Agents,' are known to wear an all white assembly with a golden eagle crest. Officially, they enforce order and law. Secretly, they suppress the emergence of awakened individuals. Their agents—Seraphs—are enhanced with biotech created from dissected Naten users as well as naten awareness.

They do not acknowledge Naten publicly but secretly document its effects.

Controlled by:The Horsemand of Subjugation:

Vel’Zheron

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Vel’Zheron is one of the Horsemen—a being who cannot be remembered unless he is present. He is the shadow behind order, manipulating Terra's government from behind the curtain. Vel’Zheron believes emotion and individuality are viruses and that free will must be broken for peace.

His whispers guide policy, surveillance, and fear.

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Heralds Of the Unseen Natural Design

Overview:
H.O.U.N.D. is a covert, multi-national paramilitary think tank headquartered deep underground, rumored in the Greenlandic tundra, operating under no national flag. The acronym originally meant “Hazard Observation Unit for Naten Displacement,” but internally the group rebranded itself as Heralds Of the Unseen Natural Design after a schism in belief: they concluded Terra's lack of Naten wasn’t natural—it was deliberate. And possibly engineered.

Where other governments and institutions do not believe in Naten levels, H.O.U.N.D doesnt take the scarcity as an unfortunate consequence of natural evolution or cosmic variance, H.O.U.N.D. believes it is the result of a systemic suppression—perhaps an artificial seal or planetary siphoning that has drained the world of Naten to near zero.

They believe something—or someone—has suppressed Terra’s energetic potential to keep the planet “dormant.” Quiet. Forgotten. Fearing another, more power shadow government, they operate as a rogue unit blending both technology and Naten to investigate the truth behind Terra’s anomalies. They exist between the cracks of Society, avoiding both government surveillance and Shroud detection.

“This planet was not built to slumber. Something stilled it. And we will wake it again.”

Core Tenets:

• Naten Scarcity Is Engineered:
• They reject the prevailing scientific view that Terra is simply Naten-poor.
• Their research suggests the planet’s “spiritual grid” has been severed or locked—possibly to prevent the emergence of evolved powers like those observed from aliens.
• Survival Through Knowledge and Control:

Foreign Existence Protocol:

Protocol One

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H.O.U.N.D. has documented several historical anomalies—brief, unexplained appearances of beings or entities who seemingly did not belong to Terra. These are labeled “Type-V incursions” Azazel and Tempest are instantly flagged as a potential Category One Type-V incursion.

The Awakening Hypothesis:

Awakening Hypothesis

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A controversial but growing theory within H.O.U.N.D. is that awakening even a single being of Vescrutian origin on Terra might cause a “spiritual destabilization”—potentially forcing Terra to reconnect to its latent Naten grid… or be consumed by it.

Hierarchy & Divisions:

• The Alpha Cell – The shadowy leadership body. Composed of seven masked individuals known only by code names based on dog breeds (e.g., Greyhound, Mastiff, Akita, etc.). Rumored to possess minor Naten-like abilities due to proximity to experimental exposure.

The Alpha Cell

The unseen chain of command that leads H.O.U.N.D. from the shadows.

Each Alpha Cell member wears a mask marked with a dog breed insignia and conceals their identity behind voice modulations and shifting code signatures. Their presence is so secretive, even other high-ranking agents often receive directives secondhand.

It rumored all Alpha Cell members wield Anthems, making them anomalies on Terra and proof that H.O.U.N.D. may have off-world origins or technology that subverts the planet’s curses.

Alpha Members

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• MASTIFF
  
  Codename:Alpha-01
  Role: Enforcer / Commander of Tactical Compliance
  Anthem: “Sovereign Muscle”
  

  His presence commands submission without a word.

• OSHARKA
  
  Codename:Alpha-02
  Role: Intelligence / Psychological Operations
  Anthem: “Mirror Ruin”
  
  

  You’re never fighting her—you’re fighting your own undoing.

  KANGAL
  
  Codename: Alpha-03
  Anthem: “The Red Pact”
  
  Kangal signs his blood into combat—literally. His Anthem binds pain to purpose. The more damage he takes, the more power he channels into sealing techniques, berserk states, or explosive countermeasures.

[*]The Warden Core – Black-ops agents trained to engage unknown or extranormal threats. Each wears an adaptive bodysuit that mimics muscle reactions of powered beings. Most will see them as “men in black” figures.

The Proving Branch – Scientists, engineers, and theorists responsible for reverse-engineering and studying anything extranormal. They maintain the “Living Vault,” which houses foreign weapons, organic remnants, and data.

The H.A.W.K. Program – Surveillance and sky-patrol teams utilizing anti-gravity drone ships (coded “helos” by civilians). They respond first to anomalies like the crater Azazel and Tempest left behind.
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Key Traits:

• They possess rare shielding tech that hides them from the born.
• They do not know about the Horsemen, but suspect the existence of a shadow entity controlling the Sovereign Order.
• They believe Naten scarcity is intentional, possibly engineered.
• They are immune to the Veil curse within protected locations

Core Mission:

• . Discover the cause of Naten scarcity.
• . Map out global curse influence.
• . Track and capture Azazel and Tempest, believing they hold the key to restoring spiritual balance—or unraveling it entirely.

(Awakened Network for Tactical Intervention)

“We don’t recruit. We rescue.”

A.N.T.I. is a guerrilla resistance that follows Underglow signals, rescues awakened before Shroud can kill them, and helps them escape H.O.U.N.D.'s testing programs.

Unlike H.O.U.N.D, A.N.T.I. does not indoctrinate its members. People are free to leave at any time.

Philosophy

• Humility over control.
• Freedom over safety
• Survival through understanding, not suppression

Nine Breaker teaches each rescued member how to fight in their own way. He doesn’t push them to stay, but most do—out of loyalty, never obligation.

“I will show you your enemy. I will arm you for war. But i will never ask you too Serve”

Nine Breaker is the original leader of the resistance against suppression. ANTI trains the awakened in secret, hunts Shroud when possible, and teaches users how to survive the city with minimal detection.

Nine Breaker, their leader, is seen as either a savior or a living weapon. He has survived sixty confirmed Shroud attacks.


Nine Breaker
“I wont let them win this quietly" "Peace was never an option they offered us and defeat was never an option...offered to me."

• Name: Nine Breaker
• Age: Late 20s
• Faction: A.N.T.I. (Leader)
• Species: Human
• Naten Type: Kinetic
• Special Trait: Wields both Arbiters and a unique Anthem
• Fighting Style: Precision brawler with advanced movement prediction and energy redirection

Personality: Grounded, strategic, humble—but driven by powerful empathy

Origin
Before awakening, Nine Breaker was just a high school athlete and a ranked VR tactician—a gamer who used logic, speed, and adaptability to win. His childhood was full of physicality and mental puzzles, but none of it prepared him for the moment he awoke on Terra. The amnesia took most of his memories, but his core—the habits of movement and thought—remained.

Awakening
Nine’s powers came online while protecting a young Underglow dancer during a Shroud ambush. He survived the attack by awakening not only his Arbiters, but something far rarer:His Anthem.

On Terra, awakening ones anthem aling with naten awareness is impossible—or should be. Nine is one of only seven confirmed beings capable of accessing an Anthem on this cursed planet and the only person to awaken their anthem first.

His Anthem, “Break Nine,” accelerates time perception across his nervous system in bursts—allowing him to momentarily experience nine different possibilities at once before making a choice. To others, he simply moves correctly, as if predicting the future.

The Anthem Rarity
There are only seven known individuals on Terra with access to their Anthem.

• Nine Breaker – A.N.T.I.
• Azazel
• Tempest
• 4–6. Three members of H.O.U.N.D. (rumored)
• Unknown individual (rumored to be hiding among the Populace)

“Our dance. Our culture. Our Will is the only truth they can’t take. Leaving them no way to kill us....that matters.”

A decentralized cultural rebellion built on music, movement, and emotional power. They unkowingly trigger awakenings through high-energy rituals—and die shortly after, hunted by Shroud or Sovereign agents.

They’re hunted by both ANTI (to recruit or silence them) and the Sovereign Order and Shroud(to eradicate them).



The Populace

Average civilians living under the full weight of the curses. They cannot see magic, monsters, or the truth. They fear the unfamiliar. Most are intolerant and fragile. Attempting to reveal the truth to them often results in psychic breakdowns or social backlash.