Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20160907220147/@comment-5583506-20161129034544

"Hush now", whispered Evelyne, pressing her head to his fuzzy cheek. "Don't give them a reason to turn hostile."



As the group entered the next chamber they would find themselves in a gigantic room with all matter of pens and holdings. The pens were holding predatory animals of all kinds. Wolves, bears, mountain lions... And they were all in their original size. It was a remarkable sight.

"What in the..." Ran exclaimed under his breath, leaning out over a railing to see the animals in their ordinary state.

"Yes, as you can see not all Beasts are capable of tearing down cities with their feet", said the commander. "We are currently researching a way to restore them to this size."

Ran looked at her with a mix of confusion and restrained anger. These people were somehow responsible for the death of a global civilization and now they were trying to fix the problem? Though he was tempted to kill her on the spot his curiousity got the better of him, and he just had to ask the question that had been chewing at his heart for years.

"Where... did they come from? What was their original purpose?"

The commander sighed. "We were outmanned during the Great War. The Thalmor were close to winning. All of the world would have succumbed to the threat of the Aldmeri Dominion. So our mages cooked up a plan to magically manipulate nature itself against the Thalmor, to drive them off of our shores. With the combined aid of alchemists and mages alike we managed to create a new strain of predators."

"But not before experimenting on humans", added Hildi dryly, crossing her arms over her chest.

The commander shot her a stern, but confused glare. "Yes, they did. It was wrong. I won't deny that. But we can't be held responsible for something that our ancestors did centuries ago. Either way, the result of our experiments were successful. We had created a Beast that not only grew rapidly in size, but also retained a sense of intelligence, seeing as a part of them are actually human. That would make them easy to order. Yet... the formula for this creation was as you can imagine not the most stabile."

She motioned with her hand to a great holding cell where the gigantic skeleton of a Slaughterfish Beast was suspended by chains in the ceiling.

"I assume that since you kill Beasts for a living you already know that when they are killed they evaporate, leaving nothing behind. We don't know what the cause of this is, but we believe it to be some sort of mutation that originated from this faulty formula. You can't begin to imagine the fuss we had to go through just in order to prevent it to happen to this example for studying."

"So you used the Beasts to defeat the Thalmor? Then what?"

"Well... We were hoping that since their minds were part human, they would remain that way. Easy to control and order around. But the formula had too many flaws. It resulted in a mutation that caused their minds to slowly devolve into their regular, predatory selves, becoming the primitive animals they once were. Combine this with a couple of decades of reproduction and... the rest is history." The commander raised her shoulders. "We are now trying to regain control over them."

"You just destroyed the whole world because of a flawed, magical formula that increased their size and made them into a living weapon?" said Ran, sounding more like he was accusing her than stating facts.

"That's it, yes. It's done. It's not like we can undo the mistakes of our forefathers."

<p style="font-weight:normal;">"So what is your plan then? Just... fix this mess and pray that the world goes back to normal?"

<p style="font-weight:normal;">"It can never go back to normal", admitted the commander. "Mankind on the mainland have played their part."