Fiction:Essence/Void Energy/Infused

"The process is simple: an aperture opens, like a whirpool, and sucks in a thing of light. It falls into the Abyss. When it returns, it is changed. It is as if it decays into our world as nothingless, yet it is more real somehow, like a shadow curled up inside a translucent shell. An antithesis, yet there. The pathology is the Dark One, yet the whirlpool is Ada."

- Hydarax

"Being of Light, you are -unit-. You are -description-. Yet you are -flawed-. Your flaw is -thus-. The solution is -power-. It offer it. Devour it. Being of Darkness, you are -whole-."

- The Dark One

The Infused serve as the personal shock troops of Terikalinra, though they served as the rank-and-file in Xizothano Ada's armies beforehand. Each infused was once a living thing, handpicked by either Ada or Terikalinra and sucked into the Abyssal Domain. There they are subjected to unceasing psychological torment as their reasons of existence are rendered to nothing. Broken in mind, even those possessing the strongest of wills succumb to the solution which is offered to them. When they return to this reality, they are not quite dead, but cannot be said to truly alive, either. Infused can rather be seen as inverted spirits - a shell of the Void in the shape of their former selves filled and animated with Dark Energy.

Their legs are black and speckled with motes of light like distant stars. Their torsos gradually turn grey and are seen burning with an inner cyan flame which flows like water. Finally, their necks and heads gradually turn into the most searing white, cracks of blackness forming on the surface trough which black fire billows. Each Infused possesses only a single cyclopean eye, which is the darkest black in color and has indeed been linked to a black hole, drawing in all who meet it's gaze. The shadow an Infused cast is always pitch-black and perfectly spherical in shape, blurring eveything it come into contact with - a hint of the Infused' unnatural existence.

Thus crafted, the Infused are entirely loyal to whoever irrevocably changed them. They have become one with the oblivion and archieved a dark enlightenment. They are not slaves; rather, they see everything in exactly the same way their changer does and hence are unquestionably loyal to it. No longer seeing themselves as flawed, the Infused feel finally whole and see it as their divine mission to spread this dark gift to all existence, so all might cease and be whole in darkness.

Upon their creation, all Infused gain new abilities to make up for their former flaws or unfulfilled desires, serving to fuel their feeling of wholeness. Yet at the same time, the two generations of existing Infused are radically different from one another - not in appearance, not in manner of creation, but in species. Indeed, the Infused created Ada by are were without fail his revived followers: Nebulorians, Helmore, Infectants and Crimson Volver. In contract, the Infused created by Terikalinra are drawn from the militaries of the Unified Federation of Glory, Mendel Pact, Mirusian Theocratic Congregation, Waptoria Alliance of Species, SOS, and as of late, the Hegemony.