One person seeking revenge is destined to learn the horrible truth. They are all alike in their deformity. On my understanding of genetics, this is impossible.
Mutation is a random thing.
Were this malediction an accidental by-product of our foul world, it would not show itself in a single form, any more than victims of haphazard radiation are born with a common, identifiable deficit. Yet what I see before me is too complex for that, too ornate. Surely no single virus can build viable gargoyles out of human flesh. I stare around me in the blue light. In all truth, what I see does not look like anything the theory of evolution can cope with, no matter with what ingenuity it is modified.