Seed

A seed is a humanoid born from the branches of Delecto for the purpose of spreading oxygen across contaminated lands. Seeds are born with a subconscious recurring dream of a destination that they one day will arrive at to turn into a tree, ending their human lives for the purpose of purification. The time and place is different for each seed. The form a seed takes is always female, which guarantees that if they mate, they will give birth to another female seed.

Ambyin is a seed who went under supression to keep herself alive. She was forcibly exposed to the trial by her mother who was part of a resistance that wished to rebel against their fate as a seed. Her mother gave into transformation when contracted with a sickness from Ambyin's father Anluis Barda. Abatissa is also a seed and used her own methods to subdue and control the urge to transform and the side effects of its supression.

## Seed Resistance Group

The seed resistance group is an unamed organization of people who were born as seeds or have researched seeds and their sickness. The organizations across the map are mostly unofficial as they were created individually without contact with either of the leaders. Ambyin's mother was introduced to the organization by chance while suffering from spasms in a local marketplace near her home in a rural town. At that time, Ambyin was five years of age and was immediately put through the process of supression to ensure she remains alive.

The requirements for remaining in the organization is to be a seed or hold interest in a seed's genetic makeup or be a concerned family member/spouse of a seed. Those who are seeds are required to move far from civilization in order to lead a peaceful life.

## Supression

### The process

Discovering that emotional excitement sped up the process of transformation, the seed resistance had created dark cold rooms to keep themselves away from the outside world, numbing their minds from desires while maintaning a calm state. The process includes a comfortable position leaning back toward the ceiling with drops of water falling from overhead. The seed is then blanketed in linen to keep warm and have their eyes covered so that they could focus on hearing. Someone that they trust speaks softly to them from nearby to keep them from falling asleep, focusing on keywords such as "let it all go" and "focus on the streaming current, flowing through then away, away into the abyss."

Repeating this process for six months without sunlight or movement and with just meager food, the seeds slowly forget their purpose and fall into a state of mental numbness, or "supression." To test if the trial was a success, they are given things of value for a time and are then stripped of it, are told horror stories, and get nagged and beaten. If there is no normal "human" reaction, the supression was a success.

### Side effects

Supressing the urge to transform has led to numerous side effects. The most common one is an irritation of the skin caused by emotional stress. Blood from within the body collects on the surface of the skin creating a hardened black armor that is nearly indestructable by current time's means. The afflicted lose all sense of self and are out of control.

If a seed falls victim to the irritation often, permanent damage to the skin can occur, leading to blood sticking to the surface of their skin.

## The Hunt

During her reign as a holy human symbol, Abatissa recruited Human Counterpieces from Alden to hunt down seeds in order to spread word that there is no god, falsifying scriptures that seeds exist. Since there are no physical differences between seeds and other humans, Human Counterpieces use psychological measures to draw them out.