Geno-Alchemic Fusion System

Geno-Alchemical Fusion System

One of the most important legacies left by the arthropodic peoples, this "technique" has allowed the emergence of both the avian hexapods and, more recently, of the dragon species, also called Mikishen, in the language of the proto-draconic empire, which means "Many (our".

The basic principle is that of a fusion between two or more living beings (different as species or characteristics) so as to form a perfect hybrid that has the added characteristics of the participants as well as the possibility of being able to further merge with any magical object in case wishes.

In addition, the new genetic structure gained becomes the dominant character in the first generation, meaning that the children will have characteristics similar to those of the "fused" parent and how they will be able to absorb magical artifacts in their bodies.

Being the arthropopoids already experts in genetic manipulation since the First Anthropomorphic Age but limited by anatomical and genomic structures too different from each other to reach their goals of perfection, they developed this techno-magic starting from the inanimate bodies of aeonic golems in which part of Aureone. Then they create a series of tools dedicated to the purpose:

the "rooms" rituals enough roomy to cram and then allow the simultaneous fusion of a multitude of specimens used in a most likely industrial;

of the magic artifacts (Artaghi), portable and disposable, with the appearance of barbed eggs, able to allow the fusion between two subjects and probably designed to be used only in case of imminent need.

The group models (called Yesen-tisha, which in the draconic language means Crucible of Communion) are magical artifacts whose operation requires the use of "batteries" made of the material of the aeonic golems which is nebulized in the room during the fusion process. which is initiated by a summoning ritual involving all those present, usually thanks to instructions and enchantments learned by the Sachelion. At the end of the rite of all the participants there remains only one subject which is the sum of all the others and with the power to merge with any magical artifact as well as transmitting the same power to their offspring.

For these reasons it is easy to find in the dragons, especially those of the first generation, a significant percentage of hermaphrodites.

Given the high sacrifice in terms of human lives when it was decided to generate a Mikishen (which was not a problem for the arthropids because they lacked individualism but that for the dinosaurs and therefore dragons yes), great studies were carried out to modify the rite of fusion, first trying to choose a dominant subject that absorbed the remaining participants and, subsequently, making the sacrifice of people obsolete thanks to an "exchange" or "fertilization" rite instead of a merger which would have effect not on the participants but on what would have been their future offspring.

However, these studies were interrupted due to the destruction of all Yesen-tisks during the Saurian-draconic schism.

Subsequently only the being known as Atrodon will show characteristics of geno-alchemic fusion, although in its case it is itself (a magical Artaghi artifact) to absorb and take the characteristics of living beings.

While for arthrophates the geno-alchemic fusion had strictly functional ends, for dinosaurs (which became dragons) it assumed some strongly religious meanings, having assimilated them as an aesthetic canon of perfection the exapodal aspect of the arthrophates which were seen as very ancient gods from the dragons.

Precisely to avoid an excessive customs clearance of the ritual by the dinosaur tribes, who simply wanted more strength and power, the dragon elite destroys the Yesen-tisks between 9,000 and 11,000 DD, considering the number of the then current dragons more than sufficient to form a separate ethnic group.

Despite the ability to merge with the magical artifacts obtained by dragons this is not without risks: being the knowledge of the functioning of every single artifact found by dragons is not complete it is never possible to know a priori what the absorption can lead, with possible rejection often lethal for the dragon or impossibility of harmonization, leaving the body unstable and a greater exposure to risk in case of further fusions, which compromise the psyche of the host that is broken by the many psychic interferences present in the artifact (in which mental fluctuations of previous users may be present, as well as the artifact itself if it has its own will or intelligence or even remains of Plasma E + of the souls with which it was built).

Since the fusion with the artifact is for the indissoluble dragons (unlike the arthrophates who could freely join and divide at the Artaghi) they always put a great deal of caution in uniting, studying and trying to know the Artaghi in question so as to enter "Tuning" so as to make the assimilation safer: this does not need a particular ritual but requires a strong concentration on the part of the dragon who must not only push their energy into the artifact, but at the same time aspire the energy of this in its own body (something that other species can not do) generating a continuous circuit of energy exchange; at that point the spraying starts automatically in which the dragon ramifies its energy flow inside the Araghi which in turn radiates in it (the Artaghi, especially if not sentient, are all led to automatic fusion) thus giving beginning of absorption in which the Artaghi dissolves atomically in the body of the dragon and then re-emerge through a physical mutation of the latter in which the biological body of the dragon generates parts of artificial material (usually the same artifact) and the gland of Kroizer present in the chest is calcified solidifying in a jewel, thus becoming a bio-mechanical equilibrium and integrating in itself the powers of the artifact thus reaching the state of Shosetri (or "Will of the Instrument").

As for the portable models (the Moebius) they are elusive objects in the history of magic, so much so that they were recognized solmanete during the second reclassification of the International Registry of Artaghi as "hypothetical objects but of which there are testimonies of their existence", Category 5 of the Opiren Rare Scale and classified Category 3 in the Russuf-Lina Potential Scale as "potential objects related to the wearer, amplifier and with possible catastrophic turn-up".

Their rarity lies in their unique use, which destroys the Moebius leaving as it remains only a dry and fragile strip of thorns with a consistency similar to the shell of a chestnut and further, having been created for one use it was very difficult that they did not come later used in the mechanical arthropathy civilization during the Second Age of Reason (Gnostic Era).

Their use is much simpler than the Yesen-tisha without requiring any formal ritual: it is enough for two people to communicate energetically with the artifact which will act as a bridge between the two, illuminating their precise excrescences as a signal of the start of the process.

Started the fusion is the artifact to suck the two subjects within themselves expanding at the sub-atomic level until they are wrapped and then open up into a new being born of the union of the two, now equipped with the power to absorb the Artaghi.

Given their rarity it is difficult to describe the historiography of the Moebius diffusion, being able to rely exclusively on the testimony of people "merged" outside the domains of the Draconic Empire of the island of Eneida but given their portable nature it is probable that one of these sooner or later found during the archaeological excavations aimed at the extraction of always new Artaghi of the ancient world.

Last important note: the geno-alchemic fusion was one of the main causes of the increased fragility of both dragons and arthropods towards the disease known as Drefisula Extremis, which led to the extinction of both civilizations by turning them into uncontrolled and invincible monsters.