Enlightened

The **Enlightened** is the name given to those Non-Bloods who are cursed, and mind controlled by Ruby (aka: Sylvana Huntington) and made into her servants bent on aiding her in her mission to turn all Non-Bloods into woman through the magics of the Gender Curse. All Enlightened are female who were either once men who were cursed and transformed or women who were not always so busty and curvy. The one most prominent feature of an enlightened is that their eyes will turn a deep shade of crimson red when they are fully under Sylvana's control and while they are still Non-Bloods some are given mild magic ability enchantments mainly focused on seduction, impairment or destruction as well as taught certain feats of Reagent Magic by Sylvana. They act as her drones and servants that are dedicated to her and her mission unquestionably. While it is relatively easy to cure an Enlightened of their curse given the proper training and knowledge their master is hardly one to allow the loss of her servants without a fight. When cured of the curse an Enlightened will return to their natural Non-Blood form with no clear memory of their time spent under Sylvana's control.

## History

Centuries ago in the late 1400s, Sylvana Huntington was driven mad with grief over the death of her oldest daughter Amber and the mutilation of her youngest son Noah. Both of them had been harmed by Non-Bloods after an attempt by the sorcerer state of the Kalterra Dominion to reveal themselves to the Non-Blood population of medieval England failed miserably, and the people reacted in fear and hatred of their kind. Sylvana attempted to revive Amber with forbidden magics and ended up irreparably corrupting her own soul. As a result her eyes turned red and she went mad with the drive to destroy the Non-Blood population of the Earth. Knowing an outright slaughter would gain her little to no support she instead sought a less direct approach. She created a terrible curse that not only would enslave and mind control any Non-Blood it was given to into a servant of her and her followers, but also turn them all into gorgeous and very busty women. With this plan the Non-Bloods would all be turned into women and left unable to procreate on their own. They would either die off in a few decades or be forced to interbreed with Sorcerer Kind. This plan managed to gain her a small following of other sorcerers who shared her distaste for Non-Bloods. So she created what would come to be known as the Gender Curse. This curse took the form of a red glowing orb that when placed on a Non-Blood turned them into an Enlightened. As she began her plan and started to spread her curse across Medieval Europe her husband Alistair Huntington rose up against her and in a powerful battle stopped her before her plan grew beyond any hope of repair. Alistair and his followers known as the Sapphire Legion managed to cure the Enlightened but not entirely. Sylvana had created a curse too powerful to destroy completely. Alistair was left weakened from the battle and now trapped in a cursed crystal form of The Sapphire Fox and thus was unable to cure the enlightened entirely. Instead, his followers were able to remove the mind control aspects of the curse but not the transformations. This left thousands if not millions of Non-Bloods who had previously been Enlightened trapped as the wrong gender. The Legion and the rest of Sorcerer Kind saw their only option was to use Mass Memory Alter to rewrite all memory and records of the transformed to make them believe they had always been that way and assumed the issue was solved with Sylvana now defeated and locked away. But Alistair knew better and he saw that the Gender Curse would persists and be passed down through lineage for centuries to come. And so, as he regained his strength Alistair began his centuries long mission to cure those who had once been or who were decedents of the Enlightened.

After over 500 years of imprisonment in a sealed tomb, Sylvana was freed from her prison by two foolish archeologists. After she was broken out of her bonds, she was quickly able to muster enough power to turn both of them into Enlightened and introduced herself as their new master Ruby. While the (formerly) Male archeologist was killed while attempting to use regent magic soon after, the female Archeologist effectively became Ruby's second in her efforts to begin her plans all over again. Ruby told her of her mission and how (nearly) all transgender people in the modern world were descendants of her original victims from centuries ago. The two then began to slowly seek out and "recruit" more and more Enlightened to their ranks over the course of a few years. As a secondary measure, Ruby placed explosive ruins on each of her new Enlightened that would detonate and kill them if anyone attempted to remove their curse. A final measure so she could not lose her minions without a price.

Eventually Alistair Huntington realized that Sylvana had returned and begun her terrible plans all over again and thus he and his apprentices and allies began efforts to track her down and stop her once and for all. By the time Alistair and his strongest apprentice Isabelle Arrington had tracked Sylvana down she had gathered nearly a thousand Enlightened under her control each with explosive ruins placed on them. In an effort to free the enlightened from her control, stop Sylvana from freeing herself of her crystal prison form and avenge the death of Isabelle's mother Nora the two of them attacked the fortress Sylvana had made her base. Realizing that all the enlightened would be killed by the ruins placed on them if they simply used a standard curse cure, Alistair and Isabelle trusted their allies Claire Dupont and Chris Young to combine their own powers to cure them. Alistair teleported all the enlightened to his island and imprisoned each one within a force field cage. Clair was then able to use her Gold magic to turn each Enlightens body into steel to protect them from the explosions while Chris used his Emerald magic to cure them one by one. While they succeeded in curing the thousand Enlightened and left Sylvana alone, Alistair and Isabelle were unable to defeat her, and she succeeded in regaining her human form increasing her strength beyond measure. The Enlightened were freed from her influence but with her human form restored Sylvana managed to recruit a new following of other sorcerers who shared her stance on dominating the Non-blood world so Sorcerer kind could stop hiding. With their support and aide, she quickly began to build up her enlightened forces again and managed to build up a force of hundreds of thousands if not millions despite efforts by the sorcerer governments to stop her. (to be continued)