T.F.T.H

***"From our satellite scans we detect that over 700 people are now infected. We aim to destroy these people before they reach epidemic proportions, at sunrise. Our charts say that at sunrise the infected will have reached the city of Phoenix, Arizona, infecting the thousands of people housed there. They will then have destroyed many small cities such as Mesa and Tucson along the way before arriving at San Diego and Los Angeles, infecting too many people to be contained. Also, more bad news. It seems that countries outside of the United States have reached epidemic proportions. The United Kingdom, Russia, the Philippines and India all are in red alert. The Middle East, Madagascar, Canada and Brazil are all at orange alert. China, New Zealand and the Netherlands are all at yellow alert, and the entirety of Europe is in green alert. Our mission is to quarantine the infected cities, close our borders, and shelter America. Your mission, scientists, is to synthesize a cure and distribute it around the world. Got that?"***

- Commander Kyle Connor to Allie and Jason Kreuger in *A Broken Planet: Origins.*

T.F.T.H (or the *Tenratafilo-tenabus helmo parasite)* is a parasitic life form that mutates the creatures it inhabits that starts the events in A Broken Planet.

## Appearance

It is a slim, microscopic worm from the phylum annelida that can grow up to three feet as it matures.

## Physiology

Its hosts are mainly humans, though it can inhabit elephants and dogs as well. It resides in the brain of the host in the first stage of infection, turning the host into a weeper once it has access to the brain. Soon after 3 weeks, claws start to develop on the host's hands as the parasite begins to (inexplicably) turn its waste into hardened keratin. Then, the weepers stop crying, the parasite multiplies from 20-40 to nearly 900, inhabiting the skin and creating tumors and boils, creating the Clots. The brain starts to mutate, making the host smarter and attempt to stalk their prey. After a large period of time, sometimes 2 months to 3 years, the host begins to have more muscled legs and a taller body structure. The parasites begin to multiply even more rapidly,sucking off brain matter and making the host dimwitted, creating the fearsome Cloggers.After some time, the parasites begin to fill the host's body, making it larger and (somehow) more muscular. This creates the much-feared Behemoths.

## Backstory

Much of the parasite's backstory was unknown, though one of the first known hosts was taken to the Center of Disease Control (CDC) where it was taken under control of Dr. Jason Kreuger, his wife, Allie Kreuger, and his team. Not much is known soon after,but it is speculated that the host (known to the researchers as Patient Zero) soon revived as a weeper and bit a few members of the CDC research team, creating a small group of hosts. They are predicted to have gone out of the facility and eventually infected the USA.

## Trivia

* Its origins are currently unknown.
* T.F.T.H. used to stand for "The Flesh That Hates," but it wasn't until the first A Broken Planet Roleplay Spinoff (Origins) that it was changed to the *Tenratafilo-tenabus helmo* parasite instead.