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She gasped for air and spit out the bitter gelatinous liquid that coated her mouth. The room around here was dimly lit and blurry. No that was just her eyes. She wiped more of the bitter liquid out of them, blinked and the room came into focus. There were strange devices and tubes all around the vat she sat in all connecting into the roots in the ceiling. There was a low mechanical humming noise and a steady beep every couple of seconds. She was also not alone. There were several dark-robed people moving about, one stood near where she sat and studied her. To her left was another person like her, in a vat identical to the one she was in. They were standing up, and one of the robed figures was observing them as well. Rising to her feet, she looked again at the one to her left, she didn’t know how, but she knew them. The robed figures spoke to each other, too low to overhear, they finally seemed to reach a consensus and then went silent. They turned to the being to her left and said in unison “you are The First” and then look at her and said in unison “you are The Second”. 
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The Founders’ Cult had quietly existed for centuries, not a small group, and not overly secretive, but also seen, accurately, as a fanatical branch of mainstream religion. Most people passing by didn’t give any attention to the black-robed figures standing on the corner shouting about prophecy and destruction, until the assassinations began happening. A king here, a high shaman there, each murder specifically designed to destabilize a culture. Turns out the zealots had a plan.
There was certainly intent to all the discord and panic the cult was fostering, bringing ruin to a society that they considered inferior to what came before, but that was only ever meant to be a catalyst. They were not an apocalyptic group, cynical and misguided maybe, but not a death cult, there was always a further vision than just sewing ruin, the cult’s true end goal was to herald in a new golden era, a return to the age of the two Founders.
Amid all the chaos a decades old experiment was finally bearing fruit. Deep within the kingdom of Orebos in a laboratory hidden away in an old root bunker two unique beings were waking for the first time. They were humans, but also somehow different, more ancient maybe.