The Original

The Original was the first Predater and is the protagonist of Extinction Event.

Well what what he responsible for?

creating crimson

finding the aestithikodex

causing the 2nd calamity

reintroducing most of the species that ever lived on earth back to earth.

shifting humans to near the bottom of the food chain

One of the few beings that truly understood ethraksha programming.

leader of most other predators

Appearance

Personality

The Original Enlightenment
Taught several Predaters how to Program Ethraksha.

This was after he absorbed the Aestithikodex and gained the knowledge to do so.

This is how the Living Weapon breakout was able to happen

History
The United Archipelagic Sky-Islands, 4k-5k years ago, only 30 years or so after the 1.5th Calamity. It was an accident. Sheer coincidence. Some grown-ass man fell into a puddle of Ethraksha. The entirety of his being was absorbed and replicated as Ethraksha Programming. This was the birth of the Original. It has very little memories and no sense of self.

It wakes to realise that it's alone, surrounded by blue skies and green meadows...along with other puddles and blobs of Ethraksha scattered across the beach that it's standing on. Some are tiny, pebble-sized droplets, and others could be seen from so far away that they take up half of the horizon.

It tries to touch one of them, but something inside of it compels it not to. There's an instinct, a memory, that these green masses of floating liquid are dangerous. It leaves them alone.

It looks down. The sand. It knows what the silky stuff on the ground is called. It also knows about the concept of names. The sand seems to be seeping into his legs. He has legs. They don't look like what he remembers legs should look like. They're green, like the blobs on green stuff floating on the beach all around him. Is he? one of the green blobs? Probably.

The Original follows this memory and heads in the direction of this town it barely remembers. A bird of prey spots the Original and tries to attack it. It gets absorbed instantly. The human who makes up most of the Original's Programming deemed the bird as irrelevant, and so did It. The bird's information was not absorbed to the same level as anything else The Original's come across. The Orignal can make chirping noises now and has several tiny talons sticking out across its body.

When The Original reaches the town, it is met with screams and blades. There are a group of people trying to ward it away by scaring it. It has only absorbed one Human and a Bird. There's no way it understands fear.