Name: Abathur, the Evolution Master

Universe: StarCraft Universe

Appearance:


"Look at flesh, see only potential. Strands, sequences, twisting, separating, joining. See how it could be better. Eat flesh, splinter bone. Inside me, can touch it. Weave it. Spin it. Make it great."

Skill set/Abilities: Abathur is a unique zerg creature, due to the fact that he is created from numerous zerg creatures. His primary purpose is to serve the swarm as its evolution master, acting as a sort of craftsman and library of DNA. This allows him to modify the characteristics of zerg creatures and improve on them. He does this by ingesting parts of creatures and then gaining access to their genetic code.

He has minimal combat capabilities, instead being a brilliant strategic mind and an incredibly intelligent biologist. He uses zerg creatures to fight for him instead, directing and commanding them through psionic signals.

Abathur also possesses the ability to burrow into the ground and travel to other locations quickly, an adaptation he acquired from his feral wandering days on Char.

Background: Abathur was created by the Overmind using the DNA of various different zerg species and was an instrument of the Overmind's plan to attain Zerg perfection. Abathur was also responsible for creating the Queen of Blades herself, Kerrigan. After the death of the Overmind, he wandered the tunmels of Char, feral and purposeless, eating anything that attacked him.

As Abathur wandered Char without a master, he modified any zerg he came across, and grew fixated on diversifying the Swarm. The Queen of Blades retrieved him and took him under her command. With the de-infestation of the Queen at Char during the Second Great War, the Swarm fragmented, as the broodmothers vied for control. He was too strong for Broodmother Zagara to take control of him. At the time of fragmentation, he was aboard a leviathan.

Kerrigan had then found him again on said leviathan and he served her once again as her swarm's evolution master, evolving the Zerg to be faster, stronger and deadlier. He followed her up until the End War, where he then served Zagara after Kerrigan was gone.

Other Information: Abathur's true goal is for the Zerg to achieve biological perfection, although he knows it isn't possible, he still tries, claiming that it makes sense on a tactical level for him to chase it.

He also believes it is "purpose" which makes the zerg what they are. He states that without an overriding will, they are no more than beasts, much like he was after the death of the Overmind. To this end, he is grateful that the Swarm has a purpose.