A mad goddess sees humanity as inherently corrupt so she turns them all into beastfolk that obey her unquestioningly, one of the only humans who was unaffected by her grand spell was a human teen called Demetrius. He hid out in the basement of the capitol building and beseeched the void itself for help, having his sanity slowly chipped away by the fact he had to kill his family which were under the effects of the “Unification” spell, and Yvriolketl took notice. He gave him the power to combat them at the cost of a painful ritual, one that involved all his skin being torn off and reconstituted as bandages that can be used as prehensile tendrils, and his face will drive all those who look upon it suicidally insane with terror. This resulted in him being in a ten year coma while he rested in a cocoon of his own skin, which some researchers took in, not knowing what it truly was. When he awoke inside the new capitol, he took on a new persona of “The Flayed Archon” and as he took of his mask for the first time which was made from excess bone growth his body had ejected, the countless monsters in hibernation under the city had awoken in service to their new master, taking the city through carnage and mayhem. “She thought the humans were monsters, I’ll show her what a true monster is....”