The Zooanthropes (from the union of the Greek words that mean Animal and Man) are a most ancient breed of creature able to change their shape between that of a human and that of an animal and vice versa. Once upon a time, they could very well have been Earth (better known as Gaia) warriors, those that lived in tight contact with nature, representing its essential principles in their duty as mediators between the Wild and the Civilized; in all Ages, legends were filled by rumors telling of strange creatures that fused animal and human characteristics, mankind has always feared (even if not always correctly) the creatures that called themselves Zooanthropes, but their existence always lived in shadows filling mankind’s nightmares and dreams of Power… It was due to these Dreams that the once flourishing, albeit hidden, Zooanthropic civilization met its fall; with the passing of time the contact that this creatures had with the Planet swung low due to the proliferation of creatures like human beings and other Breeds of Darkness, and soon they also began to loose their identity as Gaia’s Guardians, diminishing up to the point of being of tribes lost around the world that were considered just like other monstrous races by mankind. It was due to this very humans that the darkest period of the Zooanthropes came upon them, in fact by the time that mankind had control over magic, a sect of great power and knowledge learned the secret of the Zooanthropes existence and understanding which power this secret brought with it, they tried to seize it. Luckily for mankind and the world in general, Gaia’s blessing could not be gained through any arcane ritual, this way neglecting to the members of this sect the possibility of becoming invincible creatures with unlimited arcane powers; but they did not let their ambition wane for this first failure, the humans changed their objectives and decided to use the Zooanthropes power by enslaving it, instead of seizing it themselves, it was for this reason that, after years of studies and rituals, the sect could complete a ritual that made them able to control the proud creatures called Zooanthropes. And so, the creatures that once were Gaia’s descendants became the material executioner, the pawns of greedy human sorcerers with world domination intentions: Zooanthropes, since the most ancients days, wished success in their undertakings by mean of a mystical phrase: Fythos Lusec Wecos Vinosec. It meant "May the Light in the Darkness never Stop Shining ", to point out their role as creature of darkness feared and despised by human beings who knew, nonetheless, they had to further a crusade for the purest ideals whose banner had to be held high in the heart of the very darkness they had to fight. The sorcerers too had a secret language that they used for their secret Sabbath, which they used to leave legacy of their sorceries dark secrets, in their language, that they had constructed by the analysis of the fragments of the ancient texts regarding the Zooanthropes that were written in forgotten age, such phrase was instead translated as: "May the Heart of Darkness never Stop Beating", meaning that evil, however hidden, however hunted would have lived forever …

In time, the sect grew in power, unchallenged, thanks to the use of Zooanthropes power, but it understood the necessity of remaining hidden from the people eyes, but, above all, form those of other creatures of the night, that, while despising the idealistic Zooanthropes, could have feared that, as they enslaved the Zooanthropes, the sect could have tried with them too, consequently leading the creatures of darkness to attack the sect. Zooanthropes instead, lost their pride and their ancient history, hidden by the sect in order to crush their identity even more, and young Zooanthropes grew with the manipulated idea of being born and bred only to serve the sect members, but with time, someone tried to rebel against this and, albeit there were very few cases, someone managed to escape and to return to Gaia’s blessing. While the dark ages came to an end, the sect power began to fall, in fact, in all these centuries, sorcery never could disclose the secret of the Zooanthropic birth, nor it could, even if the attempts never ceased, give the power of Gaia to those born human, for this reason, all the Zooanthropes serving the sect were brood in captivity, like animals in the zoos, the slaves in work camps, but, due to the rising hysteria inside the sect for a possible mass rebellion, such breedings became fewer and fewer and purges happened more often, until the creatures in the sect service were not very few indeed… With the rising of the modern era, the sect mutated in Corporation to better adapt to the capitalistic system that was growing in the world and brought to its service science that fused with its sorceries to expand even more its power. Soon, Tyron Corporation became involved in drug traffic and in the dirtiest businesses in the order to gather founds to further its dark experiments, getting nearer and nearer to the secret of the Zooanthropes… And just in this timespan that began the story of…