4.13.7 Nocturn

Before the lineage of the Consanguine was successfully established by Yrtez, she experimented upon a young Ankyrean that would later adopt the name Zsarachnor, the Vampire Lord. This experiment, which transformed him, was widely considered a failure by Yrtez and her peers. Although Zsarachnor had obtained strength and immortality from the change, his intellect had severely diminished and any progeny he tried to produce turned into mindless, feral creatures.

Yrtez's experiment was based on a ritualistic curse of blood and shadow from ancient Farsai that once transformed mortal sacrifices into the fearsome rojalli. Excruciatingly painful to the victim, the process would break their mind and leave behind only the feral, animalistic creature. Zsarachnor's Ankyrean heritage allowed him to resist the pain to a degree and gain some semblance of control over the powers obtained from it, but even he was left a mere shadow of his former self.

It was only appropriate that the true potential of this shadowy curse would be realized in the Midnight Age. Facing Zsarachnor in a deadly confrontation, Ayuna Vyktaire, the General of the Goddess Iosyne, became exposed to the malignant curse. Tempered through the years by her Goddess' teachings on pain, as well as her own personal dedication to hunting, Ayuna was uniquely qualified to overcome the curse and bend it to her will.

Her mind still intact, she emerged from the battle with her body swathed in shadows and transformed by the curse. Iosyne, the Malevolent's voice rang out across Sapience in proclamation: Behold Ayukazi, first of the Nocturn.