Tainted

Tainted are the dregs of humanity that have been left behind on the old world. These unfortunate souls have been exposed to generations of genetic abberations caused by the Genearchy virus. Leprosy, redundant limbs, deformities, mental deficiencies, or other unwanted mutations are not uncommon among tainted. Evolution has been cruel to these staunch survivors. Despite this difficult and bleak lifestyle, the tainted have managed to survive through sheer adaptibility. Years of genetic malleability has rendered them able to purposefully induce a huge variety of genetic mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Most cyborgs come from this race. Unlike abominations, they are unable to take the most extreme forms of mutation. Tainted essentially resemble baseline humanoids in their appearance. Tainted generally live in huge ghettos in the crumbling remains of the megacities. In that sense, not much has changed over the centuries. But where there was once at least a semblance of order, the new age puts the tainted in the midst of a new paradigm shift. The human survivors find themselves torn between the supercomputers and their machine and cyborg armies, and the mutant hiveminds controlled by the Great Brains. Neither fully mutant nor fully machine, the tainted will one day be forced to pick a side in the war for control of the future.

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