Editing Primordial Evolution Game/Central Legends (section)

==Zhen'qual's Covenant==

That morning, as the oasis scouts prepared to return to the Hazuvaat, one of the picked up the faint scent of blood. After a brief debate about what they should do, they decide to investigate it.

Soon enough, they find the broken body of Knixi, lying in the sand at the edge of the oasis. The scouts were unaware of the Hazuvaat-nul ritual that had occurred back at the godworm.

Discovering their youngest sister horribly maimed by the houyi spines causes distress and sorrow amongst the scouts.

One of them decides to follow the trail of dried ichor, which eventually leads him to the fallen over kaskus. There, as he smells the godworms egg that has been burrowed under the tree, it all becomes clear.

The scouts take the Knixi's body with them, as they start to fly back towards their new home, knowing that they must deliver the news of grief to the tribe, and also the knowledge that their youngest one didn't fail them in the end.

While the tribe was in the middle of discussing what to do with the defilers of their former host, the scouts from the oasis return, carrying the body of Knixi. The tribe is shocked to see the brutalized corpse of their youngest member. "What about the Hazuvaat-nul? What happened to the god egg?", asks Sadkha.

"Knixi managed to bury it in a safe place. She must have been heavily wounded at the time", responds one of the scouts.

"Good. She was successful. May the Hazuvaat bless her young soul."

The body is presented to Zhen'qual. "Blessed Hazuvaat! This young servant of yours sacrificed herself so that your child might grow in prosperous place. Please. oh mighty Zhen'qual, bless her soul, and guide it in afterlife!"

The tribe starts to prepare the mourning ritual of the dead.

Zhen'qual responds. "Your tribe has shown that you persevere, no matter how hard the task is. That is good. Knixi will be reborn anew, mark my words."

The Zu-Nul are confused. "Born again? How can that be? She never contacted your holy essence when she still lived. Her soul is lost to the desert! Eternally cursed to wander the sand ocean, in search of peace. Oh great Hazuvaat, will you truly be able to guide her back to us?"

"Her memory lives in your essences, is it not? As you connect, I can receive her memories. From that alone, I could bring her soul back. So remember her with all your might." Zhen-qual spoke.

The tribe gathers in one flesh chamber, bringing Knixi's body with them, and placing it against the slowly pulsating wall. The suzumou begin to connect with the nervous system of the Hazuvaat while the the worm flesh begins to absorb Knixi's body.

From the scraps of her personality and memories left in the minds and memories of the Zu-Nul and from the broken remains of her mind that Zhen-qual managed to extract from Knixi's body, granted the godworm the needed bits and pieces of Knixi's persona that she needed in order to recreate the mind of the young suzumou.

Well, not exactly recreate. Depending on how successful the process is, the resulting mind will only be a rudimentary amalgamation of broken scraps, of persona and memories, woven together in an attempt to recreate a dead child.

But if all goes well, this "reborn" Knixi will be just close enough to the original that the Zu-Nul will be fooled, and in the end, that is all the godworm actually needs.

Zhen'qual attempts to help the larval suzumou to weave the fragmented memories into a coherent matrix, from which the child might grow the reincarnated persona of Knixi.

The full memories won't manifest until she starts to reach adolescence, but the behavioral traits of Knixi will be deeply forged to her mind, as well as the hidden agenda of the worm.

Knixi shall be used to rally the disorganized Zu-nul, and get them to focus on acquiring the landworm.