Editing Resident Evil: Chronicles of Darkness (section)

===The Founding of Umbrella===
The history of bio-terror is intimately tied up with a single company, the Pharmaceutical giant known as the Umbrella Corporation. Although it is not conceived until March of 1968, its history stretches back further than that.

In 1962, the European aristocrats Lord Oswell E. Spencer and Edward Ashford travel to Africa in pursuit of the legendary "Stairway to the Sun", a toxic flower consumed by the aspiring kings of the Ndipaya tribe that supposedly granted inhuman strength and longevity to one who survived consumption. They spend four years searching on and off, but it isn't until an expedition in 1966 led by Spencer and accompanied by up-and-coming biologist Dr. James Marcus, that their efforts bear fruit. 

On December 4th of 1966, after three months of searching and fighting against the hostile Ndipayas, they discover a sample in the West African region of Kijuju, and unlock its secrets; the flowers are the natural hosts for a double-stranded RNA virus that ias capable of infecting a wide variety of species and acts as a highly potent non-carcinogenic mutagen.