"They weren't meteorites. They were visitors. Void Predators."
"Their arrival brought disaster, but it also brought… change. Plagues, viruses, a rapacious evil… our world was plunged into chaos. And the final stage of that change was annihilation. In the ensuing slaughter, the very essence of our world was drained, our species were wiped out, and the land itself was scoured and broken."
The story wasn't poetic, but Orion could easily imagine the sheer, world-ending horror of it.
"The root of that catastrophe, the architect of our world's ruin, is the being I have sealed beneath this volcano: Orric, the First Ancestor of the Cretaceous beasts."
At the mention of the name, a tremor of pure hatred rippled from the egg, and the voice's killing intent became a palpable force in the cavern.
