Darkness recedes, replaced by the humming chime of an artificial entity ringing in your mind:
<SYSTEM INITIATED: SOUL BOUND>
<COMMENCING VESSEL ALLOCATION>
Sensory input trickles into your awareness. Your past human life is a distant echo; your immediate reality is cold air, damp earth, and an overwhelming instinct to feed and survive. Before your senses fully coalesce into physical flesh, the System prompts your first incarnation.
Choose your starting path:
- Cave Skitterer (Insectoid) — Rapid growth, agile, chittering pack instincts, fragile shell.
- Ironjaw Pup (Beast) — Moderate growth, predatory solitary hunter, razor bite, heavy bone density.
- Cinder Wyrmling (Draconic) — Very slow growth, extremely vulnerable infant, latent flame gland and immense apex potential.
- Blind Rebirth (System Choice) — Accept an entirely random newborn creature.
What species will your soul awaken into?