Currie Arand
Currie Arand stood roughly five foot three and was spidery in features. Her face was commanding and stern. Her eyes did not blink, and they showed no compassion or connectivity, as though whatever process had assembled her from the Mortis Amaranthine had left those particular faculties out. She was Full Dead, awakened with piecemeal knowledge of pre-fall weapons design, and she had decided that knowledge made her the savior of the known world.
She founded the Temple of a New Dawn, an extremist Darwinist sect based in the J. Andrew Technology Enclave, and led it as matriarch. The Temple's ideology made even the most devoted members of the Church of Darwin blanch. Arand proclaimed a higher understanding of the pre-fall world and identified what she called the shortcomings of the surviving Strains: the demand of value of self, the selfishness of the ego, the folly of the individual voice. These were not flaws to be corrected. They were diseases to be eradicated. She declared strict divorce from what she termed the "folly of human morality" and required complete dedication and unfaltering faith from every follower.
The methods matched the rhetoric. Members of the Temple spent large portions of their days laboring on devices designed by Full Dead engineers or bathing in radioactive waters meant to dissolve their sense of individual identity. The goal was purification through radiation and obedience: strip away the self, serve the cause, and prepare the world for a future where Full Dead would ascend as its rightful caretakers. Every other Strain was, in the Temple's doctrine, inferior and destined for removal.
The Temple's reach extended well beyond the Enclave. Arand had placed dedicated servants, mostly Full Dead, in cells across the wasteland. These operatives sought out the most devoted faithful to teach the Temple's vision and recruit for its purpose. Beneath that missionary work ran something far more dangerous: cells of dedicated Remnants and devoted Accensorites were quietly gathering the resources needed to create nuclear payloads. Currie Arand watched and directed these operations from the center of her cult's web, patient and unblinking, building toward a reckoning that would dwarf anything the wasteland had faced since the fall of humanity itself.
She founded the Temple of a New Dawn, an extremist Darwinist sect based in the J. Andrew Technology Enclave, and led it as matriarch. The Temple's ideology made even the most devoted members of the Church of Darwin blanch. Arand proclaimed a higher understanding of the pre-fall world and identified what she called the shortcomings of the surviving Strains: the demand of value of self, the selfishness of the ego, the folly of the individual voice. These were not flaws to be corrected. They were diseases to be eradicated. She declared strict divorce from what she termed the "folly of human morality" and required complete dedication and unfaltering faith from every follower.
The methods matched the rhetoric. Members of the Temple spent large portions of their days laboring on devices designed by Full Dead engineers or bathing in radioactive waters meant to dissolve their sense of individual identity. The goal was purification through radiation and obedience: strip away the self, serve the cause, and prepare the world for a future where Full Dead would ascend as its rightful caretakers. Every other Strain was, in the Temple's doctrine, inferior and destined for removal.
The Temple's reach extended well beyond the Enclave. Arand had placed dedicated servants, mostly Full Dead, in cells across the wasteland. These operatives sought out the most devoted faithful to teach the Temple's vision and recruit for its purpose. Beneath that missionary work ran something far more dangerous: cells of dedicated Remnants and devoted Accensorites were quietly gathering the resources needed to create nuclear payloads. Currie Arand watched and directed these operations from the center of her cult's web, patient and unblinking, building toward a reckoning that would dwarf anything the wasteland had faced since the fall of humanity itself.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The specifics of Currie Arand's awakening as a Full Dead are not detailed in any surviving account. What is known is that she emerged from the Mortis Amaranthine carrying fragments of pre-fall weapons design: technical knowledge from a dead world, reassembled in a mind that had no living memories to contextualize it. Whether those fragments shaped her ideology or simply gave her the tools to pursue conclusions she would have reached regardless is a question with no clean answer.
She founded the Temple of a New Dawn within the J. Andrew Technology Enclave, a location whose sole governing law became obedience to the Temple itself. From that base, she built an organization structured for long-term, distributed operation. The cells she placed across the wasteland functioned independently, each led by dedicated servants who understood the vision and carried it forward without requiring constant oversight. The nuclear program ran beneath that network as its most closely guarded ambition, resourced by Remnants and Accensorites who believed they were assembling the instruments of a necessary cleansing.
The scale of her ambition set Arand apart from other extremists in the wasteland. She did not seek to conquer territory or dominate a single settlement. She sought the complete purge of all Strains she deemed inferior and the creation of an environment where more Full Dead could ascend as the future's caretakers. Her fate after the fall of Dominus Columbia remains unrecorded.
She founded the Temple of a New Dawn within the J. Andrew Technology Enclave, a location whose sole governing law became obedience to the Temple itself. From that base, she built an organization structured for long-term, distributed operation. The cells she placed across the wasteland functioned independently, each led by dedicated servants who understood the vision and carried it forward without requiring constant oversight. The nuclear program ran beneath that network as its most closely guarded ambition, resourced by Remnants and Accensorites who believed they were assembling the instruments of a necessary cleansing.
The scale of her ambition set Arand apart from other extremists in the wasteland. She did not seek to conquer territory or dominate a single settlement. She sought the complete purge of all Strains she deemed inferior and the creation of an environment where more Full Dead could ascend as the future's caretakers. Her fate after the fall of Dominus Columbia remains unrecorded.
Full Dead matriarch of the Temple of a New Dawn, extremist Darwinist.
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