ERA IX — THE CURRENT AGE

The Awakening of Krakos & the Return of the Limitless Virus

“The age of myths ended the day the ice cracked.”

I. The Event That Ended the Silent Era

Date: Classified (Daemos timestamp: Ω-1)
Location: IceBay Research District, Thalora’s frozen expanse
Incident Type: Bio-Mythic Awakening Event
Designation: The Krakos Resurgence

For centuries, the Limitless Virus remained dormant in humanity’s bloodlines.
The world believed it extinct — a curse of the ancient Proven wars, long buried beneath ice and myth.

That belief died the moment IceBay cracked.

II. Discovery — The Caveman in the Glacier

During a routine excavation of glacial memory layers, Daemos Industries teams uncovered:

a preserved humanoid corpse
encased mid-motion
holding an obsidian spear
surrounded by fractured dragon bone
with wings carved directly into its musculature

Upon thawing, the “corpse” did not revive — it woke up.

The figure burst from the containment slab, shattering five feet of reinforced cryo-ice.

His first words recorded by security audio:

“KRAKOS!”

Not a greeting.
A declaration.

The world’s first Limitless had returned.

III. The Fight at IceBay

Krakos immediately attempted escape.
Daemos deployed its strongest combatant on site:

Portis, director-level enforcer and augmented heavyweight.

The result:

Krakos fought Portis hand-to-hand for seven minutes.
Portis lost. Badly.

Witnesses describe:

• shockwaves from every strike
• frost melting into steam
• Krakos flying unassisted
• sonic cracks forming in the research hall
• Portis thrown through three meters of steel bulkhead

Krakos showed no hostility beyond wanting freedom —
but his awakening proved one thing:

The Limitless Virus was not dead.
It had been asleep.
And IceBay woke it up.

IV. Daemos Locks It Down

All footage was seized.
All survivors were silenced under Omega-Level Threat Protocol.
Daemos issued the official report:

“Icequake. Zero casualties.”

This was a lie.

The real file sits in black vaults beneath Daemos HQ:

Omega File — KRAKOS
Classification:
“Apocalyptic-Level Anomaly.
If he speaks truth, humanity has found its oldest ancestor.”

V. The Lazarus Kane Connection

Two weeks before the IceBay crack:

Lazarus Kane escaped containment.

He is the only mortal to ever disrupt Death itself.
His escape created an instability ripple — a metaphysical disturbance that:

• weakened seals
• reactivated Proven echoes
• destabilized dormant bloodlines
• triggered ancient relic signatures across Nova Prime

Daemos theorists believe:

Kane’s escape is what weakened the ice around Krakos.

A domino effect:

Lazarus escapes →
proven echoes ripple →
Limitless spark reactivates →
glacier fails →
Krakos awakens.

VI. The Spread

Within months of the Krakos event:

• spontaneous power awakenings occurred in Silverpoint
• children exhibited enhanced reflexes and perception
• adults manifested photonic resonance after trauma
• Aegis logged 128 “meta-incidents” in one week
• HavenReach police forces reported “inhuman strength” cases
• Arkos military quietly quarantined two desert villages
• Xratinia issued its first alert in 300 years

The Limitless Virus didn’t break out.

It reactivated worldwide.

VII. Global Reaction

HavenReach

Declared a soft emergency.
FID begins tracking powered individuals.
Cassian Rhyle becomes the central figure in “Containment Diplomacy.”

Arkos

Mobilizes black ops units.
Claims it is a “biological anomaly.”
Prepared to weaponize the phenomenon.

Aegis

Issues global directive:
“Monitor, do not escalate.”
Privately terrified.

Syndicates

Begin recruiting awakened individuals.
The Orion leadership sees opportunity — not danger.

Xratinia

Only three words were issued from their Crown Council:

“The old blood wakes.”

They closed their borders even harder.

The Unrecognized Settlement

The Lennix Hill stirred —
a sign the Proven of Family’s echo had also awakened.

The Zenith

Silent… but watchers seen in the canopy for the first time in decades.

VIII. The Modern Age Has Arrived

All ancient threads converge:

• Krakos returns
• Kane escapes
• Proven echoes reactivate
• Limitless awaken
• relics spark
• syndicates shift
• Xratinia watches
• HavenReach braces
• the Virus spreads silently
• the world’s powers scramble

The myths are no longer myths.

The past is no longer dead.

Nova Prime has officially entered:

THE AGE OF SUPERS, SHADOWS, AND SOVEREIGNS.

History is about to repeat itself —

only this time, mortals are not powerless.