Ghouls (Divergence Eve)
The Ghouls are an alien race that features in Divergence Eve and its sequel Misaki Chronicles.
History
Ghouls were classed as beings that were invaders from a parallel universe. This other universe was said to hold the memory of death and was the specter of death that repeated infinitely. The Ghoul claimed to be native to a universe that was chaos before time was born.
The first encounter with these entities was known as the Trajedy of Cherubim. Initially, it was not known why the Ghouls merged with humans and the victims of the first attack led to the complete annihilation of the research team. Afterwards, no further encounters were made which allowed for the development of Watcher's Nest to progress. As the construction finally commenced, a second incident emerged at the facility that led to a huge number of casualties that took place inside the core. Most of the bodies were not recovered and thus were left behind. Ghouls merged with the corpses and led to the dead coming to life that attacked other humans. These bodies were later reanimated and a special squad from a research team discovered a genetic mutation that was present within the bodies thus revealing the fact that the Ghouls did not kill humans for no reason. Watcher's Nest was tasked with the mission of preventing any panic from coming to the human population by hiding the existence of the Ghouls. First encounter with the Ghoul was noted for being a trajedy. Amongst those people that vanished, some of these individuals were genetically altered following the discovery of the Divergence Hole.
This led ot the acquisition of the genetic code of the Ghoul leading scientists to study it with the intention of finding a means of escaping the dead end of evolution. However, the burden of many risks were present in this experimentation in order to unlock the secrets of the Goul with some considering this a step into God's doamin. This saw the creation of a group of people called the Designer's Children whereupon an attempt was made to contact the Ghoul again. However, to do so, it was required that individuals who were further evolved were needed to initiate the act. These would be a new species of humans that carried within them the genes of the Ghouls from birth. This led to the creation of hybrid offspring such as Misaki Kureha who were intended by the organization to communicate with the Ghoul and unlock its secrets. Kureha was deemed the most ideal guinea pig for this task and more ideal compared to her father.
Background
They are from a realm inimical to humanity and seem to despise other forms of life, attacking viciously whenever and wherever encountered. The bodies of a Ghoul was referred to as a fossil due to the fact that they were not really dead. They were in fact alive but advanced through the flow of time far slower than Humans. It was believed that this was done as if they wer elinking together the shards of life. It was possible to determine the Divergence Point of a Ghoul when it began to Materialize. This was by registering a gravitational bias that confirmed their presence with sensors detecting a Ghoul's energy order at the Appearance Point when it reached max. It was speculated that there may had been a means of preventing a Ghoul from Materializing.
They were extratemporal beings that existed in a transient sensse which meant most attacks on the creature have only a small chance to actually affect it since it may not actually exist when a weapon hits them. This renders the Ghoul almost impervious to conventional attack and also means most physical barriers and even body armor are meaningless to the Ghoul, since they can merely phase through a wall or armor. They can also generate weapons-grade energy blasts and their mere presence causes massive electromagnetic disturbances.
Their nature meant that they were able to drag individuals into the crevices of space-time. They have been seen brutally killing humans and on occasion eating them but they are also known to alter the corpses of those they kill genetically - infecting them with Ghoul tissue and leaving them as animate, timelost undead horrors known as Necromancers. Victims of the Ghouls attacks had their dead brains animated by some form of electromagnetic impulse which led to their bodies not rotting away. Analysis of these reanimated corpses led to the discovery of an exact genetic mutation that was similar and exhibited in each of the bodies.
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