The continent of Serbios is a place of constant and everlastin fight for hegemony. Among the myriad of warring kingdoms, the human kind is too a participant, like all the others species. There is so many conflict and destruction in this place, that this continent was surnames " Land Of Beasts". There is only one eternal truth, Strenght.

In this situation of constant war, to survive become a feat in itself, not to mention dying of old age. Unfortunatly, war is only the second reason of death in Serbios, the first being the "Monsters", beings having had their reason consumed for a still unknown reason. Disease ? Good joke, people with a weak metabolism have long since ceased to exist, they did not have the opportunity to reproduce.

Today, human can be considered as a major contestant for the supremacy. However, it hasn't always been the case, at first, humanity was weak, she didn't possess any way to defend herself, neither claw, fangs, nor even thick fur. Therefore, she used her only avantage, which was her superior intelligence, to develop her own way to become stronger. This is how the " Awakening " was born.

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The Human territory is situated in the North of Serbios, it constitutes a twentieth of the continent. On these lands reside billions of men, they are organised into tribes of different sizes, from top to bottom : City, town, village. In the west of men's territory, in a little valley isolated from all, there is a small village named Acmos.

Caratos, like many others, is an orphan living in this village. However, there is a few "relatively" big differences with the others kids at Acmos, first, he is pretty much a giant compared to others, with 5 feet 7 ( 1m70 ) at only 10 winters. Secondly, his hair is a blackish red, like blood, unlike the usual brown villagers. As if that was not enough to make him stand out, he is suffering from heterochromia, his right eye is a beautiful scarlet color, and his left brother is of a single imperial green.

Today is an important day for all the 10 years old children, because it's the annual event of "awakening". The adults will make a sacrifice of meat to their ancestors, so that children can unlock an animal incarnation which will allow them to gain their attribute and become stronger. The sort of incarnation they will unlock is extremely important, since there is a division of strenght and avantages between each of them. All the villagers attend the ceremony, if there isn't any good seeding, it may make the village weaker, and weakness is not forgiven on these lands.

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in the central square of acmos, Caratos and the rest of the childrens face an altar, in front of which stands a lean old man performing prayers. He is the elder of the village, almost 50 years, graying temples, maybe 5 feet 5. However do not be fooled by his innocent appearance, he is the strongest in the village, to survive until his age show how much he is. There is 300 adults in Acmos, and the majority of them are between 25 and 30 winters, it's already a feat for an isolated village, at this rate of expension, Acmos will sooner or later become a town.

Unfortunatly it's not sufficient to possess an important population. The village must possess différents function, like a forgeron, an alchimist, and even a physician. This is only in the infrastructure. There is something even more important than the quantity of the population or the needed artisants, there is no meaning if there is not at last one warrior with his tatoo at the stage of Perfect Congeal. There is differents stages of power once you become "awakened", at first appear on your back a hazy version of your animal incarnation, it's the Misty Incarnation stage. Little by little, you will become stronger by killing and eating your enemies, because it will allow you to "eat" the essence accumulated in their bodies. Once you finally congealed your tatoo, you reach the second stage, Perfect Congeal, however not much is know about them, since there the village have never given birth to one.

Back in the square, Caratos began to feel nervous, for him, there is something even more important than obtaining the best of the incarnation, it's to repay the tribe. Caratos isn't stupid, just by looking at himself, he can understant that he isn't originally from the village, but even then they always treated him like he was a part of their family. Contrary to what you may think, unlike the biggest tribes which revere only the strong, the harsh environment made the little tribe like Acmos tend to possess an extreme loyalty between his members. However it's still extremely rare for tribes to accept strangers, even kids, as their members. Caratos is conscient of this fact, and this is why he is ready to give his life to make this village prosper. This ceremony is his chance to show that he isn't just a small prankster, but also a man on whom the village can rest.

Caratos, still in his thoughts, finally woke up because of a strange event, some blue smoke begun to escape the altar little by little. After 5 minutes, the smoke had completely invaded the central place, the childrens couldn't even see 30 centimeters in front of them. Caratos, in the middle of the smoke, began to feel really tired, his eyelids became heavy, then he finally couldn't stop himself from succumbing to sleep.

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"Where am I ?" Caratos woke up in a foreign landscape. He was in what seemed to be a tropical forest, there wasn't much to see beside tree. From what the older told him, he should be telported to a place, where he would encounter his incarnation beast. Since there was none traces of animals in sight, he merely took the sun as a landmark and begun to walk.

" Since there is nowhere specific i have to go, then why not go to the sun ?", that was what he thought until he reached IT.