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Extinction Cycle Variant Encyclopedia
Variant origins, classifications, evolution, abilities, regional forms, enemy hierarchies, known encounters, and countermeasures.
Variant Starting Points
Variant Forms and Evolution
Allied States Response to Variant Evolution
The Allied States is not just a setting in Dark Age. It is humanity's institutional answer to Variant evolution. The country grows out of the wreckage of the United States.
Azrael and Variant Evolution
Azrael is the point where Variant evolution stops being only a biological danger and becomes a political, religious, and civilizational danger.
Bone Collector Captivity Arc
Kate, Meg, Tasha, Jenny, and the New York rescue that turns Variant leadership into personal horror
Dark Age Outpost Era and New Gods Rise
The Dark Age outpost era and New Gods rise is the four-book story arc that begins eight years after Extinction War and transforms postwar reconstruction into a second extinction.
Juvenile Variants
Juvenile Variants, also called Variant offspring, are members of the new generation born after the VX-99 and Hemorrhage Virus catastrophe in the Extinction Cycle.
New Gods, Scions, Thralls, and Chimeras
New Gods, Scions, Thralls, and Chimeras are the major late-stage enemy categories of the Dark Age era.
The Bone Collector
Blake Chambers, bodily ruin, and the birth of a personal Alpha threat
The White King
Valen, the Good Voice, and the intelligent Variant threat that changes Garcia's war
Variant Evolution
Variant evolution is the long biological escalation that turns the Extinction Cycle from a single outbreak into a multi-generation extinction war.
Variant Evolution from Early Variants to New Gods
Variant evolution from early Variants to New Gods is the long biological horror arc of the Extinction Cycle.
Variant Religion and Ideology
Variant religion and ideology reaches its most developed form in Dark Age through Azrael and the New Gods.
Webbing Network and Variant Religious Ideology
The original Variant crisis begins as an unintended result of VX-99 research and the Hemorrhage Virus.