===== The Blue Ring ===== ====Abilities ==== Referred to as **"The Blood"**, this ring latches onto and creature living, or undead, and aggressively mutates them into something profane. The rhyme of reason for the mutations are currently unknown, but they are drastic, and more monstrous the longer the ring has to twist the victim. ====History==== There's little info on how Helushka round the ring. All they remember is waking up in a puddle of blood, and their previous travelling companions finding them. While Frankie Hale was initially sympathetic, wondering if the manatou had temporarily gained a level of dominance, Carter Slade immediately wanted to put an end to Helushka to prevent him from becoming a monster. The disagreement in how this should be handled led to the eventual dissolution of The Deadlanders. Each going off in their own direction. Frankie managed to sneak Helushka away, and setup the wards and barriers atop Gravedust, hoping to contain and eventually cure Helushkas transformations, but eventually has to leave to find help. Carter vowed to find and end his friends suffering, the only way he knew would get the job done, with a bullet to the head, or by burning his body. William Reeve and Rick Valance both decided to setup a mobile trading post, taking their steam powered transport called "The Paddy Wagon" to sell wares, and hopefully help, or con, other potential Deadlanders. The Blue Ring was eventually recovered by Alphonse, and used in the summoning ritual, but was lost when it was interrupted and it now lost in the Gloomstone Wastes. ---- /* Tracker Frequency - 28 Skellington Canyon The mutation worsens based on how much blood the creature consumes. For the brave, his Mutation is bad, but because he's only killed a few people, his mutations are still humanoid. His sapient mind also helps with keeping his transformations based on his own self perception. For something that is purely instinct, their mutations are based on what what's most effective. For the new host (Sky Maw), which was originally a smaller flightless bird creature, it becomes it's perfect predator, which ends up as a flying ambush predator. The creature fears chocobos due to the volume of it's species that gets trampled by people riding them through the canyon. */