AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
There is a secret world, for those with the eyes to see it.
The vast majority of humanity blindly swims in a potent psychic melange that suffuses us like a roiling sea of emotion and memory. All humans naturally produce this field, though some are more sensitive to it than others. They may see ‘auras’, read emotions, or see supernatural phenomena: echoes of things that are not there.
However, for a select few, their connection to this shadow presence goes deeper. It darkens, coalesces, and twists into something tangible and powerful. These powers feed on the deep psyche, emotion, and mental state of humans, the sunless and subconscious torrent that flows beneath the surface of human thought.
Occasionally, through the course of tragedy, trauma, stress, or extreme circumstances, this psychic field can go wild. Ballooning like a cancerous growth, it escapes the confines of the human body, and manifests as malevolent presence, something that warps and controls reality around it, and begins to feed on the flesh and minds of others. Invisible to the psychically dull, these beings can either exist separately to a human or possess them, warping them into a monster.
Collectively these beings are called Anomalies. Their continued existence, once they are birthed, will continue to twist and degrade the people and even physical location of an area, creating a pocket dimension called a palace, and growing until they reach a catastrophic apotheosis known as a Anomaly Event. These typically result in mass psychic veil rupture, an event that is instantly traumatic and fatal to humans in a broad area.
You are a tool, a weapon of the the highly secretive and supra-governmental organization CAIN in an official capacity of an executioner. You have grace, the ability to perceive anomalies and manifest powerful and highly honed psychic techniques called defiance.
You have a single purpose in this world: to hunt down all anomalies and execute them with extreme prejudice.
UNTIL THE STAIN HAS BEEN WIPED AWAY