

Trace expresses distrust of the Rusalka and demands to talk to Athetos. The Rusalki used Athetos' data to create Trace, hoping a clone of Athetos' younger self would side with them. The original Athetos then left, but returned later to begin his genocide. Ophelia confesses Athetos first came to Sudra as a young man, and recorded his biological data using the strange machine inside which Trace awoke.

Trace realizes the biggest monsters he encountered were all mutated clones of Athetos. The player can choose to watch the clone die, or kill it. Trace suspects the Rusalki know that he and Athetos are somehow the same person, but keeps silent until he finds a disfigured clone of Athetos. If Trace can destroy it, she promises the Rusalki will send him home. Elsenova reveals Athetos and his Breach Attractor are above them in a space elevator. Ophelia claims she found Trace while searching the Breach for a PatternMind. Ophelia also claims that Earth is the only world that produces PatternMinds – people who can survive the pathogen, use the Axiom Disruptor, and even manipulate reality at will – but the Rusalki do not understand what makes someone a PatternMind. Ophelia explains she retrieved him using drones and treated the pathogen.

But Trace's ideas were ridiculed by the scientific community, who started calling him "Athetos" or "without place" in Greek. He continued living on Earth and published a new theory of physics. The explosion took his ability to walk and part of his sight, but it did not send him to Sudra. Trace recovers some memories while dreaming. Trace struggles to Ophelia, but he becomes delirious and collapses. She explains he must get to Ophelia to stop the infection. Elsenova realizes that Trace has contracted the pathogen. Trace successfully reactivates the repair drones, but soon begins hallucinating. Elsenova also reveals that the monsters Trace encounters are Athetos's former followers, warped by the pathogen they once spread. The second, Katrahashka, was killed by the other Rusalki after siding with Athetos. Elsenova explains that the first, Veruska, is a dangerous ally who has power over dreams. On the way, Trace discovers two more Rusalki. Trace agrees to reactivate the Rusalki's repair drones and revive Ophelia to get more answers. Elsenova claims that another Rusalka, Ophelia, entered the Breach and found Trace inside. Athetos could not defeat the Rusalki and instead trapped them by enveloping Sudra in the Breach using a special machine. The only survivors were the Rusalki, a race of mechanical giants like Elsenova. But long ago, a man named Athetos emerged from the Breach and eradicated the Sudrans with a pathogen. The people of Sudra kept the Breach in check.

Elsenova then explains the universe is made up of several worlds separated by a storm called the Breach. She instructs him to find and repair a nearby "Power Filter" to restore her. Trace eventually finds the voice's source: a massive, broken mechanical head named Elsenova. Trace dies several times on his way to the voice, but reawakens inside a machine each time. Mutants muttering the word "Athetos" block his way. A disembodied voice guides him to a weapon - the Axiom Disruptor - and tells him to fight his way to her. ( May 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īfter a lab explosion knocks him out, a scientist named Trace awakens inside a strange machine on the alien world Sudra. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
