GOTHIKA

Patient File 005 – Thazka Virex

Patient File 005 – Thazka Virex

Race: Dragonborn
Species: Bronze-Scaled Variant
Age: 41
Magic Affinity: None (Draconic arcana gene: dormant)
Pregnancy Status: 32 Weeks
Holding Cell: Blackmoor Institute – Floor 4, Cell 4-05
Security Classification: BLACK – Biohazard precautions enforced

Patient Bio:

Thazka Virex is part of the Disbanded Fifth Flight, a decommissioned military cohort of dragonborn stripped of caste status after the Scorchfall Treaty Collapse. While most of her kind exhibit latent elemental potential, Thazka’s arcane core was inactive from birth. She was designated “Wyrmless”—a derogatory term in dragonborn culture—and exiled to Gothika’s Lower Quarry Zone, where she worked as a metal salvage diver. She entered pregnancy via a community pairing ritual. Her partner was executed during a raid on the quarry docks three weeks before her abduction.

Reason for Clone Selection:

Thazka’s draconic biology, combined with her lack of breath weapon manifestation, makes her a perfect template for controlled Rize-channeling clone vessels. Her fetus, conceived through natural bonding and exhibiting no elemental flickers at the time of capture, serves as an ideal test case to determine if Rize can awaken artificial draconic traits. The potential creation of controllable “wyrm-blooded clones” would provide the city a biological edge against both arcane insurgents and rogue dragons beyond the Veil Rim.

Abduction Description:

Thazka was taken while diving in the flooded underworks of the Quarry’s Stripline District. Surveillance runes were blacked out for 18 seconds—long enough for a CorpSec stealth unit to extract her via submersible pod and inject her with liquid restraint serum. The rest of the dive team was obliterated by a gas leak staged to mimic volcanic vent rupture. Her last known logs were wiped from registry terminals under Dr. Hobbe’s Order GR-X7.

Medical File – High Containment Log

Patient ID: #BM-F4-005

  • Blood Type: Unknown – hemoplasmic fluid contains metallic agents (classified)

  • Height: 6’5”

  • Scale Color: Bronze (tarnished)

  • Pre-Pregnancy Weight: 242 lbs

  • Current Weight: 276 lbs

  • Gestation at Intake: 24 weeks

  • Current Gestation: 32 weeks

  • Sedation Protocol: Electrostatic field sedation (arcane-resistant)

  • Fetal Condition:

    • Mild dermal plating forming along spine

    • Metallic ion concentration in fetal lungs detected

    • No breath weapon signs… yet

  • Arcane Traces:

    • Subject: 0%

    • Fetus: 13.8% Rize-reactive arcane surge during REM

Reaction to Rize (Sedated – Heavy Metal Protocol):

  • Thazka’s body absorbed trace amounts of airborne Rize, but her natural resistance has deflected mutation.

  • Fetus shows increasing signs of artificial arcane emergence, particularly around endocrine and respiratory development.

  • Bronchial tissue in the fetus glows faintly under darksight, suggesting pre-breath catalyst pooling.

  • Pulse rate rises when external electric fields are applied—likely reaction to dormant draconic instincts reawakening.

Clone Directive:

  • Scheduled for Project Skyveil – development of dragonborn infiltration units capable of limited flight or controlled energy discharge.

  • Clone chamber: Cryo-Bio Vat 2E, layered with containment glyphs

  • Dr. Hobbe’s Directive: “Do not let this one wake. The mother is too aware, even while dreaming.”

  • Termination scheduled within 72 hours to capture final arcane surge window.

Additional Notes:

  • Sedation has been reinforced three times—subject’s heart rate spiked during fetal scan

  • Security camera caught reflection of golden eyes staring directly into lens; neither subject nor fetus was awake

  • Ash residue collected from the edge of the containment rune—charred from the inside