Oh, um. So, on Terra, there's an ore called Originium. It's an extremely potent power source for practically everything on Terra. People can use it for special abilities, too, called "Arts". My coworkers both have Arts units, for example. [ Irene's levitation rapier. Gnosis' freezing cane. God, he has a cane, he really is old- ] However, Originium tries to assimilate with people, and eventually, without treatment, will turn them to solid stone.

That's the short version of it, anyway. There's more, but I'm really no specialist on the matter. Depending on where you're from, people either kill Infected, exile them from the country, or are allowed to live there, but treated as "lesser" than everyone else. It's kind of... awful. It's why I want to help people like that.

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Does Mister Gnosis come off as desperate to you?