As many of you may know, I have created the infamous entities known as the Perfectionists, which played a crucial role in setting up the context of the entire series as well as give the series one of the most iconic characters, The Ceramic Skull.
I propose a new concept.
In the book series, Eldern is ultimately destroyed when the Architects are activated, and the armies just rid of the Foremakers like an automated immune system, but I don’t want to end the series there.
Sure, there are many other threats such as other Cordiks, but considering space is near infinite and even though space travel is fast, it’s not instant. So, that’s why other Cordiks aren’t presented immediately but are shown in an alternate reality where it takes place 500 years into the future, and it only shows 7 of the possible hundreds of Cordiks.
Anyway, since the Perfectionists are a very strange race of beings that currently don’t have any origin other than first landing among the Known worlds, teamed with the Tinkerer (The only sane Cordik) to build the Architects, and then there were some conflict were the Tinkerer had to kill most of them because they wanted to use the Architects to devoid the known worlds of all life so they can expand their own empire.
As of the current storyline with Justin Hawk, dating around 2016 to present day, there are only like a handful of Perfectionists left. They don’t procreate like most species, but are initially created, with some having the abilities to create Perfect Drones, which are essentially zombie like animations using the bodies of other organic beings, similar to the Moonspores, but this only effects living beings.
The Ceramic Skull got brain damage and forgot everything. Despite Justin Hawk eventually regaining his memory, the Ceramic Skull, or Shirmirik, never did. He was then found by another Perfectionist who tried to explain to him who he really was but killed him out of fear because he doesn’t know what he looks like and didn’t believe in anything he said. So Shirmirik isn’t much of a threat except for the Scepter Foundation on Earth.
Only a few others remain and it kind of gets confusing on their origin or why more weren’t created.
I still haven’t figured out the idea of their initial origin or who created them, but it wasn’t the Tinkerer or any Cordik.
But since they had to be created, obviously there should be different variations or attempts at making the Perfect Race. The Perfectionists believe they are the most unified and perfect beings in the entire series but are far from it.
So, the new concept evolves around the idea of other prototypes or species similar to the Perfectionists that were created as well. Most of them probably just going to be alterations or variants of the Perfectionists with major flaws, but similar physical characteristics.
This would give into the idea that there are more equally strong threats other than the 3 remaining Perfectionists, probably some variants that are even stronger. Since the Perfectionists have the ideology to conquer and expand, they are able to reproduce by taking and life essence and organic materials of worlds to recreate similar clones of themselves, which is why they used to be one of the most fearing empires in the Old World. But since only 3 remain, they can’t do this as easily or would take years to gather enough matter to create a new body.
I still haven’t figured out a decent design or concept behind what created them, but I may just step back and leave this a mystery, since I keep trying to find origins for every single species and armies that it just seems too overwhelming at this point, but it would explain just enough that there are creatures similar to the Cordiks who tamper with creating false life and creations as well as various other ideas.
I thought of the idea that there would be one of these variants that would be equally as strong as a Cordik on his own and was supposedly one of the later creatures that was created before the initial creator was either killed or forgotten (since these creations took place prior to the Old World and the Empire of Mordil). This new being could have a similar mentality as the Perfectionists but is much stronger and was supposedly to be the perfect being.
I can’t really say too much else since I’m still polishing up the rest of this concept, but I feel it would be a more unique take the Perfectionists origin and would add a new threat later on.
