On Verdanth before the Darkspore, most creatures sought harmony with all living things. And then there was Tork.

An outcast and a scoundrel, Tork took whatever nutrients and psychoactive bioceuticals he desired from whomever was nearest, as long as he was strong enough to dominate them.

And then he fell victim to someone whose power he could not hope to match: Crogenitor Astra.

Made a test subject for a decade, Tork lived in constant terror. Although Astra never tortured him, subjecting him only to repeated anatomical and endurance examinations, Tork came to see Astra’s other specimens as being just like him: powerless and terrified. He swore that if given the chance, he’d free every living being in the laboratory from the bizarre, giant alien who’d captured them all.

And one morning, Astra gave him that chance. On purpose. When Astra allowed Tork to think he could overpower the Crogenitor during an examination, Tork fought him with everything he had, including abilities he’d had no idea he possessed: a somno-cloud of sleep-inducing spores, and a blast of thano-pollen which would have poisoned any creature other than a Crogenitor.

Escaping with his fellow Verdanthi back into the wild, Tork used the rejuvenating spores that his body has always possessed, but which were now much stronger, to heal his newfound friends. And when the Darkspore conquered his world, he used his abilities no more to take advantage... but to liberate.