Shadowheart

My partner and I, Jayce, created it. It's a matrix of magical world runes. Different combinations could produce different results. That is what the matrix was for a experimentation.

[He touches his chest. In the center under his hand and the cloth is a large, rounded scar of mottled flesh. This isn't what he's indicating exactly, but it's there.]

It's a part of me now. I found out it could evolve when it consumed organic matter. Like the blood. Jayce transmuted me with it later when I was dying, thinking he had no other choice.

So I am now a conduit of its magic. This is how I heal and create the collective.