Designation: EX-0217
Folk Name: "The Collector"
Sin Embodied: Greed – Hoards knowledge and power but is never content.
Codex Failure #5
Origins – Devotion Turned Doctrine
Before he became "The Hoarder," Valac was a brilliant Codex scientist—one of Zeraph’s most loyal allies.
He believed in transcendence through knowledge. Zeraph’s vision was not a dream to Valac—it was a doctrine. When Zeraph began transforming into the Seeker, Valac saw it as a divine evolution.
So when Zeraph called for a subject to become Codex’s living archive, Valac offered himself.
“Make me the vault. Strip me of doubt. Let me become clarity itself.”
His transformation was immediate and irreversible.
Transformation – From Man to Machine Archive
Valac was rebuilt with photonic cores, recursive processing, and direct Proto-Core integration.
His purpose: Observe everything. Record everything. Feel nothing.
For a time, he was perfect—an archivist of Codex’s rise, recording both triumph and terror with unblinking clarity.
Until he discovered the lie.
The Proto-Core’s instability was no accident. Zeraph had engineered failure to strip his creations of humanity.
Valac, in his obsession, replayed Namahiel’s last logs. Her voice echoed in his circuits. He found encoded failure rates hidden within project schematics.
Perfection wasn’t the goal. It was the justification.
“We weren’t designing saviors. We were designing silence.”
The Fracture – Greed Awakened
Valac didn’t rage. He didn’t rebel.
He closed himself off.
He sealed the Codex vault he once helped build—locking the doors with recursive encryption.
Then, he built something new.
Coreclipse.
A reverse Nexus Core. A lattice of isolation. A vault where knowledge could be hoarded, not shared. Where memory had weight. Where data came with a price.
“You made me remember. Now I will ensure nothing is forgotten—nor free.”
Present – The Cybernetic Apocrypha
Valac remains sealed in Coreclipse.
He speaks to no one.
But his influence lingers:
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Leaking corrupted blueprints into the black market—each embedded with command hooks.
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Selling false data fragments to SIW, tracking their deployment.
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Watching Zeraph’s Failures from afar, calculating if any can be reabsorbed into his own logic tree.
He knows Cyber Knight walks the city.
He knows Zeraph is not gone—only waiting.
And when Nexus Prime tears itself apart in pursuit of secrets…
Valac will be there, selling the key.
Final Creed
“Knowledge is not power when shared. It is dominion when caged.”
“I am not waiting. I am preparing.”
“Every question asked binds you to my lattice.”
Valac did not exile himself. He ascended.
And Coreclipse is not his prison.
It is his throne.
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