Sure. All of this came out during the great Mapimi adventure.Alkarii wrote:I don't remember jack about Kath's six-part heritage. Like, nothing at all. All I remember about her is that prehistoric art showing a prophecy of a "spider lady" or something.
Could I get a link or explanation?
Try starting here:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/my-location/
and read up through the June 6 strip
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/athena-missile-test/
Briefly: Kath and Atsali learned what destroyed the Ethetian civilization (the descendants of the Lanthians). The activation of the World Grid system had triggered a serious volcanic eruption at Kikai (in what is now Japan) and worldwide ecological destruction. The Ethetians tried to flee into stasis: a form of data-storage hibernation arranged by Acacia and Brandi. Due to a design flaw in the system, six different unborn babies, from six different mothers, ended up being shunted into a single storage crystal, and combined somehow into a single being.
The Nu Gui which was possessing Brandi took control, murdered all of the pregnant female Ethetians and their children (retrieving then from stasis in inhospitable places so they would die of exposure) and left the rest of the Ethetians in stasis, conscious but bodiless, to go slowly mad over the centuries.
Atsali learned that the storage crystal with the unborn sixfold child was eventually found in a cave by representatives of the MIB. The child was successfully retrieved and brought to term, and raised by foster parents. This child, grown to adulthood, is Katherine.
One of the six women who were the mothers of the six girls that were combined into one... one of Kath's mothers... did not die permanently. Marooned in the Mapimi desert by the Nu Gui, she died alone... and became a vampire. We know her as Lily. After more than 6000 years of lonely undead existence, she's learned that her loss was not total... that her murdered unborn child still exists as part of Kath... and she's been able to accept Kath and her adopted children Atsali and Castela as her own family.
