Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae

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"Tortured Souls" is a novelette written by Clive Barker, and included with the Tortured Souls series of figures he designed with Todd McFarlane in 2001. Each chapter was included separately with the series 1 figures. Clive Barker designed a second series of these figures in 2002, and they were also released by Todd McFarlane.

The story was broken into six parts, each corresponding with the figure it was packaged with. The order is as follows:

Book 1 - Agonistes: The Secret Face of Genesis

Book 2 - Scythe Meister: The Assassin Transformed

Book 3 - Lucidique: The Avenger

Book 4 - Talisac: The Surgeon of the Sacred Heart

Book 5 - Venal Anatomica: The Hunter of Primordium

Book 6 - Mongroid: The Second Coming

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Agonistes

The first named character introduced, Agonistes is a mysterious manipulator of flesh. He is the who turned Krieger and Lucidique into monsters.

Zarles Krieger/Scythe Meister

A young assassin from the poorest part of Primodium. He liked to mutilate his victims severely before killing them. After meeting Lucidique after murdering her father, he decided to ask Agonistes to turn him into a monster. After 8 nights and days, he resurfaced as the Scythe Meister. Zarles then proceeded to kill the current emperor of Primodium. Scythe Meister fell in love with changed Lucidique and they became lovers. Venal Anatomica killed him.

Lucidique

Daughter of a senator, she showed Zarles Krieger where Agonistes resident after seeing him assembling her murdered father. Shortly after Scythe Meister killed the emeror, Krieger's old boss sent his sons to capture and interrogate Lucidique about Scythe Meister. Lucidique was murdered in the desert. but Agonistes turned her into a monster. After turning into a monster she killed her murderer.

Dr. Talisac

A scientist hired by General Montefalco. Talisac was a thin man who willfully experimented on himself and others. He hung by his mouth from hooks and had made an artificial womb for himself for birthing Mongroid. Unstable and addicted to numerous medication, Talisac believed he was bringing forth another virgin birth. Mongroid ate him.

Venal Anatomica

A nine feet tall monster made of rotten flesh, Venal Anatomica was a failure of Talisac's. Montefalco wished it to be completed in order to get rid of the two monsters, which were haunting Primodium. Strong and apparently immune to pain, Venal Anatomica succeeded in killing Scythe Meister, but was overcome by Lucidique who blinded him in blind rage. Venal then spent the rest of his life eating bodies from a graveyard.

Mongroid

The child Talisac had been expecting, it grew in the fake womb for seventeen weeks. Once born, it looked somewhat like Talisac, except being crablike and being forced to walk on four hands. Creature of pure instinct, it killed and devoured Talisac. It then went to the sewers to live.

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