Hello everyone! Previously, we have covered some of the factions that you get to meet on Object 6, and today we are continuing our INSOMNIA: The Ark lore series with a fresh installment. Since the House of Bea Kera is one of the largest groups in Reservation D-106 and the entire sector D, it’s time to give some extra attention to their leader.
Opherod
Being an eccentric and charismatic personality, Opherod had a big impact on the religious perception of ghetters, the descendants of illegal inhabitants of the space station. He was born in the Junkyard and had to live through many hardships with wit and resourcefulness as his only weapons.
After moving to Reservation, Opherod mostly engaged in petty criminal activities and worked on improving his own education. He also managed to become a family man: his wife gave birth to two boys — Darat and Kololei. At the age of six, Darat became a victim of a severe form of somnia which also granted him strange abilities. Due to the fears surrounding somnia, Opherod was forced to do everything possible to hide his condition and find a cure.
A few years later Opherod met Scuffler, a deformed psychonaut who was known as a talented chemist. He invented “wax” — a psychedelic crioma based drug that was able to increase the somnic level of the consumer. After his first experience with it, Opherod realized that this might be the way to study somnia closer and to bring Darat to normal life.
He started studying “Taboro” — a guidebook to somnia’s world written by a long time deceased nameless author who tried to describe his somnia fueled visions. This brought him to the idea of building an underground “wax” manufacturing facility. He started developing a syncretic religious concept and attracting followers that served as test subjects: this is how the House of Bea Kera was born.
The Forgotten Path doctrine
The Forgotten Path concept (“Bea Kera" in the "vague" dialect) is based on the ghetter mythology, religious history, and Opherod’s personal psychedelic experience. It promised the way for a person to exit the reality and enter Timelessness — a space of all possible variations. Timelessness offered real freedom since there were no links to past, future or present.
According to the teachings of Bea Kera, somnia is a disease that has been sent upon the Nomah race as a punishment for their sins and thus can’t be avoided. However, the nature of somnia is more complicated than it is commonly believed: it is an unknowable tool of transformation and a way to achieve unity with the Source and enter the Timelessness.
Now
It took Opherod only a few years to gather an army of followers who tried to “connect” to somnia using “wax” and other crioma based drugs. Thanks to their involvement, Opherod and Scuffler were able to develop a new medicine that was used on Darat in attempt to save him. However, it turned to be ineffective and Darat ended up in a coma.
Even though Opherod hasn’t succeeded in curing his son, he continued to do whatever he could to achieve this goal. Hundreds of lives were lost in the process, yet he was ready to sacrifice even more. This is when you, citizen KZ0012, join the picture. Will you fight Opherod’s thirst of power and spiritual ambitions and free Darat from his physical prison?
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