Last time I revealed that (for those who knew Zephyrus in a past life) this was not the Zephyrus Cloud you learned to love or hate. Yes! It's true... kinda...

I also mentioned before that I thought about bringing only Zephyr's consciousness across... well that's what I did. Ladies and gentlemen, before you is in fact Xephirus... basically a copy of the original.

For those of you who ever got into the Expanded Universe... or now known as the Legends..... know there was a character named Luuke. For those of you who don't know Luuke, basically after Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader's duel on Cloud City (my city :p ), Luke's hand ended up in the hands of cloners... You get where this is going. Well, anyway, Xephirus is my version of Luuke but instead of cloners I used the Hive Mind.

So what Xephirus believes is that he is Zephyrus and that he broke free because of his willpower. Xephirus is a Shi'ido... a shapeshifter... and he has taken the form of Zephyrus Cloud and he has some of the memories locked away because they shared a consciousness (hive minds are kriffing weird). For all intents and purposes he IS Zephyrus.... but by the same token he is not... and that's a storyline for another day.

Then I decided to incorporate this universe's story in mine.... when the great plague came... Killik and joiners alike died off. Xephirus believes this contributed to why he was able to escape because the shift in the power of will ended in his favor and if the real Zephyrus Cloud was still alive... of course he would escape, right?


But....


And here comes the kicker guys.....


This is exactly what the Kind (the killiks for those of you unfamiliar)....

This is exactly what the Kind wanted from Xephirus.

And of course stay tuned for the details in issue 3 where I explain why I decided to go back to the Traditional spelling.