The Chimeras were a motley group of animals-turned-humans and humans-turned-animals created by Dr. Moreau in the 1880s in his own sewer zoo.
History:[]
Dr. Moreau was a mad scientist originally from England, who moved to Paris. He was also acquainted with Dr. Henry Jekyll. He began a series of unethical experimentations in which he would would fuse body parts of humans and animals together and create monstrous Chimeras. He'd also steal corpses from the morgue to use as "clay" for his experiments.
Beathán....
With one of his chimeras, he ripped the heart out of an innocent man, and fuses it with a body he made from the DNA of an Amazon Toad called Bufo Marinus. He named the creature Beathán amphibious monster who still had his human conscious inside, but was powerless to do anything to stop himself from hurting others. He injected the beast with an invisibility serum, and at some point his creature escaped and wrecked havoc in his path.
Van Helsing manages to track the beast down to Moreau's zoo as he is about to feed it. Moreau makes it perfectly clear that he does what he does out of a God complex, and is apathetic when Van Helsing informs him that the beast has murdered two innocent women.
Moreau unleashes his beast onto Helsing who injects it with the antidote, managing to fight it off, as well as some of Moreau's others creations once the monster releases them. Soon after though, the ghost of one of the monster's victims appears to Van Helsing, informing him of the monster's background, and also revealing herself to be the monster's wife, while the second woman he killed was his daughter. Moreau, in a last ditch effort to escape, drowns his entire lab out, killing his creations. However, Van Helsing and Beathan manage to survive. Realizing that he must start over, Moreau, while sailing on a seemingly tired-looking Giant Sea Chimera, heads towards an island to begin his new job, somewhere in the southern seas.
Biology[]
Chimeras are a highly heterogeneous group of humans with various characteristics coming from different animal species, including combinations of two or more species, and who have been exposed to modifications in their morphology and aspects of their physiology, such as growth rate.
Know Chimeras[]
- Beathán (Alive)
- Giant Marine Chimera (Alive/Unknown Status)
- Several Unnamed Chimeras (Most Died In The Flood)