Atlas conversed with the man for almost an hour. As he learned, his name was Veradon Tatsuya. By blood, he was Alaric's brother. His condition was discovered early in his life and changed it forever.
The blessed body he was born with was originally a matter to be celebrated, but its discovery was soon followed by the news of the curses of the same physique.
The Thousand Changes Body was so rare because those who were born with it rarely survived. A connection to the Great Dao was naturally a great thing, but only if it was controlled.
The connection formed by Veradon's physique was uncontrolled. Left alone in the outside world, his mind would be constantly plagued with visions of the Great Dao.
It was to the point where he almost went insane. By the time he was a teenager, he'd tried to end his own life multiple times. The crippling of his mind started to manifest in his body, and by the time he was twenty, he had lost his legs completely.
