Commander Jean-Claude Moulin was a loyal soldier of the Allied Forces during the Rift wars, during which he was given the highest gallantry award for repeatedly returning to a shelled-out zone that was under active fire to retrieve wounded soldiers, including pterippus trench runners. He was able to retreive sixteen men and ten women, and two pterippus, before being too badly wounded himself to return. Moulin also witnessed the closure of the Rift, which turned his blood blue. This granted him Sight and the ability to manipulate Contracts, which he used to aid his men with field medical procedures and other combat modifications. It is alleged that Moulin once used his Contract manipulation to create an entirely new kind of slipskin- however, this would have been both a highly illegal and highly complex piece of Contract work and was officially dismissed as hearsay. He was never charged for Contract manipulation post-war, although when he became part of Viperalm's service he was banned from the practice entirely.

Post-war, Moulin ended up in Viperalm, where he was officially "retired" from his role in the military and transferred laterally to Viperalm's newly-formed "Civil Militia". In the Civil Militia, Moulin was mostly in charge of border patrol, keeping unwanted immigrants out of Viperalm's walls. He performed at a reliable rate and cemented a reputation for consistency and law-abiding patience.

After several years in the Civil Militia, Viperalm's Board of Directors cleared a new project by the corporation Ascent to introduce a new kind of officer, made in Ascent's bioengineering labs. The project was termed "Anghenfil" (lit. "monster" in Welsh) and involved the creation of several kinds of new man-made monsters for use as tools and policing aids. Moulin was initally opposed to the idea of using monsters in the Civil Militia; however, his objections were overruled and he was provided a therizinosarus-based Anghenfil as a partner for trial. While several other officers named their Anghenfil, Moulin never did, and always referred to it simply as a beast or by it's brand name. He did not appear initally to care for the animal and would often order it away or to patrol the walls on its own, to the point that the sight of the therizinosaurus roaming the halls alone was so common as to be expected. It was even seen patrolling the lands just outside the walls, chasing and killing anything that passed the fenced boundaries.

Commander Moulin's seamless track record was suddenly shattered when a younger officer found him aiding immigrants into the walls illegally. The younger officer, in an act of reckless youth and justice, shot Commander Moulin thrice in the chest and neck, before being subsequently killed by Moulin's Anghenfil. However, the beast was too late. Moulin had been mortally wounded. His treatment was further delayed by paramedic teams being unable to approach his body without his Anghenfil attacking- by the time the beast was sufficiently restrained, Moulin had lost too much blood to be viable. The Board however refused to allow his Rift knowledge to be lost. Ascent was approached for a solution, and they presented one- Project "Slipskin", intended to recreate the wasteland phenomena. While the aim of the project was ultimately a failure, the transference of souls into new hosts was successful, and Ascent believed it could be recreated. The only requirement was a living body to serve as an appropriate host.

His Anghenfil provided the solution.

The beast was dragged to Ascent's Rewriting Division alongside Moulin's corpse. The two were placed within the Project Slipskin mechanism and the procedure was undergone. The projected result was simple- Moulin would awaken in the Anghenfil's body, perhaps a bit disorientated and clumsy, but with his intact mind and memory. He would still be the Commander, just wearing a different skin.

The projection was wrong.

What awoke in the lab was not Commander Moulin, nor his dumb animal Anghenfil, but a new being altogether. Something intelligent, and cunning, and bestial. A perfect hybrid of man and monster. A mutant.

The mutant killed two of the Ascent staff and damaged the Project Slipskin mechanism badly before eventually being restrained. It was placed in temporary holding cells, to be initally studied, then destroyed. Unfortunately, the destruction of the Project Slipskin mechanism proved to be the catalyst to unleash another failure locked in those cells, one much stronger then the mutant. The chaos and confusion of the Drunk's rampage allowed the mutant to escape into the wastelands, where it used its stolen memories to give itself a new name.

Jean-Claude.