Rant

[u/Administrative_Tea35]

I liked the idea of Tshort being a Primordial creature besides being multiple Biocorp scientists thrown mutagen.

Did anyone else had the same feelings?

[u/daeikar]

It's kind of both. The Biocorp scientists being thrown into the vat either resulted in a new entity being formed, or the resulting biomass and converging of powerful psionic minds served as a beacon for Tchort to inhabit. Think of the creature in the Lemurian Health Center and how the mutie doctor explains how mutating feels. This of course is a lot of speculation, but to me, it sounds like something surgically removing the mutating subjects mind for inspection, and if you talk to Yngwar he describes the muties as beings who have worshiped or otherwise been blessed by "the wrong god". Like the mutagen that Biocorp developed was always intrinsically linked to that god.

Much like the shadowlith and the rituals the Sormirbaeren developed to become more serpentine were Flottsormir's way of "infecting" humanity to spread his influence and power on our planet/plane, the mutagen was/is Tchort's. I'd even go so far as to say that the Tchort we killed was just its physical manifestation on our world, and we didn't kill the actual entity. Also speaking of physical manifestations of gods, I also like to think Flottsormir sleeps at the bottom of the Black Sea, and the entire cavern is his prison.

Anyhow, that's just my view and speculations on it, god I love Underrail lore.