Editing Crickets Conundrum:NPCs (section)

===(Enemy) An Orichalcum-Caste from Autocthonia=== 

Why did Autocthon send an administrator on what was supposed to be a scouting and investigation mission? Shadow made enemies. Or, well, one enemy in particular. They realized, while performing their job of maximizing efficiency and responding to the Machine Titan's frequent catastrophies, that a fellow Alchemical was murdering mortals. He wasn't just executing people for their crimes, but covertly killing anyone who had so much as annoyed him. But he was, publicly, a hero who protected civilization from voidborne invasions. Nobody wanted to investigate, and everyone had explanations for why Shadow of Future Glory must have been mistaken. Some of the other Alchemicals even seemed to believe those explanations.

Shadow began an elaborate scheme to expose the murderer, hoping to bring his crimes to light in a way that couldn't be ignored. But their schemes were exposed before being completed, and the Orichalcum warrior managed to spread the "magnanimous" lie that they had simply cracked under the stress of an important job. That earned Shadow their mission to oversee the logistics of a scouting mission into Gaia's Creation. The Orichalcum warrior isn't a current threat, and wouldn't even consider himself an enemy. But when the Alchemicals force their way into Creation again, he's going to be all too willing to get revenge on the "hypocrite" Shadow of Future Glory for accusing him and then betraying the entire world.