Zallum
The Architect of Rebellion

Zallum is not merely a leader—he is an idea wearing human skin. Once a captive experiment of the Augmentum, he became the mind that unified the scattered Homo Originalis into a force capable of defying extinction. Calm, eloquent, and terrifyingly precise, Zallum’s strength is not in brute power but in orchestration, each war, each alliance, a piece in his quiet crusade for liberation. In “The Saptic Table” and “The Big Push,” Zallum emerges as a strategist who trades chaos like currency, turning enemies into instruments. To some, he is a savior; to others, a manipulator whose empathy has calcified into calculation. His bond with Disruptor reveals his human core—a man burdened by loyalty, driven by the ghosts of every Saptic lost to containment. Yet in “The Veiled Offer” and “Strategic Retreat,” we glimpse doubt threading through his certainty. He despises compromise but practices it daily, aligning with devils and liars…
Zallum’s purpose is to dismantle the systems that enslaved his kind—not just the Augmentum, but the mindset that created them. He believes the world can only be rebuilt if it’s first erased. That conviction isolates him, shaping a leader both visionary and dangerous.
He is pro-Originalis, but not without guilt; anti-Augmentum, yet mirrors their ruthlessness. Zallum is evolution’s reluctant general—a man forging freedom through control, and salvation through ruin.