Velk’Phareon Daer was a prominent Arch-Theorist and geneticist in the early Church of the Infinite Maw. He developed the Doctrine of Adaptive Evolution two years after Zairen Vaul began publicly examining his own lineage and survival instincts.
Phareon expanded Vaul’s personal questions into a comprehensive ideological framework focused on deliberate genetic direction. Chosen traits would be imprinted into bloodlines, harsh environments would serve as intentional training, and the Engineered would eventually be phased out. Their useful characteristics would be absorbed while their independent status was removed.
His approach was coldly clinical. Vohk’tirrel openly disliked him for treating people as categorized specimens. Working with geneticists, cognitive specialists, and ideological planners, Phareon finalized the doctrine and announced it in a live global broadcast during peak viewing hours.
The doctrine presented the Entity as humanity’s ultimate model. Genetic variation was an error to correct, resistance something to breed out, and perfection achieved through exact replication of the optimal template.
Later Discrediting
After the Infinite Maw Conflict, Zairen Vaul recognized that the Church’s rapid territorial gains and operational successes depended heavily on active support from Engineered forces. Assault lines opened corridors, Tacticians coordinated maps, and Scouts surveyed routes.
This realization directly contradicted the doctrine’s call to render the Engineered obsolete. Zairen Vaul himself publicly discredited Velk’Phareon Daer and rejected central elements of the Doctrine of Adaptive Evolution, marking a major shift away from Phareon’s vision of directed genetic convergence.