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We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our comic and get the basic gist of the story. We understand that some parts may be a bit confusing for some readers, especially when explaining the background for the story. Part of this is unavoidable; we’ve been working with these characters and creatures for almost two years before we even started the script of this certain story, so we have been able to have a highly developed back-story that we are very familiar with. Talking about the Amadáns and their way of life along with Clepsydrae and its diverse culture became second nature, and we were slowly adding to it over time. Therefore, by the time we formed this plot, there were so many things to explain about the plot and characters that we struggled to find a creative, clear and interesting way of telling our readers about the Amadáns and many other little intricacies. However, in order to avoid a boring thirty-page monologue, we had to split up the history lessons into different parts and often insert them into the casual conversation of our characters. Although this is more interesting then going and explaining things plainly in one large chunk, it can also lead to some confusion. So that’s why these pages were formed...
This will just be a clear up page, and more information will be added as we introduce more into the mix.

I. Amadáns

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I: Amadáns-
Before you can really understand any of the Untouchables storyline, you need to understand the race behind the comic’s name, the Amadáns. This explanation is not complete, BUT that is because if we included a complete explanation, then it would spoil some of the twists in the plot for everyone. Also, this is not meant to replace the attempts of explaining the background in the comic; please read that first and then read this if you are confused or want to know more.

The Amadáns are generally disliked and feared because of their ability to cause instant and complete paralysis with the smallest brush of their bare skin against that of another. As the weather becomes warmer, they start creating some odd life energy that is quite simply the essence of dormancy. They stop creating their own body heat, their pulse slows greatly and they lose most sense of feeling in their body. This phenomena drives the Amadán to try to touch everything within their reach, for when they paralyze something, they are trading their own hollow life energy for that of their victim, causing paralysis in the victim. If an Amadán does not gain enough life energy from their victims during the warmer months, they will eventually become consumed in their dormant life energy and die.

When he holds on to a bearable amount of dormant life energy for too long, it darkens his features, including his hair. If He really is blonde-haired, but can’t go around paralyzing creatures all day or is not in the vicinity of other Amadáns, his hair stays too dark to really be able to see its true color.

Amadáns that live in communities usually retain their natural hair color for most of their lives because they are always in reach of another Amadán. Amadáns can touch each other and suffer no ill effect, and it even serves as a relief of their aggression. This may not make sense at first since the combination of two dormant life energies would logically just make one big dormant life source, and would make the problem worse. However, the catch is that no two life energies are alike. Thus the energies cancel out, and leave both Amadáns with relieved aggression but not resolved.

The only reason that the life energy of an Amadán is dormant in the first place is because it is missing something; there are certain voids that the one Amadán cannot fill on its own. Therefore it needs the life energy of another to fill those voids. The other will be paralyzed because the Amadán takes only the life energies it needs to fill certain voids, in turn giving its victim an unbalanced, dormant life energy that leads to the paralysis. When two Amadáns touch each other, they can feed off the different life energies of the other Amadán that they lack themselves, and the other Amadán does the same in turn. Although this provides temporary relief, it is never quite good enough; one Amadán can never fulfill all of the needs of another because it does not own all the necessary life energies itself. So even in communities, Amadáns will still need to paralyze something to remain in good health.

In the world in which this story takes place, the Amadáns see themselves as better than the other races because of a feeling of invincibility. They have largely estranged themselves from anything not Amadán, what they call "Lessers". That is why Amadáns are not simply walking around in Clepsydrae, living among humans like some of the other races in this world.

Unknown to the outside world, when an Amadán is born with red hair, this is considered a defect, and the children are called the "Blood-marked" because their hair is red like blood and they are destined for a life of hardship, or so their legends say. Because they don’t want any harm inflicted on themselves, the Amadáns try to eliminate these children at birth.