Pure Chimera

Pure Chimera are the original species of Chimera, and are not created by parasitism, as standard Chimera are.

It is presumed that these Chimera were involved in the war with an unknown species 60 million years ago. These Chimera built the Chimeran Towers, and promptly vanished from history.

It is unknown how, but during the Chimera's invasion of Russia after 1901, Dr. Malikov was able to collect specimens of Pure Chimeran DNA, which he would use to create the Cloven, and was also injected into Nathan Hale (who became semi-immune but later succumbed to the virus), and Jordan Shepherd-who would mutate into Daedelus and take sole command of the Chimera world-wide.