# ENG : Vortigaunt Disappearance

### **A Shattered Balance**

Following **Red Thursday**, a major event during which **Civil Protection forces in District 8** carried out a series of targeted raids against resistance cells, operations quickly escalated into **widespread riots**. **The already fragile balance of the underground was severely disrupted.**

The **Vortigaunts**, who had been living in hiding within catacombs, sewers, and abandoned metro stations, were forced to act with **extreme caution**. Already marginalized, they were **not truly accepted**, even among humans opposed to the **UNION**.

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### **The Hunt for the Vortigaunts**

In the chaos that followed, **several human groups** began targeting them, seeking to seize control of the few remaining livable spaces beneath the surface.

Faced with growing pressure:

- **Most Vortigaunts chose to flee**: 
    - Some migrated to other districts, often more derelict, but considered temporarily safer.
    - Others made the risky decision to head into the **Outland**, exposing themselves to near-certain detection.
- **A few clans refused to yield**: 
    - The most stubborn among them, such as the **Kra’Thral**, chose to stand and fight.
    - Their resistance was **brief and costly**: very few survived, if any at all.

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### **An Uncertain Future**

Today, **all Vortigaunt clans are significantly weakened**. The **Sha’Vorr tribe**, for its part, fled in haste, leaving behind **artifacts, memories, and traces still open to discovery**.

**Their departure raises many questions**:

- Were they driven out for good?
- Or is this only a **temporary retreat**?

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### **A Whispered Prophecy**

Among the refugees, a **rumor persists**:

> *"According to a fresco hastily drawn by an elder Vortigaunt sage, the clans will return. For reasons of their own… but they will return."*