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PRIMAL EXPANSION LAB

One figure, generated a hundred ways, sorted into four kinds

One character close up: a stone-textured figure in a wide hat, its body and collar drawn all over in fine gold linework

Four variants of the same character side by side — iridescent, red, stone grey and turquoise — each with the same hat and gold linework — Four variants. Same figure, different everything else.

A generative character collection. One body, one hat, one set of gold linework, run through a system that varies the material, the palette and the ornament until no two come out the same — stone, copper, glass, camouflage, oil-slick iridescence, a hundred of them and more.

A collector card showing three characters under the headings PRIMORDIAL, PRIMITIVE, CARDINAL and ELEMENTAL, named Nistru Gua M1, Alegna Roj M3 and Luc Tan M6, above a gold capsule marked Primal Expansion Lab Collector Edition — The four kinds, the names, and the capsule. His own card, and where this page gets its title.

They are sorted into four kinds, and the kinds are printed on the collector card in his own type: PRIMORDIAL, PRIMITIVE, CARDINAL, ELEMENTAL. Each character carries a name and a number — Nistru Gua M1, Alegna Roj M3, Luc Tan M6 — and each is issued in a gold capsule, the Collector Edition, with the figure suspended inside it like a specimen.