Ruby’s death was initially blamed on illness. The truth was buried. But ARKTOS took notice. A boy with a myth for a surname and a taste for blood. A boy whose existence could be weaponize.

Elias was born to a woman whose name never entered the public record. She worked at a diner near Love Field Airport and reportedly knew Lee Harvey Oswald during his early return from the Soviet Union. Under the guise of a "war photographer," in 1976, Elias had created a series of underground films that were said to contain "even most of the sickening things." One copy of a tape known as "Yip Yap" surfaced in a London rental shop, igniting the Video Nasties controversy of the 1980s.