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Stage one: The Therios
The animal as it is the way nature intended. In general, the animals Moreau experiments on are large mammals, usually human-sized or around that area. He has been known to work on smaller-than-human beasts, such as monkeys and apes, but primarily focuses on big cats, livestock, and miscellaneous predators. He does not work on reptiles or fish due to the sheer viciousness of creatures such as crocodiles and their overall small brains (as he alters the structure of the animal's brain, a reptile or fish brain lacks the cerebrum that a mammal brain does to make the necessary changes), circulatory system aside. For the same reason, he does not work on birds - ignoring the fact that they are often very small, fragile things, their wings do not lend well to transforming into hands. The animal is assigned to an assistant to be cared for in between surgeries and during recovery periods.

Stage two: The Quasitherios
It is here that the early processes of the experiment are carried out. The beast is flayed of its fur so that its skin grows back without it. Its ears will be cropped and its limbs and toes become surgically elongated to mirror human proportions, especially the toes on the forepaws to eventually turn them into hands. Because of this, it is difficult for the quasitherios to walk naturally in this stage so it is often kept laying or sitting. Once it has recovered from the elongation surgery, it begins training to walk on its hindlegs like a person. Next, the animal's skull is cut open and the first brain alteration occurs - this is the most delicate and the most gradual of the humanizing processes. The animal's thinking power is boosted, and is then taught to understand speech and basic pantomime and signing (as its throat hasn't been modified yet, the creature cannot yet speak for itself). In this crucial early stage, the animal is instilled with knowledge and understanding of Moreau's Laws of Humanity.

Stage three: The Abaddontherios
After several months of continual surgery and short recovery periods, the animal is getting closer to looking like the final product. Clumsy and awkward, the abaddontherios is now capable of walking on its own and slowly learns how to speak and reason. Its face becomes restructured to appear more humanlike, its snout shortened and teeth refitted to the new jaw shape. The animal's tail, if it has one, is removed. Lots of physical surgery is performed on the abaddontherios, thus it is almost constantly covered in bandages and fresh stitches. Sometimes, Moreau adds parts from other animals to the abbadontherios to make it appear more humanlike. Planks are sometimes tied to its back to help with the animal's posture. Its brain is altered even further, relegated to higher thinking and the capability to learn more things. These last few surgeries carry on for a few months, and then is left alone by the doctor to heal and fully transform into the final product...

Stage four: The Antherios
The surgeries are now complete, the beast is now a man. Its hands are more deft, the antherios can now learn to read and write as well as use tools and communicate with its human peers. It is as close to human as the creature will ever get. It can think and speak and possesses a simple form of reasoning, it begins to learn about the world around it and tries to understand the world it was not ready for.

Rarely do the antheria remember what their life was like before the surgeries, but even after all of the training, the old beast within starts to come back and manifest itself. What was once a nonviolent, humanlike creature begins to take on an animalistic temperament - these creatures are then marked as failures and released into the jungle. As the animal self slowly begins to return each of the new men, more and more are released into the jungle and considered failed experiments by their creator.

Left without their caretakers, the antheria are now forced to fend for themselves and build their own society while trying to uphold Moreau's Laws of Humanity. However, some antheria are not content with this... and some antheria will want to return to their animal roots and rebel against the laws of men, realizing that they are something that they were never meant to be. As a caretaker, you can continue attempting to work with your antherios (provided it hasn't killed you), going out into the jungle to visit the creature and its village.

At this point in the storyline the focus will begin to shift on the antherios instead of the caretaker as it begins to realize things and try to attain a standing of its own among its broken society of fellow beast-men. It may develop a distrust and hatred for humans and turn on its caretaker, or maybe even side with the humans and try stay with them for as long as possible, regardless of being a 'failure' or not. This is where the tide of the story will change; a shift in perspective into the terrifying minds of the antheria as they develop into their own beings and create a mockery of human society.

Note: Antheria only have a minimal degree of physical animality: they do not have fur, tails, long ears, or digitigrade feet for example - for the most part, they will only retain small details such as black-tinted noses and lips, semipointed teeth, animalistic eyes, and sometimes claws or faint markings on their skin. The goal was to turn them into humans, not anthropomorphic "furries." They are NOT just regular animals on two legs, there are countless other shops out there if you want to have a furry roleplaying pet.