The Chosen were the youth of West Village OSR collected and taken away from Truetopia to serve as super powered soldiers in their ongoing recursion war. They have experienced conflict, violence, mental coercion via religious indoctrination at the hands of the OSR and their false religion. This handful of Chosen betrayed the OSR forces on Truetopia and joined the band of heroes from West Village to destroy the inapposite gate that gave the OSR access to Truetopia.
All of the Chosen are late teen or young adults having been removed from the rapid passage of time when the OSR took them away from Truetopia to be soldiers. Some have only been away from Truetopia briefly and return to their family pods Many have returned to find friends and family are the oldest members of the village. Some were gone long enough that their peers have passed on in the intervening time since they were gone.
The Chosen represent a very small fraction of the people the OSR has collected from the Village over the decades. The older members struggle with returning to a home without the familiar faces they left behind.