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Seaborns are essentially a mix Warframe's Infested and Sentients that can easily spread like zombies converting people to their own but absorb technology which forces people to fight with archaic weapons to avoid a super evolution.
Limbus Company arrived at a coast that is full of those and we befriend villagers from there, working together and all when a little girl exposes that they are hunted due to their elf traits and the Spanish Inquisition exterminates anything they see near Seaborns to avoid them spreading like disease. We eventually get in direct conflict with an Inquisitor but after a short skirmish she angrily explains when she says ''they aren't supposed to live!'' she meant ''because this is a Seaborn nest without any food conditions in the vicinity''.
As it turns out the villagers were a Church that worships the Seaborns, and in turn the Seaborns actually work together with them, letting them choose when to convert and voluntarily die for them. They don't see converting as something bad which is why they don't trip any alarms from the Sinners with high Instinct to the point directly stabbing you with infected flesh is seem as a good thing.
Mayors is revealed near the end to refuse conversion because she sees the loss of ego as a colossal drawback - an attitude respected by the rest of the Church and Seaborns alike. But when the portal opened to AK's dimension it also irradiated The Light from The City. Ayin's project to cure the Disease of the Mind theoretically can also make Seaborns and converted keep their egos and Mayors realized from talking that The City is a shithole in spite of even Don Quixote's positive stories. She sought to cross over and utilize The Light for that, with the Sinners realizing her theory is solid and she is likely an Effloresced person from her convictions.
But a person with potential to wake an EGO is a person with potential to Distort. The moment Mayors is exposed to the Light...