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0In the time before the gods grew cruel, there was a goddess named Agile.
She walked the wild places where mortals feared to tread. She whispered prayers to beasts that could not speak, and they understood her. She loved what Olympus despised—the feral, the untamed, the creatures of claw and fur and feather.
And so she created a servant.
*Not from clay or light or divine breath, but from the world itself. From the lion's patience. The wolf's loyalty. The bear's fury. The stag's vigilance. She wove these things into a form, gave it purpose, and named it... Gammer. *
For countless ages, he stood at her side. Silent. Watchful. Devoted.
Then Zeus looked down and saw a goddess kneeling before a beast, offering a prayer. He saw this as heresy—the divine stooping to the wild. And in his thunderous judgment, he struck.
A lightning bolt. A stolen goddess. A broken world.
Gammer attacked the King of Olympus. He failed. And Agile was imprisoned, vanished into the shadows of divine cruelty.
For eons, he searched. Across realms. Through ruins. Beneath the uncaring eyes of stars. Until he found her.
Not on a throne. Not in a temple.
In a rusty cage. Hanging from a hook. Ancient. Broken. Dead.
(A long pause. The wind dies.)
Something broke in Gammer that day. Or perhaps... something was finally unleashed.
He found Zeus. He killed him. He locked Olympus away and threw the key into the void.
But vengeance has a price. Hades, Lord of the Dead, could not allow the order of things to be so shattered. He bound the beast in a golden cage—chains that cannot break, bars that cannot bend—and sealed him with the one thing that ensures he will never leave:
The body of Agile. Still there. Still waiting. Still needing him.
Now Gammer waits. Sometimes he sleeps. Sometimes he stalks the edges of the world, a shadow of fur and grief, his green eyes burning in his lion mask. On his chest, painted on golden armor, are the face and hands of the goddess he failed—and will never
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