The God Hunt

**The God Hunt** is the legendary story of the campaign of the **Fate’s Favorites (FF)**, renowned heroes from Greece who traverse between planes, realms of the afterlife, and all around the physical world between Greece and Egypt. They notably interacted with the Greek and Egyptian pantheons and fought for the Myrmidon before the wars in Crete.

## Beginnings

**The Fate’s Favorites (FF)** did not begin as a united group against common enemies at first. They were independent individuals attending the **Myrmidon Academy** for their own reasons and purposes who came together in what became an unlikely friendship. In the beginning of their time in the upper levels of the Academy, every student knew they needed a group with which to go through the school - a group that hopefully would be a one where trust and camaraderie is built. Nysa had attempted to join a Hoplite group and was promptly rejected, to her dismay and embarrassment. In an effort to save face, she turned to a girl who she knew to be alone often in the library who likely would not reject her, a girl named Astra. They grew closer in their shared interest in magic and agreed to be in a group. In their early days as friends, Astra came to realize they had certain similarities in terms of magic wielding and skill, despite Nysa’s proclivity to throwing knives and hand-to-hand combat.

The new friends knew they needed others in their team, and turned to a relatively well-known “class-clown” type in their year - a man named Woddos. His jokes were just charming enough to not send them away in frustration and his skill with a bow as a Toxotai was well worth any annoyance. Woddos introduced the girls to his fellow archer, Selio, a blond mysterious-type who usually kept to himself writing music and making art. He too had incredible skill with a bow and joined the team relieved he didn’t have to investigate further and could focus on his music.

Their team was almost complete, needing only two more in an ideal scenario. Woddos, one evening, was playing with a crossbow, even though his talent was with a traditional bow. His uninformed tinkering caused a malfunction of school property, and he tried to avoid getting in trouble by rushing to a man he heard about who was a skilled artisan and helped fellow students for some extra gold. Plattos, this after-hours Artisan, came to enjoy Woddos’ company and they became friends who shared a sense of humor. The next morning he consulted with the existing group and promptly invited Plattos into their team.

Needing only one more member to be considered full, the group felt comfortable with their 5 in case they didn’t find anyone. 2 Toxotai, 1 Psiloi, 1 Magi, and 1 Artisan seemed like a solid team, and they got along easily enough. One morning, a brooding individual came to the grounds, someone wearing a disturbing mask that covered their whole face and distressed many of the students with their prowess in Hemomancy. He sat alone and it seemed that no one wanted to even approach, but Astra, in her kindness and in a moment of bravery, asked him if he needed a group and offered him their last spot. She returned to the group with his acceptance and his name - Elpidios - and was responded with some protest and hesitant curiosity, but regardless, their team now had an Oracle added to their retinue. The 6 of them then roomed together in the many final years of their time at the Academy, training in their respective classes to prepare for their graduation challenge and the real world.

Finally, with graduation approaching in the next coming days, the different teams received the information on this year’s mission: to capture a golden boar which held a scroll containing their first real-world mission. There were multiple teams and only one would be successful, so the prospective heroes worked hard to find any information about the boar that they could. In exploring the island, they split up and came upon some Skorpiánth and were able to overcome them with aid from local guards. The existence of these creatures on Atalantaea was concerning, but they had bigger things to worry about. They caught a ride from Astra’s brother, Anatolius, to Myras, where they figured out the boar would be. They were met with a team of Hoplites who had also figured out its location and they got into a skirmish with their burlish classmates. Despite the unexpected outcome, the diversity of skill of the group of unlikely friends caused their triumph against the Hoplites who were actually banished from Atalantaea for misconduct and cheating in the competition. The team gained the scroll from the metal boar and officially graduated from the Academy.

As they got their well-deserved accolades and began their lives as official Myrmidon, Nysa and Astra were plagued by a frightening nightmare that showed 3 women - the two of them and another - watching Atalantaea get attacked, cities and temples destroyed and the visage of a **minotaur**. Upon waking, they turned to each other in comfort, and in realizing they had the same dream and it not being an uncommon occurrence due to their ancestry, they realized they were in fact sisters, both daughters of Hecate. Their bond only strengthened and Nysa reveled in having a real family member.

Their happiness was cut short by the interruption of a message from their rather annoying and pathetic classmate, Chrisner. Astra tried to invite him into their group at the last minute, taking pity that he was alone, but it was too late and their group was at capacity. His strange behavior leading up to graduation unsettled everyone, as he showed an alarming level of power and acted with secrecy. He contacted Astra asking for help which caused the party to be led to an interaction with a bunch of pirates in Myras. The pirates were not alone, they also had a minotaur with them. Nysa and Astra knowingly were alarmed at its presence as the dream may have more serious and sooner application than they expected. Their fight with the pirates was no small one, and their friend Woddos - someone they spent many years with - fell in battle. Unable to deal with his death properly, they left the body and went back to Antataea where Astra heard of Chrisner’s arrest. Confused, they went to find out why and came to learn he had been experimenting with soul magic - a kind of magic long outlawed by the Myrmidon for its unethical and unpredictable application. To the party’s surprise and horror, Chrisner had collected Woddos’ soul and placed it in the body of a nearly dead Egyptian man. As he woke, the Egyptian seemed to be unsure of what was going on, and his eyes seemed to flicker between red and brown before settling on red. The voice of an older foreign man, who was named **Zakilo**, spoke in the way of the friend they lost, and they immediately welcomed him back with open arms and relief. Wary of the illegal magic used to bring their friend back in this body that now housed two souls, they didn’t dwell on the issue and the group started on their adventures.