Flo

Flo is the God of Ice and Fortune. God of Ice by lineage and Fortune by title. He's a notoriously addictive gambler who spends most of his time lazing around and issuing orders in the North West kingdom. He's akin to a life of solace and reflects this by locking himself and his subjects behind an ice wall, only ever leaving for resources or to expand his empire. Flo in essence is immature, a bit self-loathing (shown through his dialogue), and yet still oddly charismatic and humorous in character. He lacks proper socialization and it shows in his often narrow-minded views of the world around him. Unfortunately, he never gets the time to truly grow into his position as a God due to his reign ending prematurely after a confrontation with the infamous Rat God.

During his reign, Flo was famous for challenging his subjects to an array of different gambling games. His preferences being time-based games, card games, and dice games. He particularly enjoyed a time-based spin-off of the card game *hearts* called *Queen of Ice,* an exclusive to the people he captured.

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Flo originated from the small human settlements across the ice wall. He grew up during the three-way war between the Polar Bears, humans, and Dragonborn. He was oblivious to the second continental war as the humans in the area were scarce and did not venture out from the northwest often. Like the rest of the humans, he grew up without powers of any kind and only very recently gained them.

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The major "Elephant in the room" type conflict that Flo had to live with his entire life was the rats that created the whole separation between Dragonborn and humans.

When the first divide in races happened, humans vouched to join the Dragonborn to take on a more modernized life within the ice walls. For many years, the Dragonborn and humans fought together to drive out the Polar bears and fight in the other huge war going on. However, this changed very quickly when the rats came into the picture. Dragonborn, hungry for power and wanting more allies in fighting their wars, took on the offer of the rats and took them in to fight in the war alongside them. This would have all been great, a three-way alliance, what could go wrong? Well, the humans had found evidence that the rats were plotting to control and destroy the northwest from the inside when they caught spies from the Northeast traveling across their borders and communing with the rats. The rats had to dispose of this evidence so they convinced the Dragonborn that the humans were planning to rebel and take over their kingdom. The Dragonborn, angered by this, drove out the humans to join the polar bears on the other side of the ice wall. The Dragonborn declared a new rule that any human that crossed the ice wall would be immediately executed, but if they didn't cross they could live safely and securely without harm. Since then the humans have lived in resentment towards the rats, and Flo took on this mindset as well.

Subsequently, this mindset led Flo to stumble upon the missing God within the confines of the deserted forest plains that used to be the nesting ground for the Dragonborn tribe. Humans had a very small settlement and there were very few living in the circle of homes that the Dragonborn allowed them to inhabit, so they grew up training Huskies for Husky races. The best area for performing such a sport? The snowy plains located far north of the human settlements. Flo was training there when he spotted (Special) and (Unnamed rat) sneaking across the northwestern border. Flo followed the pair closely but was soon caught and apprehended, they let him go with a "small warning" aka leaving him and his dog to die in the forest, after brutally wounding the dog; Flo took it upon himself to find a way out and accidentally found the lost God hidden in the woods. He asked the God to heal him and his dog and to guide him home, questioning them on why they'd left the Northwestern people to hide in the plains. The God didn't answer but instead challenged Flo to a gamble, if Flo lost the God would take over his body and use it to become powerful again, but if Flo won, they'd heal him and his dog and make Flo a god. Flo accepted the gamble and ended up winning; the God fulfilled their promise and handed him a single small icicle shard. Flo stabbed the god in the heart with the shard and the God's powers transferred to him; when Flo came back to his senses he was in his home. However, the home was completely frozen. In his sleep he'd lost control of his powers and completely destroyed the human settlement, killling everyone inside. Flo was ridden with grief and immediately took over the Dragonborn tribe. He created an ice tower where he now sits, forever vengeful against the Gods for "cursing" him with his powers.