Gama
Goddess of War, Conflict, Battle and Innovation (a.k.a. The Indomitable Empress)
At the beginning was the end. Gama viewed the results of eons of her labors and there was nothing left but her and the dead husks of worlds that once thrived with constantly evolving ways to inflict new and greater destructions on others at the behest of the goddess of war. The last war had ended in mutual obliteration on a universal scale and Gama looked over what she had wrought and felt... empty. Was this what it had all been for? Billions of years of evolution and escalation across trillions of galaxies and a number of worlds so numerous that, even to a god, they may as well have been infinite in their count. All that remained to remember any of it was Gama. All that she felt was weariness. Gama closed her twenty-two eyes in her eleven heads and slept.
The sleep could have been ten minutes or a million years. Time had no meaning anymore, but Gama awoke with new purpose. War and conflict were the core of her being, but there had been a tipping point where war and conflict had lost their purpose. Innovation and advancement had led only to a spiraling cycle of destruction that served no purpose and, somehow, Gama had missed it, reveling only in the ongoing and escalating destruction.
If she could only find that tipping point, then that innovation could be channeled into an endlessly balanced realm of advancement bringing mortals to the very peak of godhood and into conflict with Gama herself. That conflict would be worthy of her, and when she vanquished her own creations and returned them to the primordial ooze from which she would watch them crawl, the cycle could begin again. An endless cycle of opponents worthy to challenge her indomitable universal empire and kindle the fire within her over and over again without leaving the cold corpse of a bloated universe that now lay before her.
So Gama began to gather the remnants of her shattered universe. When she was done, each of her eleven heads breathed their essence into the dense, miniscule gathering of debris that still held an iota of use laying on the tip of her claw. As the last head breathed on the final crumb of a broken existence, it began to glow with unbridled potential, and Gama birthed the new universe.
At its center, she created a world - Valine. Taking a scale from each of her necks she split them in two and seeded the new world with dragons . Before long, she realized she needed a companion. Someone to craft her vision, to temper her excesses, to stand in opposition to her, love her and do her every bidding. A consort to oversee the cosmos. Eruer blinked into existence. And they went to work.
Gama, the Indomitable Empress, goddess of war and innovation, who birthed the universe is the most distant, and most powerful of the gods. Portrayed in culture as an eleven headed dragon - one head for each chromatic and metallic dragon and the undead head of a dracolich - Gama never inserts herself directly into the affairs of Valine, though she will give the occasional nudge through other sources such as believers, clerics or champions who devote themselves to her. Gama has time and patience and Valine is such a young world, with so much conflict to work through before it will become worthy of even a fraction of her attention.
The other gods visit Valine, sometimes frequently. Gama never does. Pray she will not. At least in your lifetime.
Divine Domains
- War
- Conflict
- Battle
- Innovation
Holidays
- 1st of Wama: Divine First of Gama
- 1st of Asmir: Divine First of the Pantheon
- 3rd of Undhar: Gama's Awakening
Divine Goals & Aspirations
Drive mortal innovation through ongoing conflict. Discover how far conflict and war can be pushed without mutual destruction.
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Goddess
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Gender
Female
I like Gama's new plan. A difficult war with an equal opponent sounds worth waiting for if you're indomitable.