The Story of Pantheon
The Aspect of War — the divine force that turns its mortal hosts into the ideal of the warrior — has cycled through many bodies across Targon's history, each host eventually consumed by the Aspect's power and replaced. Atreus was a young shepherd from the Rakkor tribe who wanted nothing more than to be a warrior of Targon, who climbed the mountain seeking the power he believed would make him worthy. The Aspect of War descended. Atreus was gone. Pantheon was born.
For a long time, Atreus was entirely absent — the Aspect operated through his body with complete dominance, and the memories and personality of the shepherd were background noise. Then a confrontation with the Darkin Aatrox nearly killed the host body, and the Aspect departed to find a new vessel. What remained in the broken body was Atreus himself — the original person, returning to consciousness in a ruined form, with all of the Aspect's enemies and none of its power.
He rebuilt. As himself, not as the Aspect's instrument. He trained, recovered, fought with mortal weapons against threats the Aspect would have handled with divinity. The Pantheon he has become is different from the Aspect of War — he is a man who has chosen the warrior's path rather than a divinity expressing itself through a man. He carries a spear and a shield rather than divine fire. He is, in a way that the Aspect never was, actually trying.