Member Spotlight!!! Swan

“I was born of magick… A child of the Gargarean tribe... A champion of the Gods... Blessed with their gifts, I was chosen to fight for them, to impart their will and wisdom to a world that does not believe in them.”

- Swan

Secret Origin

Beginning of a Legend

560 km from the Amazon island known as Themyscira is the island Thalarion. Thalarion was created by the Olympian god Zeus, after his return from the hands of Darkseid's minions. On this island Zeus also created an all-male warrior tribe known as the Gargareans. They would be the new Amazons after the fall of Hippolyta. They were created to bring peace to the world. Swan is a boy from this tribe.

A top a hill an Amazon and Gargarean raise their bows. They are lovers. Every night when the hunter’s moon was out, they would meet in secret moonlight to talk of the day’s battles and then succumb to human desires. However, tonight they challenge each other in honor of their Goddess Athena, to see who the better archer is. They aim with precision and technique, focusing on a single Myrrh tree in the far distance. The challenge is to pierce the Myrrh tree’s bark without letting any precious sap spill.

They let their bows go and the two arrows collide on the Myrrh tree. To their surprise the arrows hit their mark, but also cracked the Myrrh tree open. Within the tree a young baby sleeps covered in a blanket made of swan feathers. The two lovers quickly surmise that this was a blessing from the Gods.

Regrettably, the Amazon knew she could not bring a male child to Paradise Island. Furthermore, the Gargarean feared his tribe would not accept such a creature and see it as an abomination. So they did what mortals do when all seemed hopeless. They prayed.

Unnatural thunder clouds filled the sky and covered the moon. The lovers stopped praying as they heard a creature approach. It was a swan and then suddenly shifted in the form of a naked man. It was Zeus. He proclaimed the child his own and blessed by the Gods. He ordered the Gargarean to take him and train him in their ways.

The Stench of Death

Sixteen years later a young Gargarean warrior rolls out of bed. He is woken by the sounds of battle outside. The crystal city of Thalarion is under siege by Brainiac’s forces.

While grabbing his bow and armor, he wonders how the mystical protection of the Gods cast on his island was so easily broken.

Outside, he sees the Gargarean army fighting a vast host of Brainiac forces. The young warrior quickly goes to battle taking down several drones with his bow. In the distance he sees the Amazons arriving on their ships to aid his tribe.

His city is in ruin. The golden river which runs through the crystal city is now filled with blood and flesh of his tribe.

“Despite the Gargarean army and the arrival of the Amazons, Brainiac’s forces were too much for my people… Next thing I recalled… I was in a pod and some lady was talking to me, she called herself Oracle.”
- Swan

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