It was a stormy night when the bewildered mother of Gigeon Thera stumbled into the Godville hospital. So stormy and bleak in fact that when she finally paused for breath she found herself in a morgue.
So there, among the bodies of the dead Gideon Thera was born, not with a bang, but with a whimper escaping from the lips of his matriarch.
Tragically the morgue took one more still body that night, as his nameless parent passed away Gideon’s cry’s went unanswered. In years to come some would wonder if Parthalan himself had taken her to join him in glory, others remarked at Thera’s large head and believed that was probably the culprit.
Gideon grew up on the mean streets of Godville and although he saw many horrors, he remained pious, taking the name Thera, meaning herald. The streets taught him all he needed, he learnt to fight dirty, but also badly! He learnt to read and write from shop signs, and many believe his first words were, ‘Todays Specials’
However all through his life Gideon would ponder, “Am I fly for a white guy?” to the point that it became his motto, which many young girls, but not too young, would scream as he walked by.
A paragon of virtue, Gideon always stood up for the little guy. At 5 foot 2 he probably thought he was standing up for the normal height guys. All this he did in the name of Parthalan, who in turn, did much for him, including writing his cronicles for the lazy sod.
Yet it was the quest for knowledge not power that spurred Gideon on through those many, many deaths.
As such Gideon rallied other, like-minded individuals under the banner of the ‘Brotherhood of Steel,’ (people have suggested that he stole the name from a game he played).
The Brotherhood set off in this scarred land in a quest to find technology that would further their name. However, upon seeing the pain of the people Thera pledged that all technology claimed must be used to help the needy/weedy. As such the Brotherhood of Steel became a force for good!
It is often said that a dog is man’s best friend. However, for Thera his Sundog Sparky was his only friend. For years they travelled together, Sparky tilting his head and whinning quizically when spoken to, Gideon… tilting his head and whinning quizically when spoken to.
Yet with all things this friendship had to end, and so it was, on the field of battle, mere miles away from Godville that the armies of the Brotherhood and met with a small gathering of disgruntled farm-hands. Their anger stemed from the fact that all these golden cows were lowering the price of beef. So against impossible odds the Brotherhood stood, and against impossible odds they fell. It was there that Sparky offered up his own life in a massive supernova. Some will say that this deranged tactic killed or killed as many of the Brotherhood as it did the enemy but, hell, they have great health care!