Fury is an ancient creature, a manifestation of a primordial, chthonic avatar of vengeance. In ancient times, the Furies were a trio, but now they manifest as a singular being, an awe inspiring vessel of divine retribution and contrition. Built originally to punish the breakers of the laws of the gods and torture damned souls, modern Fury is adrift in a world that doesn’t completely make sense to the trio.
Ancient History
The Furies were extremely active in ancient Greece, and were part of the pantheon worshipped throughout ancient Greece. They enforced divine will and kept oaths through the fear of bloody retribution. They served with distinction in this role and brought justice (and retribution) to those who broke faith with order.
Then the dark times came. A war in the heavens broke out, and the Gods of many pantheons did battle with an enemy from beyond the known. These strange foes brought terrible weapons and laid low many before their rampage was finally halted at the doors of Olympus itself. The Furies were an early casualty of the war, trapped in statues of alien metals and left as a warning to the other gods.
Modern times
In December of 1963, Archeologists found a subterranean temple in the Athenian hills. Inside were the shattered pieces of two statues, and one intact one. The pieces were too badly degraded to be able to piece them back together, but the intact statue was something else entirely.
Standing nearly two meters tall and made out of some bizarre alloy, the statue was of a humanoid woman, dressed in a long flowing robe. At it’s hip was a terrible looking whip and bladed, feathered wings emerged from its back. The statue was brought out of the temple and brought to the University of Athens for study. They still couldn’t figure out what the statue was made of, and this was going to be a mystery for the ages without the intervention of fate.
Two thieves broke into the museum where the statue was being studied, intent on looting a collection of ancient coins that just come in. They took the researcher at gunpoint when the statue started to do something unprecedented. The statue seemed to awaken and the metallic covering shattered.
Fury killed both thieves without blinking and turned her attention back to the researcher. Nothing made sense to the freshly awakened statue, but she knew many things were wrong. She took to the skies, flying away, trying to find anything that made sense. Mount Olympus had fallen, and the world she had known was gone, replaced by a new world with new values.
Dracula found her amidst the ruins of Mount Olympus. The two battled for a time. She had been aware of the trickster spirit when the world was young, but this was something different, something old. She slowly accepted their help in learning about this new world. Dracula brought her to Port Fontaine
It took time, but Fury eventually figured out parts of the modern world. She became a welcome addition to the Society for the Advancement of Sentient Life, and is one of it’s heaviest hitters. All three of her personalities find the modern world a confusing mess, and she still tries to figure out how everything is interconnected.
Fury is the amalgamated personalities of all three goddesses sharing a body. They all have idiosyncratic quirks, and usually operate as a collective. When they do so, They speak in a collective (we, we’re, etc…). If one of the personalities has taken control, it refers to itself in the first person.
Fury has accumulated fewer enemies than most, but her driving need to punish the people who break oaths and violate the law have made her a wide swath of enemies in the global criminal underworld. Also of a concern for her on a personal level are the mysterious warriors that trapped her in metal in ancient Greece. She has tempered her desire for vengeance a little, and now spends her time seeking restitution and contrition for those who violate her ancient sensibilities.
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