Blood Red Wednesdays: First Hero

First Hero

There are four Key Figures (five really) in story of the Flight from the Glass City: The First Mother, The Kudavbin King, the Dreamwalker (actually two figures: the Dreamer and the Walker- but not really), and First Hero.

First Hero, the counterpart, companion and lover to First Mother is the most dangerous of the four. The Dreamwalker is an incarnation of the storyteller, and devoted to the story and the telling- and thus reliable. First Mother is the provider and nurturer of the tribe and devoted the tribe, and thus reliable. The Kudavbin King, the runaway prince who has abandoned the Hungry Empire is devoted to history sister (First Mother) and to the otherthrow of his father (The Locust King) and thus mostly reliable. But First Hero, First Hero is devoted to great deeds and daring do and the challenge of it all. And thus, the First Hero is not terribly reliable- or even very predictable in a useful sense.

Look at incarnations of First Hero: the Monkey King and Cu Chulainn and Heracles and Achilles and Atalanta and Mwindo and... yeah, not a group of people generally known for knowing when to quit or how to play well with others. A true and proper hero will barrel through impossible odds, and typically not listen if the odds he's barrelling through are in support of his allies. He's not malicious, but he is easily bored, and easily distracted and easily confused.

easily the most powerful weapon of the Free Peoples, it falls to First Mother and other level headed Archetypes in the story to keep the vast but easily diverted power of First Hero aimed towards the HUngry Empire and the Locust King.

Good luck with that, by the way.