They meet up with Evander (Van), Castor’s cousin, and return to Lore’s apartment, where the three, Athena, and Miles form a tentative alliance.Īccording to Athena, Wrath needs the aegis shield to complete his plan. Kadmides attack the building, forcing Lore and Castor to flee. Needing Castor’s healing knowledge to help Athena, Lore sneaks into an Achillide house where she learns Castor is the new Apollo (god of light and healing), even though he was bedridden with cancer at the supposed time of Apollo’s death and couldn’t have dealt a killing blow. Overcome by desire to see Wrath pay for what he did, she agrees.
Avenging her family is the one thing holding Lore back from ditching the Agon’s world entirely. Athena offers Lore a partnership-if Lore helps the goddess stop Wrath, Athena will kill him. Aristos Kadmou (the man who murdered Lore’s family and the new Ares, who took the name Wrath) has found an alternate version of the origin poem (the Agon’s instructions), which tells of how to end the hunt with one god attaining absolute power. Unwilling to let the Agon get a foothold in her life again, Lore turns him away and returns home, where she finds a mortally wounded Athena (goddess of wisdom and strategy) on her doorstep. To make money and provide an outlet for her warrior persona, she participates in ring fights.Ĭhapter 1 begins with one such fight, and Lore is shocked when Castor, a friend from the House of Achilles who disappeared seven years ago, shows up to challenge her.
She has spent the intervening seven years since the last hunt living with an older man named Gil, who recently died, and her friend Miles. After the brutal murder of her family at the last Agon’s end, Lore is the last of the Perseide (children of Perseus) bloodline. Lore takes place in modern-day New York City, the location of this cycle’s Agon-a hunt that takes place every seven years in which descendants of Greek heroes try to kill the gods and ascend as immortals.
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