[ He shifts his weight, trying to decide what story to tell. He doesn't fear the gods' wrath. What can they do to him? ]

Two centuries ago, the trickster god Kyprioth was sole patron of the islands then called Kypriang. But he is prideful and overconfident, and when invaders came with Mithros and the Goddess at their backs, he thought to fight his great brother and sister. And in their spite, the Great Gods left him the sea around his beloved islands and allow his people to be enslaved. They do not see that when he returns, they will have centuries worth of bitterness to contend with.