The Gauntlet Begins
V
ilastromoz had to admit that the Wyrmgod had managed to gather quite the assortment of respectable images to be used as Champions. To see Gudrun had already been surprising, as she wasn’t really known to be that huge of a fighter these days. Even before she became a god, she had been more of a shaman or leader than a Valkyrie that used a spear. Well, it was not like she could have been one, as she had more or less created the term Valkyrie and its Path herself.
Yet the seven Champions were even more noteworthy. Two of them were entirely system-created, and their images did not stem from “real” beings—those two naturally being the Lightning Monarch and Archmage. Truthfully, the Viper didn’t care for these two. The only slightly interesting thing about the Lightning
