The goddess of Wisdom and War who is also the younger sister to the protector goddess of Fabir; Kreeya. The elder gods anticipated Kreeya’s egotistical nature, and created Athena using the remaining divine energy from Kreeya’s creation. Athena would serve as a co-protector god of Fabir to balance it out due to Kreeya’s nature.
Kreeya was furious to learn that she would have a sister to co protect Fabir and immediately resented her. At first Athena wanted to help Kreeya so that they may become more friendly and work together to protect Fabir; unfortunately that wasn’t the case.
After Kreeya journeyed the realms to understand mortals, Athena would travel to other realms. Unlike Kreeya who saw no value in mortals, Athena grew fond of them. She grew fond of the other realms learning all the cultures and mortal life. She had a great friendship with the protector god of Xaa and Tonra’Tiuh the protector god of Osh Tekk.
After Athena visited The Arnyek islands and befriended the protector god of that realm, Athena sought to create life as well. Athena witnessed many insects in Fabir pollinating flowers when she had an idea.
Due to her being the sister of Kreeya, Athena would combine her own power to craft daughters she would name the Amazonians who are the cousins of the Kreeyans, the first being Zara. Unlike Kreeya; Athena held compassion for the Amazonians and even the Kreeyans she sees as daughters. This was the difference many Kreeyans noticed when Athena and her daughters interacted.
Kreeya was even more enraged at the emergence of Amazonians despite them being on lower number, they had more quality in them. The Amazonians each had unique strengths based on part of Athena; all of which would be knowledgeable in fighting. In her Anger; Kreeya would banish her sister and her daughters to another abandoned island in Fabir away from Kreeya.
Athena would soon call the island the Amazons and together they crafted their own home. The Amazons was a more modest home compared to the beauty and vanity in the Fabir region Kreeya ruled over. However the Amazonians all built their new home and named their capital city Linaria.
Unfortunately as it stands Fabir began to lose mortal Kombat tournaments as Kreeya and Athena stopped being cooperative. Kreeya herself even choose weaker Amazonian warriors to compete based on her belief of the Kreeyans being far superior. this was the undoing of Fabir, had the two sisters cooperated, they may have survived Khan’s wrath but they failed.
Athena and her daughters fought against the forces of Outworld. Many perished during Fabir’s fall with the Amazonians being less in number and nearly endangered. Prior to her defeat she had a vision that foretold her that her oldest Daughter Zara must go to the crystal realm known as Illkan so she may claim the sword of Illkan.
As such she sent her to Illkan in a tearful goodbye, as She did her best to save as many daughters as she could before she was slain by Shao Khan.
Though protector gods could regenerate, Athena was caught in a state of limbo following her death to Shao Khan. she would need Fabir to be restored to allow her to come back to life, she hopes to one day see her daughters again but that day remains in jeopardy.
Notes: When thinking more about Zara and her realm, I was originally going to give Athena and the Amazonians their own realm. However after I learned that my friends @overlordzeffeero and @etherealada05 expanded on Fabir their ocs and concepts most notably Kreeya. I realized Athena and the Amazonians can coexist on a different island in Fabir. I felt there was no point in having two realms with Amazonian warrior women so that’s how everything came together.
The captial city name is based off Zara’s actress Nancy Linari. I guess it’s time to talk about my Fabir cast because I have some more to share.
Here’s some fun trivia: while remastering Athena’s bio I found out that Kreeya’s actress; Fabiana Udenio has a sister, so it’s almost fated to happen lmao.