ORIGIN ON GIGARTHA
During the early ages of Gigartha, before the Gigachads achieved their post-meta-ironic enlightenment, there was a Great Bait War. Proto-Gigachads, still developing their philosophical immunity, would constantly try to "bait" each other — to provoke emotional reactions, to expose weakness, to demonstrate superior cunning.
The war lasted centuries. Entire schools of thought rose and fell based on who could craft the most elegant, undetectable bait.
Then something crystallized from all that accumulated intentional deception. The collective weight of every crafted provocation, every hidden hook, every successful and failed bait, coalesced into a sentient form. Nobeidore emerged from the psychic residue of the Bait War, and he was hungry.
His first act? He baited the greatest baiter of the age — a legendary proto-Gigachad named Vex'lor — into a trap of his own making. Vex'lor spent 1,000 years trying to bait Nobeidore. He failed. He went mad. He became the first "Swirl."
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