Greani Ateir

Greani (meaning Green-One), later surnamed Ateir, meaning 'Unearthly' (Greani Ateir, Greani the Unearthly, The Unearthly Green-One), was a legendary green-skinned skrall hero that lived about five hundred years before the rise of the Great Beings (over 30,000 years before the establishment of the Glatorianate in Neala).

Greani has many affiliated deeds, such as being a monster and giant slayer, freedom fighter against said jirapa giants, being a sort-of warrior prophet, led the settlement of Neala, founded the ancient city of Ateiropolis (Later shortened to Atero), and waged a war against the Khargnu demonic forces that climaxed in his victorious death in the great Battle of Yirucinon. If all these deeds appointed to him are true, then Greani was truly a very historically important individual, and as such is heralded as one of the greatest heroes in all of history, along with Certavus Magnus and Mata Nui.

Unfortunately, as his life predates even the Great Beings, there aren't a lot of surviving records of Greani Ateir and most records are based off of oral tellings and local legends. There is no doubt that the man did exist in some form or another, however, as his legacy is too deeply soaked into Nealite and Skrall cultures. He is part of the umbrella-termed 'Kult of Heroes' as a major divinity, is the patron saint for Greanite Gruncharists, and is the reason why Skrall find the color green to be either holy or antagonistic (for those that follow the shadow of Khargnu collectives).

History
Greani was born during the height of the Jirapatine Empire, when all the known world was under the control of the shadow-worshiping, man-eating giants named Jirapa. In the dark mountain forests of Khargn Skogen, Bota Magna, In a settlement of lost name, a baby was born to his father Jarl Jridal and to a sex slave who, among a harem of concubines, had produced many a skrall before, and by his green skin color the child was to be named Greani. Jridal attempted to commit infanticide via cannibalization for this mockery by the divine as the child was the skin color of his green mother instead of a pale comparison to red Jridal, as was usual among skrall. When held up, however, the agori slaves could not stand to see such a sight again and so revolted, attacking their overlord with farming tools and other means in pure outrage. Before the skrall warriors could help their master, a group of agori banded together and sought to use the opportunity to escape. One of these escaping agori, a green-blended agori named Tarakk (later stylized by future Nealites as Tarixios), saved the child when Jridal dropped the child from pain of the slave attack, and escaped with the band of free-seeking slaves; Greani's mother was pleaded to come with them, but after having giving birth earlier that day she felt too weak and was reluctantly left behind. One of her friends from the jirapa's sex harem was brought along with them, and by providence was able to feed the child.

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