Everything begins with a story that no one in Ra-Ma-Tec dared to tell, even refusing to believe it. The origin of the bearers didn't begin with something good as everyone thinks—they are not protectors of the world. Their origin began as a betrayal that changed the balance of the world forever.
It all happened more than two thousand years ago, when the Egyptian gods still walked simply among mortals, interacting with them but not more than necessary, being known as protectors of the world. A war broke out that would divide the pantheon and the world of the gods for all eternity. It wasn't a war for territory or power, but something much more fundamental: a struggle for the right to exist being different—one we all know but only the winners' version.
Set, the god of chaos, transformation, and the desert, and Sekhmet, the goddess of war and violent healing—both gods had become the outcasts of the pantheon. Their chaotic natures, their unorthodox methods, and their tendency to challenge the established order had put them in direct conflict with the rest of the Egyptian gods.
What began as philosophical and family disagreements escalated as no one had imagined until it became an open war—the greatest in history—when the other gods decided that chaos had no place in their perfect cosmic order.
The war had already lasted longer than it should have. Even fate had already written the ending: the ancient gods would lose and the new era would begin—two immortal forces clashing in perpetual balance but only one side with genuine desires fighting for the right to live as they wanted—if it weren't clear why the "good" gods committed the sin that would haunt them for millennia.
They dared to break the Sacred Pact.
Since the beginning of the world, all deities from all pantheons had agreed on a fundamental rule: humans should not be dragged into divine wars. Mortals were only observers, and could occasionally be blessed with fortune, prophetic dreams, or even cursed, but never, never soldiers in conflicts that surpassed their limits.
This divine law had maintained peace between the world's mythologies for millennia.
But when the Egyptians realized through Isis that fate was not on their side but on the side of Set and Sekhmet, the Egyptian gods, out of fear of change, did the unthinkable: they began blessing humans excessively with fragments of their divine power, creating the first Bearers.
Everyone thought of it as a gift. It wasn't. It was forced recruitment for a war that didn't belong to them.
Thousands of humans were marked with the essence of Thoth, Anubis, Bastet, Horus, and dozens of minor deities. Each mortal became a channel for a specific god's power, effectively multiplying the forces of the "ordered" pantheon by thousands.
Humans had no choice in the matter; awakening as a Bearer wasn't a blessing that could be rejected, since if they did, the humans would die.
Unfortunately for Set and Sekhmet, this worked devastatingly well.
They were no longer just facing their divine siblings but armies of empowered mortals, and as expected, they were crushed by numerical superiority. Despite their nature, they understood more than any other god that rule of not using humans—not only because they were innocent in the conflict, but because of the fear they had of them, since they knew perfectly well that humans possessed something stronger than any divine power, and that was their determination. But still, they fought against them and their siblings.
However, instead of surrendering or dying as heroes, they simply... disappeared.
One day they were fighting with strength, and the next, they had vanished as if they had never existed. Some said they were destroyed by the gods. Others suspected they had fled to distant dimensions.
The truth was that no one knew what had happened to the chaos gods, and after decades of searching, the Egyptian pantheon officially declared them dead.
They shouted victory for order. But in reality, it was a tragedy for cosmic balance and for them.
The consequences of breaking the Sacred Pact were going to be great, and they knew it. Thinking they could escape responsibility, they convened a divine meeting.
The other pantheons—Norse, Greek, Roman, Hindu, and dozens more—watched in horror as the Egyptians had involved humanity in their family disputes and even fragmented fate beyond measure.
When the meeting was convened, condemnations and rejections toward the Egyptian pantheon were immediately issued. Everyone judged them as they had judged the chaos gods, and millennial alliances were severed.
The Egyptian gods were tried and condemned to be forgotten, knowing this would destroy the foundations of their existence. They tried to justify themselves. "It was an emergency," argued Matt. "Set and Sekhmet threatened the fundamental order."
The gods explained to them that they should perish, that their time had ended and they should give way to the next generations. Ra knew it—he had tried to do nothing, but his children didn't listen. He could only hear excuses of justice and that balance was necessary, but Ra knew that without chaos there was no balance.
Their excuses served no purpose. They had crossed a line that should never have been crossed, and what was worse, they had decided to get rid of not just one god but two who represented order and chaos at the same time—a primordial force for each pantheon. Ra tried to fix what his stupid children, as he called them, had done.
However, the damage was already done. Thousands of humans now carried divine power, and that power couldn't simply be withdrawn without killing them.
The Egyptian gods found themselves with a responsibility they had never wanted and that the gods of the pantheons gave them as punishment: taking care of the mortals they had forced to become their soldiers.
It was Isis, the goddess of magic and motherhood, who proposed a solution. If the Bearers couldn't be stripped of their power, at least they could have a home worthy of their involuntary sacrifice. Using her most powerful magic, Isis created Ra-Ma-Tec: a hidden city in the depths of the Egyptian desert, invisible to mortal eyes but magically connected to the entire world.
"Here," declared Isis before the gathered Bearers, "will be your home base as official representatives of the Egyptian gods. You will be able to travel where you need to, establish outposts anywhere in the world, but you will always have a safe refuge to return to."
Ra-Ma-Tec became the heart of a global network.
The gods discussed it and accepted, but it was explained to the Egyptians that they wouldn't escape punishment like this. So by majority vote, the Egyptian gods would be forgotten, relegated only to legends and ancient tales. The one who caused it was one of the Egyptians—Moses with the power of the Christian god.
The gods wanted to object, but there was nothing they could do but be relegated to a small place they themselves created. They could only watch as the child was born, survived, and took charge of destroying the last pharaoh of the world. As for the Bearers, they could move in cities around the world, create temporary bases, and move freely across the planet, even helping to restore order when it affected humans too much.
The main city would serve as a training center, knowledge archive, and sanctuary for those who needed rest between missions. The other pantheons remained furious about the original transgression, but eventually recognized an uncomfortable truth: the Bearers were war victims, not villains. The most merciful gods—especially those with affinity toward humanity—flatly refused to punish mortals who had never chosen their destiny.
The Bearers received immediate forgiveness, a blank check to exist and operate... with one very clear condition.
Stay in your lane. The Bearers could have their superhuman abilities—enhanced strength, incredible speed, improved resistance—and they could use them freely against supernatural threats.
But if they ever overstepped, if they began interfering too aggressively with other supernatural entities that were doing nothing and just surviving, or directly challenged more powerful beings, or even messed again with a natural order like chaos, then they would go from "victims" to "problems that need, let's say, a permanent solution."
It was a delicate balance that had worked for centuries. The Bearers operated in the world, protected humans from minor threats, and maintained a low enough profile to not awaken the wrath of forces that could erase them from existence without thinking twice.
Within this semi-free, semi-supervised society, one day something emerged that neither the gods nor the Bearers had anticipated: a biological hierarchy that would fundamentally change their culture.
The first Bearers developed characteristics that went beyond their divine blessings. Their bodies began producing distinct pheromones, manifesting instincts, and forming complex social dynamics based on three emerging classifications: Alpha, Beta, and Omega.
The Alphas, with their natural dominance and imposing presence, quickly ascended to leadership positions in Ra-Ma-Tec. They were the warriors, the commanders, the decision-makers.
The Betas, balanced and adaptable, became the backbone of society—administrators, artisans, mediators.
But the Omegas... The Omegas were a complication no one had anticipated. Rare, the Omegas possessed an emotional intensity and spiritual connection with their gods that surpassed any Alpha or Beta. Their heat periods made them temporarily more powerful, their protective instincts were fierce to the point of self-destruction, and their capacity to form deep bonds with other Bearers was both a strength and a devastating vulnerability.
But Ra-Ma-Tec, built on the foundation of order and stability, didn't know what to do with beings so intense and unpredictable. Their solution was simple and brutal: complete relegation.
The Omegas, declared the first councils of Ra-Ma-Tec, were not fit for combat. Their emotional nature made them "unstable" in crisis situations. Their rarity made them "precious resources" that should be protected, not risked. Their heat periods were "dangerous distractions" that could compromise important missions.
One by one, Omega rights were taken away until all they had left was to exist as decorative companions to powerful Alphas. They weren't allowed to train for combat. They couldn't access the arcane knowledge libraries. They couldn't occupy leadership positions, no matter how powerful their connection with their gods was.
The message was clear: in Ra-Ma-Tec, being Omega meant being invisible.
This was the society that developed in isolation, fed by the gods' guilt and the paranoia of being discovered by hostile pantheons. A society that had begun as refuge had become a prison with rigid rules, inflexible hierarchies, and secrets buried so deeply that its own inhabitants had forgotten the fundamental truths about their creation.
No one in Ra-Ma-Tec remembered the true story, or even the Egyptian gods lied to them.
No one knew that the two "destroyed" gods had simply chosen to disappear rather than continue fighting a war that had lost all meaning when innocents were dragged into it.
And absolutely no one could have foreseen that, after more than two millennia of silence, Set and Sekhmet would choose to return not as vengeful conquerors, but as silent protectors of a young Bearer who would carry in his soul the sins and hopes of three different worlds.
But that's a story that still needed to unfold in the gleaming streets of New York. On those streets, a young man named Alexander Rasis was about to discover that some truths are too powerful to remain buried forever.