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The tablets of history recount the momentous birth of a creature destined to bridge the gap between god and man—a being crafted through forbidden arts. In a desperate appeal to satisfy the people's yearning for divine presence, the queen offered herself to the bull. The child conceived from this unholy union emerged into a world bathed in both reverence and horror. The newborn Minotaur, while initially a symbol of the Empire’s supremacy, soon transformed into an insatiable beast that demanded sacrifices, thus binding the fate of the people in a ruthlessly cyclical tragedy.