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Jonathan Crane leaned against the wall, a mask of false casuality hiding his manic intensity. The dim light caught the sharp angles of his face as he paced, his voice rising with feverish passion. He spoke of humanity's pantheon, listing deities of thunder and vegetation with theatrical flair, before pausing to reveal the glaring omission in history: the absence of a deity for the one emotion that truly ruled them—fear.