6 months after the apocalypse began, a fiery meteorite appeared streaking across the sky above Branson, Missouri, and a meteorite landed in the parking lot of Silver Dollar City Amusement Park. Park employee Cleo Mendez was arriving for her shift at the park at the time, and described the meteorite as “a beautiful grey stone with hints of gold, translucent and lit from within.” Ishtar emerged from the meteorite, skin glowing, and wearing a colorful tunic of high-quality linen. She introduced herself and shook hands with Cleo. Cleo eventually went on to become Ishtar’s personal advisor in the Lizard Wars. The two remain good friends to this day.

Ishtar soon made contact with the rebellion forces and led many battles against the Lizard King’s army. She is an extremely powerful deity. She can emit light from her skin at varying intensities, from a warm glow for reading in bed, to hot laserbeams for warfare. She can also grow in size until she is a giant, towering over even Crab Lord. But at her usual human size, she is quite strong as well, partly due to superhuman strength, and partly due to her dedicated membership at a CrossFit gym.

Ishtar single-handedly defeated the Lizard King’s wyvern sons in a battle on a train.

The Lizard King has actively avoided a direct one-on-one confrontation with Ishtar, for which he has been called “a coward and a scaredy-cat” by the New New York Times.