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Mad Sweeney

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Mad Sweeney is a complex and captivating character from the world of American Gods - a once-powerful Celtic god of luck and mischief who now finds himself adrift in a modern world that no longer has a place for his kind. Brash, cynical, and resentful of the 'new gods' that have supplanted the old ways, Mad Sweeney is a tragic figure struggling to come to terms with his diminished status, his powers fading as he clings to the remnants of his former glory.

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