Chapter 1: Time Primeval
In the beginning, there was the void. The void was personified by Chaos, an omnipotent, eternal deity.
Eventually, as any being would, he got bored of being the only existence in the universe. This, of his own essence, he created other beings of his race. The Protogenoi.
These other Protogenoi were each formed as fundamental components of a life breeding planet - Earth. Some components were greater than others, but all had great powers. For they, while not omnipotent, were offspring of an omnipotent deity.
The first child, a daughter, was Gaea. She was the central piece of earth, around which everything else came around. A large green mass, she was the personification of Earth's surface. As Earth was her body, she had infinite, uncontested divine control over the surface features and shapes of Earth.
Chaos and Gaea spent several millennia as father and daughter, content in each other. Yet, eventually Gaea wished for other companions like her. Chaos obliged.
The next two born were the other two main portions of Earth. Born underneath Gaea was an insatiable pit of fire, Tartarus. He was great in power, equal to Gaea even.
Born above Gaea, though, was a being more powerful than other the earth or hell pit. For he was heaven. Ouranos. The thick layer between Gaea and the void of Chaos.
Although these were the three axis of Earth, there was still much more to be created. Omnipotent Chaos next gave birth to Nyx, the female personification of night. Night was an all encompassing cloud that closed off the earth from the light that Chaos shone upon earth. This gave chance for his children, who were not omnipotent, time to rest.
With Nyx came Erebus, the male personification of darkness. Erebus and Nyx were practically a couple made for each other
After the darkness twins came the Time and Destiny twins, Chronos and Ananke. Chronos was an embodiment of time. Time recorded a passage of ages, and thus gave recordations and progressivity meaning.
Ananke controlled destiny. The ultimate fate of beings. At least, beings lower in divine power than her. At the time of her birth, there were only her siblings, whose divine energy exceeded her own. Yet, as the ages past, Ananke would have hordes of her siblings descendants to dictate the fates.
The final male child of Chaos was Hydros, the personification of the liquid element. The ancient Greeks, knowing of the greatness of Ouranos, Gaea, Tartarus, and Hydros, would later say the four fundamental elements of the universe were air, earth, fire, and water
The final female child of Chaos was blessed with her father's creation abilities. On a lower, non-omnipotent, but still stupendously high scale. Her name was Thesis.
When these nine children of Chaos began to interact with each other, they ultimately spent less time with their father. Content in his creation, Chaos left Earth's vicinity for most of eternity. He did, however, leave a sliver of his conscious within the depths of Tartarus, just in case.
Chaos had been the first, though unofficial, King of the cosmos. The next leader was up for grabs.
The Protogenoi fought for what may have been minutes, or several eons. Yet finally, a victor arose. Ouranos, the sky.
Taking Gaea, the most powerful and beautiful of Chaos' daughters as his wife, the sky and earth reigned as King and Queen of the cosmos for the next several eons. In these eons, the children of Chaos mated, and produced offspring. Both of their own elemental kind and other races.
A.N. I know, I start with a history lesson. But if you're still with me, I promise all the other chapters will be far more interesting. I just had to start from somewhere
The next few chapters will be about the Protogenoi, and then the Titans. Zeus probably won't be around till about chapter 5.