{Memphis, Ancient Egypt; 3100 BC}
The sun had long past set, Ra completing his daily journey several hours before and the full moon hung high in the sky casting her pale light on the sunbaked city. Inside her walls a woman clutching tightly a concealed package dashes through the streets fleeing from the pursuing group of soldiers. Her features were regal and sharp and she had beautiful carmel skin. Under her cloak she wore amulets and the bracelets of royalty. Her golden eyes usually playful and warm were stricken with fear as she dodged obstacles turning this way and that. The soldiers torches flashed behind her lighting up the dim alleyways, flames causing the shadows to run wild.
The woman risked a glance behind her to see that the soldiers were getting closer and she knew she had little time left. She muttered a curse to the sea god who had won her over with the stories of power and near infinite domain, and how he would whisk her away from Narmer. She should've known it was doomed to fail whenever she mixed the blood of the pharaoh's with a foreign god. Dodging an overhanging raft, Neithhotep ran to the river Nile's shore where she finally removed her bundle. Wrapped in deep blue linen cloth, lay a sleeping baby unaware of the mortal danger it faced.
"Oh my baby, I never meant to bring this upon you, but if your brother Hor-Aha was too find out about you he would kill you without question. Please know that I do this for your own good." Snatching a basket from the nearby dock, she placed the baby inside and spoke the divine word N-Dah. A shining blue hieroglyph appeared above the baby's head the basket was coated in a blue glow.
"Go to the House of Life, they will protect you and teach you until you are ready." Silently offering a prayer to her patron goddess Nephthys, she pushed the basket out into the river where the currents caught it and soon it was lost in the reeds. Soon after the basket was out of sight, soldiers burst onto the dock and seized Neithhotep dragging her back to the palace never to see her son again.
{Heliopolis, Ancient Egypt; A couple days later}
A young man stands in the river Nile filling his jug for the elementalist training he was leading later. Hemetre is his name and he is a scribe of the First Nome of the House of Life in the city. A noise to his left draws his attention, but he sees nothing at first. He then lowers his vision to see the Duat as well and the brightest beam of blue light is shooting out from within the thickets of reeds. Walking towards it, he also hears the soft mewing of a baby for its mother. Hurrying his pace he found a deep blue basket bobbing up and down in the water containing the source of the light. Switching back to normal vision, he looks upon a young baby no older than 4 days old alone with no mother in sight. The baby had a natural sun kissed tan, and pure jet black hair. His most amazing features were his eyes however, a hypnotizing sea green-blue mix with golden flecks.
As he reached towards the basket to grab the baby an alligator pounced on Hemetre out of nowhere. The water rushed from the area leaving a circle of dry land with just the gator and Hemetre. Before he could draw his wand he was pinned to the ground the beast stared into his eyes and he thought he heard a voice in his head say, "Protect my son." Then the alligator dissolved into mist, and the water rushed back into the displaced area. Picking the baby up he saw the stitching in the linen, gold hieroglyphs beautifully sown spelling out the name that would change the world. Perseus.