p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" I opened my eyes to darkness. My body felt like it was floating through space; weightless, I moved my hands and feet. Although I couldn't see anything, I could feel my body responding, and a voice floated through my head in a calm tone, "Hello there Arthur, I hope that you're comfortable"/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Where am I, and why can't I see anything" I replied calmly. I should have been scared half to death, but instead, I was peaceful./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I see that you've noticed what I've done. Right now we are inside of my mindspace. I control all of what happens here. As of now, my mindspace is currently overpowering yours, allowing me complete control over what you see and hear. Right now, I am making you more relaxed. It will make what I'm about to show you easier to understand, but still allow you coherent thought."/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Okay then, but I have to ask, why are you so much less hostile than before?"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Because we have made a magically binding deal that neither you and I can break. Therefore I have no reason to suspect you of harming me and you have no reason to suspect me either."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"AN: Pontus will be switching to a narration tone aka italics, because he will essentially be narrating for most of this chapter/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"In the beginning, there was Chaos, swirling around the infinite void of the cosmos. Until one day, Chaos decided to create something, out of Chaos came Gaia. Gaia was the earth, the trees, the animals, the embodiment of nature. Chaos looked at his new creation in pride and after conferring with Gaia for some time, concluded that she was lonely. So he made the sea and the sky and left for the time being. Gaia, Ouranous (the sky), and I were peaceful and happy, we had each other after all. Ouranous was starting to like Gaia more than me, so I retreated to the depths of the sea for the time being. Creating different animals and exploring the reaches of my power, I was content. When a hole, opened up inside of my domain. I extended a part of my power to where the hole was and saw that inside of it was a separate realm. A different plane of existence if you will. I went above the waters and onto the surface where I could converse with Gaia and Ouranous. When I arrived, the ground was shaking and the wind was blowing. I gathered my power and let it out in the largest scream I could. Everything was still, Gaia's power was near me in a second, and I could sense that Ouranous was shortly after her. I asked them what the meaning of this was, and apparently, they had had children. Three giant beings named Cyclopes, and three other beings named hundred-handed ones. Ouranous, disliking what he and Gaia had created, created the embodiment of hate itself, simply because he was the first being to ever feel it. Tartarus was the embodiment of hate, and with it came its own realm: the Underworld. It was a blight on our lovely garden, but I could not hate it. After all, it had not done anything to me. But their children on the other hand... Tartarus took their pain and turned it into his power. Whipping them, burning them, making them do pointless never-ending tasks. I was angry at Ouranous for creating a hole in my domain, but I did not do anything. After all, the sea stretches across the Earth, what was a small hole in comparison to that? So I went back into the depths and continued to create creatures, studying them and their physiology./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Their magical and physical makeup is what physiology means, in case you didn't know," He said to me as if talking to a child, which I guess I was in this case, after all, I was only a very small fraction of his age./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"It was quiet for a time, and then something happened again because I could feel the entire world trembling. When I went to the surface near one of Gaia's larger landmasses, what I found had astounded me. There were many of them, and I do not feel as though listing their names would be of any help to you seeing as they are all dead./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""How did they die?" I asked curiously./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"I killed them. Do not think it was out of any sort of malice, you see, I have the power of foresight; the ability to see into the future. It was much greater then than it is now, and I could see that if the giants were left to do as they pleased, I would perish and become nothing more than a simple sea with no conscious thought at all. So I gathered as much of my power as possible and swept it across the lands. A great tsunami so tall it almost reached the sky, and so large that it covered the Earth. I had to sacrifice many of my beautiful creations to do so, but it was necessary if the rest were to survive. Gaia and Ouranous were mad at me for killing their creations and so they waged war on me. The skies pummelled the sea with a great many typhoons and vortexes, but I was fine. The Earth shook so hard that it almost killed some of my creations, were they not made to withstand such power. But then Tartarous joined in. Tartarous took the opportunity to curry favor with Gaia and struck me with Fire, I quickly realized that the only thing to do was offer a truce. For how could I withstand the flames of hell if I was only made out of water. The Earth cannot destroy water, and neither can the Sky, but Fire on the other hand... I offered to seal away half of myself and give it to Gaia, to stop the fighting. She agreed, and suddenly, half of myself was gone, swallowed by the Earth. It would not be the first time my power was sealed away./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Later in time, I do not know when, Gaia and Ouranous had another set of children./em/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Why the hell would they do that? You just killed their last ones, and Ouranous gave the other ones up to be tortured by Tartarous!" I exclaimed./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"I do not know why they did, but you are correct in that it was not a very wise decision. This time, the children were beautiful. Similar to our avatars with only slightly less power, they had control over domains. Keep in mind that there were no other domains before ours, so this was something completely new to us. Ouranous and Gaia were joyous for a time, but as they grew in power, so did Ouranous's jealousy. He left and would not speak to them. Gaia grew worried and decided to kill Ouranous, she offered a powerful weapon to whoever killed him. Only one of her children stepped forward; Kronos, the Titan of time and the youngest of the Titans. He was gifted with an adamant scythe infused with moonlight, sharp enough to strike Ouranous down if he was in his avatar. Gaia invited Ouranous down to Earth in her most suggestive tone, and when he came down to land, Kronos surprised and castrated Ouranous. He cut him up and took his crown, declaring himself the king of the Titans, taking his sister Rhea as his consort./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wait a minute, that's his sister, why would he want her as a consort?" I asked./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Because Divine beings are not bound by genetics. Having children with a sister or a brother was not detrimental to the child's health, as we have ichor, not normal blood./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Whats Ichor?" I asked. I had the feeling that that was a good question through the humming sound that he made./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Ichor is divine blood. It contains a very high divine magic content, giving it a golden hue and increasing the metabolism, strength, and magical volume that your body can hold. It also allows you to mold your body to your will, but only to a certain extent. For instance, I used to be able to transform into any one of my beautiful creations on a whim, playing with them to my heart's content. But enough about me, back to Kronos./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Kronos chose his strongest brother Atlas as his general. The Titan Oceanus was the god of the sea, and he and I got along rather well. Prometheus was another Titan who caught my attention; he was the Titan of forethought, creation, and wisdom. He was one of the few who helped me make my creations better without asking for anything, so I gave him one of my domains; foresight. After doing so I kept an eye on the Titans but never paid too much attention to them. Most were rational and polite, so I let them be. However, soon after I gave Prometheus the power of foresight, he told Kronos that his children would be stronger than he was, and overthrow him. Kronos dismissed it soon after it was told and had a child with Rhea, but soon after he was presented the child, Prometheus's warning appeared into his mind and he swallowed the baby whole. Rhea was horrified, but Kronos wanted to try again, this time when he was presented his second child, he swallowed it after sensing that it was more powerful than the last. He and Rhea kept having children, and he kept eating them until she was pregnant with the sixth child. Before she could give birth, however, she sought the counsel of Gaia. Gaia told her to replace the child with a rock when presenting it to Kronos and put her child on Mt. Dikte on the island of Crete. When presenting the rock to Kronos he swallowed it instantly, not noticing the difference. The last child was safely stowed away on Mt. Dikte, where he grew into a strong adult. The child's name was Zeus, and he along with his brothers and sisters were a new kind of beings called the Gods, the last of the divine beings. Zeus decided to become a server for the Titans and infiltrate the palace on the advice of his mother. Soon after he became a server in the Titans palace he was quickly hailed as the best at making potions and mixing drinks seeing as he had a natural talent for it. One day, Kronos was supposed to wrestle Atlas in a wrestling contest. Afraid that he would lose he asked Zeus for a drink to make him stronger and tougher, but Zeus was crafty and made a drink that would make Kronos vomit up his siblings. Kronos drank the drink and vomited up all of Zeus's siblings. Zeus quickly yelled at them to flee, so they all turned into birds and flew out of the castle, killing one or two Titans that tried to stop them. They had a war that lasted a long while with the Titans, but the Gods eventually won with the help of the Hundred-Handed-Ones who acted as boulder throwers on the Titans' palace and the Cyclopes, who acted as blacksmiths and builders for the gods. When they won, Kronos was cut into small pieces and sealed into a coffin wrapped in chains of night. He was then thrown into the deepest pits of Tartarous to stay there until everyone forgot about him./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;""/emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Why not kill him when they easily killed the other titans?" I asked./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Because when your domain is important enough or you are a vital enough part of your domain, killing the Titan, Primordial, or God of that domain will destroy it entirely. Seeing as how Kronos was the god of time, killing him would have been disastrous, seeing as how time would break. After the war, a new god of the sea was instated; Poseidon. Poseidon had not met me yet, so when I approached his palace I was halted by his guards. They were scrawny and I could have easily crushed them but decided against it. I asked to see Poseidon and they laughed at first. After I crushed one of them they stopped laughing. I was escorted to see Poseidon and spoke with him for a time. He took offense to my being in 'his' domain and tried to destroy me. He obviously failed and I stuffed him inside an underground volcano. The other gods came to free him and by the advising of Prometheus talked with me for a time. We eventually agreed; I would stay in the deeper parts of the ocean, where Poseidon would not go, and continue to create my beautiful creatures there. It was agreeable to me as I had ventured into the deeper parts of the ocean before and saw how spacious it was. I spent more of my time there, creating some huge beauties that were almost as powerful as I was, and some smaller ones that were just fun to play with; like whales. /em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wait a minute, you created whales? That's not true." I stated in a moment of brashness/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Well then who did create whales? It certainly wasn't that upstart Poseidon, and Oceanus was killed during the Gods war with the Titans./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The legends say that Poseidon created the whales, but then again, Pontus has been creating sea creatures since the literal dawn of time, so it makes sense that he would have created them. I wonder how many other of the legends were wrong? "Never mind, please continue," I asked politely. He humphed but continued with his retelling of events./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Like was saying before I was rudely interrupted, I was creating all sorts of things down in the deep ends of the ocean when I was disturbed by Poseidon. I couldn't create any more creatures, because they were becoming too powerful, I was not going to let that stop me from creating more creatures of course, and I told him so when he came to talk to me. He ended up fleeing and came back to me after a short period of time. The Gods wanted me to come to Olympus to discuss a compromise. They were fairly rational last time I had spoken to them, so I had no problem with that. Of course, looking back I should have known, even without my foresight, that it was a trap. When I arrived on Olympus, there was a multitude of other Gods that I had never seen before, and they set upon me like a pack of wolves. I tried to run but there was no escaping, Zeus threw a lightning bolt at me and I was severely damaged and paralyzed for quite a while. By the time I was able to move, my body was inside of this gourd, and where once my range was limitless I was now unable to see. All I had were some vestiges of my magic and my mind. /em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"And that brings us where we are today. So, ready to go back to the real world?/em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hell yeah!" I exclaimed. I was definitely ready to try out his powers. If I could do a fraction of what he said he was able to, then I'd be able to handle anything the world could throw at me./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"All right then, but remember, my enemies are yours./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"And with those last words, I departed the realm of sleep and left to start a whole new journey. An adventure of a lifetime!/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Where am I, and why can't I see anything" I replied calmly. I should have been scared half to death, but instead, I was peaceful./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""I see that you've noticed what I've done. Right now we are inside of my mindspace. I control all of what happens here. As of now, my mindspace is currently overpowering yours, allowing me complete control over what you see and hear. Right now, I am making you more relaxed. It will make what I'm about to show you easier to understand, but still allow you coherent thought."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Okay then, but I have to ask, why are you so much less hostile than before?"/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Because we have made a magically binding deal that neither you and I can break. Therefore I have no reason to suspect you of harming me and you have no reason to suspect me either."/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"AN: Pontus will be switching to a narration tone aka italics, because he will essentially be narrating for most of this chapter/strong/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"In the beginning, there was Chaos, swirling around the infinite void of the cosmos. Until one day, Chaos decided to create something, out of Chaos came Gaia. Gaia was the earth, the trees, the animals, the embodiment of nature. Chaos looked at his new creation in pride and after conferring with Gaia for some time, concluded that she was lonely. So he made the sea and the sky and left for the time being. Gaia, Ouranous (the sky), and I were peaceful and happy, we had each other after all. Ouranous was starting to like Gaia more than me, so I retreated to the depths of the sea for the time being. Creating different animals and exploring the reaches of my power, I was content. When a hole, opened up inside of my domain. I extended a part of my power to where the hole was and saw that inside of it was a separate realm. A different plane of existence if you will. I went above the waters and onto the surface where I could converse with Gaia and Ouranous. When I arrived, the ground was shaking and the wind was blowing. I gathered my power and let it out in the largest scream I could. Everything was still, Gaia's power was near me in a second, and I could sense that Ouranous was shortly after her. I asked them what the meaning of this was, and apparently, they had had children. Three giant beings named Cyclopes, and three other beings named hundred-handed ones. Ouranous, disliking what he and Gaia had created, created the embodiment of hate itself, simply because he was the first being to ever feel it. Tartarus was the embodiment of hate, and with it came its own realm: the Underworld. It was a blight on our lovely garden, but I could not hate it. After all, it had not done anything to me. But their children on the other hand... Tartarus took their pain and turned it into his power. Whipping them, burning them, making them do pointless never-ending tasks. I was angry at Ouranous for creating a hole in my domain, but I did not do anything. After all, the sea stretches across the Earth, what was a small hole in comparison to that? So I went back into the depths and continued to create creatures, studying them and their physiology./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Their magical and physical makeup is what physiology means, in case you didn't know," He said to me as if talking to a child, which I guess I was in this case, after all, I was only a very small fraction of his age./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"It was quiet for a time, and then something happened again because I could feel the entire world trembling. When I went to the surface near one of Gaia's larger landmasses, what I found had astounded me. There were many of them, and I do not feel as though listing their names would be of any help to you seeing as they are all dead./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""How did they die?" I asked curiously./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"I killed them. Do not think it was out of any sort of malice, you see, I have the power of foresight; the ability to see into the future. It was much greater then than it is now, and I could see that if the giants were left to do as they pleased, I would perish and become nothing more than a simple sea with no conscious thought at all. So I gathered as much of my power as possible and swept it across the lands. A great tsunami so tall it almost reached the sky, and so large that it covered the Earth. I had to sacrifice many of my beautiful creations to do so, but it was necessary if the rest were to survive. Gaia and Ouranous were mad at me for killing their creations and so they waged war on me. The skies pummelled the sea with a great many typhoons and vortexes, but I was fine. The Earth shook so hard that it almost killed some of my creations, were they not made to withstand such power. But then Tartarous joined in. Tartarous took the opportunity to curry favor with Gaia and struck me with Fire, I quickly realized that the only thing to do was offer a truce. For how could I withstand the flames of hell if I was only made out of water. The Earth cannot destroy water, and neither can the Sky, but Fire on the other hand... I offered to seal away half of myself and give it to Gaia, to stop the fighting. She agreed, and suddenly, half of myself was gone, swallowed by the Earth. It would not be the first time my power was sealed away./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Later in time, I do not know when, Gaia and Ouranous had another set of children./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Why the hell would they do that? You just killed their last ones, and Ouranous gave the other ones up to be tortured by Tartarous!" I exclaimed./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"I do not know why they did, but you are correct in that it was not a very wise decision. This time, the children were beautiful. Similar to our avatars with only slightly less power, they had control over domains. Keep in mind that there were no other domains before ours, so this was something completely new to us. Ouranous and Gaia were joyous for a time, but as they grew in power, so did Ouranous's jealousy. He left and would not speak to them. Gaia grew worried and decided to kill Ouranous, she offered a powerful weapon to whoever killed him. Only one of her children stepped forward; Kronos, the Titan of time and the youngest of the Titans. He was gifted with an adamant scythe infused with moonlight, sharp enough to strike Ouranous down if he was in his avatar. Gaia invited Ouranous down to Earth in her most suggestive tone, and when he came down to land, Kronos surprised and castrated Ouranous. He cut him up and took his crown, declaring himself the king of the Titans, taking his sister Rhea as his consort./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wait a minute, that's his sister, why would he want her as a consort?" I asked./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Because Divine beings are not bound by genetics. Having children with a sister or a brother was not detrimental to the child's health, as we have ichor, not normal blood./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Whats Ichor?" I asked. I had the feeling that that was a good question through the humming sound that he made./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Ichor is divine blood. It contains a very high divine magic content, giving it a golden hue and increasing the metabolism, strength, and magical volume that your body can hold. It also allows you to mold your body to your will, but only to a certain extent. For instance, I used to be able to transform into any one of my beautiful creations on a whim, playing with them to my heart's content. But enough about me, back to Kronos./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Kronos chose his strongest brother Atlas as his general. The Titan Oceanus was the god of the sea, and he and I got along rather well. Prometheus was another Titan who caught my attention; he was the Titan of forethought, creation, and wisdom. He was one of the few who helped me make my creations better without asking for anything, so I gave him one of my domains; foresight. After doing so I kept an eye on the Titans but never paid too much attention to them. Most were rational and polite, so I let them be. However, soon after I gave Prometheus the power of foresight, he told Kronos that his children would be stronger than he was, and overthrow him. Kronos dismissed it soon after it was told and had a child with Rhea, but soon after he was presented the child, Prometheus's warning appeared into his mind and he swallowed the baby whole. Rhea was horrified, but Kronos wanted to try again, this time when he was presented his second child, he swallowed it after sensing that it was more powerful than the last. He and Rhea kept having children, and he kept eating them until she was pregnant with the sixth child. Before she could give birth, however, she sought the counsel of Gaia. Gaia told her to replace the child with a rock when presenting it to Kronos and put her child on Mt. Dikte on the island of Crete. When presenting the rock to Kronos he swallowed it instantly, not noticing the difference. The last child was safely stowed away on Mt. Dikte, where he grew into a strong adult. The child's name was Zeus, and he along with his brothers and sisters were a new kind of beings called the Gods, the last of the divine beings. Zeus decided to become a server for the Titans and infiltrate the palace on the advice of his mother. Soon after he became a server in the Titans palace he was quickly hailed as the best at making potions and mixing drinks seeing as he had a natural talent for it. One day, Kronos was supposed to wrestle Atlas in a wrestling contest. Afraid that he would lose he asked Zeus for a drink to make him stronger and tougher, but Zeus was crafty and made a drink that would make Kronos vomit up his siblings. Kronos drank the drink and vomited up all of Zeus's siblings. Zeus quickly yelled at them to flee, so they all turned into birds and flew out of the castle, killing one or two Titans that tried to stop them. They had a war that lasted a long while with the Titans, but the Gods eventually won with the help of the Hundred-Handed-Ones who acted as boulder throwers on the Titans' palace and the Cyclopes, who acted as blacksmiths and builders for the gods. When they won, Kronos was cut into small pieces and sealed into a coffin wrapped in chains of night. He was then thrown into the deepest pits of Tartarous to stay there until everyone forgot about him./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;""/emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Why not kill him when they easily killed the other titans?" I asked./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Because when your domain is important enough or you are a vital enough part of your domain, killing the Titan, Primordial, or God of that domain will destroy it entirely. Seeing as how Kronos was the god of time, killing him would have been disastrous, seeing as how time would break. After the war, a new god of the sea was instated; Poseidon. Poseidon had not met me yet, so when I approached his palace I was halted by his guards. They were scrawny and I could have easily crushed them but decided against it. I asked to see Poseidon and they laughed at first. After I crushed one of them they stopped laughing. I was escorted to see Poseidon and spoke with him for a time. He took offense to my being in 'his' domain and tried to destroy me. He obviously failed and I stuffed him inside an underground volcano. The other gods came to free him and by the advising of Prometheus talked with me for a time. We eventually agreed; I would stay in the deeper parts of the ocean, where Poseidon would not go, and continue to create my beautiful creatures there. It was agreeable to me as I had ventured into the deeper parts of the ocean before and saw how spacious it was. I spent more of my time there, creating some huge beauties that were almost as powerful as I was, and some smaller ones that were just fun to play with; like whales. /em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Wait a minute, you created whales? That's not true." I stated in a moment of brashness/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Well then who did create whales? It certainly wasn't that upstart Poseidon, and Oceanus was killed during the Gods war with the Titans./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The legends say that Poseidon created the whales, but then again, Pontus has been creating sea creatures since the literal dawn of time, so it makes sense that he would have created them. I wonder how many other of the legends were wrong? "Never mind, please continue," I asked politely. He humphed but continued with his retelling of events./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Like was saying before I was rudely interrupted, I was creating all sorts of things down in the deep ends of the ocean when I was disturbed by Poseidon. I couldn't create any more creatures, because they were becoming too powerful, I was not going to let that stop me from creating more creatures of course, and I told him so when he came to talk to me. He ended up fleeing and came back to me after a short period of time. The Gods wanted me to come to Olympus to discuss a compromise. They were fairly rational last time I had spoken to them, so I had no problem with that. Of course, looking back I should have known, even without my foresight, that it was a trap. When I arrived on Olympus, there was a multitude of other Gods that I had never seen before, and they set upon me like a pack of wolves. I tried to run but there was no escaping, Zeus threw a lightning bolt at me and I was severely damaged and paralyzed for quite a while. By the time I was able to move, my body was inside of this gourd, and where once my range was limitless I was now unable to see. All I had were some vestiges of my magic and my mind. /em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"And that brings us where we are today. So, ready to go back to the real world?/em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true""Hell yeah!" I exclaimed. I was definitely ready to try out his powers. If I could do a fraction of what he said he was able to, then I'd be able to handle anything the world could throw at me./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"All right then, but remember, my enemies are yours./em/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"And with those last words, I departed the realm of sleep and left to start a whole new journey. An adventure of a lifetime!/span/p