Here's the next chapter hopefully you guys like it because I have been thinking about what to do for a couple of days.
Chapter 2 Ironborn
With isolation being my first priority and no longer under the tyrannical rule of either Gods or Primordials but under Lady Chaos I was excited. With a blank slate of what to make of my people I started carving out the land for my People. I craved out seven rocky islands ready for my people.
Now what to do with them and how to populate them. I took some iron from the ground and shaped them into people and put flesh over them to make them people. With Zeus no longer ruling over me I had my power unchecked but all my domains stayed the same. I was the king of the gods with no longer any Gods ruling over me!
I made 6 Ironborn women and 6 Ironborn men and dragged them onto the top of the largest island. I called onto Lady Chaos to bless them with life and soon the men and women started to stir to life. I put clothes on them and got ready for a speech to these new Arrivals.
When they finally came to life and looked at me I put out my power and called them to authority with a booming voice "my people my Ironborn see these islands out there they are yours to protect and maintain". "While anything outside of that is nothing to us not worth the sweat off our brows".
With their attention frimley on me I started again with a little less loud voice and said "these waters around us is the only place are people belong other than to reave and pillage and take from the greenlanders" When I started up again I said this "my final words are this should you drown I will take you down to my watery halls to feast for an Eternity and never stay on the Greenlanders land for long because I can't protect you past the Sea and past these seven Islands.
I blessed these 12 people with my blessing of my knowledge and domain to get started and as they increase in population the blessing will slowly deteriorate until they are just normal old people with a weird talent for sailing. I decided to take the souls of my drowned people and hold them in my halls to feast and drink for Eternity. I made some Mermaids and Merman to serve the drowned souls and to serve me because I was finally excited after a long time.
I made a priest out of saltwater and called for Lady Chaos to bless him and my Mermans and Mermaids with life. After a couple minutes they start to stir and I put the Priest of my new Religion of the Drowned God since I hold the drowned souls with Hades no longer holding any sway over me or my domains. I put the priest up on the main Island and said "lead them with my tenants as the major point of my Religion and tell them of me".
With that done I tired and ready to close my eyes for a while after exhausting almost all my energy but I could yet I had to have someone here to lead when I fall asleep or just down want to rule or lead the drowned souls to my halls. I took one of the Merman bound to my obedience and will and gave him a bit more of goldy power and status and told him this "when the drowned souls come of my people lead them to the feasting halls and serve him but when a drowned enemy comes after my people killed them set them to prison labor of my or you peoples desire of the Merfolk"
With that done and my eyes starting to feel like lead and my body wobbling all the way to my Throne. I sat down on my throne and closed my eyes for a bit of rest after all this hard work. I havent worked this hard since my original hero days for the Olympian Gods or assholes as I like to call them with that I sighed and fell into a restorative sleep.
Merfolk King POV
With my King asleep and me in command I started to watch these people my king calls "Ironborn". They started slow at first getting used to being alive and with no one to lead them but eventually one person stepped forward. The Priest backed him because he stepped up first with strength and will.
With them blessed of my Kings domains they eventually started to build ships with the trees around the islands and started to fish with less success then there ship building.
A couple of years later they came to the other six islands around them and started to grow in size.
A couple generations later they started to war amongst themselves but one of my Kings priests said it was "sinful for Ironborn to war amongst ourselves". The other Ironborn started to preach his teaching among the other six islands. Soon every petty king of the seven Islands selected one "high king". They only did this after thousands of Ironborn are already in my Kings halls feasting and having fun with my Kings Mermaids.
Instead of just seven petty kings they now had one high king among themselves with that things started to calm down. Now not so many souls were coming to the halls and my King seemed to be recovering his strength. With one high king they started to reave and plunder the Greenlanders and sent them to our water halls instead of to their so called weirwoods or old gods.
Percy POV
I started to wake when another godly presence started to near my watery halls. He seemed to be a new god since I hadn't seen him around before and He definitely wasn't Lady Chaos. He was too weak to be that monster. WIth my people firmly settled and my palace running like a well oil my machine and my strength back I was ready for anything. Expected since I was on my home turf.
Author's Note
Hopefully you like the chapter it was fun to think of but hard to write for but that's all from me until the next chapter.
