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Ancient Greece

3rd POV

In the southern part of Thessaly, Greece, lies an enormous dilapidated palace which was abandoned, but glorious in its former days. This is now a popular tourist destination that receives overwhelming number of visitors everyday. Though desolated now, no one that visits the palace can ignore the amount of power that can be felt humming through the entire place. Many visits Othrys, some in hopes of gaining more knowledge of the fabled Golden Age and some who just wants to view the amazing architecture of the building. None would deny though, the feature that drew so many of them in, is the fact that none of them could touch anything in the palace.

The palace, or Othrys, which is the name mortals gave to the palace, seeming as it was built on Mount Othrys, is enormous. Enormous not as in the 'Parthenon' enormous, but more of five times Parthenon size, but the height of the palace was at least 70 feet high. The material that was used to build the temple is what mystifies tourists or architects alike who comes to visit Othrys. Why, you may ask, it is because anyone that visits Othrys is unable to touch any part of the palace itself. People tried, they still do today, but their hands seem to just permeate the wall, and the 'ground' they are standing on, or rather in, because no part of their body seem to be able to come into contact with any part of the palace, even the palace grounds. One would then suspect the entire palace itself is an illusion but many had speculated that, but none had come up with plausible explanations about the source of the illusion. Hence, this just adds on to the myths about Othrys, about it being the Titan's base in the Titanomachy and now, the illusory palace of wonders.

Inside Othrys, were many, many rooms. By many, visitors reckon there at least hundreds of rooms designed to fit beings of approximately fifty to sixty feet. Who would be that tall, no one has a clue? As mentioned, no one could touch any part of the palace at all, which is why visitors can go into rooms that are locked, as they can simply bypass the door as if its not there. Funnily though, it is because the room is 'not there' for these mortals. Even though they can't touch anything, not a single one of them can miss out the massive circular room in the middle of the palace with enormous thrones built to fit extraordinarily huge beings. In another small side room beside the circular room, human-sized statues, also made out of the same material as the palace, were also arranged in a circular manner, each with elaborate and intricate designs on their tunics, though four of the statues are at four points of the room, North, South, East and West.

The statue at the North is depicted to be wielding a massive black metal sword the size of a surfboard , or they think its metal, with cruel bluish-white eyes, his body is well-built and seems to be very fit, for a statue that is. He appears to be donning elaborate pure black armor with a single blazing diamond in the breastplate. Although unexplained and highly unbelievable, all visitors sworn they experience a chill when within a small radius of the Northern statue, which just adds on to the legend of Othrys. The Southern statue appears slightly comical, which is a contrast to the Northern statues; he is slightly taller than the Northern statues, having the same black armor as the previously mentioned, though with stars and constellations on it. Combined with his seemingly coal black eyes, he would have been a striking figure instilling terror into visitor's hearts if not for his helmet which is ram-shaped with horns on it; this had totally erased any hint of terror or fear visitors may had felt.

The statue on the eastern side of the room is much taller than the previous two, tourists' first impression is that he is tall and strong, with harsh flames for his eyes and blood-red hair; his eyes seems especially cruel , even more so than the previous two together. He has a long golden sword strapped to his side that seems to complement his full golden regalia perfectly. He would have been a figure of warmth if not for his eyes which are filled of cruelty. Contrasted to the Northern statue, visitors experience a warm sensation within a small radius, which would have been really comfortable except for the fact that the temperature would gradually heat up over the day; visitors observe that the statue resembles the sun in the sense that the statue radiates the most heat at the sun's zenith, and hardly any when the sun sets. The statue located on the West of the room looks almost exactly like the Eastern figure; change the Eastern statue's colour scheme from gold to silver and they would be indistinguishable. Though, his pure silver eyes are the least cruel among his brethren and even hold a tint of warmth. He emanates a chill, unlike the Northern statue, but the chill can be described as a sense of foreboding, a shudder running up the spine. He is depicted to be wielding a spear of about three meters in length, and seems to be casually holding the spear, as though he is very experienced with it. And in the middle of the statues is a center-point that is marked out and seems to be of no importance, although some visitors claim that they felt an influx of strength and power while standing on the center-point.

It was the busiest point of the day in Othrys, where visitors and tourists are all swarming around. Then, in the center-point of the four statues in the small side room, it is said by visitors and guides alike that there was a bright flash, then bam! Three figures just appeared out of nowhere and a single statue that resembles the Western figure now stands on the exact center-point of the four figures. The three figures had started talking as though it was a normal occurrence for them, without any mind for their mortal audience. They were speaking in hushed tones but the mortals were able to make out some of their conversation. "Ingenious ..." "Sure ... will work?" "Of course" "Let's address ... now" The figures, which were originally huddled together, turned to see many of the tourists unconsciously leaning forward in hopes of getting more information. With the figures suddenly turning to face them, all of them sprang back in embarrassment and shock, some even stumbled and fell. One figure turned to the other two and said "Well, it appears that Prometheus did his job too well then, seeing as these mortals are so curious." The other two responded by giving her an amused expression. Perhaps somehow realising the figures are not exactly human; most of them subconsciously shrank into a huddle of their own. "As you can see, mortals, we have brought something along with us," said the figure who had spoken, while gesturing to the statue on the center-point of the four armored, weapon wielding figures. The statue, though resembling the Western figure, was designed differently than its doppelganger.

This effigy was obviously meant to be awe-inspiring, with its stature of 7 feet and glow-in-the dark silver. In the day, it reflects the glow of the sun, giving it an ethereal look and feel. In his hands are life-sized replicas of humans, ranging from infants to elderly; with all of them grinning and smiling happily. Opposed to its doppelganger, this statue radiates warmth, not like the Eastern figure, but comfortable warmth. The figure continued, "Those that worship him shall have longer mortality, and would also have an easier afterlife. Some of you may worship Olympus, but you do not know that Olympus was of from Othrys. This very palace you are standing in is the root and origin of what you are worshipping. You may choose not to believe this now, but in time to come, witness those who worship him living longer lives and less frequently plagued by illnesses. Choose wisely, mortals." The figure then turned to the other two and said simply "Time to leave." With that, she spread her arms started to fade from sight. She was stopped, however, by one mortal who dared to ask a question, "Wait! Are you gods?" Within seconds, all three of them faded from sight but there was a lingering whisper that was somehow heard by everyone, "We are much more than gods."

The audience was stunned, naturally. Then like any typical crowd, they burst into chatter as they turn to the person beside them and started talking about what had just happened. A few of the more daring ventured out to place their hands on the enormous seven-foot statue and found to their surprise that they could actually physically touch the figure. Exclamations of surprise drew everyone's attention and then in just a mere split second, guides and tourists were all clamoring to touch the statue, as it was the first thing in Othrys they can put a hold on. Not a single one of them at that point in time still doubted what the figure had told them; somehow they managed to get into an orderly manner and started to pray to the nameless figure which is emanating warmth. Though it is very inconspicuous, some worshippers claim they saw the statue glow the slightest bit brighter as more and more prayed to the figure.

Indeed, people that worshipped the statue in Othrys live longer than those who did not. It also can be observed that devoted followers of the statue seem to live longer than the average worshipper. As generations come and passes,just like what the figure had said, more and more people believed in this statue in Othrys, and each day, the statue grows the slightest bit brighter. The mortals have given this statue a name, they named it 'αθάνατος', meaning immortal in Greek.