Recaps

Nairmis stood against Uranus’s overwhelming pressure and gained the Courage Divinity after speaking fearlessly to the God King. Uranus then dragged Hemera from her hiding place and demanded to know why she was there.

• Cronus returned to Uranus, admitted he had fled in fear, and was sent back into the earth with his siblings.
• Nairmis resisted Uranus’s pressure at Mount Proeon and praised the God King while holding two paintings.
• Nairmis’s defiant words awakened the Courage Divinity, which eased the fear of nearby creatures.
• Uranus pulled Hemera from the woods, and she bowed before him after being caught watching Nairmis.
• Uranus asked Hemera why she was at Mount Proeon.

Hemera claimed she and Nairmis were in love to shield him from Uranus, who tested Nairmis with a dangerous prophecy about anyone who might defy him. After Nairmis answered carefully and Uranus let him go, Hemera departed, leaving Nairmis puzzled by the genuine love in her gaze.

• Hemera claimed that she and Nairmis were in love and would become partners, and Nairmis silently went along with her claim to avoid undermining her protection.
• Uranus took Nairmis's drawings and demanded a prophecy about who else would defy him.
• Nairmis prophesied that no god could defy Uranus for as long as Uranus remained God King, and Uranus accepted the answer with satisfaction.
• Uranus asked whether Nairmis had told Cronus the same thing, and Nairmis deflected the question by saying Cronus had recognized Uranus's overwhelming presence on his own.
• Hemera bowed to Uranus and left as day ended, giving Nairmis a look filled with genuine love.
• Uranus teased Nairmis that his beauty had made Hemera fall in love with him.

Nairmis played the lyre for Uranus by the campfire, weaving healing power into the music while carefully avoiding angering the god-king. As Uranus listened with hidden suspicion, Nyx and Erebus appeared beside the sleeping, pained Gaia.

• Nairmis explained to Uranus that Hemera had felt desire rather than love for him, and Uranus dismissed desire as something to enjoy.
• Uranus ordered Nairmis to play the lyre so he could hear the God of Music's divine power.
• Nairmis played music infused with healing power, easing Gaia's pain and comforting frightened creatures.
• Uranus listened while considering the world-will's warning about Nairmis, and Nairmis continued playing after glimpsing Uranus's killing intent.
• Nyx descended into Gaia's divine domain with Erebus, and they looked upon the sleeping Mother Earth.

Nyx used her night essence to heal Gaia before her avatar disappeared, while Nairmis spent the night playing for Uranus and considered how to advance his Emotion Divinity. After Uranus left without acknowledging him, Nairmis decided to build a palace for privacy, and Gaia awoke in the Earth Divine Domain with her wound healed.

• Nyx infused a wisp of night essence into Gaia, easing her pain and healing her wounds before her avatar dissipated.
• Nairmis realized his Emotion Divinity was close to advancing but needed richer sources of emotion, and he thought humans might provide them in the future.
• At dawn, Uranus departed without looking at Nairmis, and the five nymphs emerged from the forest to check on him.
• Nairmis worried that Hemera might still be watching him and decided to build a palace as a physical barrier against prying eyes.
• Gaia awoke in the Earth Divine Domain and found that the wound in her abdomen had healed.

Gaia regained her clarity, accepted Erebus's unknown divinity, and prepared to recover before seeking Nairmis. Meanwhile, Nairmis awoke at Mount Proeon to find a group of life-forms watching him.

• Gaia's sealed sliver of reason returned from the Delphic Oracle, restoring her clarity and bringing back her anger at Uranus.
• Erebus gave Gaia the unknown divinity so she could walk the earth unseen by Uranus at night.
• Gaia thanked Erebus, settled onto her throne, and waited for her wounds to heal before going to find Nairmis.
• Nairmis sensed nearby emotions, woke beneath a tree, and found fifteen to twenty glowing life-forms staring at him.
• Nairmis covered himself, sat up, and beckoned to the water Nymph Acenoe.

Nairmis welcomed the mutated spirits who sought refuge with him and established a new divinity of inner beauty, declaring that kindness and other virtues mattered as much as appearance. As spirits from across the world began heading for Proeon, he promised the newcomers a home and considered appointing administrators.

• Acenoe explained that Nairmis had gained renown for surviving Uranus’s oppressive might and playing music for him through the night.
• Nairmis learned that tree people, stone people, and flower people had been born from Titan blood and were shunned for their unusual appearances.
• Nairmis welcomed the mutated spirits and reassured a tree woman that he did not consider them ugly.
• Nairmis proclaimed that inner beauty—including kindness, courage, sincerity, and gentleness—deserved equal regard with outward beauty, gaining the third-class inner beauty divinity.
• Mutated spirits across the world felt the warmth of Nairmis’s proclamation and began traveling toward Proeon.
• Nairmis told the spirits they could stay and make Proeon their home, then considered appointing administrators and fulfilling his promise to the five Nymphs.

Nairmis elevated five nymphs to subordinate gods by granting each a craft divinity, then assigned them to lead spirits in building work. Afterward, he reviewed his powers and considered how to develop his unfinished flame, time, and fate divine natures.

• Nairmis offered the five nymphs godhood as his subordinates, and Acenoe and the others pledged their loyalty.
• Nairmis split off craft essence and made Acenoe the goddess of weaving, Dryope the goddess of making, Antheia the goddess of musical instruments, Hylea the goddess of tools, and Oreas the goddess of pottery.
• Nairmis gave the newly ascended gods building plans, and they led spirits in different directions to begin work.
• Nairmis sat down and inventoried his divinities, noting that his emotion divinity might soon rise to the third class.
• Nairmis considered how to develop his unformed flame, time, and fate divine natures, and his wisdom and inspiration divinity began consuming divine power as he thought.

Nairmis considered the dangers of fate divinity and the promise of time divinity before tending to the elves building at Proeon. Hemera wrongly suspected Uranus wanted Nairmis for himself, while Uranus dismissed Nairmis as foolish and turned his attention elsewhere; night fell as Nairmis taught the elves to light a fire.

• Nairmis decided to avoid fate divinity for now and wondered whether time divinity could let him communicate reliably with his future self.
• Nairmis went to encourage the elves working at Proeon with healing music.
• Hemera retreated after Uranus warned her away from Nairmis and imagined that Uranus had fallen for him.
• Uranus judged Nairmis foolish for giving away divine resources and stopped watching him closely, though he remained wary of Nyx.
• At night, Nairmis taught the elves at the foot of Mount Proeon to light a fire.

Nairmis was taken by Uranus to the Sky Divine Domain, alarming Gaia, Hemera, and the gods who witnessed it. Uranus had summoned him to play the lyre, and Nairmis began performing as the world listened in confusion.

• Nairmis cooked lamb over bonfires, and the spirits shared a joyful meal that strengthened his Cooking and flame divinities.
• At dawn, Uranus seized Nairmis in a pillar of golden light and carried him to the Sky Divine Domain despite Acenoe's attempt to stop him.
• Gaia feared Uranus had discovered her plan, while Hemera waited anxiously at the Underworld's boundary and Nyx sensed Nairmis's journey.
• Nairmis landed hard before Uranus's throne, greeted the God King respectfully, and realized Uranus had summoned him to play his lyre.
• Nairmis played the lyre, and the music reached the gods below, who wondered what was happening.

Uranus sent Nairmis back to Proeon after listening to him play the lyre, and Nairmis discovered he could fly. Reunited with the relieved spirits, he returned to building his palace and resolved to grow stronger while waiting for Cronus to challenge Uranus.

• Gaia and Hemera heard Nairmis playing in the Sky Divine Domain and realized he was still alive.
• After Nairmis finished two pieces, Uranus flicked his fingers and hurled him out of the Sky Divine Domain toward Proeon.
• Nairmis slowed his fall with divine power, tried flying, and paused to admire the landscape before descending to the spirits.
• Acenoe and the spirits rushed to welcome Nairmis back, and he felt that he belonged among them.
• Nairmis resumed directing the palace construction and planned to gather divinities while waiting for Cronus to rise against Uranus.

Nairmis settled into a routine of playing the lyre for Uranus and building a palace with the spirits, gaining new subordinate divinities along the way. When a powerful new god began to emerge from the Underworld, Uranus launched an attack, and Nairmis flew there to investigate.

• The gods reassessed Nairmis after he survived being taken to the Sky Divine Domain twice and considered approaching him.
• Nairmis and the spirits continued building the palace while he played for Uranus each day and led the spirits in nightly songs.
• Nairmis gained subordinate divinities of singing, dance, carving, sculpture, and measurement as the palace took shape.
• Nairmis sensed a powerful new god nearing birth in the Underworld and realized Uranus would notice the violation of his decree.
• Uranus surged toward the Underworld with killing intent, and Nairmis told the spirits to stay in Proeon before flying after him.

Nyx’s fate-born child neared birth as Uranus attacked the Underworld to prevent it from emerging whole. Erebus confronted him at the entrance, while Nairmis arrived to record their clash before a tremor came from deep within the Underworld.

• Nyx’s gestation of a new god reached its final stage, and she sensed that the child carried fate essence.
• Uranus approached the Night Divine Domain, prompting the gods of the Underworld to go on alert.
• Erebus blocked Uranus at the Underworld entrance after Nyx nodded to him.
• Uranus attacked with a golden spear, and Erebus met it with a ring of darkness, causing space to shatter around their clash.
• Nairmis arrived above the battlefield and began drawing the confrontation, but stopped when a tremor came from deep within the Underworld.

The Three Fates emerged from a sphere of fate essence, and Atropos used her shears to split Uranus’s attack. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos introduced themselves and paid respect to Uranus and Erebus as night fell.

• Nyx watched the fate essence leave her body and form new tributaries in the River of Fate.
• Uranus attacked the sphere, but Atropos cut his pillar of light in two with her shears.
• Nairmis recognized the shears as Atropos’s Shears of Severance and recorded the events.
• Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos emerged, declared their roles in fate, and bowed to Uranus and Erebus.
• Hemera hurried through the Underworld as the daylight faded, and the Goddess of Night appeared beside the Three Fates.

The standoff between Uranus and Gaia’s side ended when Uranus struck Gaia’s manifestation once and returned to the Sky Divine Domain. Nairmis met Metis during the confrontation, and she stopped him as he prepared to leave.

• The Three Fates greeted their mother Nyx, while Gaia formed a face from the earth and told Uranus to stop.
• Nairmis recorded the standoff and met Metis, who asked whether a fight would break out.
• Nairmis predicted there would be no fight, but Uranus shattered Gaia’s earthen face with a single blow.
• Uranus returned to the Sky Divine Domain, and Nyx, Erebus, and the Three Fates withdrew into the Underworld.
• Nairmis invited Metis to visit Proeon, but Metis asked him to wait as he turned to leave.

Metis asked Nairmis to prophesy whether Oceanus and Tethys would escape Gaia’s belly, and he agreed in exchange for the Sea Faction’s future help. He began the prophecy for Metis, who promised that he would be a welcome friend of the Sea Faction.

• Metis asked Nairmis to tell her whether Oceanus and Tethys could return safely from Gaia’s belly.
• Nairmis recognized that Metis was anxious about the Sea Faction’s precarious position and considered using the prophecy to secure its support.
• Nairmis claimed that prophesying about the ocean Titans would exhaust his remaining divine power, and Metis apologized and started to leave.
• Nairmis called Metis back and offered to make the prophecy if the Sea Faction would help him when he needed it.
• Metis vowed that Nairmis would be the Sea Faction’s friend and promised to spare no effort to help him, and Nairmis began his prophecy.

Nairmis gained the God of Lies identity after painting Metis a scene of Oceanus and Tethys, then hurried home to Proeon. In the Underworld, the Three Fates took their places at the River of Fate, where Nyx glimpsed a coming disaster but could not interfere; back in Proeon, Nairmis’s prophecy godhead suddenly trembled.

• Nairmis painted Metis a picture of Oceanus and Tethys walking toward the sea, and a lies godhead formed within him.
• Nairmis concealed his shock from Metis and flew back to Proeon, while Metis treasured the painting and returned toward the sea.
• Erebus faded away to resume his sleep, and Nyx told the Three Fates to settle elsewhere in the Underworld.
• Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos vanished from Nyx’s perception and appeared at the River of Fate to weave and guide its threads.
• Nyx saw a dark ripple revealing a future disaster but could not intervene because of her restraints.
• Nairmis recounted his Underworld experiences to the sprites in Proeon, then felt his prophecy godhead tremble as he added wood to the fire.

After a vision of his home destroyed, Nairmis vowed to protect the elves, and his words caused severed threads of fate to reconnect. The next day Uranus restrained him after his performance and approached him without explaining why.

• Nairmis saw a vision of the elves dead among the ruins of their palace and drew the scene after returning to camp.
• Nairmis decided the disaster had come from outside and vowed to protect the elves.
• Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis watched as severed threads of fate rejoined the River of Fate under a will taking shape in Proeon.
• Nyx watched Proeon from the Night Divine Domain and smiled faintly.
• Nairmis played for Uranus as usual, but Uranus lifted and immobilized him before slowly approaching.

Phorcys and Ceto tried to seize Nereides Island from Doris, but Metis arrived with a prophecy and the Oceanids gathered to support her. As the dispute paused, a surge of Uranus's divine power came from the sky, and Metis recognized Nairmis's scream.

• Phorcys and Ceto demanded that Doris surrender Nereides Island for their sea monster children.
• Doris refused and recalled the damage Phorcys and Ceto had caused to the island, while Nereus arrived to defend her.
• Metis arrived and showed Phorcys and Ceto a prophecy that Oceanus and Tethys would safely return from the earth to the ocean.
• Metis warned Phorcys and Ceto that the Titans might retaliate, and the Oceanids gathered behind her.
• Uranus's divine power surged from the sky, and Metis recognized the scream that followed as Nairmis's.

Uranus stripped Nairmis of his flame divine nature and cast his unconscious body from the Sky Divine Domain, while fate’s barrier kept Gaia from intervening. Hemera caught Nairmis and confirmed he would recover, as his time node divine nature began to glow within his unconscious mind.

• Phorcys and Ceto suspected Nairmis had fallen and questioned whether his prophecy could still be trusted, but Pontus urgently summoned them back beneath the sea.
• Metis led the sea goddesses away from the island, while Nereus also departed and Gaia stopped before a barrier woven by fate.
• Nyx watched the Fates try to restore the course Nairmis had disturbed, choosing not to intervene.
• Uranus forcibly removed Nairmis’s flame divine nature, suffered a minor backlash from the laws, and threw Nairmis out of the Sky Divine Domain.
• Hemera caught Nairmis as he fell and brought him to Mount Proeon, where she told Acenoe and the spirits that he would recover in a few months.
• Unconscious and unable to wake, Nairmis remembered the approaching catastrophe as his time node divine nature began to glow.

After awakening from a vision of his future self, Nairmis sent the spirits away and prepared for the danger he expected that night. Uranus unleashed a catastrophic rain of fire over Proeon, leaving Nairmis to face the attack alone.

• Nairmis met his future self in the river of time, who touched his brow with a golden pen and returned him to consciousness.
• Acenoe and the spirits rejoiced when Nairmis woke, while Hemera thanked him and then flew away from Proeon.
• Nairmis told Acenoe and the other spirits to flee to a cave because he expected something dangerous to happen that night.
• Nairmis climbed to Proeon's highest peak and reasoned that Uranus's stolen flame divine nature might be involved in an attack on someone else.
• Uranus's sky divine power filled the heavens, turning the night orange-red as thousands of fireballs rained down over Proeon.

Uranus used Nairmis’s flame divine nature to rain fire upon the earth, but the suffering awakened Nairmis’s power and helped him reclaim the flame. Nairmis became the God of Flame and extinguished the fires as Uranus approached, leaving him ready to face the God King.

• Uranus empowered Nairmis’s flame divine nature and sent fireballs raining down on the earth as part of his revenge against Gaia and Nyx.
• The Three Goddesses of Fate watched the destruction unfold and recognized that Uranus’s attack followed their arranged fate.
• Nairmis witnessed the devastation and blamed himself for the flames, then discovered they could not harm him and sensed the divine nature calling to him.
• The pain and despair of living beings advanced Nairmis’s emotion divinity, and he reclaimed the flame divine nature to become the God of Flame.
• Nairmis commanded every flame to go out, extinguishing the fires across the world as Uranus approached, and prepared to face him.

Nairmis persuaded Uranus to spare him for three days by promising to reveal who would threaten the God King's crown. After Uranus left, Nairmis surveyed the destruction in Proeon and resolved to seek Gaia's help in bringing the tyrant down.

• Uranus prepared to kill Nairmis, but Nairmis offered a prophecy that the God King's crown would eventually change hands.
• Nairmis swore he would uncover the usurper's identity after recovering his divine power, and Uranus granted him three days.
• After Uranus departed, Nairmis saw the ruins of Proeon and mourned the loss of the lyre he had made.
• Nairmis decided to contact Gaia and considered using Hypnos's promised favor to reach her through Nyx.
• A warm, serene voice came from the distant woods as Nairmis hesitated.

After Uranus burned Nairmis's home and stripped away his flame divine nature, Gaia appeared and offered him the Bottle of Life to heal the earth and meet her in the Earth Divine Domain. Nairmis accepted, deciding to take an active role in bringing Uranus down.

• Gaia appeared before Nairmis and restored life to the scorched earth with the Bottle of Life.
• Gaia offered Nairmis the bottle and asked him to bring it to the Earth Divine Domain to discuss ending Uranus's rule.
• Nairmis reconsidered his plan to let history unfold, resolving to make Uranus pay for his losses.
• Nairmis accepted the Bottle of Life and promised Gaia he would visit the Earth Divine Domain the next day.
• Gaia disappeared, and Nairmis looked toward the Sky Divine Domain.

After a rain of fire destroyed Proeon, Nairmis reassured the spirits and promised to prevent another attack before setting out on an important journey. At the River of Fate, Nyx used a brief opening to disturb fate and create an avatar of night, both versions of her watching Nairmis with approval.

• Nairmis reunited with the frightened spirits, and Oreas mourned the pottery and palace destroyed by the rain of fire.
• Nairmis told the spirits that their home was wherever they were together, then recognized their fear that the ruler of the high heavens could attack again.
• Nairmis recovered torches from the ruins, filled them with his divine flame, and promised that the destruction would not happen again.
• Nairmis asked Acenoe and the other subordinate deities to care for Proeon, then left carrying the Bottle of Life.
• At the River of Fate, Nyx exploited the unconscious Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos to loosen her bonds and send ripples through fate.
• Nyx created an avatar of night in her divine domain, and both versions of her looked favorably upon Nairmis.

Nairmis used the Bottle of Life to restore the scorched land, but its heavy cost left him searching for a more efficient way to spread its power. Metis found him and introduced her younger sister Tyche, whose presence stirred his Fate Divinity.

• Nairmis used the Bottle of Life to revive burned earth and dried streams, but had to stop repeatedly to recover his divine power.
• Nairmis sensed Metis approaching and saw her flying toward him with a nervous companion.
• Metis praised Nairmis for standing against Uranus and saving the world, while Nairmis modestly claimed he was only making amends for the disaster.
• Tyche became captivated by Nairmis, and he sensed his Fate Divinity responding to her.
• Metis introduced Tyche as an Oceanid who guided lost sailors and granted good luck, and Nairmis's Fate Divinity pulsed again.