Chapter Summaries

After witnessing Uranus crush Gaia’s rebellion and shatter Ourea, the ancient consciousness on Proeon awakened as Nairmis, Lord of Emotions. The newly formed lesser deity sensed Uranus’s killing intent directed at him.

• Nairmis watched Uranus imprison the Titans and defeat Gaia, Pontus, and Ourea, whose consciousness shattered into mountain fragments.
• Nairmis absorbed the emotions of the devastated world, wept onto Proeon, and named himself the Lord of Emotions.
• Nairmis took human form and gained the laws’ recognition as a lesser deity, limited by the scarcity of intelligent beings and emotion.
• Uranus noticed Nairmis’s birth despite his covenant forbidding new gods, and turned a gaze of cold killing intent on him.

Uranus prepared to kill the newly born Nairmis, but Nyx arrived and persuaded the God-King to withdraw by reminding him of the world’s wounds and the laws’ proper bounds. Nairmis survived, though Nyx was still watching him when the chapter ended.

• Uranus gathered power to strike Nairmis despite the laws’ warnings and the damage already done to the world.
• Nyx arrived, and Uranus dispersed his attack as the goddess of day recognized her mother.
• Nyx saw Nairmis as a variable in the river of fate and explained that she had come to stop Uranus from killing him and respond to Gaia’s cries.
• Nyx described the world’s destruction to Uranus, who acknowledged the damage but warned her to respect the bounds of her role.
• Uranus withdrew toward the firmament, and Nairmis realized he had survived, only to find Nyx watching him.

After Nyx departed and daylight returned, Nairmis discovered that the grief and fear of the devastated world strengthened his emotions godhead. Though he was the weakest god, he resolved to help soothe the creatures’ suffering.

• Nyx left as Hemera arrived to take up her duty and restore daylight to the ravaged world.
• Nairmis recovered from Uranus’s attack and wondered whether Nyx had foreseen something about him.
• Nairmis sensed the survivors’ sorrow and despair, discovering that their emotions flowed into his godhead and increased his power.
• Nairmis found that he possessed divinities of witnessing and fate, but his perception could not safely reach powerful gods.
• Nairmis recalled fragments of his previous life and recognized that humans’ rich emotions could help him grow.
• Nairmis felt the creatures’ grief as his own and decided to do something to soothe their suffering.

Nairmis admired his beautiful new form, worried about surviving in the Greek gods’ world, and began searching for a way to make a lyre. A helpful nymph brought him stones, and he started sharpening one into a tool beside her pool.

• Nairmis saw his reflection in the pool and realized his beauty could make him a target, so he resolved to grow stronger quickly.
• Nairmis wove leaves and vines into a skirt, then considered carving a lyre from a fallen tree but lacked tools.
• A nymph greeted Nairmis and explained that she was the guardian spirit born from the nearby pool.
• Nairmis asked the nymph for sharp stones, and she returned with a pile from the bottom of her pool.
• Nairmis chose a sharp black stone flake and began honing it while the nymph watched from the water.

Naermis made a stone knife and used it to carve the world’s first lyre, awakening new lesser divinities as he created tools and musical instruments. After finishing the lyre, he suddenly gained a third divinity, that of crafting.

• Naermis sharpened a stone flake into a knife and awakened the lesser divinity of tools.
• Naermis began carving a lyre from a dead tree while the nymph watched and considered asking for his protection.
• Naermis used strands of his divine hair as strings and infused them with emotional divine power.
• Naermis named the completed lyre the world’s first musical instrument and awakened the lesser divinity of musical instruments.
• Naermis gained the lesser divinity of crafting and stood stunned with three new divinities.

Nairmis used his emotion divinity and lyre to soothe the grief-stricken creatures across the land, helping the dying depart peacefully and earning Gaia’s recognition. The resulting power raised him to a lesser deity and formed music and healing divinities, but his new authority over souls worried him just as an approaching divine presence headed toward him.

• Nairmis resisted the God of Sleep’s power and played healing music that eased the grief of creatures across the land.
• The music helped dying beings accept death peacefully, and the God of Death watched their souls travel toward the Underworld.
• Gaia heard the music, recalled the joy of her birth and children, and sent Nairmis recognition and emotional divine power.
• Nairmis’s emotion divinity became a lesser divinity, and subordinate music and lesser healing divinities formed within him.
• Nairmis realized his healing divinity touched the domain of souls associated with Iapetus and worried about future conflict.
• Nairmis sensed an unhidden fluctuation of divine power rapidly approaching him.

Hypnos visited Nairmis to thank him for soothing the sorrowful creatures and restoring sleep across the world. He promised to answer Nairmis's call at night, while two Titans' expressions suddenly changed in the sky.

• Nairmis sensed a powerful divine presence approaching and recognized the visitor as Hypnos, the God of Sleep.
• Nairmis and Hypnos exchanged formal greetings, and Nairmis cautiously asked why Hypnos had come.
• Hypnos explained that Nairmis's music had soothed the grieving creatures, allowing sleep to resume and stabilizing Hypnos's divine duties.
• Hypnos promised to hear Nairmis's call at night if he ever needed help, then departed after praising his music.
• Nairmis celebrated his good fortune, but two Titans abruptly changed their expressions high in the sky.

Uranus’s imprisoned children feared the unexplained growth in Mnemosyne and Iapetus’s divine power as the God King recovered. After waking, Nairmis accepted the nymph’s offer to serve him and decided he needed more helpers.

• Mnemosyne and Iapetus realized their divine powers had grown, and feared Uranus would discover it.
• The Titans remembered that Uranus had imprisoned Oceanus, Tethys, and their siblings after their powers expanded through their descendants.
• Rhea glanced sympathetically at Mnemosyne and Iapetus while Cronus remained silent beneath the Titans’ invisible chains.
• Nairmis woke in the bushes and remembered falling asleep after the previous day’s exertions.
• The nymph brought Nairmis water and offered to serve him by watching the pool and finding things.
• Nairmis considered accepting her help and decided he needed more worker nymphs.

Naelmis played a joyful melody that drew birds to him while Hemera secretly watched, captivated. When he examined his divinities, a consciousness emerged from his Record Divinity and spoke in his own voice, announcing that it had obtained the Record Godhead.

• Naelmis agreed to let nearby spirits join him, and the nymph went to find those hiding after the disaster.
• Naelmis played a cheerful melody that attracted animals and a flock of birds, while Hemera watched him from behind an oak and became entranced.
• Naelmis realized that his divinities tied to tools and creative arts grew through use and could pass to a more skilled god.
• Naelmis examined the Fate Divinity and Record Divinity, and a glowing consciousness emerged from the Record Divinity into his mind.
• Naelmis touched the consciousness and heard it speak in his own voice: “Obtained Record Godhead.”

Naermis concluded that his future self had sent him a message through time, then decided to strengthen his record divinity despite the danger that proclaiming a new godhead could attract Uranus. He welcomed four nymphs seeking protection and gave them grass skirts, then prepared to address the gathered group.

• Naermis reasoned that his future self had used the record godhead and time divinity to send him a message, but his attempts to communicate back failed.
• Naermis learned that forming a third-rank godhead required a proclamation that could draw Uranus's attention, yet he resolved to grow stronger and take control of his fate.
• Naermis decided that recording events in the world could strengthen his record divinity.
• The water nymph brought a tree nymph, a flower nymph, a forest nymph, and a mountain nymph to Naermis, who gave all five nymphs grass skirts to wear.
• Naermis surveyed the gathered nymphs and prepared to hold a meeting.

Nairmis accepted five nymphs as followers, gave them names, and promised to raise them into subordinate gods. He began making parchment to preserve his memories and ended the chapter starting a fire as night fell.

• Nairmis named the five nymphs Acenoe, Dryope, Antheia, Hylea, and Oreas, then promised they could earn divinities and become subordinate gods.
• Nairmis learned from Oreas where to find sheep and led the nymphs to capture three for parchment making.
• Nairmis slaughtered and skinned the sheep, frightening the nymphs until he explained that strengthening his divine power would help him protect them.
• Hemera watched Nairmis work before the coming night compelled her to leave.
• After washing the prepared sheepskins in the pool, Nairmis rubbed a branch against wood until he started a fire.

Nairmis discovered flame and cooking divinities after introducing fire and roasted lamb to the nymphs, then soothed them to sleep with healing music. His new powers stirred divine growth among the Titans, while Gaia sensed Nyx approaching.

• Nairmis created fire, gained flame divinity, and showed the nymphs how to approach its warmth.
• Hyperion and Theia’s divine power grew in response to the firelight, alarming the imprisoned Titans beneath Uranus’s watch.
• Nairmis sensed terror and resentment from the Titans but withdrew rather than risk touching their powerful emotions.
• Nairmis grilled lamb for the five nymphs, gained a lesser cooking divinity, and earned their trust and adoration.
• Nairmis played healing music as the nymphs fell asleep, and Gaia listened to the music before seeing Nyx approach.

Nyx told Gaia that fate had arranged her suffering and that Nairmis, a god of emotions beyond fate, might change the primordial gods’ ending. Gaia questioned whether the newly born, weak god could truly alter their fate.

• Nyx apologized to Gaia for being unable to help her and revealed that she could sense fate but could not change it.
• Gaia realized her suffering and her children’s births had been driven by fate, then unleashed her fury and shook the earth.
• Nairmis felt the aftershock of Gaia’s wrath and resolved to grow stronger to protect himself and the nymphs.
• Nyx suppressed Gaia’s anger and explained that Nairmis was an unforeseen variable who had loosened fate’s hold on her.
• Gaia looked toward Nairmis by the campfire and doubted that he could change their fate.

Nyx warned Gaia that she could no longer intervene and urged her to seek the God of Emotions if she reached a dead end. Meanwhile, Nairmis introduced pottery and worked with the nymphs on parchment, but discovered that something prevented him from writing.

• Nyx told Gaia that fate would erase their conversation and that further intervention risked a backlash.
• Nyx advised Gaia to seek out the God of Emotions if she reached a dead end, then left her alone with her hatred.
• Nairmis fired clay into pottery with Petra and the nymphs, and the pottery godhead condensed within him.
• Nairmis directed the nymphs to scrape sheepskins into parchment, encouraging them with music and lamb skewers.
• Nairmis tried to practice writing in the dirt but found that an invisible force stopped him from forming a character.

Nairmis discovered that pictures could record ideas without the divinity of writing, gaining the spark of wisdom, then built a primitive loom and gained the divinity of weaving. As he considered how to make lighter clothes, Hemera left and two unseen watchers turned their attention toward him.

• Nairmis realized he could use pictures to record what he had seen, and gained the wisdom-type divine essence called spark of wisdom.
• Metis sensed a new inspiration domain emerging within wisdom, while Coeus and the imprisoned Titans felt their divine power increase and feared Uranus would discover it.
• Nairmis directed the nymphs to build a primitive loom, wove rough cloth, and gained the divinity of weaving.
• Nairmis made simple clothes for the nymphs, noticed the wool was too hot to wear comfortably, and began considering other options.
• Hemera watched Nairmis before leaving, while unseen gazes from deep within the earth and the darkness of night settled on him.

Nairmis used his invention of parchment to establish the Craft Divinity and rise to the rank of Third-Class God, drawing a brief glance from Uranus. After healing Anthea’s burn, he began considering fireproof clothing made from divine elements, though he would need their source divinities first.

• Nairmis finished preparing parchment, and Acenoe asked what it was.
• Nairmis declared himself the God of Crafts, combining five Subordinate Divinities into the Craft Divinity and becoming a Third-Class God.
• Uranus briefly opened his eyes and glanced at Nairmis, frightening him before the God King looked away.
• The nymphs praised Nairmis, while Nyx, Gaia, the God of Sleep, Hemera, and the Twelve Titans sensed his ascension and Uranus’s attention.
• Nairmis healed Anthea’s burn with the Healing Divinity and considered making fireproof clothes from divine elements, learning that he needed their source divinities.

Nairmis developed the divinity of painting and used it to record the world’s history, gaining the third-rank divinity of records. As the laws accepted his new authority, Uranus’s killing intent descended, leaving Nairmis facing the sky god’s wrath.

• Nairmis considered pursuing the divinity of mist but could not work out how to create the temperature differences needed for mist to form.
• Nairmis gathered pigments with the nymphs and painted Acenoe, whose portrait was so poor that none of the nymphs could praise it.
• Nairmis used the divinity of painting to record the world’s history, causing the gods he depicted to sense that they had been remembered.
• Nairmis proclaimed himself the god of records, and the laws transformed his recording divinity into a third-rank divinity.
• Uranus’s killing intent pressed down from the sky, and the nymphs fainted as Nairmis sensed the god’s icy gaze.

Uranus prepared to kill Nairmis, but Nyx was restrained by fate and could not intervene. Gaia left the protection of the Delphic Oracle to save Nairmis, only to lose her clarity when she approached Uranus; she healed him with the Bottle of Life as Nairmis survived.

• Uranus gathered divine power to attack Nairmis for repeatedly disturbing him.
• Nyx tried to reach Nairmis but fate bound her, and she realized fate was targeting Gaia and forcing her away from the Earth Divine Realm.
• Gaia left the Delphic Oracle, preserving a strand of reason in the pillar inscribed with “Know yourself,” and went to the Sky Divine Realm.
• Gaia soothed Uranus and offered to heal him with the Bottle of Life, causing him to disperse the divine power aimed at Nairmis.
• Gaia’s mind went blank as she entered Uranus’s divine power, and she poured the water of life onto his wounds.
• Nairmis felt the killing intent disperse and collapsed onto the grass.

After receiving a message from his future self, Nairmis painted scenes of Uranus’s defeat and the Titans’ revolt, causing fate to settle around those events. He realized that completing the paintings’ eyes might let Uranus perceive them, and considered how to use that possibility as he picked up his brush.

• Nairmis healed the five injured nymphs and resolved to find a way to bring the divine war forward.
• His recording divinity delivered a message telling him to paint future scenes as a prophecy that Uranus would sense.
• Nairmis painted Uranus forcing a Titan back into Gaia, Cronus castrating Uranus, and the Titans rising against the sky.
• Nyx sensed fate fixing those same future scenes and saw Hemera watching Nairmis with infatuation.
• Nairmis’s recording divinity reached the peak of the third rank and produced a stronger strand of time-domain divine essence.
• Nairmis realized that recording Uranus could summon his attention, noticed he had left the figures’ eyes unfinished, and picked up his brush.

Nairmis’s painting awakened Uranus’s suspicion of the Titans and granted Nairmis a prophetic divine nature. As Uranus attacked his children, Nairmis prepared the next painting and waited to see how the prophecy would unfold.

• Nairmis painted Uranus’s eyes into the image of the Titans’ rebellion, and Uranus saw the vision as he recovered in the sky.
• Uranus suspected the kneeling Titans of plotting against him, shattering their hope that Gaia could win them mercy.
• Nairmis gained a prophetic divine nature, while Phoebe and Rhea felt their own divine powers surge in response to his growing authority.
• Uranus recognized the Titans’ rising power, seized all twelve by the neck with divine force, and prompted Gaia to rush to stop him.
• Nairmis watched the divine power churning above Mount Proeon, picked up the first painting, and waited for the prophecy to continue.