Chapter Summaries

Uranus unleashed his God King power against Gaia and the Titans, then struck Gaia down when she tried to stop him. As Nairmis watched the battle from earth, he realized his moment had come and finished the eyes in his first painting.

• Uranus's divine power blasted Gaia and the twelve Titans into the edge of the Sky Divine Domain, breaking the Titans' chains and causing their blood to bring Nymphs to life.
• Nairmis resisted the fear spreading across the earth and kept watching Uranus's overwhelming aura.
• Uranus ordered the Titans to submit, but Hyperion pleaded that they had never intended to oppose their father.
• Gaia tried to protect her children with the Bottle of Life, but Uranus invoked the Crown of the God King to overpower the artifact and hurl her out of the domain.
• Nairmis recognized that his opportunity had arrived and dotted in Uranus's eyes in the first painting.

Uranus avoided the laws’ prohibition against killing the Titans by using the Law of Procreation to return Oceanus to Gaia’s body. As Gaia cried out in agony, Nairmis watched and felt his Divinity of Prophecy surge, signaling that he was about to make a proclamation.

• The God of Death prepared for another wave of souls, while Pontus and his children retreated from the turmoil above.
• Metis hid with her siblings in an undersea cave, and Nairmis absorbed emotions to strengthen his Emotion Divinity before watching the sky.
• The laws warned Uranus that killing the Twelve Titans would scatter the world’s origins, so he considered imprisoning them instead.
• Gaia merged with the earth and rose to resist Uranus, who then announced he would return her children to her.
• Uranus transformed into the sky, pinned down the Titans, and tore open the earth to push Oceanus inside, where the Law of Procreation reduced him to his primal form and sealed his soul and consciousness.
• Nairmis watched Gaia’s suffering as his Divinity of Prophecy surged, preparing him to make a proclamation.

Uranus imprisoned the Titans who had challenged him while Cronus escaped, and Nairmis declared himself god of prophecy, wisdom, and inspiration. The chapter ended with the exhausted Cronus appearing beside Nairmis.

• Uranus ignored Cronus as he fled the Sky Divine Domain using his Space Divinity.
• Uranus seized the remaining Titans and forced them back into the rift in the earth.
• Nairmis followed a message from his future self and declared himself god of prophecy, then god of wisdom and inspiration.
• Two Third-Class Divinities condensed within Nairmis, greatly increasing his divine power.
• Cronus emerged from warped space beside Nairmis, bruised and exhausted, leaving Nairmis alarmed by his sudden arrival.

Cronus sought Nairmis’s help surviving Uranus’s persecution, and Nairmis realized he could not help Cronus escape but could still arrange a trade. The chapter ended with Nairmis asking for Cronus’s vitality godhead, provoking Cronus’s hostility.

• Nairmis greeted Cronus respectfully while the five Nymphs stood by him, and Hemera watched from the shadows, ready to intervene.
• Cronus explained that he had turned back after hearing of Nairmis’s wisdom and prophecy godheads, then asked Nairmis to tell him how to survive.
• Nairmis’s time node divine nature urged him to trade for Cronus’s vitality godhead, and he realized the trade did not require helping Cronus escape.
• Nairmis told Cronus he could help but wanted something in return, and Cronus offered a promise of repayment.
• Nairmis rejected Cronus’s promise and demanded his vitality godhead, causing Cronus’s expression to darken.

Nairmis persuaded Cronus to return willingly to Uranus and promised to help him escape his predicament and become God King. After Cronus disappeared, Nairmis worried about Uranus noticing their deal but believed his future self’s messages meant he would survive.

• As Gaia and Uranus’s cries sounded, Cronus agreed to give Nairmis his Vitality Godhead in exchange for help.
• Nairmis told Cronus to stop running and return voluntarily to beg Uranus’s forgiveness, explaining that submission would lessen his punishment.
• Nairmis claimed he had seen the future and could help Cronus become God King, rekindling Cronus’s hidden ambition.
• Cronus accepted Nairmis’s plan, returned to his mother’s side, and disappeared as the five Nymphs collapsed.
• Nairmis noted that the Vitality Godhead would be transferred only after he freed Cronus, then worried about Uranus’s reaction and reassured himself that he would survive.

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.