Chapter Summaries

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.