Exploring Grecia (Fantasy Ancient Greece): A Fascinating Journey Through Its History and Myths

Devlin Blake Author

Uncover the secrets and stories that shaped this mythical world, from ancient origins to legends. A perfect read for fans of clean fantasy romance

In the beginning, the universe was empty.

No stars.

No suns.

No planets.

Khaos , the blind serpent god, created worlds to force a type of order.

These darkened empty worlds attracted otherworldly beings like demons and vampires.

After centuries, Khaos created the world's spirit, Gaia, who governs all of earth.

Gaia's arrival brought light to the world, banishing most otherworldly creatures.

For many centuries, she maintained an everlasting day, allowing no room for night.

However, she soon realized the essential balance between light and dark.

To fill this void, she created Nyx, the sole bearer of night.

Nyx was not only the world’s first Primordial, and it was the first time Gaia abdicated some of her power and responsibility.

Nyx’s powers reached worldwide, as she cast a veil of night across the whole world at different times, with no time for a break, much like Gaia herself.

But Nyx wasn’t Gaia.

And Gaia soon saw the strain this global duty forced on her young creation and decided not to do that to future beings.

So, she changed her plan for the beings she'd make in the future. She divided the world into separate zones, which she called "corners." From then on, she designed specialized beings to manage each corner, sharing the load of responsibilities.

This new strategy made sure no one being got overwhelmed. They even had the chance to enjoy some free time in the lives Gaia had shaped for them. It also set up a system where each corner kept the others in check, ensuring that no single entity could dominate the world—only Gaia had that power.

It also provided checks and balances for her future creatures so no one could ever control the whole world, except for her.

Different regions, like Grecia and Rome, existed within the same corner. They had their own gods and unique natural laws. Meanwhile, places like Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Cathay, and Japan each had their distinct corners, gods, and rules.

Though some corners, like the Americas, parts of Africa, and the frozen poles, stayed mostly hidden from the rest, Gaia knew them all. She knew every deity tasked with overseeing these corners because, after all, she had created them.

While experimenting with life to inhabit her world, Gaia created an extraordinary class of beings known as the Ancients or the First Ones, to populate the various corners.

These Ancients, including entities like Calypso, the Fates, and a few others, were immortal and tireless, much like Gaia herself.

Although they possessed a diverse array of powers, they were unburdened by specific duties. However, she gave the ability to have offspring. A capability that soon inspired Gaia to craft her next creation…

Death.

The ability to reproduce, without Gaia’s assistance, brought with it a new problem; overpopulation.

Gaia was aware it was too late to remove the ability to reproduce, and she wasn’t sure she even wanted to, but something had to be done.

So she brought forth the concept of death.

Not wanting to carry out this grim task herself, she assigned Nyx to birth Death into existence.

Death was born fully grown, simultaneously in all corners of the world. Death was endowed with a deep understanding of his purpose and the means to fulfill it. Though immortal and sleepless, each Death was only responsible for their own corner.

In Grecia, Death was known as Thanatos.

He collected souls based on a list given to him by his corner’s Fates.

From then on, every living creature became susceptible to death, even the seemingly immortal Ancients under specific conditions.

The only beings immune to Death's reach were Nyx, the Fates, a select few others, and of course, Gaia herself.

As Death began his work, many of the First Ones met their end, their energy reserves soon running out.

Recognizing that replenishing energy was a necessary aspect of existence, Gaia introduced the concept of sleep as well as the desire for it.

Again, she entrusted Nyx with bringing this creation into the world.

This resulted in the birth of Hypnos, the god of sleep.

Like his brother Death, Hypnos emerged fully grown and equipped with innate knowledge of his duties.

Using his newfound abilities and existence, Hypnos introduced sleep into his corner of the world.

However, unlike death, Hypnos's power had limitations; it did not extend to those who existed before him.

Beings like Calypso, the Fates, and even Death himself remained forever sleepless. So Hypnos ignored them.

With sleep now a part of the life cycle, Gaia refocused her attention on a new experiment a realm not modeled after her immortal essence but something far less enduring—what would ultimately become the mortal world.

Starting with what we would term single-celled organisms, her ambition was to instill divinity into non-divine beings.

Over millions of years, Gaia eventually created a rich tapestry of life, including animals, ferns, and plants.

Though Gaia loved her creations, they fell short of the semi-divine beings she longed to create.

Impatient with the slow progress, Gaia conceived a new divine race—the Titans.

Unlike the First Ones, the Titans required sleep, similar to mortal beings. Like other kinds of Gaia’s original creations, they were born fully grown.

Prometheus and Epimetheus, the twins, were the last ones born in this divine generation.

Coinciding with what we would identify as the Jurassic period, the Titans coexisted with dinosaurs, largely indifferent to each other until a cataclysmic shift in the world occurred.

Millions of years later, when the meteor caused the world to rain fire, all corners of the world plunged into an ice age, making food and even air scarce.

Most of the larger mortal creatures were unable to adapt to these drastic changes and succumbed to death.

Horrified at the sight of her creations perishing in a mass extinction not caused by her, Gaia, along with Hypnos and his counterparts in other corners, endowed the Titans with a unique ability—prolonged hibernation.

Each Titan entered a deep sleep, their bodies reducing to a state of minimal activity, which allowed them to survive until the world became habitable again.

She allowed this ability to remain as a safeguard against future cataclysms.

Unfortunately, mortal beings could not benefit from this prolonged hibernation, resulting in a massive die-off. Undeterred, Gaia returned to her cosmic laboratory with a fresh vision for her world.

She knew how to get the semi divine beings she wanted.

When the Titans finally awoke from their long slumber, they discovered a new creation of Gaia’s—early humans.

Though devoid of divine powers and lacking the natural abilities of most animals, these beings had large brains, and Gaia gifted them with unlimited potential.

In this changed world, the Titans were both puzzled and fascinated.

Prometheus, in particular, took an interest in humans, assisting them whenever he could. He saw them as his pets, and they soon became his pet project.

Gaia then used Uranus to create a second generation of Titans, which blended traits from both divine beings and mortals.

While both generations referred to themselves as "Titans," what distinguished the newer batch was a quality only previously seen in Prometheus, her last born: cunning.

For eons, Uranus used his status as Gaia’s consort to dominate the Titans. However, upon realizing the cunning nature of the second-generation Titans, he decided to immobilize them by sealing their essence inside crystals, putting them in a state of suspended animation indefinitely. This was known as ‘swallowing’ them.

Unbothered by Uranus's actions, Gaia continued her experiments, creating mixed beings of all kinds.

However, their son Chronos later overthrew Uranus, freed the encased Titans, and declared himself the new consort.

Gaia was indifferent to his change. To her, one consort was as good as another.

All that really mattered were cosmic experiments.

Chronos quickly demonstrated that he was no better than Uranus.

The third-generation Titans, unlike their predecessors, were born as infants, just like mortals. Chronos, following in the footsteps of Uranus, also began to "swallow" these younger Titans in the same way.

Now, Gaia was upset.

By stopping young beings from aging, according to her plan, she could no longer see the results of her experiments.

So she decided it was time for a change.

Gaia turned to a lesser deity, a goat-shifter named Amalthea, to raise Zeus from infancy to adulthood.

Amalthea flew under Chronos's notice, which made her the perfect caretaker.

The only Titan who knew this secret was Prometheus, who was in favor of this.

Once Zeus reached maturity, he sought Prometheus’s help to overthrow the Titans. Zeus appealed to Prometheus's soft spot for humans, promising protection for them.

Prometheus also demanded safety for his twin and agreed to aid Zeus, for his humans.

Together, they freed the captured Titans and initiated the Titanomachy, the great war against the Titans, also known as the Great Titan War.

Once the Titans lost the war, Zeus banished most of them to Tartarus, saving a few punishments for special ones.

All remaining beings pledged their loyalty to Zeus.

After that, Gaia distanced herself from direct worldly affairs, but not before modifying the blood of every third-generation Titan and their descendants to contain Ichor, a divine essence reliant on Nectar and Ambrosia for sustenance.

This nourishment was sourced from human emotions, this modification acted as Gaia's final safeguard to ensure that these younger Titans could neither annihilate humanity nor treat them with the same cruelty as their predecessors.

Zeus, enlightened by Gaia's implanted knowledge, comprehended the implications of the Ichor/Ambrosial curse.

Gathering the newest divine race known as 'the gods' or 'higher divinities,' he revealed their presence to humanity. Through prayers and worship, humans provided the gods with the Nectar and Ambrosia they needed to survive.

However, Zeus alone grasped the full weight of this delicate balance.

Prometheus, seeking to make the human’s lives better off, wished to gift fire to humanity.

Zeus forbade it, fearing it would deplete their source of Nectar and Ambrosia.

Undeterred, Prometheus went ahead anyway. Though furious, Zeus eventually saw that the gift of fire only intensified human worship, and chose to overlook Prometheus's transgression.

Prometheus, however, soon realized he had acted too hastily. Humans were not ready, their inner darkness was too dark.

To atone for his mistake, he roamed through Grecia for over five centuries, to lock away the great evil within human souls that would lead to their destruction.

Zeus, now in charge, never entirely trusted Prometheus. After all, he betrayed all his siblings by taking Zeus’s side in the first place. And his continued efforts to secure the humans well being at all costs, concerned him further.

To combat this, Zeus sent Pandora, a mortal turned immortal, to seduce him. However, plans went awry when she fell in love with Prometheus's brother and inadvertently unleashed malevolent forces upon the world by opening Prometheus's box.

After that, Zeus decided to ignore Prometheus, that is until the sacrifice issue.

At a time when human sacrifices to the gods were at their zenith, Prometheus educated humans on how to make offerings while retaining the choicest portions for themselves.

This infuriated Zeus, as it impacted the supply of Nectar and Ambrosia essential for the gods' sustenance. As a result, Zeus put Prometheus on trial and subjected him to a severe punishment.

And now, you are fully caught up with the history of the Flames Of The Gods world.

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