here’s the prologue to my writing series cuz why not
Chaos’s Intervention
~Phoebe, Titaness of the Oracle of Delphi~
Long ago, before the Titanomachy, the Titans ruled the land. With each passing day, another species of fauna and flora came to life with our powers. It had seemed that the Titans were the perfect rulers, governing every part of the world and keeping it safe from any monster that dared disturb the peace. Soon came along the day that Kronos, the Titan King of time, had proposed to Rhea, Titaness of motherhood, and it seemed like we could make the world a flourishing paradise…
Alas; Chaos, Primordial Goddess of the Void had attacked the Titans - on the night of their marriage no less. She had just suddenly appeared with her physical form and opened a crack in the Earth leading into her domain; the Void. She had full intent of pulling all twelve of the reigning Titans into the Void, the afterlife of the deities. Finally, after several warring years, Chaos had made her first marks, taking three of my siblings: Crius, Theia, and Mnemosyne. Kronos, enraged with Chaos’s attacks, called upon our mother: Gaia, Primordial Goddess of the Earth, to defeat Chaos. With Gaia’s power and the strength of the remaining Titans, we sealed Chaos’s mortal form in a fine stone of Divine Malachite. With that, Chaos had been defeated. Our siblings would be missed very dearly, but we wouldn’t let that stop the festivities of Kronos and Rhea’s marriage.
While my siblings celebrated Chaos’s defeat, I stood alone.
Being holder of the Oracle of Delphi, I would occasionally receive prophecies, dictating and shaping the direction of the world’s and its inhabitants’ fates.
And on that night, I’d received one of the most dangerous prophecies yet;
“Child of Chaos, of boundless ambition,
Go to the Void with her volition,
With a heart of vengeance,
Abandon the fiend’s transcendence,
For all is futile,
And your wrath is inutile,
With the Protegenos’s blessing, heed her command,
Those who defy her shall be reaped by your hand,
At the crossroads of death, decide your fate,
To be a hero or killer, the world shall await.”
Back then, I never would’ve even thought of the existence of humans, so I never thought anything of this prophecy. I continued building upon the world along with my siblings.
Oh, how foolish I was…
I suppose you already know what happened next…
A war known as the Titanomachy started between the Titans and Gods, ultimately leading to Kronos, I, and allying Titans to rot in Tartarus…
Humans were created and gifted with magic by Prometheus…
Your petty kind fighting over power, with your greed destroying the lovely world the Titans had created.
Yet even now, there is still an unanswered question…
Why did Chaos attack?
Why would she attack her grandchildren?
Perhaps she foresaw the great calamity of the Titanomachy and your kind’s treachery?
But, that wouldn’t be possible… Not even I can fully see the definite future, I can only predict its possible paths. Now that your kind has come to life, my prophecy is coming closer and closer to reality.
No matter.
I can’t do anything about it anyway.
Besides, prophecies are only shaped by the ones who take it.
Let’s see which path this ‘Child of Chaos’ takes…