Stories Of Zoltah

Titanomachy

After the creation of the titans, Zoltah's once thriving landscapes and wide, far-reaching oceans would soon be altered for ever. At first, Odin, Zeus and Ra, each of them refusing to believe that such monstrosities truly existed, dismissed the panicked council of their warriors – some of whom encountered these creatures and escaped death through sheer good fortune. It was only after the titans Gaia and Cronus drew nearer – quaking the very ground with each step they took, while leaving trails of destruction in their wake, that the kings of these lands took heed and decided to follow the tremors and witness for themselves. For the first time since their trivial clashes began, Zeus and Odin would encounter each other upon the Mountain of Olrek – which was high enough to overlook the furthest of distances. While upon it and trying their utmost best to ignore each other, they beheld Gaia in the distance, towering higher than the tallest mountain as she swung her massive arms, trudging along and drilling trenches in the ground as she went. Awestruck, the two kings rather than fight each other as was their people's custom whenever they met face to face, decided to swear a senseless oath upon that day. Under the witness of their eldest children; Azrin and Athena, they swore to never interfere in one another's battles against this new adversary, and in spite of Athena's protests, they decided to follow their pride and seal the oath, thereby making it unbreakable.

Eventually, Gaia and Cronus would wander closerto their lands, drawn in by the scent of scintillating flesh. First to beattacked was Olympia, whose location in a vast valley between a range ofmountains, proved to be their weakness. When Gaia stomped her way towards them,she spewed debris consisting of chunks of rocks as the mountain rangespummelled to the ground, crushing several of the Olympians in the ensuingmayhem. But because an oath kept them from receiving assistance from Asgard,the closest kingdom, Zeus and the Olympians found themselves facing the attackon their own. Gathering his mightiest warriors and leading the charge from thefront along with his children and brothers – the king of Olympia thrustlightning bolts at Gaia, raining them down from the sky as torrents of dazzlinglight. Meanwhile, Apollo, riding into the siege astride the back of a wingedhorse, blasted Gaia with streams of molten beams with the heat of the sun. Despitethese attacks, which to the titan felt like pin-pricks against her earthenbody, Gaia proceeded to decimate nearly the entire Olympian army, retreatingonly feet away from the kingdom itself. At first, all were surprised by hersudden retreat – freezing to a halt as she was about to bring a clenched fistpummelling down – but owing to Athena's wisdom, she was quickly able to deducethat the titan had been called by another. It was almost as though Gaia,meaning to test their defences, attacked alone and before she could lay wasteto Olympia, she was stopped by none other than the second titan. Athena wassoon proven correct when three decades later, after they had assumed the worstwas over, Gaia returned, only this time in the presence of the titan Cronus.The titan, dripping with rivers of lava flowing across his expansive figure,encroached into Olympia – he and Gaia devouring both retreating and advancingwarriors. They only ceased the attack when they observed that the kingdom wason its last legs, then ignoring slashes of wind swiped across their ankles byAthena as she aimed to bring them off their feet, they steadily retreated.These relentless attacks, which eventually came to be known as the Titanomachy,would eventually spread to Asgard and Heliopolis, where there too, Gaia andCronus besieged the lands. The celestials of Zoltah would only later realisethat these marauding titans were treating them like livestock – feeding fromone kingdom then the next as they allowed them to replenish their numbers