Thief of Divinity [Abandoned]

(A/N: I do not own the art of the cover, however all stories and characters are of my own creation)

One day the stars fell from the sky. At first people expected the apocalypse. But then a vision flashed before earth. The gods were dead, and who better to be their successors than than their worshippers. They bestowed upon the people their power, split among the ancient descendants of their once numerous worshippers. At first, chaos ensued, murder was on a much grander scale than it had ever been in human history. Many regions were made into apocalyptic wastelands. But then order fell again when a council of the strongest successors stepped forward, known as the New Pantheon.

That was decades ago. Now life is back to normal... sort of. To keep this sort of "succession" going, every child awakens as a successor at age 10, although it seems who they get is completely random, far outside of genetics. But even with the New Pantheon watching over the world, there are still those who wish for more power, those who wish to delve back into the chaos of when the successors were born.

And who knows what terror they'll bring.

(Fun Fact: the idea for the world of this story came from a dream I had, so let's hope my waking self can make as good stories as my unconscious self can imagine)