Scion - Atlantis

-Secret History of Atlantis-  Long ago, Atlantis Atlantis was a thriving civilization. With the island situated in the middle of what is now the Indian Ocean, between Africa, Africa, India and Australia, the great island nation served as the center of technological advancement advancement and culture. Were there flying cars and unlimited unlimited batteries? No, there were were not. uch things are the the things of cartoons cartoons and fairy tales, tales, nothing more. !he advances that Atlantis were "nown for are considered relatively sim#le now. e$tants and com#asses. Astronomical charts which which were more detailed than any #antheon which was still using the stars stars for astrology instead. %etallurgy and cloc"wor" mechanics mechanics served as the most #otent form of mechanical science science for the Atlantean #eo#le. &ut the Atlantean Atlantean #eo#le were e$#lorers and scientists, scientists, not con'uerers and warriors. !hey were not afraid to defend defend themselves if attac"ed, but the Atlanteans were never the aggressors. %ore so than any #antheon, the Atlanteans had #eaceful relations with all the other families of gods. (ulturally, (ulturally, they were closer to the )ode"atheon and the *esed+et and there were more than a few colonies of Atlantean citizens in the %editeranean and others in the (aribbean and other oceans further abroad. abroad. !hey s#ent time trading trading their metallurgical "nowledge with the Atzlanti. !hey traded su##lies with the oruba oruba #antheon of Africa that would eventually become the Loa. !he )evas, Amatsu"ami Amatsu"ami and (elestial &ureaucracy were willing willing to treat the Atlantean #antheon as their e'uals and trade freely with them, offering s#iritual enlightment in e$change or scientific "nowledge. !he Atlanteans Atlanteans were not the oldest of gods. !he *esed+et, Annuna Annuna and the )evas have those distinctions. -owever, -owever, the Atlanteans Atlanteans were older than many of the other #antheons, having risen to #ower during the same era as their )ode"atheon and *esed+et com#anions and their civilization had advanced to such a level that even their elders were left behind them intellectually. intellectually.  And that, #erha#s #erha#s is why the !itans targetted targetted them during during the original !itan War. War. At that time, the Atlanteans could have been considered the most #owerful of #antheons and if the !itans !itans could bring them low, they believed believed that the other #antheons would crumble. !he Atlantean Atlantean devotion to the ocean and their desire to e$#lore every #art of the ocean they could reach made the dominant Avatars Avatars of the !itan of Water Water most es#ecially focused on their destruction. At that time, the dominant Avatars were !ethys !ethys and her husband Oceanus and in honor of their rule, the !itan of Water Water was called *ontus, rather than the )rowned oad. It was Oceanus that formulated a #lan to deal with with the Atlanteans. Atlanteans. e#resenting the vast une$#lored une$#lored reaches of the ocean, Oceanus felt more threatened than any #articular !itan Avatar Avatar by the Atlantean e$#loration and was obsessed with their downfall and destruction. Oceanus/ #lan was two0fold. While he dealt with the Atlantean Atlantean gods himself, one of his agents would infiltrate the u##er echelons of Atlantean mortal society to ensure the downfall of the civilization that gave the Atlantean Atlantean gods strength. !ethys was more than willing to aid with the distraction #art of the #lan, flooding the Atlantean Overworld with waters that threatened to drag the gods and lesser immortals below. Oceanus also enlisted aid from the Avatars Avatars of the "y !itans, as Ouranos and others sent great Overworld storms to batter the great shi#s of the gods and assault the canals and dams that "e#t !ethys water from ta"ing the entire realm. Oceanus allowed his allies and his minions to stri"e at the shores of Atlantis almost non0 sto#. !he Atlantean Atlantean gods were hard0#ressed to defend themselves from these assaults, forcing them into a defensive #osition and leaving them little time to interact with the World. And then Oceanus invited &adarus to a one0on0one challenge. challenge. %anaging to #lay u#on his honor as head of the #antheon, he convinced convinced &adarus to acce#t. acce#t. !he fight lasted lasted for days. !he two e#ically e#ically brilliant fighters #laying on each other/s tactics and countering them. &ut finally, finally, &adarus gained the u##er hand using the #ower of his Avatars. And Oceanus used that moment to cast a s#ell he/d develo#ed, +ust waiting for &adarus to em#loy that tactic. As the god assumed his Avatar form, Oceanus/ s#ell grabbed u# the unleashed energy, absorbing it within his very essence and allowing him merge with it and ta"e &adarus/ #lace among the gods of Atlantis. !hat act s#elled the doom of Atlantis. Atlantis. !he moment Oceanus had the #ower of &adarus, he too" the o##ortunity to use &adarus/ #ower over the earth and his o wn magic, transoforming 1uros, the traveller, traveller, into solid stone. !hen, by raising storms and water water s#outs in the great ocean surrounding the land, ma"ing travel im#ossible, he #revented the other gods from leaving since

they no longer had the aid of &adarus/ or 1uros/ *sycho#om#. With his magic to aid him, he merged the storms with the essence of the Overworld itself and ma"e the water/s chaotic nature self0sustaining. And thus, Oceanus now controlled the Atlantean 2odrealm. &ut that wasn/t enough. !he Atlanteans had a number of minor gods that were still active in the World. And the 3nderworld and gods of death would still be a #roblem. And so, Oceanus turned his attention to #urging the rest of the World and stri"ing against the 3nderworld. 4ach minor god that fell, was then stric"en from human and godly memory using the #ower of cire.  As they were no longer living, the #ower of the Atlantean *urview could eliminate their memory. !he 3nderworld was hit the hardest. 4ach death god that fell caused chaos to eru#t in the 3nderworld. 4ntire sections of it were destroyed. 3ntil only the #alace of 5ersa" and the mountain which served as #assage between Overworld and 3nderworld remained. As a god of 6ustice as well, 5ersa" stood defiant against Oceanus. 2oing so far as to lin" their fates together. If 5ersa" fell, then the both of them fell. o he could not destroy 5ersa". Instead, he bound him. (rafting a fate #rison to seal the god away within his own #alace. And then used &adarus/ stolen #owers over the earth to suc" the #alace down within the roc"y soil of the 3nderworld, sealing away 5ersa" and removing him from the battle and control of the 3nderworld.  And with Oceanus victorious, the shades of the Atlantean dead who stood against him were destroyed. !hose who +oined him, became s#ectres and were sent out among the living to s#read havoc. !he 3nderworld was em#tied as the resistance was destroyed and the rest converted. %eanwhile, as he struc" at the minor gods and cleared out the 3nderworld and gods of death, the ne$t #hase of his #lan was set in motion. Oceanus sent his chief agent to the shores of Atlantis. *roteus had once been a cion of -eshon, until he had gone abroad and wandered into #laces he was not meant to go. !here, he/d encountered Oceanus. 3nder the tutelage of the !itan of the 5ast Ocean, *roteus had been corru#ted to believe that it was a crime to "now it all. *roteus now believed that the wild #laces of the world that his mother #rotected were meant to stay wild. With Oceanus/ conniving words, *roteus came to believe that his #eo#le were committing crimes of hubris and needed to be reminded of their #lace. *roteus was a s"illed sha#eshifter. !a"ing after his mother with his im#ressive loo"s and his s"ill at changing his a##earance, he gained the ability to change into animals with the blessing of Oceanus. With his talent at a##earing as others, he moved into the clergy of Atlantis. It too" a full year for *roteus to become a #riest of Atlantis and move his way u# the ran"s, until he served as advisor to the great "ings of Atlantis themselves. With the gods no longer in the e'uation, *roteus was free to guide the #eo#le of Atlantis in his new #lans. 3nder *roteus/ guidance, the Atlantean #eo#le began to s#read their influence by force. 7ormer e$#lorers became con'uerers and former scientists became designers of wea#ons of mass destruction. !he other #antheons "new what was going on, but they had #roblems of their own to deal with as other !itans ravaged their borders. And besides, the Atlanteans were the greatest at that time. And so they waited for the Atlantean gods, the most advanced of the gods, to find a way to turn the tables, ta"e charge and #ut a sto# to it themselves. !hey could not ignore the invading #eo#le under *roteus/ leadershi#, however. !he other cultures treated the Atlantean #eo#le as they would any invading #eo#le. !hey fought them. %any lost because of the Atlanteans/ advanced technology for the time, but they fought anyway.  And then *roteus unleashed his #lague u#on the world. !he gods remember what ha##ened from then on. !he other #antheons realized that the Atlantean #antheon had been lost. !hey assumed that there was no coming bac" from what had ha##ened and the #eo#le had been corru#ted beyond redem#tion. And so the other #antheons swe#t down u#on them, destroying the island, destroying the #eo#le, destroying all records that Atlantis had even e$isted 8save for the few records that the obsessive eshat had secreted away9. *roteus managed to esca#e, #redicting the attac" and esca#ing the island before it hit. -e/s been in hiding since then, fearing the wrath of the gods and se creting himself away as only a sha#eshifter of his caliber truly can. oon after, the other gods managed to im#rison the !itans, forcing them down into !artarus and sealing them away under the #ower of the Arbiters and other #owerful Avatars. And it was then that Oceanus realized that his merger with &adarus had unforseen conse'uences.

Oceanus found the hard way that he was no longer bound as an Avatar of the 2reater !itan of Water. !hough still technically an Avatar, his bond with a god has left him tied to the Atlantean 2odrealm instead.  And the 2odrealm was left to drift in the Overworld, lost to the rest of the #antheons, cut off from the World than"s to its now0destroyed A$is %undi. Oceanus/ control over the borders served as the only thing "ee#ing the other gods from fleeing into the vastness of the e m#ty Overworld. !hough, he wasn/t sim#ly la$ with his time in the Overworld. "aft was the first to be im#risoned. !he Atlantean smith god, master of advanced technology, far beyond what humans are normally ca#able of, was #ut in chains of his own orichalcum and set to wor" #ractically non0 sto# in the forges of the Atlantean #alace. Of course, "aft, even now isn/t "nown for his stamina. &ut he/s managed to ma"e due and learn what he needs to in order to "ee# from getting the whi# from Oceanus and his flun"ies.  Amnis has been im#risoned as well. With Oceanus/ real wife im#risoned in !artarus, he has found that he/s been forced to ma"e due with &adarus/ wife instead. !ra##ed in the royal bedchamber, Oceanus does not allow his new bride to leave. What Oceanus does to her when he has free time, #erha#s it/s best not to "now. !hough the remaining free gods have, on occassion, still heard screaming coming from the towers of the #alace.  And finally, to show that Oceanus had accom#lished what he set out to do, he too" the boo" which he had used to write every name of the fallen Atlantean gods in when he destroyed them, added his own s#ell to the boo" so that none could "now how to undo what he had done, and then cast the boo" into the fire. Assuring that every #iece of information he had hidden away from the World and the gods would remain hidden. In this way, he destroyed as much of the  Atlantean culture as he #ossibly could. Only two goddesses remain free from Oceanus/ control and domination. -eshon, the master of the wild and goddess of luc" still has a refuge or two in the Atlantean Overworld that even Oceanus cannot touch. And the mysterious and ghostly goddess of the moon and "nowledge, )emosia, has ta"en u# residence with her in these hidden glens. ince the fall of the  Atlantean #eo#le, the two goddesses of magic have been wor"ing and #lanning. &oth "new that their im#risonment could not last forever. 4ventually, the !itans would brea" free again, and the walls of their #rison would be +arred. o they/ve been writing s#ells. )evising tric"s that no magical being has even concieved of until now. 7or one, they/ve discovered a way to #erform a 5isitation u#on latent #otential that is generations old. !he Atlantean bloodlines were not com#letely "illed off, though without the  Atlantean #antheon to deliver the 5isititations or formally disavow them so others could #erform the Ado#tion ite, the other gods were unable to ta"e advantage of their divine blood. And honestly, most ancient gods did not wish for the :cursed: blood of the Atlanteans to come to #ower again anyway. One of the s#ells which -eshon and )emosia have devised is a way to awa"en the Atlantean #otential within cions descended from those bloodlines and awa"en them as cions of the Atlantean #eo#le. &ut even so, these descendents must have active divine blood in them as well. As in, they have to be the cions of someone else for the goddesses to draw out the Atlantean #ower.  Another thing they/ve discovered is how to #erform a 5isitation on another god/s behalf. 7or Atlantis to survive, they will need more than sim#ly the cions of -eshon and )emosia. !hey/ll need inventors with the #ower of "aft, e$#lorers from 1uros, lawgivers from 5ersa", leaders and #riests from &adarus and Amnis. &ut those gods cannot grant the #ower themselves. &ut the two free goddesses have learned a way to #erform a 5isitation on another god/s behalf. !he god must be Atlantean, the s#ell will not wor" beyond their own #antheon, and it comes with a hefty #rice, but the two goddesses are willing to give what needs to be given in order to ensure that the Atlantean cions may be varied enough to see the fight through to the end. !he two goddesses have also devised a s#ell which allows them to #ierce Oceanus/ shield around the Atlantean Overworld, letting them see the World once more and see what has become of it. 3sing this, they/re able to find the #otential cions they/re loo"ing for, and use normal magic s#ells such as !ransient 5isitation to augment their created s#ells so that they can awa"en the latent #ower of the Atlantean lines.

 And finally, +ust as the goddesses #redicted, the !itans bro"e free. !he surge of #ower from the )rowned oad and it/s drawing #ower on Oceanus has once more caused the Atlantean Overworld to drift bac" to the World. And as it draws close once more, )emosia and -eshon reach out with their s#ells, awa"ening cions and granting them the #ower of the Atlantean gods. !hey 5isit them in their slee# and grant them #ower in their dreams, showing them the true  Atlantean way and awa"ening them to the 5irtues of the Atlantean #eo#le. %any of the gods who have noticed this trend are somewhat disturbed. 7or the bloodlines of the Atlanteans to be awa"ened, the cion must already have been a cion who +ust ha##ens to have blood that can be traced bac" directly to one of the Atlantean gods. A rare thing to be sure, but there are certain gods who notice when their cions are 5isited and their #owers awa"ened without having done it themselves. At the moment, there are but a handful of  Atlantean gods roaming the World. !hey have been met with varied reactions, from outright violence from the gods of war and death who ho#ed Atlantis would stay dead when they destroyed it, to curiosity from the more intellectual gods who note that the new cions are clean of the !itan/s taint and wish to "now +ust how this was accom#lished and where this ressurgence is coming from. -eshon and )emosia do not believe that Oceanus has noticed that their activities have awa"ened Atlantean blood in the World once more. &ut it/s only a matter of time before he begins to ta"e action, or before *roteus interferes in the World and manages to get information to his master.

-Terra Incognita - Isle of the Telchines-  Long ago, guardian s#irits served to #rotect the Atlantean Overworld and to guard entrances to the godrealm. !hey also served to defend the gods and #rotect the sacred #laces. When the Atlanteans were tra##ed a nd their A$is %undi destroyed, the !elchines were hunted down and destroyed.  All e$ce#t for one colony. !his colony was not destroyed, because it was under the #rotection of hea, mother of the )ode"atheon. Once, she had left her child ;eus to be #rotected in the hands of these !elchines. !hey went by other names among the 2ree" #eo#le. )actyls. 1uretes. &ut they served to raise ;eus and #rotect him from (ronus until he aged enough to ta"e his father/s #lace. 7or their aid, hea #rotected them. he #laced their colony on the island of hodes under magical #rotection, isolating it from the world, shielding it from the other gods and ensuring that the !elchines who once aided hea in the raising of ;eus would be #rotected for all time. !he terra incognita e$ists at the edge of the island of hodes. A small tem#le to hea still stands, overgrown with vines and the mar"ings and sacred symbols long worn away. -ere, in that sacred #lace, a cion may find #assage beneath the island if he "nows where to loo". )escending the stairs that o#en u#, the cion find himself standing above a s#rawling city beneath the ground. Orichalcum buildings can be found s#iraling u# to the to# of the cavern ceiling. !he !elchines, guardian s#irits, all of them male and all of them craftsmen, reside here, building great wonders and constantly im#roving u#on their great city. !hey are small in number, only a few dozen of them or so, but these lesser immortals have had a great deal of time to wor" and im#rove their living accomodations. !his city also has one "ey feature which may interest cions who have become involved with the Atlanteans. A tem#le to Amnis and &adarus still stands in the heart of the city. !hough the gods have not answered the #rayers of the !elchines in some time, the craftsman immortals still worshi# them. !his tem#le #rovides #erha#s the only wor"ing A$is %undi that still leads directly to the Atlantean Overworld. It is #robably the only thing "ee#ing the godrealm from sim#ly floating away into the Overworld/s de#ths. 00!he !elchines 82uide OOOO900  Also called the )actyls or the 1uretes, the !elchines are a class of guardian s#irit which have long served the Atlantean #antheon, much li"e the ebettu and A#"allu of the Annuna.

!hey are beings of advanced civilization and technology and #rotectors of those who come to them for aid. !heir average stats are #resented here. 5irtues< )uty =, Intellect >, Order >, *iety > trength >, )e$terity , tamina = (harisma >, %ani#ulation >, A##earance = *erce#tion >, Intelligence @, Wits =  Academics =, Art @, Athletics >, Awareness =, &rawl , (raft @, 4m#athy >, 7ortitude =, Integrity =, %ar"smanshi# >, %elee @, Occult , *resence >, cience =, urvival , !hrown > u#ernatural *owers< &oons 0 Aegis, (ome unning, (onse'uence, 7undamental, Intuitive Ada#tation, Literati, *ro#er !ool, 3nseen hield, 5igil &rand, Ward, Warning Line 4#ic Attributes 0 4#ic trength  83#lifting %ight, -oly &ound9, 4#ic tamina = 8-oly 7ortitude, oli#sistic Well0&eing, Inner 7urnace, )evourer9, 4#ic Intelligence @ 87ast L earner, tar *u#il, (once#t to 4$ecution, Language %astery, Instant !ranslator, %ath 2enius, *erfect %emory, 1now0It0All, Well0ead 5irgin9 7orge &irthright 0 A !elchine is a master craftsman, ca#able of forging &irthright relics. With a few days of wor", some amount of legendary material to wor" with and the e$#enditure of a Legend #oint, a !elchine can forge a &irthright for a cion. 6oin &attle<   Attac"s< (linch 0 Accuracy =, )amage =&, *arry )5 00, #eed B, * 3narmed, -eavy 0 Accuracy >, )amage C&, *arry )5 D, #eed @ 3narmed, Light 0 Accuracy @, )amage =&, *arry )5 >, #eed = E!elchines ty#ically #ossess any number of wea#ons as well. ome of these may be relic wea#ons and are u# to the toryteller to determine. oa"< =AFGLFDD& 8%any !elchines may also #ossess various armor, both mundane and relic9 -ealth Levels< 0H$D>FInca# )odge )5< B Will#ower< C Legend< B, Legend *oints< >B Other Notes< !elchines often #osses shields which allow them access to their 2uardian &oons. !hough they do not need to use these relics to gain access to these &oons, they gain a benefit for doing so, as if they were true 2ods.

-Underworld-  !o say the Atlantean 3nderworld has fallen into disre#air would be an understatement. ome information can be found in )emigod on #ages D= to DC. &ut the mountain which leads u# to the Overworld is a #art of what used to be the great Atlantean 3nderworld. %ost of it was destroyed in Oceanus/ onslaught on the gods of death after he too" &adarus/ #ower. And with the #ower of cire on his side, that which was destroyed was also forgotten. What little remains is now buried than"s to Oceanus. &ut more than that, it/s been consumed by another 3nderworld entirely. *roteus did indeed esca#e the onslaught of the gods

u#on Atlantis. And since then, he has roamed the world in secrecy. -e saw the devestation that was wrought u#on the Atlantean #eo#le and "new it was in his best interest to lay low. And then, he heard a story which had been retold to him by a #assing beggar. !his beggar had heard it from a #assing merchant, who had heard it from a street vendor, etc. *roteus finally traced the story bac" to the source and learned that it had come from *lato, who had heard it from his ancestors who had su##osedly found the story buried in the shelves of a great library in 4gy#t. -e "new the story of course. All too well since he had a hand in writing it. 1new it better than *lato who was retelling it. And yet, it gave him ideas on how to ensure his father might yet "ee# control of the Overworld by "ee#ing 5ersa" im#risoned. Long ago, he/d witnessed what  A"henaten had wished to do to the world with the #ower of 7atebinding, and he/d heard the stories of what the -ebrew #eo#le had done to their storm god. And so he set about, under cover of disguise, to s#read *lato/s misheard and mis'uoted story. :Of course, the Atlantean #eo#le were an offshoot of the 2ree" #eo#le.: :Of course they worshi##ed the same gods.: Lies all of it, but *roteus told them as easily as anyone else might breathe. !he Overworld was too far away to be affected by these stories and falsehoods. And the gods too distant to be changed. &ut the 3nderworld was another matter. lowly, the shores of the river Acheron began to encroach u#on the lands of the Atlantean dead. With no ghosts below to ensure the survival of the Atlantean culture in the 3nderworld, it steadily eroded. And what does that mean for the lost god 5ersa"? It means that his #alace, his throne he/s chained to, and his great halls of +udgement, now lie buried under centuries of silt and mud below the ban"s of the river Acheron. !he realm of -ades has been slowly overla##ing the +ustice god/s domain to the #oint that now, -ades/ #alace rests ato# the buried ruins of 5ersa"/s throne room, un"nown even to -ades himself. !here are a few o#tions to #ossibly reaching 5ersa"/s #alace and freeing him. !he obvious way would be to travel to -ades, and as" the Lord of the )ead to allow the cions to dig into his basement and unearth an ancient rival he thought long gone. !he realization that his #alace has been sitting u#on the im#risoned 5ersa" all this time may brea" even the iron calm of -ades. And the chances of getting his a##roval to go digging u# his #alace to bring bac" an old foe is slim. !hough, if the cions are convincing enough and can use some #ro#er leverage, then there is still a chance -ades may concede.  Another, ris"ier o#tion, would involve attem#ting to snea" into -ades/ #alace to unearth 5ersa". !his #ro#osition is #erha#s more insane than sim#ly as"ing -ades about 5ersa", since if the characters are caught, they are most assuredly going to be dealing with an angry lord of the dead. !he last and most difficult o#tion 8though #erha#s the safest9 would involve an e$cavation from the ban"s of the river Acheron in what/s left of the Atlantean 3nderworld. As described in )emigod, the river forms the border where one 3nderworld has begun ta"ing over another. If the characters were to begin digging in the Atlantean side of the river and sim#ly e$cavate below the river and to the basement of -ades/ #alace, it is more li"ely they will avoid -ades/ ire. -owever, such a +ourney would be long, arduous and ultimately frought with a lot of heavy lifting and ris" of cave in. Additionally, the #ros#ect of digging beneath the unimaginably vast width of the Acheron should be enough to give even the most daring of gods #ause. !hough, the rushing floodwaters may be easier to handle than the wrath of -ades. egardless of how, should the characters actually reach the ruins of the -all of 5ersa", they will find that the silt and debris from above have almost cho"ed all windows and doorways in and out of the #alace. !he #alace is crumbling, colla#sing beneath the weight of the other 3nderworld #ressing down u#on it. Advanced architeture and im#ressive achievements of structural integrity are all that "ee# the #alace from having already caved in u#on itself. !he halls of the #alace are many, winding around a central chamber that seems to have many entrances. What the rooms were once for has been lost to the ages and many of them have been o vercome by the crushing weight. 4ven the advanced technology of the Atlanteans couldn/t "ee# the universal #owers from destroying everything. !he central chamber has held u# the best. -igh, domed ceiling, with scenes de#icting the advancements in Atlantean +ustice done in fading mosaics along the walls and u# along the ceiling. !he detail and intricacy of the art far beyond many others of their time. !here, in the center of this great room, sits a sim#le, yet elegent throne crafted of gold and iron.

!here, in the sole surviving room, the cions will find 5ersa". In order to survive the centuries of im#risonment, he has let himself become immaterial. !hough he is still unable to leave his #alace. -e will materialize again for any cions who a##ear, though at a wea"ened state using the Avatar &irthright, so as to conserve his #recious Legend. At first, he may treat the cions as hostile. !hough with his #ower over the 6ustice *urview, it/s unli"ely he/ll attac" the cions that are there to aid him, his centuries of confinement have made him #aranoid and confused. 5ersa" has long given u# ho#e of being freed and may see the intrusion as an attac" to finish the +ob. 7ortunately, in his attem#t to conserve #ower, manifesting in his Avatar form will "ee# him on a managable scale by the cions that have come to save him and he/s hesitant to use many of his &oons and 1nac"s as they may e$haust his #ower. If the cions manage to get through to him, one way or the other, 5ersa" will inform them that the magic that holds him here will not allow him to leave. In truth, since Oceanus conformed the 7ate *rison to the floor#lans of the #alace, the binding has slowly shran" as the #alace was destroyed. Now, the binding is only on the throne room. If the cions can destroy the throne room, then 5ersa" would be freed. Naturally, they should be careful or ris" a cave in o n themselves, and 5ersa" is li"ely to revert to his immaterial form to avoid harm from this #rocess. If 5ersa" is freed, he would be a #otent ally against the !itans. -e/d be unable to return to the Atlantean Overworld +ust yet, due to Oceanus/ influence. &ut as a god on earth, he/d be able to aid -eshon and )emosia in their fight until the barrier around the Overworld can be breached once more. -e would also be free to set about restoring the Atlantean 3nderworld to its former glory, #erha#s by convincing -ades to withdraw the river Acheron so that the Atlantean realm of the dead can be reclaimed as it once was.  As the sole surviving god of death from Atlantis, he would be fully in charge of the 3nderworld now and would assume roles far beyond what he used to fulfill for the Atlantean gods. No longer in charge of the dead who died when their fates caught u# with them, he would ta"e charge of all the dead, and #erha#s find new minor gods among Atlantean cions to fill minor roles among the new 3nderworld.

-Overworld-  !he Atlantean Overworld was once a #lace of #eace, #ros#erity and scientific advancement. A mountain, set at the center of a #erfectly circular island, the mountain itself was carved into a great #alace in honor of the Atlantean gods. With s#ires that reached high into the s"y and bridges which s#anned the s#ace between these s#ires, the entire #alace was a com#le$ structure with intricate networ"s for travel throughout.  Around the island was a great moat, with another beyond it twice the width. A third and final moat lay beyond the second, three times the width of the original. 4ach moat was #erfectly circular and se#arated by land of #ro#ortionately decreasing width. 4verything seemed laid out in #erfect, mathmetical #recision. 7or ease of travel, a great canal was built along one #art of the moats, running from the central moat, out beyond the outermost ring and to the edge of the great island and the great ocean beyond. 2reat bridges once s#anned the moats so that the homes and sho#s and other buildings built by the lesser immortal inhabitants of the Overworld could be easily reached and accessible. !hese s#irits #o#ulated the Atlantean city here and served as model e$am#les of how the  Atlantean #eo#le should ascribe to be. %any dead who had #roven themselves as e$em#lary members of Atlantean society were also among these s#irits that "e#t the city thriving. And for travel by boat, intricately carved and carefully scul#ted tunnels were wor"ed beneath the ground of the moats, #roviding water access for smaller boats #assing between the different rings of the moats.  And beyond the moats lay the wild, untamed lands which served as the domain of -eshon and stretched in verdant acres of wild forest and unmastered wilderness. !his land stretched out to the shores of the great ocean which surrounded the Overworld island for as far as any eye could see. !hough a few worthy dead were brought here, this wonderous #aradise served not as a

reward for the Atlantean #eo#le who would die and come to heaven, but rather as a model of how the Atlanteans should live on earth. !hat/s how it used to be, anyway. Oceanus/ control has caused the Overworld to fall to chaos. !he bridges that once stretched between the s#ires of the #alace and across the great e$#anses of the moats have crumbled and are falling a#art. ome may still be sturdy enough to su##ort the weight of travellers, but many of them seem to be giving way under the heavy loads carried bac" and forth u#on them and the centuries of neglect and misuse. !he tunnels, while still viable o#tions for travel, are crumbling within and have strange algeas and other fugus growing along the inner walls. umor among the locals s#ea" of creatures which stal" the tunnels, waiting for #rey. And the vast stretches of tunnel are no longer lit by the torchlight that used to be within them. !o travel them is to move through almost total dar"ness. !he water in the moats and along the canal is stagnant, smelling of strange chemicals and the rotting fish which float on the surface. !he sho#s and homes that used to be so grand are almost non0e$istant now. 4ither having fallen a#art and vanished into the vile waters ages ago, or converted into other, more :useful: buildings such as armories, #risons and barrac"s. mo"e #ours from the windows of the #alace, blotting the sun and casting the island into an almost #er#etual gloom. !he inner chambers have all been converted into forges, where the residents of the Overworld toil away endlessly to craft wea#ons, armor and other tools of war for their new master. "aft is among them, wor"ing in the central forge on the most #owerful wea#ons of the new Atlantean armies. !he only chamber within the #alace that retains anything resembling its original function is the bedchamber of Oceanus and Amnis. &ut none save Oceanus may enter there, and Amnis is never seen coming out. !hough some days, the wor"ers #assing by may hear the sounds of wee#ing from within. And those days are much better than when the sounds of screaming may be heard.  At the base of the #alace sits what loo"s to be a monument of sorts. *erfectly sha#ed and formed, the statue of 1uros sits in a central courtyard, a crowning achievement of what Oceanus has accom#lished. !he throne of Oceanus, a great towering monstrosity formed of what seems to be bone and corral, has been erected outside the #alace, overloo"ing the stone 1uros. !here Oceanus can be found at all times, sitting and loo"ing out u#on his Overworld, directing the creation of new wea#ons to be used when he is ready to send his armies out to aid the other !itans. urrounding the island, the seas rage and swirl with angry torrents of water and thrashing waves. !he waves toss violently, turning the once #eaceful shores into roc"y cliffs, #erilous to any traveller. Water s#outs reach u# to the heavens, raging and twisting in an endless dance among each other. It/s the untamable sea and violent waves which cut off the Atlantean gods from the outside Overworld and "ee#s others from entering. *erha#s the only ray of ho#e within the Overworld is the forest. With Oceanus on the throne, the forests and wild #laces seem to have turned against him. !he trees and vines crowd the outer moat of the city and stretch as far to the shore as they #ossibly can before the sea batters them away. No member of Oceanus/ entourage dares to enter the forest/s de#ths as no enemy of the two free goddesses is ever seen again once they enter -eshon/s domain.  And as for the #eo#le which once #o#ulated this great island? !here are two "inds now< soldiers and slaves. !he soldiers are those lesser immortals and Atlantean ancestors who have seen the degredations of Oceanus and decided that there was no way to defeat him. !hey have given u#. urrendered their ho#e and sided with the great !itan, giving themselves to him and becoming his army. !heir worshi# of Oceanus has corru#ted them. Li"e the Atlantean 4lites in the World, the soldiers of Oceanus have #iscine a##earances. !hey carry razor0edged tridents and train animals simlar to those found on earth to ensure their dominance of the sea. !hey also build great warshi#s and arm them with the advanced wea#onry which Oceanus forces "aft to create. uch wea#ons, even *rometheus would be envious of. hould these shi#s reach the World or Overworld, then most assuredly the !itans would be victorious. &ut for the moment, Oceanus bides his time, wanting everything to be #erfect when he ma"es his trium#hant return.  And the storm around the island still rages.  As for the other Atlantean s#irits, they form the other category, the slaves. 4ven now they

hold out ho#e that the free goddesses will win. !hey ho#e and #ray to them in their silent hours and wait for salvation. And in the meantime, the soldiers, under the direction of Oceanus, wor" them li"e dogs. !he crac" of whi#s and torture on the rac" are only the mildest of #unishments com#ared to what can be dealt out to their immortal ichor. And day after day, more and more of them brea" under the lash and +oin the ran"s of soldier instead. &ut all ho#e isn/t lost. !he three im#risoned gods may yet be freed. !he chains which bind "aft may be bro"en and the forge god set free once again. !hat is #erha#s the easiest #art, for while his chains are forged of magical orichalcum, they only "ee# him from brea"ing them. An outside agent such as another god or cion can brea" his chains as easily as brea"ing mundane ones. 1uros will be harder to free. &ound by a magical s#ell, it will re'uire magic to free him. omeone who "nows the !ransform *erson 8%agic C9 #ell, may attem#t to undo the magic using the normal system for counter magic. !he individual must be able to overcome Oceanus/ #ower, however. !he )ivine 3nweaving 8%agic DH9 #ell may also be used to undo the magic. &ut again, the s#ell must overcome the #ower of Oceanus/ magics. egardless of which method is used, assume that Oceanus achieved =H successes in the casting of the original magic, though the toryteller may alter this number as needed. 7inally, there is Amnis. While getting to the bedchamber and getting into it might be easy, drawing her out of the ho#eless stu#or she/s fallen into due to the constant ra#e and abuse of Oceanus is the tric"y #art. (haracters are free to use their imaginations to come u# with ways to sna# her out of it, but it will ta"e something colossally im#ressive to get her to react with more than a sim#le blan" stare. *erha#s if other freed gods were to be with them, such as her son, 1uros, when the cions confront Amnis, the chances would be b etter, but if the cions a##roach the ueen of Atlantis alone, they had best #ull out all the 4#ic ocials they can muster. hould all the gods be freed once more, then Atlantis has a true fighting chance. &ut that still leaves the 'uestion of what to do about Oceanus and whether there is still anything of &adarus left within him...

-Antagonists-  Oceanus5irtues<  Ambition @, %alice >, a#acity >, ;ealotry  )ice *ool<  u#ernatural *owers< 00Avatars< !he 7lood, !he %irror, !he Way, !he Wyrd 00&oons< 4very one0 to eight0dot &oon from every *urview 0e$ce#t0 7ire. Oceanus also has all &oons from the %agic, %oon, *sycho#om# and Water *urviews. 004#ic Attributes< 4#ic %ental Attributes at the DH0dot level 8with all a##ro#riate 1nac"s9. Other 4#ic Attributes are at the eight0dot level 8with all a##ro#riate 1nac"s9. 00tolen *ower< )ue to his stolen form of &adarus, the Atlantean 2od, Oceanus has access to three other *urviews, the DH0dot levels of Animal 8ea na"e9, %ystery, cire and 4arth and their  Avatars. -owever, as he has not fully subsumed these #owers into himself, he must #ay a cost of DH Legend every time he attem#ts to use one of these &oons, in addition to any other costs.  Additionally, since 4arth is normally denied him, he must #ay a #ermanent dot of Will#ower each time he uses a &oon of this *urview, as he must allow the 2od/s ichor to overcome his own during those moments and wea"en his own essence. While !he &east and the Wyrd with %ystery may not cost him anything s#ecial beyond the e$tra Legend cost, calling u#on the ha#er would result in him immediately losing himself and being #ermanently consumed by the 2od within himself.

6oin &attle<   Attac"s< (linch 0 Accuracy , )amage DL, *arry )5 00, #eed B, * 3narmed, -eavy 0 Accuracy D, )amage D@L, *arry )5 >G, #eed @ 3narmed, Light 0 Accuracy >, )amage DL, *arry )5 =D, #eed = oa"< AF>@LF=H& -ealth Levels< 0H$>GFInca# )odge )5< =B Will#ower< B Legend< DD, Legend *oints< DD Notes< If the OceanusF&adarus Amalgam is ever "illed, rather than destroying a !itan Avatar as would normally ha##en, the destruction of the !itanF2od will result in the unleashing of his  Avatars, including !he ha#er, as if he were a normal 2od 8since &adarus has technically been "illed as well9. With !he ha#er unleashed, the Avatar/s essence will be subsumed into the 2od/s in such a way that &adarus will now carry the !itan/s essence within himself and be free of Oceanus/ influence. !hen &adarus/ 3ltimate tamina will trigger and he will be resurrected with a fragment of Oceanus within himself. !hus, the conce#t which Oceanus re#resents would be #reserved while returning inde#endence to &adarus at the same time. Proteus5irtues<  Ambition @, %alice =, a#acity @, ;ealotry > trength @, )e$terity B, tamina @ (harisma @, %an#ulation B, A##earance  *erce#tion B, Intelligence , Wits B  Academics =, Animal 1en @, Art 8%utations9 B, Athletics @, Awareness =, &rawl @, (ommand >, (raft 8Life9 C, 4m#athy =, 7ortitude @, Integrity >, Investigation >, Larceny >, %ar"smanshi# =, %edicine B, %elee @, Occult B, *olitics >, *resence =, cience 8*athology9 =, tealth >, urvival =, !hrown = u#ernatural *owers< 00&oons< Water &reathing, *otability, Water (ontrol, (hanging tates, (reate Water, )essicate, )rown, Water %astery, Water 5orte$, 3nerring Orientation, Where Are ou?, 3nbarred 4ntry, (ome Along, #irit Lam#, !erra Incognita, %arathon #rinter, -eart of the %aze, ainbow &ridge, %agic C, 7undamental, Literati, Inuitive Ada#tation, (onse'uence, *ro#er !ool, emote (ontrol, %asterful 5ector  00#ells< All s#ells in -ero, )emigod and the (om#anion, as well as a few more which are of his own devising and sub+ect to the toryteller/s needs. 004#ic Attributes< 4#ic trength = 8-oly &ound, (rushing 2ri#, )ivine Wrath, !itanium !ools9, 4#ic )e$terity @ 83ntouchable O##onent, oll With It, 4sca#e Artist, !ric" hooter, hot to the -eart, Omnide$terity9, 4#ic tamina = 8oli#sistic Well0&eing, elf0-ealing, egeneration, "in0 hedding9, 4#ic (harisma = 8-a#less (ool, (harmer, (rowd (ontrol, &oys Will &e &oys9, 4#ic %ani#ulation @ 8Overt Order, Advantageous (ircumstances, -ard ell, Instant -y#nosis, eturn to ender9, 4#ic A##earance C 8*erfect Actor, %y 4yes Are 3# -ere, )etail 5ariation, 3ndeniable esemblance, 3nusual Alteration, )oin/ 7ine, !ailor %ade9, 4#ic *erce#tion @ 8*arallel Attention, cent the )ivine, 3nfailing ecognition, &road0#ectrum ece#tion, arified 4lectromagnetic

*erce#tion9, 4#ic Intelligence C 87ast Learner, tar *u#il, (once#t to 4$ecution, #eed eader, Language %astery, Instant !ranslation, *erfect %emory, 1now0It0All, Well0ead 5irgin, &loc"ade of eason, %ath 2enius, %ultitas"ing, !ele#athy9, 4#ic Wits @ 8ocial (hameleon, *erfect Im#oster, Instant Assessment, 4ternal 5igilance, %on"ey in the %iddle9 00ha#eshifting< In addition to his sha#eshifting abilities garnered from his 4#ic A##earance and 4#ic Wits, *roteus also has the ability to mimic any animal he wishes. !here is no size limitation, he sim#ly s#ends a Legend and assumes the form of any animal he chooses to change into for the duration of a scene. 6oin &attle< DH  Attac"s< (linch 0 Accuracy DD, )amage BL, *arry )5 00, #eed B, * 3narmed, -eavy 0 Accuracy DH, )amage GL, *arry )5 DB, #eed @ 3narmed, Light 0 Accuracy D, )amage BL, *arry )5 DC, #eed = oa"< =AFDHLFD& -ealth Levels< 0H$D>FInca# )odge )5< D Will#ower< DH Legend< , Legend *oints< B=

-New Magic-  Find What's Lost 0 Level @ #ell oll< *erce#tion J Occult (ost< D Legend #er s#ecification !he s#ell was devised by -eshon and )emosia so that they could both loo" into the World once again, and be able to find s#ecific targets that they might be loo"ing for. In order to use this #ell, the caster must first s#ecify what re'uirements the user is loo"ing for. 7or )emosia and -eshon, this ty#ically includes finding cions who carry the ancient blood of Atlantis within them. !he magician then s#ends the re'uisite Legend and ma"es the roll. !he difficulty starts at D and each s#ecification adds D to DH to the difficulty, de#ending on how difficulty it is to find that #articular something. 7inding a #erson who +ust ha##ens to be a cion and also +ust ha##ens to hold the #otential of an Atlantean bloodline and +ust ha##ens to be of sufficient age to be #rovided a 5isitation and who hasn/t yet been 5isited, is ty#ically difficulty @. -owever, torytellers are free to increase or decrease this difficulty for the needs of the story. If successful, then the caster of the s#ell is able to then watch and observe the target of the s#ell found for the rest of the scene. !he target and caster are also considered to have a level D 7atebinding now. Old Blood 0 Level  #ell oll< %ani#ulation J 4m#athy (ost< D@ Legend J D Will#ower  !his s#ell, though not as #otent as the final s#ell they created, is #erha#s the most im#ortant of the new s#ells in the arsenal of )emosia and -eshon. If not for this s#ell, then there wouldn/t even be Atlantean cions now. !he caster of the s#ell must be able to see the target of the s#ell before it can be cast. !his usually involves using the above s#ell first, though other o#tions are #ossible. Additionally, the target of the s#ell must fit certain re'uirements< D9 !he target of the s#ell must be a direct descendent of the bloodline in 'uestion. It is difficult to find direct descendents of the Atlantean gods, though with billions of #eo#le in the world, even a one in a million chance leaves something to ho#e for. 9 !he target must be the cion of another god so that there is active divine blood to ta"e advantage of. !hen this s#ell is cast and the re'uisite

Will#ower and Legend are s#ent. !he roll is made at a difficulty of the Legend of the O!-4 god which the target must be a cion of. If the roll is successful, then the divine blood within the #otential cion is then altered to bring the latent Atlantean nature to the surface as well, basically ma"ing both gods #otential #arents of the cion. If the original god #erforms a 5isitation u#on the cion before the Atlantean god can, then the s#ell is wasted as it/s that god who grants the cion #ower. -owever, it gives the Atlanteans at least a chance to awa"en true cions of Atlantis once more. Visitation Substitution 0 Level G #ell oll< Intelligence J *resence (ost< H Legend !his final s#ell is the most #otent of the new s#ells created by )emosia and -eshon. !his magic allows the two free goddesses to serve as a re#lacement for the 5isitation of another  Atlantean god/s cion while still allowing that cion to gain the #ower of the original Atlantean god. In this way, -eshon and )emosia are able to #erform 5isitations for cions of "aft, &adarus and any other Atlantean god. !he target of the s#ell must be the descendent of the #articular god in 'uestion 8as detailed above in the Old &lood s#ell9. o when Old &lood is used, it awa"ens the blood of &adarus, 5ersa" or one of the others. Additionally, this s#ell may only be cast 0during0 a 5isitation. 2iven the tra##ed nature of the two goddesses, this usually means using it in tandem with the !ransient 5isitation s#ell, ma"ing the effort all the more costly. -owever, if the Legend is s#ent and the Intelligence J Occult roll succeeds at a difficulty H, then the new cion is considered to have recieved a 5isitation from another god, rather than -eshon or )emosia. !his s#ell may only be #erformed within #antheon. !he Atlantean goddesses may only #erform this s#ell on behalf of other Atlanteans. hould a member of the *esed+et learn it, she could only use it on behalf of other members of the *esed+et, or an Aesir could use it for other  Aesir, etc. Note also that when -eshon or )emosia stumble across their own bloodlines, they need not use this s#ell to #erform the 5isitation. !ransient 5isitation is usually enough. Self-Sustaining Change 0 Level DH #ell oll< Intelligence J Occult (ost< >H Legend J D Will#ower  !his s#ell is one develo#ed by Oceanus to "ee# his changes in the Overworld and 3nderworld thriving without his #resence. 3sing this s#ell, the caster may tie the 7ate of an effect to the su#ernatural #owers of a realm rather than to the user himself. !his ma"es the magic self0 sustaining as the #ower is now tied to the realm and is a natural #art of it. !his s#ell is cast in con+unction with an All *ur#ose *urview which normally has a duration on it. Instant effects such as -ealFInfect or )essicate are not a##licable. -owever, when cast in con+unction with a &oon which normally has a set duration, by succeeding at a difficulty e'ual to the 8level of the &oon $ @9 when casting the s#ell, the effect may be e$tended to a duration of :indefinately.: -owever, in doing so, the caster loses control of the &oon during that time. If cast u#on a Water 5orte$ to "ee# the water s#out s#inning forever, the user may no longer control the Water 5orte$ as it rages out of control from then on and may damage the original user of the #ower. In order for the original caster to ta"e control of the effect once again, he must unweave his own s#ell using the normal rules for such. When doing so, the user then ta"es control of the effect once more where he left off. Others who "now the s#ell may also unweave the magic. )oing so causes the effect to sim#ly dissi#ate, however, rather than being able to ta"e control of it. When this s#ell is first cast, it must be done as a multi#le action alongside the casting of the initial effect. All Legend and Will#ower costs must be #aid then and the Intelligence J Occult or other a##ro#riate #ool for the other effect 8whichever is lower9 suffers the usual 0= #enalty for being a multi#le action. 7inally, this s#ell may only be cast in the Overworld, 3nderworld or !errae Incognitae. !he mundane World does not have the energies necessary to em#ower the magics to wor" on their own. The Spell to Combine ods!!! ... has been lost. After Oceanus used the s#ell to merge his essence with that of &adarus, he

then wrote down the s#ell in a boo" he was "ee#ing and used &adarus/ stolen #ower of cire to erase the "nowledge of the s#ell from the world. !hough everyone "nows he used :%agic: to #ull it off, the #articular s#ell he used is gone. !his is the same boo" which Oceanus then wrote the names of the fallen Atlantean gods in before he burnt it. o any chance of remembering the #articulars of the s#ell that was used are also gone. -e has ensured that no one will be able to undo 8or re#licate9 what he did to &adarus using %agic.