A Rival Pantheon to the Gods

The Atlanteans believed themselves chosen, heirs to the divine order that the Titans had once governed.

They possessed old knowledge, knowledge that the Olympians new to their thrones had

yet to comprehend or control. They understood the patterns of the stars,

the pulses of the Earth, the rhythm of the sea and perhaps even the fabric

of creation itself. In some accounts, they experimented with energies extracted from crystals.

In others, they commanded weather or manipulated elemental forces once reserved for primordial beings.

Such mastery placed them not beneath the gods but beside them, and nothing threatens

a rising pantheon more than a rival born of the ancient world, one whose roots