History of the Apollites:
Zeus and Apollo were walking through Thebes. Zeus looked down upon his puppy-eyed worshippers and commented on the perfection of the human race. Like every son who wants to one-up his father, Apollo scoffed, bragging that he could do better with one hand tied behind his back. To prove his point, he found a nymph to beat his more- perfect children, children who would hold the fate of the world in their hands. It was as true then as it is now- absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Made from his own flesh and blood, he dubbed the new race Apollite and gave them superior strength and psychic abilities. In three days, the first four Apollites where born, blond and beautiful and with psychic abilities. Three days later they where adults and three days later they were ready to take over the world.
Zeus banished the Apollites from Earth and sent them to Atlantis, where they brooded and stews, intermarrying with the Atlantean natives. An aggressive race, ever pursuing their hunger for world conquest. Apollo looks forward to the day he would sit on Olympus as Supreme God.
In 10,500 B.C. the Apollites sent the beautiful virgin Clieto to Delphi as an offering to Apollo. He fell in love with her and she gave birth to ten of his children: five sets of twins. Sent back to Atlantis they intermarried with the royal house, securing the rule of Atlantis for Apollo. Through Atlantis, Apollo meant to cast out Zeus and take his rightful place as ruler of the heavens and the earth.
Apollo fathered the first son of every Atlantean queen, hoping each child would be the one chosen to bring about the downfall of the Atlantean gods.
In 9548 B.C. Apollo disguised himself as the Queens dead husband as a phantom in a dream. Same year Apollymi found that she was with child.
Years later the Greeks offer up a virgin to Apollo: Ryssa, Acheron's sister. She bore him a son. The Atlantean queen immediately ordered the death of Ryssa and her son, instructing her minions to not hold back in their brutality, to make it look as if wild animals had torn the woman and child the shreds.
They did their job.
And so Apollo destroyed Atlantis (at least that's what Apollo says).
His beloved sister Artemis manages to stop him before he destroyed all the Apollites (and with them, the world), so instead he cursed his wayward children. He named them the wild animals that slaughtered his mistress and son, giving them characteristics befitting such beasts (the fangs and eyes of predators) and forcing them to feed on one another's blood every few days in order to survive. He banished them from his domain, the sun, as he could no longer bear to look upon them and be reminded of their treachery.
To this day, Apollites only live to the age of twenty-seven: three times three times three, the age Ryssa was at her death. On the last day they die an excruciatingly painful death, slowly disintegrating to dust until the sun finally sets.
Zeus and Apollo were walking through Thebes. Zeus looked down upon his puppy-eyed worshippers and commented on the perfection of the human race. Like every son who wants to one-up his father, Apollo scoffed, bragging that he could do better with one hand tied behind his back. To prove his point, he found a nymph to beat his more- perfect children, children who would hold the fate of the world in their hands. It was as true then as it is now- absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Made from his own flesh and blood, he dubbed the new race Apollite and gave them superior strength and psychic abilities. In three days, the first four Apollites where born, blond and beautiful and with psychic abilities. Three days later they where adults and three days later they were ready to take over the world.
Zeus banished the Apollites from Earth and sent them to Atlantis, where they brooded and stews, intermarrying with the Atlantean natives. An aggressive race, ever pursuing their hunger for world conquest. Apollo looks forward to the day he would sit on Olympus as Supreme God.
In 10,500 B.C. the Apollites sent the beautiful virgin Clieto to Delphi as an offering to Apollo. He fell in love with her and she gave birth to ten of his children: five sets of twins. Sent back to Atlantis they intermarried with the royal house, securing the rule of Atlantis for Apollo. Through Atlantis, Apollo meant to cast out Zeus and take his rightful place as ruler of the heavens and the earth.
Apollo fathered the first son of every Atlantean queen, hoping each child would be the one chosen to bring about the downfall of the Atlantean gods.
In 9548 B.C. Apollo disguised himself as the Queens dead husband as a phantom in a dream. Same year Apollymi found that she was with child.
Years later the Greeks offer up a virgin to Apollo: Ryssa, Acheron's sister. She bore him a son. The Atlantean queen immediately ordered the death of Ryssa and her son, instructing her minions to not hold back in their brutality, to make it look as if wild animals had torn the woman and child the shreds.
They did their job.
And so Apollo destroyed Atlantis (at least that's what Apollo says).
His beloved sister Artemis manages to stop him before he destroyed all the Apollites (and with them, the world), so instead he cursed his wayward children. He named them the wild animals that slaughtered his mistress and son, giving them characteristics befitting such beasts (the fangs and eyes of predators) and forcing them to feed on one another's blood every few days in order to survive. He banished them from his domain, the sun, as he could no longer bear to look upon them and be reminded of their treachery.
To this day, Apollites only live to the age of twenty-seven: three times three times three, the age Ryssa was at her death. On the last day they die an excruciatingly painful death, slowly disintegrating to dust until the sun finally sets.
