Anatolia Lore

ORIGINS

Rhea, daughter of Earth and Sky, was an incredibly strong goddess, comparable even to her mother, Gaia. However, Gaia was a diviner, and could see string of the fates. She forsaw a terrible prophecy that Rhea's seventh child would one day devour the world and bring an end to all humanity. This extreme was too much to bear, so she lay a curse upon Rhea's womb to allow her to only give birth to six children.
However, Gaia was foolish. Rhea knew this prophecy, she had seen it, but she wanted a seventh child. She wanted to have a daughter more powerful than ever before. She was tired of her simple life as the daughter of earth, she wanted more. She wanted to be the mother of chaos.
So Rhea made a deal with Aphrodite, the goddess of love1 for her husband Cronos to be extremely fertile, and soon thereafter, Rhea was pregnant.
When Rhea gave birth, she had

  • Zeus
  • Hera
  • Poseidon
  • Hades
  • Hestia
  • Demeter

However, Rhea still had one daughter inside her womb. And she knew that Gaia would kill her the moment she was born. So, she kept Anatolia inside her womb, living and growing there, for three years.

During this time, as Anatolia heard conversations her mother had and developed an understanding of the world around her, there was one thing she couldn't figure out the meaning behind, something too strange to comprehend. Emotions.

Anatolia studied emotions, the way people changed their voices and what they said. She came to understand emotions like happiness, excitement, confusion, however, those emotions did not have the rich complexities as the ones like sadness, fear, anger, depression. She felt alive when others were feeling those emotions. She felt hunger for more.

After three years, Anatolia had developed into a full goddess, but she was still inside Rhea's womb. Cronos noticed the strange shape in his wife's stomach, and thought she was hiding something from him, so he pinned her down and cut open her belly. Anatolia sprang out, and ran to the mountains, far from Cronos, Rhea, and the rest of the gods and humans. However, Gaia, the earth, knew where Anatolia was, so she sent her minions to kill her. Anatolia was defenseless, knowing nothing about combat or anything else. However, a human named Kaperdeigma2 fought off Gaia's minions and saved Anatolia. She was in love with him, and they became engaged, but on her wedding day, he did not show up. She was heartbroken, and sought him out, where she found him in bed with another, mortal woman. Furious, and in an act of rage and anger, she brought out her sword to kill him, but as she was preparing to strike, she noticed his fear and it made her feel the same thing she felt when she was in Rhea's womb: that powerful quenching of an emotional hunger. However, when she killed him, that feeling went away.

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