Post by Foley on Feb 15, 2013 3:15:31 GMT -5
In the middle of a mystically endless ocean, in a dimension a sidestep away from the one that was home to Humanity, there is an island. A tropical paradise filled with lush trees, amazing wildlife of all types known and unknown to man, and a tribe of women warriors know only in legend and myth. These are the Amazons of Themyscira.
These women, each and immortal beauty stronger then the strongest moral man, were gathered and granted their gifts by the goddesses of ancient Greek myth led by Athena. The Goddess of Wisdom gathered the souls of women slain by men since the days of the caveman and used them to create her perfect Amazons. She then charged them with a certain task. A task as dark and ugly as the other dimensional Themyscira was bright and beautiful.
For located at the center of the island was a doorway that's shape, size, and ultimate design and manufacture had no place anywhere a place that was based on ancient Greece. This doorway, sealed by its massive iron vault, lead to a place that contain the vilest, darkest, most depraved monsters and demons that the Gods of Olympus, along with other pantheons, banished and locked away from the dimension of mortal man. It was the task of the Amazons, overseen by Queen Hippolyta, to make sure that nothing ever managed to escape through that doorway and into the mortal world...
"...and that's what they have done from the day of their creation til today," Professor Julia Kapatelis said, her face painted with the glow of the firelight as she finished telling her story to the ring of girls as they all sat around the campfire they had built on their own. The ring included her teen daughter Vanessa.
"That's just a fairytale though isn't it?" one girl asked sticking a marsh mellow on her stick to toast.
"Yes, Susan," Kapatelis answered, "But the thing about legends and fairy tales is that they are almost always based on some tiny kernel of truth. That's why all of your parents and myself are out here in the Grecian wilderness to see if we can find some proof that the Amazons were real once upon a time and if we find that maybe we can find out just where they went after that.
Unbeknown to Professor Kapatelis, the girls were not the only ones watching and listening to her that summer Greek night. In the other realm of Olympus, Athena watched the women through a mystic pool and wondered, not for the first time, if she was the one the Fates had said would bring forth the new champion of the Amazons to lead mortal man to peace at last. If so, then there was much to get ready for, much indeed.
These women, each and immortal beauty stronger then the strongest moral man, were gathered and granted their gifts by the goddesses of ancient Greek myth led by Athena. The Goddess of Wisdom gathered the souls of women slain by men since the days of the caveman and used them to create her perfect Amazons. She then charged them with a certain task. A task as dark and ugly as the other dimensional Themyscira was bright and beautiful.
For located at the center of the island was a doorway that's shape, size, and ultimate design and manufacture had no place anywhere a place that was based on ancient Greece. This doorway, sealed by its massive iron vault, lead to a place that contain the vilest, darkest, most depraved monsters and demons that the Gods of Olympus, along with other pantheons, banished and locked away from the dimension of mortal man. It was the task of the Amazons, overseen by Queen Hippolyta, to make sure that nothing ever managed to escape through that doorway and into the mortal world...
"...and that's what they have done from the day of their creation til today," Professor Julia Kapatelis said, her face painted with the glow of the firelight as she finished telling her story to the ring of girls as they all sat around the campfire they had built on their own. The ring included her teen daughter Vanessa.
"That's just a fairytale though isn't it?" one girl asked sticking a marsh mellow on her stick to toast.
"Yes, Susan," Kapatelis answered, "But the thing about legends and fairy tales is that they are almost always based on some tiny kernel of truth. That's why all of your parents and myself are out here in the Grecian wilderness to see if we can find some proof that the Amazons were real once upon a time and if we find that maybe we can find out just where they went after that.
Unbeknown to Professor Kapatelis, the girls were not the only ones watching and listening to her that summer Greek night. In the other realm of Olympus, Athena watched the women through a mystic pool and wondered, not for the first time, if she was the one the Fates had said would bring forth the new champion of the Amazons to lead mortal man to peace at last. If so, then there was much to get ready for, much indeed.