The Tapestry of Fate

In ancient Arcadia, where gods walk unseen among mortals, pride can summon punishment more terrible than death.

King Lykaon of Lycosura rules with arrogance and iron will, until two strangers arrive to unmake his world. The first is Emma, a haunting beauty who stokes his darkest desires and whispers poison into his ear. The second is Olympios, a wandering miracle-worker whose quiet power wins the hearts of Lykaon’s people. When the king’s pride is wounded before his court, paranoia festers into madness, and he devises a gruesome “test” to prove Olympios’s mortality.

But Olympios is no mortal. He is Zeus himself, and Lykaon’s blasphemous feast will ignite divine wrath. In a moment of cosmic justice, the proud king is condemned to a fate worse than death, transformed into a monstrous wolf whose howls echo his eternal remorse.

As the ashes of Lycosura cool, Emma’s true nature is revealed: she is an Empousa, servant of Ares, setting the stage for a greater war among the gods.

A dark retelling of the legend of Lykaon, this mythological fantasy explores the thin line between power and madness, faith and manipulation, and the monstrous heart of hubris itself.