Forgotten Titan: Downfallen

The Forgotten Titan (Atlas Lost) is a geographical location of the ruins of an ancient war-torn kingdom (Atlas). The war is fought over by two ancient kingdoms over the hand in marriage of princess from a third more powerful kingdom, Atlas. Two princes, each not able to inherit their own kingdom, fought each other for a chance to marry the crowned princess of Atlas, which was a known worshipping kingdom of The Maker.   The Atlas princess however objected to this as she felt neither prince is worthy and deserved to be wed to her and subsequently be viewed as ruler (king). Thus, she begs The Maker and bargains her first born child for the strength and will to win the war and defeat the other kingdoms.   And thus, the three kingdoms fights a long and arduous war. In the end, the princess is able to defeat the other princes and wins her chance to marry at her own will. She chooses her own general to be her husband. Because she could not forget The Maker’s pact to take her firstborn, thus she is hesitant to bear her own heir. But her husband, the new king, under guise of The Maker, convinces the Queen that their first-born would only be made as a loyal monk of The Maker’s new shrine and monastery and no sacrifices would be taken. The Queen reluctantly agrees and falls pregnant.   Overtime, as the Queen’s pregnancy wanes on, she also notices the effects of the war has done on her kingdom. Relations with other kingdoms is strained by the war, as the families of the fallen princes harbour significantly hatred for the Queen.   Her own kingdom is significant debt and food became scarce and becomes plagued with famine and disease. Her people grow restless and angry, believing she is no long fit to rule, thus riots and unrest continuously break out within the kingdom.   The king with knowledge of this, and unwilling to easily relinquish his throne, plots against the Queen with the help of neighbouring kingdoms. The king stages a coup against the Queen on the night of a blue moon. The Queen even while late in her pregnancy is able to vanquish the insurrectionists with the help of a few loyal servants in a long battle that desecrates the people and the land of Atlas, leaving nothing but blood and flesh, and ruins.   Despite the victory, the Queen wanders through a now ashen and downfallen Atlas with few survivors, walking into the throne room, she sees her throne is lit on fire. The Queen breaks down in tears realizing the errors of war and how disheartening it is to have destroyed her land, kingdom, and legacy, this triggering her labour. She begs the king to help her bring their child into the world, only for him to draw his blade at her citing that he doesn’t want to share his crown with her nor the child and The Maker promised him wealth and sovereignty if he helps fulfill her previous deal with The Maker by sacrificing the Queen’s first born child. He crowns himself (a buffalo horned crown) the new ruler of Atlas Anew (as the king of the new era of Atlas).   She battles him but whilst initially the king proves to be stronger and more powerful than the Queen, she ultimately gives into The Maker’s hold on her and letting the hatred and wrath she feels overtake her. Her body transforms into fiery beast of disfiguring flesh and skin. Carved into her skin are the faces of the many fallen warriors and civilians who died in her useless war. Her body however still contracting to prepare for the birth of her child. Distraught and disoriented, the new Flesh Queen thrashes the room. The king frightened by the onslaught of change, attempts to flee the scene.   In a clear moment of sanity, the Queen grabs her trusted thin sword and slashes at the fleeing king and in a clean stroke shears off his head.   The Queen’s body now uncontrollably disfigured with screaming flesh, contracts a final time before exploding. In her carcass, lies a wailing baby, but in a flash of a second, stands a tall and slender women, War, the second of The Maker’s Horsemen. She picks up her father’s buffalo horned crown and her mother’s thin sword as the remainder of her mother’s flesh and her father’s blood oozes into the stony floor of the throne room. She nods slightly to a shadowy figure slouching on the still burning throne engulfed in the flame before walking off from this now abysmal landscape.   This particular location is said to be near the edge of Tianne and Outpost Melinoë.