The gods believed immortality was eternal—Apollo learned otherwise. Banished from Olympus for revealing forbidden prophecies to mankind, the radiant deity awakens powerless, nameless, and forsaken. Reduced to a bleeding mortal gasping in the cold earth, Apollo must navigate human fragility while clinging to the divinity that refuses to die. The realm he knew has transformed. Civilizations crumble, ancient forces awaken, and fate's tapestry tears in places never meant to break. Darkness gathers with intention—a shadow the heavens themselves failed to predict. Ten years of mortality stand as Apollo's penance. Ten years to endure, to survive, to understand that freedom extracted at such cost carries a price no immortal anticipated. Yet survival brings no salvation, and power abandoned is never truly relinquished.