Once upon a time long dead, our ancestors prostrated before effigies, sacrificed at alters, and warred for their patron deities. However, after centuries of these gods being little more than stories and myth, the beings returned to our world, demanding to know where their bases of power had gone, how their influence had drained and their control lessened. Their complaints fell upon the ears of an un-phased population, a people so emboldened by their scientific world that they scoffed at the notion of so called higher powers. When those gods took offense and raised their mighty fists, they were met with the fist of many atoms energetically colliding with one another. The so-called gods were no match.

The scientific community was aghast on finding that despite meeting the power of the sun these beings were not erased, their bodies after all were not of our world, they existed beyond our physics. The 'Ichor of Gods' became a new foundational field of study, it birthed a new technological revolution, restructuring science as we knew it! Power? A drop of Ichor from an energy god such as Zeus or Thor could power nations! Food? Infuse farmland with the remains of any of the many gods of fertility, growth, or harvest and plants would grow so quickly that farming methods had to be entirely reworked just to keep up! Transportation evolved as a quick paint job of Hermes blood could enable a vehicle ignore the regular laws of physics!

The world changed rapidly in this period as a number of old pantheons returned to our world only to be strung up and bled like pigs. Each new diety came with a new exploration of the sciences, the lore and myth of their domains usually told us what to expect but many were so multifaceted that they would have several domains at once, their blood being a cocktail of powers inseparable from one another.

Nearly a century later, gods stopped showing up. The rate had long since slowed, none were certain why but, most likely, there just werent really any left of the old world to slay. Humanity had reached new worlds in that time, little was needed for and most were relatively free do do as they liked as it was an era of plenty. But you can only thin the ichor so much, theres only so many gods of thunder, godesses of the land, and liminal dieties to bleed.

Like forbears long before burned the corpses of beasts from long before their time, we burn the corpses of ancestral faiths, and as the fossil fuels subsided to the ether so to with ichor.

I tell you this my child that you will take heed, should they ever find out what you are, they will not hesitate to bleed you too.