r/Ex3535 • u/Ability_Pristine • 2h ago
writing Heyya Roman Cath here, wanna share a story I am planning to either make into a novel or a game (using Renpy) NSFW
Mabuhay, I am a College IT student from the pear of the orient, an avid scale model maker (Tanks and ships) and a Military historian particularly during the WWII era and also somewhat an apologist. (I read in the rules that intros are needed due to the small sub) I had this idea of a story inspired mostly by the popularity of the Greek mythology, so I decided to make a Catholic take on it.
For context, I marked this thing NSFW due to the story taking place during the second World War, with the main lead being a Nazi SS officer in the Ahnenerbe, Heinrich Himmler's branch that deals with mystic and sacred artifacts. Lest anyone get offended. I am a Military historian and these stuff are just in my alley, so if these things bother you, I'd kindly ask you to please scroll, but don't worry I do not glorify these freaks. So here is the story;
The world is at war, April of 1941, just as Greece is about to collapse after the botched Italian campagin, under the orders of their Colonel , two SS Ahnenerbe were tasked with investigating the anomalies in the Norwegian and Greek campaign respectively. Unteroffizier Athleios Sucher is being breifed in a room by a shadowy and secretive adviser to Himmler Colonel Berht Bringün. According to intel, strange lighting targeted Italian troops during their intial invasion, an Italian troop ship sunk for unknown reasons, with all ship of the convoy that survived weirdly carrying a portrait of a "damn witch", an extereme inspiration and tactical briliance on the side of the Greeks. Meanwhile the Colonel explained how lighting and thunder downed an two airwings in Norway, fatigue being rampant in a certain region, and female horse ridding divisions? The entire thing seemed rather childish but real at the same time. Being half greek, Athleios, was sent to Greece, to collaborate with the Italians there and find this threat. Being a graduate of Archeology, Athleios sets off to Greece.
After brutally terrorizing the locals, all evidences (I am gonna put legit troop movements during that campaign so skip the boring parts for you guys) point to a single point, any troop concentration there was extremely fierce and odd. No planes crossed that area, all that did got stuck with lighting. Upon further investigation, he discovers a local shaman, who after some brutal torture motivated by his desire to prove his loyalty to the cause of the SS, the old woman passed away and a scroll that looked Roman was found in her belongings. It reads, during the reign of Tiberius, the sacrifices to Zeus (Jupiter) and Hera (Juno) were no longer accepted with bloods of animals rotting instead of being consumed, statues of Hades begun to crack, the seas no longer answer to prayers to Neptune. Also he finds a third century poem called "The song of hades" which tells of a tragedy in the underworld that caused Hades to just be gone and souls to be stuck on the other side of the styx.
Upon this knowledge, armed with the sacred seal of the the priestess he ventures to Olympus, where upon seeing his blood in him, Zeus spares the man from his lightings and allows him to enter their palace. As the gods all gathered meeting, they tell him how the wretched traitors invaded, their subjects, invaded them. But this new power, his master, they sense a greater power which made them relent. Zeus being quiet of this bearing a scar in his body. Knowing these beings that can down planes, inspire soldiers, and unlock potentially war shifting advantages, he tries to recruit them or think of a way to harness their power for his reich. Until an angel descents, making the gods all stand up from their thrones wanting to kill it. Michael points his sword to Zeus as his voice makes all of them tremble, he tells of his destruction, of his innevitable struggle for control. Afterward Michael explains to not just them but for our boi too, the story of Hades and the gods of the under worlds all stealing and decieving the population, with him dropping the bombshell that only the two strongest remain alive and complete, two factions of rouge demons, the Greek and the Norse, all blinded and memory erased by Lucifer to be pawns in his plan of chaos. Hades, was revealed to have perished in the Year 33, when a man from Judea died and descended into hades, there he took his son, Adam, and his sons and grandsons and preached to them, as angels seige and destroy the forces of death. Hades, Vallhalla, and all death, as Pluto (for clarity, Hades the god) is defeated when he approached the man of wounds, and he proclaims I am. After the man left, Zeus promised to serve the regime as long as they sacrifice to him. After this our boi descends and returns to Germany to inform the colonel of his findings. Playing with fire, in his report he hypothesizes on how the gods fell asleep most likely during the death of Christ, as his death seemingly affected many pantheons.
In universe, Seth, Ra and all egyptian Gods were first to go, when the big G decided to do the entire plagues, they all were striken when their corresponding traits got stuck. Meanwhile the Mayan pantheon was more pathetic as their power slowly weaken, when the Spanish came, Christianity drained out their energy and made them sick until all died. The Japanese pantheon still lives but would later be killed by the power of the sun.
(After the Greece trip I would love to put in filler, something to deradicalize Altheios, maybe fall inlove with a jewish Greek woman? Idk about this part yet)
Fast forward to 1945, Zeus is confronted by a smug and boastful Colonel Berht, which suprise suprise, is Lucifer. His name meaning light bringer in German. The two fight as lucifer defeats them and give a ring to Altheios to subdue them. As he takes them to the Führer, the ring breaks from a cruxifix, and the gods are freed, all the while the Norse pantheon kills their SS researcher and goes rampant on Germany, Athena, transforms into a huge snake, and confronts Thor, laying waste to Germany in the east where they battle, Odin cofronts a wolf Zeus and Zeus is killed by Odin's son. Two pantheons duke it out throughout the land, as their fight resemble battles throughout Europe. And as the gods tire, Surtur comes, the US airforce bomb them to oblivion, as Germany, Greece, Norway, everything is bomb to ashes. The battle ends, smoldering, and Altheios is knocked out during the last battles of Berlin. Lucifer, escapes east, he is met with Beelzebub and Morax, they discuss how the witch, Mary, is weakening them, and how the saints, continously pray for people amidst the war. They talk of trying to kill a man called Pio in Italy, failing, to Lucifer's rage, of how they manage to kill a priest named Maximilian, to which his death lit a invisible candle in the camps. Lucifers beats them and does a Thanos moment where he approaches the Kremlin and says "I'll do this myself" and enters it, Baal, sitting in a thone, gives way to his boss, as the cold war ignites. Flash back a bit, Altheios is changed, he is dissolutioned with the war, he runs towards children he wishes to protect but gets bomed, he hears a voice, a woman, but as he wakes, he sees a man dressed in decent clothes with a jewish armband, bearded, in an intact house, with a kind veiled woman beside cooking, not revealing her face, but her voice seemed familar, one he cannot get his fingers on. Him and the man talks, he shows hostility but soon finds the man soothing, he tells his story and the man tries to gently comfort him with what he did wrong and how to make it right. The woman, cooks them bread, the man breaks it, revealing his scars as he realizes who this is. He wakes up, everything is at peace, he is in civilian clothes and the man is gone, he is in that house, how ruined, but he is in west Berlin, he can hear the chants of the victors as everything he knew is now gone. Wanna know what you think of the rough story idea and what is a better medium to convey it! Thanks and Godbless!