❛ long ago , beneath the sea … in sunken caves so deep & dark the GODS THEMSELVES t r e m b l e & avert their gaze … OUR STORY BEGINS. simple cells reach out to one another. twisting & searching in the eldritch gloom & L I F E is born. life without intellect , without sentience. only instinct & hunger. then begins the long climb. bones grow into spines , gills give way to lungs. the ice & the thawing ; the bronze & the iron & THE COMING OF MAN. predators become pack leaders … then chieftains … & finally KINGS.


















