When people think of the Underworld, they think of Hades — the god draped in shadow, brother to Zeus and ruler of the dead, his realm carved from silence and sealed away from Olympus. But the truth is… he wasn’t the first. Because long before Olympus rose… before the Titans fell… before even light existed… there was something else. A presence. A force. A god. But this ‘being’ didn’t rule with a scepter or a crown… or sit on a throne. It simply was.  A suffocating darkness so complete… that even the gods feared it. And while time has tried to erase it from memory — buried beneath the myths of younger, more palatable deities — its shadow still lingers. This… is the story of the one who ruled before Hades. The one who gave birth to death, to night, to fate itself… The one who was the darkness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.