Design

Story

The story of this game is derived from Greek mythology, which is full of arguments between and within families. This one involves two families of gods and the unending collection of planets that are ruined and then restored in the process.

Cast of Characters

• Eris - Goddess of Strife and Discord (Controlled by the player.)
  • Daughter of Nyx
  • Sister of Hypnos
  • Mother of Lethe
• Nyx - Goddess of Night
  • Mother of Eris and Hypnos
• Hypnos - Goddess of Sleep
  • Daughter of Nyx
  • Sister of Eris
• Lethe - Goddess of Forgetfulness
  • Daughter of Eris
• Themis - Goddess of Divine Law and Order
  • Advisor to Zeus
  • Daughter of Uranus and Gaia
• Uranus - God of Sky
  • Father of Themis
• Gaia - Goddess of Earth
  • Mother of Themis

The Cycle

You are the goddess Eris in human form, condemned to repair the damage you caused to a planet. This story repeats in a loop indefinitely.

Eris causes war on a planet that results in the elimination of most life and an imbalance of the elements. The imbalance of elements upsets Uranus and Gaia who seek intervention by their daughter Themis. Themis sentences Eris to restore the elemental balance as a human directly on a planet she had ruined. Eris records a message to herself in the computer of an escape pod. This message is an instruction to restore the balance of the elements. The escape pod cannot be activated until the balance has been restored and warns that Eris’ presence is a destabilizing force on the planet. Themis incarnates Eris to a human form, and instructs Lethe to cause her to forget being a goddess entirely. Hypnos puts Eris into a deep sleep and delivers her to the ruined planet. Eris wakes up near the escape pod. The escape pod allows her to view the message she recorded for herself, and provides a weapon to use. Eris restores the balance of the elements by defeating the bosses of each biome and then a final boss in its own biome. After the defeat of the final boss, Eris must return to the escape pod prior to time running out, presumably to avoid destabilizing the elements again. Eris enters the now active escape pod to leave the planet. It ramps up in power to fly away, but instead violently explodes. (On purpose!) This surprise ending returns Eris to the realm of the gods. Her human form was annihilated in the explosion. Being a goddess and immortal, her memories return and being a dark goddess she resumes doing what she does best, and returns to step #1 in the loop.