EoM Bk 1: The Gift of Fire
Copyright© 2026 by Carlos Santiago
Preface
Disclaimer:
This story is the first volume in the series Era of Man. While reading the previous works (The In the Beginning Trilogy and The Time of Zeus Quintet) is not required to understand the narrative or character arcs presented here, familiarity with them may provide additional context that is helpful to the reader. Future installments will include brief content notices, but the foundational one will only be in the Book 1 of any of the Series.
To tack onto this, while these works have the ‘explicit sexual encounters’ mentioned below (as well as everything else), this is a story first where sex can occur. As such, the narrative and characters come before any gratification you might be expecting, so if you came in hoping that those in this story have sex immediately, I do apologize, but this is not that kind of story.
This specific work contains depictions of explicit sexual encounters, graphic violence, manipulation, and magic. These elements are presented within a mythological framework and are integral to the world and characters portrayed.
Chapter One of this story explores (but does not show) themes of rape. Later chapters have consensual impregnation, discussions of power imbalance, and homosexual and bisexual themes. This is an advanced warning so readers may know what to expect and choose whether to continue or not.
All Olympian gods in this narrative are related because they spawn from a single source: Chaos (with a few notable exceptions). This is not an invention of the author, but a reflection of Greek mythological source material. While incestuous relationships do occur in the narrative of the overall story, the author does not believe they occur in this one, and unless important to the story, they will not be brought up often.
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“The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While these cartoons do not represent today’s society, they are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed.”
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