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Dawn

Part 1 of Neytopia. Mankind is born, and with it an immortal woman who believes the world is hers. Over centuries she wages wars, builds kingdoms and invents gods, all to change human nature.

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Chapters

1. Birth
   Born alongside mankind, she grows up adored as a living goddess, until her first voyage across the sea goes terribly wrong.
2. Popsicles
   Burned and sunk by her own sailors, the goddess wakes in the deep and swears she will make them pay.
3. Embrace, extend and extinguish
   Back from the sea, the goddess vows to change human nature itself and sets out to unite the world under her rule.
4. Skeptic
   A boy who asks too many questions about the gods meets the goddess herself.
5. The man with all the answers
   As her war of unification collapses in the frozen north, the skeptic boy, now grown, returns to her story.
6. Worthy sacrifice
   Crushed by war, famine and self-doubt, the goddess drinks in her tent while the enemy closes in.
7. Thunder
   A man flees in shame through the night, and a village wakes to find its goddess lifeless.
8. Everything had to change
   Two centuries into her war to end all wars, the goddess learns that time makes even gods cruel.
9. Ziggurats and fire gods
   Retired on a small island, an immortal discovers she cannot rest, and looks for a new way to rule.
10. Monster
    Revolution comes to a kingdom: a royal family is hanged and a vicious criminal is made president.
11. Esoteric surgery
    The goddess enters a reeking cave alone to face the beast hiding inside.
12. At the bottom of the box
    More powerful than ever, the goddess wants one last thing: the love and worship of the masses.
13. Winter winds
    The goddess sets the northern cities ablaze, and the North unites against her, until the day of the Big Cold.
14. History's greatest irony
    After the Big Cold, the goddess marches north again, and this time her attack is unlike anything before.