When Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance, is commanded by Zeus to slay the god of nightmares... she uncovers an Olympian web of conspiracy that could prove her undoing!

SYNOPSIS:

Fierce Nemesis grazes her winged nightmare in the mountains of the Frozen North. On the hunt, she slays a stag as white as the fallen snow. After mounting the animal on a spit and starting a fire to feed her Furies, Nemesis relaxes into the restful, fireside task of carving the great stag’s antlers…

That is, until Nemesis is interrupted by the sound of a grieving god, Zeus, howling prayers of vengeance and oaths of woe. To slay a god is no light matter, and to do so endangers both the natural and political balance of the heavens. In all the cosmos, only one is entrusted with the terrible responsibility of delivering mortal justice or revenge from god unto god. Her name is Nemesis, captain of the Furies, goddess of vengeance; Nemesis the Godslayer.

Struck down by the work of some other god, Hera the queen of Olympus and the wife of Zeus lies in torment, consumed with waking terrors both from her own past and out of her imagination. With the bedside manner of an impatient soldier, Nemesis searches Hera’s room for any sign of who her assailant might be - eventually finding a spider web. Plucking a strand of the web with a knife, Nemesis listens for the scuttling of a spider… and tracking the animal, she follows it until it squeezes into the darkness of a crack between two pieces of stone.

Looking into the presence of spiders in Olympus, Nemesis very quickly gets the impression that the gods there are not telling her everything. But who dares to lie to Nemesis? Only Mercury appears to have nothing to hide, and once she actually catches up with him he volunteers that the spiders are a sign of the nightmare god Nyx - and that he has been more present in the palace, of late.

Nemesis cannot find the evasive Nyx, but she does manage to track down his brother Hypnos. Being older than her, Hypnos is hard to bully or interrogate into divulging information that would incriminate his family. Once she releases him, however, Nemesis is able to track Hypnos as he goes to warn Nyx about the Fury investigating him.

When Nemesis finds Nyx, what follows is a battle between two gods full of magic and brutality. In the end, Nyx is slain and Nemesis reports to Zeus that her contract is complete. Satisfied in her work, Nemesis returns to the camp where she left her Furies to revel and prepares to tell the story…

Pleading into the skies, Hypnos calls the wrath of Nemesis down upon Zeus. There’s no law that says a god can’t just invoke Nemesis right back against those who prayed to her before, but it’s annoying. More than that, it’s insulting. To call her now implies that killing Nyx was unjust, and Nemesis does not make mistakes.

When she delivers these truths to Hypnos, he naturally remains unconsoled. What’s more, he insists that there is more to the case of Nyx than Nemesis has seen. While she’s irritated with the disruption to her revels and the hubris of demanding that she made a mistake, Nemesis cannot ignore the nagging feeling that the gods of Olympus were not telling her everything. In the end, she cannot dismiss Hypnos’ claim to revenge just yet.

Why was Hermes so eager to throw Nyx to the proverbial wolves? What are the gods of Olympus hiding? Returning to Olympus, Nemesis begins to uncover rumors that the Egyptian gods are planning an attack. All throughout the kingdom, gods are watching for the presence of spies and are suspicious of outsiders. Finally making her way to Hephaestus, Nemesis discovers that Zeus has commissioned armaments for the coming battle. Is Zeus building an army in anticipation of the attack, or is he planning an invasion himself?

Returning to Hypnos, Nemesis demands to know what role Nyx might have had in the war plans. Readily admitting that there may have been more to Nyx’s death than she first assumed, Nemesis digs into Hypnos for answers. All Hypnos can tell her is that Nyx sees a lot of things others wish he didn’t. If he was killed to cover up Zeus’ plans for war, then there was nothing righteous about sending him to the underworld.

With nobody else to interrogate, Nemesis journeys to the Underworld to get Nyx’s story from the god’s own lips… and Hades will not allow her entrance. First with oaths and then with her sword, Nemesis tries to bully her way past the gates. Finally understanding that nobody can force their way into the Underworld, Nemesis departs the gates of the Underworld just a little too reasonably.

Going back to Hypnos, Nemesis asks who in Greek Mythology has managed to get in and out of the Underworld without the permission of Hades. Demanding that she had better get him his revenge before he finds someone else who will, Hypnos tells her the story of Odysseus, and the story of Persephone -

Persephone. Great. Nemesis kidnaps Persephone, ties her up, and makes an attempt to enter Hades’ Underworld disguised as Persephone to interrogate Nyx. Obviously, this is a flawed plan… and Nemesis just winds up returning with Persephone as a hostage, getting the guards to open the gate, and beating the crap out of both them and Cerberus before finding her way across the Underworld to Nyx.

Listening to Nyx’s story, Nemesis pulls a piece of fruit off a tree and snacks thoughtfully. Nyx was told by Hades that Zeus had grown power-hungry, and that he and Hera were planning an attack on the Egyptian Gods. Talking through the problem with Nyx, Nemesis gets him thinking:

Nyx is sitting down here in the domain of Hades because of crap Hades told him. If there were a war in Olympus, a lot of gods would die… and the rank and file of gods under Hades’ control would swell. Is it possible that all of this crap is happening because Hades wants an army? Was Hades the one who told everyone the Egyptian Gods were going to invade in the first place?

If so, Nemesis had better get her ass back to Olympus and warn everyone!

As Nemesis makes her way back to the surface, she is caught - and informed that those who eat the fruit of the Underworld may never leave. Correctly, Nemesis informs them that Persephone ate the same fruit and she leaves every spring… and for some reason, that answer doesn’t seem to satisfy Hades or the armies of the Underworld.

That’s fine. Nemesis would rather fight her way out anyway.

Reaching Olympus, Nemesis rushes to Zeus’ side to learn that indeed it was Hades who raised the alarm about the impending invasion from Egypt…

...which naturally is when the Egyptians invade! Apparently, Hypnos got sick of waiting for Nemesis to deliver his revenge, and he told the Egyptian Gods about the army Zeus was building. Even as Nemesis and Zeus get to the bottom of this conspiracy, war is upon them! Either they fight for their lives, or they die and join Hades.

Nemesis fights for her life. Stopping Hades’ plan is not even in the cards, and the gods of Olympus are dying all around her. When the blood stops flowing and the dust is settled, little remains of the kingdom of Olympus.

Fine. Nemesis may have been used by Hades, but revenge is what this goddess does best. Calling her Furies to her, Nemesis raises an elite squad of fae vengeance soldiers who are more than down to join her in the godslaying. Marching up to the gates of the Underworld, Nemesis is denied entry in the strongest possible terms…

Until she tells them that she’s eaten the fruit of the Underworld and they have to let her back in. Feeling more than confident that opening these gates is a very bad idea, the guards do it anyway - and are immediately slaughtered for their trouble.

Beating Hades on his own terms is too much of a fight for the Furies, but these women are commandos who excel at asymmetrical warfare. While the Furies engage in terror and distraction, Nemesis tracks down Nyx. Making an agreement with the nightmare god, Nemesis sneaks her way into Hades’ dreams...

Folks, this is the part where things start going really, really bad for Hades. By the time Nemesis is done with him, she has established herself as the supreme power of the Olympian underworld.

Of course, Nemesis doesn’t give a shit. To set things right, Nemesis sets the Olympian gods free and hands the Underworld off to Hypnos and Nyx. All Nemesis wants is to head back to her forest, to kill and roast a boar with her bare hands…

...and to hear another god cry out for the vengeance of the Furies!

NEMESIS