From the introduction: Since time immemorial, mankind and the gods of antiquity have held an uneasy relationship. Plague, famine, natural disaster-their displeasure has been remembered in myth and legend for aeons. What is often less well recorded is the magnitude of their battle against the Titans, their progenitors and ancient foes. Whether the roiling bones of the earth or the frosted breath of ancient winter, each Titan in its greater aspect was a concept born at the beginning of all existence incarnated as a plane of existence driven by the urge to self-propagate limitlessly. More force of nature than sentient being, each Titan boasted a handful of avatars personifying certain overriding facets-each a powerful being on par with the greatest of gods, but similarly warped by their progenitor’s primal urges.