Minoan Heroes

This is a re-imagining of characters from my childhood, some eleven years ago. They were somewhat adaptations of Minoan motifs and stories to some fantasy and sci-fi reality, putting into work time-travelling and all.
These are some of the Tinteno-Critikazoikans and their Gods. These peoples' main story revolves around the catastrophe which cut short their civilization, giving birth to the many stories of Atlantis. Of course, even though there were survivors, few of them kept their identites, and only a few times from now they showed interest in re-building the memory of their ancestors. These shown here are some of those interested, in the present and future.


Named after the Flaming God Tintaeus (or Τινταιος - Tintaios) and of the Shark God Critikas (Κριτικας), guardians and envisioners of a culture which flourished in some Mediterranean Archipelago. They used to be warring chastes, split into worshippers of fire and water, as following Aquaten leaders (Apollo the Juventist and his uncle Omhpio). That until the people from beneath and Aplôrak, on their ascension, joined them and made peace between their gods, claiming autonomy and independence from the Aquatens and their invasive democracies. They used to be known as fair and just people, but were soon ignored or forgotten by the complexity of their deeds, craft and arcane knowledge being unreleatable to foreigners. Those from other peoples who came to the islands barely left it to tell stories.
They used to inhabit the islands as assisted by those from beneath, underwater peoples (who in the war sided with Critikazoikans), and from Minotaurs (who sided with Tintenoikans). Those giants used to be anthropophagous, rendering a bad view on the culture as a whole, and keeping from a globalized society to take place on such fruitful realm. Rivals to Tintaeus and Critikas were jealous of such culture, and began spreading bad word, mistranslating their reclusiveness in arrogance, their knowledge in mystical charlatanism, their practices in blood-lust.
  
Gods such as the metallic Onyx and the fiery Spiricto No Faia used to war between them for cultures such as the [Ancient Egyptian-inspired] Pepitans (where No Faia was worhipped and his messenger Lapolo had a seat) and [Ancient Roman inspired] Zonans (where Onyx's messenger Zøn had a seat, and the same gods as Aquatens' were worshipped), and for Planet Earth itself. They saw the joining of Tintaeus and Critikas as a possible common enemy, so they used forces of earth (earthquakes) and fire (volcano) to tomb down the Islands. Only one remained. The ancient peoples who were saved by the upcoming flood adapted to become sea-people themselves. People from the surface who were elsewhere survived as raiders and pirates, and had mixed with other peoples, giving birth to descendeants.


But Onyx had a claim on the Earth, and without the spirit of fire, no one stopped him from letting the people overcome Indstrial Revolution on all its steps. That forced both Aquatens (now fully embracing the Juventist ideal and seeing themselves as such) and Tinteno-Criticazoikans (TC for short) into becoming cyborgs. War was about to end, so they sent the heir of the dracmas, Aplô, to become the latest and most enhaced cyborg. That, however, mad impossible for him to become an Aplôrak himself. As Apôlôrak X, his original mission was to defeat Zøn and to find the missing brother-in-arms Minotaurus X, the last Minotaur to become cyborg. He used to be the greatest power against the Juventists, but he's been missing since his fleet crashed in the forbidden zone. The defeat of Zøn and the return of the minotaur, however, only triggered a series of events which culminated in a far worse situation...

Onyx revealed all his plans, even the failures on his schemes and blueprints, revealing the long forgotten past. That made possible the Juventist Cyborg of reaching Lapolo's tomb, and worse than awakening it, he multiplied his power and the effects of its virus upon his own people (save his daughter, who's in fact the last human to become cyborg and thus is the latest one about tech, removing every flaw from the others). It was up to Apôlorak X and the Minotaur defeating Lapolo and his followers. But Spiricto No Faia and Lapolo had b-plans. Once in the convergence zone, they made it to the past, to the moment when Aplo just inherited the dracmas of power. Through the Minotaur, Tintaeus and Critikas themselves finally came out from the shadows and contacted the Aplô of this "present" about the dangers he was to face. Now, armed with the Tinteno-Criticazoikan Sea Dragon Bracelet, he can contact his future self and vice-versa, for in the upcoming mission it needs both future and past become safe from the time-travelling menace. The Minotaur, too, through his mask, can contact his future self.

As the mission progresses, a new member join the X team in the future, having almost no memories from the past. In the present, however, the young Aplo, very proud of his people and really hopeful after seeing his gods and ancestors weren't lies, fathoms about the probability of going to the past and preventing the destruction of civilization from happening. However, the Minotaur has to remind that his mission isn't about the past, but it's about finding others like him, ancestors of these forgotten people. The nearest to it are some Apolókhen aboriginals, who might have rescued shipwrecked TCs after the great eruption and embraced them among their living. Aplô's father himself knows he has a connection to them and their shamanism...