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We all know the ill fate of Greek Mythology’s Icarus. Ignoring his father Daedalus’s guidance whilst escaping from King Minos, he soars too close to the Sun on the wings his father had crafted to flee the labyrinth of Crete, melting the beeswax that held the feathers in place. Instead, he plummets to the ocean depths.

But what if there was more to the story? Rather than perish, what if he rose as a deity of judgement? 

A harbinger of consequence?

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