The Feast of Ash and Howl

Event Summary:

• King Lycaon, once a revered chieftain of Arcadia, grows cynical of the gods and attempts to deceive Zeus by serving him a feast of human flesh to test his divinity.
• Zeus, enraged, unleashes a storm of judgment. Lycaon's palace is struck down, his sons turned to cinders, and Lycaon himself is cursed—transformed into the first wolf-beast, neither mortal nor divine.
• The gods withdraw their presence from Arcadia’s sacred groves, leaving only omens and silence.
• The curse does not end with Lycaon. It taints his bloodline, appearing sporadically through the generations as a bestial hunger, a shameful legacy, or a twisting of the soul and form.
• Survivors call it the Curse of the Silver Maw—passed through dreams, full-moon fever, and ancestral guilt.