Time passed.
And with the passage of time, came decisions.
In that period, Achilles had traversed across the weavings of time.
Temporal distance was just another form of space to be walked when you understood quantum principles well enough, when you'd become One With Existence!
He'd pulled the ancestral partners of the Adrastia Emperor Kings forward- the beings who had borne the next generation with each Emperor King, who had contributed their own unique lineages to the bloodline that culminated in him.
Some were not entirely human, their genetics carrying traces of stellar entities. Others were more conventional but no less important for having provided the bridge between generations.
There was even one who had been a servant in the Royal House that the Fourth Adrastia Emperor King ruled over…a woman of modest origin who had somehow caught the attention of royalty and become the mother of the Fifth.
