Legend has it that it was him who created mankind out of clay in the image of the Titans. He loved his creations, and compared to the rest of creation of gods, who had wings, tails, and fast legs, he gave them intelligence and fire.
As the loving father he was, he spoiled them and loved them even more than his own family, the Titians who lost and where cast down in Tartarus. Zeus the greedy man made an outrages request and decreed that a portions of sacrifice had to be given to him. Zeus loved the humans, loved them as generators of faith that is.
HE made those human, why should he be given all the benefits? Prometheus felt indigent and dared to trick Zeus. The deal was that the offerings had to be the good stuff but Prometheus proposed two piles of offerings, and what even Zeus picked it would decide future offerings. One pile was bones wrapped in juicy fat, the other with the good meat hidden under a skin hide. Zeus picked the bad one of course and the petty bastard threw a tantrum!
Angered Zeus being like an angry child decided to take fire from man! The very gift Prometheus gave the humans! This caused the mortals to greatly stunted their development. Prometheus didn't want to take that lying down so he went up to the sun and took back some fire to give it back to the humans!
Zeus was angry to no end and lightning struck the earth for weeks! Zeus decided to punish Prometheus and humans!
Of course Apollo god of the Sun was punished as well as a unlucky bystander. Almost mistaken for helping Prometheus, he was almost disowned! Even thought the situation was eventually cleared, Apollo was heavily lectured by his father for not preventing prometheus from stealing the fire back. Apollo was greatly embarrassed and his siblings hounding him didn't make it any better.
The punishment instilled on humanity was the calamity of Pandora. He asked his son Hephaestus the god of craft, to create a beautiful mortal woman. Then he asked his other son, Hermes, god of thieves to instill a deceptive heart and a lying tongue to the woman. He named her Pandora and he gave her a box and told her to absolutely to not open it.
The reason he did such a thing in a roundabout way was to give human a "chance". Should she open it it would unleash untold disasters if not humanity remains untouched. Of course he also had to give Pandora the gift of curious, he didn't want to make it to easy...
Author: Truly, what great odds!
He then handed to her to some mortal king under the guise of a gift from the gods and waited. They even put bets among each other many giving up millions of faith points.
Pandora lived a carefree world and as she was a queen. She even hid the box in the ground to avoid it as much as possible. Things were going great, and in the end she lived a long life and passed peaceful of old age without ever opening the box.....NOT!
In other words she FAILED.
When someone tells you to not open something the more you want to open it! Her actions had grave consequences and mortal dangers were unleashed on the humans and they suffered greatly and underwent untold hardships. As for Pandora who caused all this, that is a story for another time...
Prometheus tried with all his might to warn them, but he was punished and cast into Tartarus like the rest of the Titans. He was chained and an eagle would swoop in and eat his liver each day. Zeus naturally made the liver regrow after and the eagle would come back day after day, pecking into his belly and carving out the liver...
Author: Brutal...
The humans eventually started to forget him, their original creator, and worship Zeus more due to his absence and Zeus's propaganda. The faith poured in in fear of his almighty power and to appease his anger. Zeus eventually calmed down and forgot the matter and decided to play in the human world and slept around, siring many demigods.
A famous trait of the greek realm is how often god "play around", producing many hero and demigods, where some even ascend to full godhood.
It made his heart- I mean liver hurt even more thinking other bastard reaping the benefits. They should adore and worship HIM! He felt like a father who watch as a douchebag boyfriend taking his daughter away. Of course there where some faithful believers here and there, but will he ever truly escape his fate or be caught?
Prometheus: ....
As a last ditch attempt at getting revenge as he was chained away Prometheus issued out a new eerie prophecy, "As your father and your father's father a new era will always come and the old will succumb"
Zeus screamed for him to tell what child of his would one day dethrone him, but Prometheus had already undergone extreme torture and nothing he could do to make him speak. Zeus grew extremely paranoid during that time and he actually swallowed one of his own children!
(A story about that for another time, guess who it is?)
In the end Zeus devised a competition for his throne so his children can fight amongst themselves and perhaps he could hand the throne to them peacefully, breaking the cycle…
"He may be a god but his must have suffered alot from his torture, I bet I can take him!", the mutt felt a bit confident.
"Hmm, lets not get ahead of myself, he still might be too strong..." the mutt rationalized.
"But one day I will be able to contend against top tier gods like him! I'll let you off this time.", its ambition started to rise.
"Proficiency in pride risen!"
The sin of pride really is making our main character too arrogant...