Krasis summons Kronos with forbidden ritual
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Krasis invokes Kronos, seeking power and strength.
Krasis completes the invocation, and vanishes in a flash of lightning.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Reverent urgency beneath gnawing terror, resolved to trade his existence for cosmic intervention despite the terror of annihilation.
Standing at the altar’s center, Krasis chants in archaic cadence while the storm’s lightning rends the air around him, his robes whipping as the ritual progresses toward its violent climax.
- • To invoke Kronos and harness its power against the Master’s scheme
- • To ensure the survival of the temporal equilibrium through personal annihilation
- • That Kronos is the ultimate arbiter of temporal balance and must be obeyed
- • That individual sacrifice is justified for the greater preservation of time
Unfathomable and detached from mortal emotion, operating as an instrument of equilibrium between creation and oblivion.
Kronos is summoned into temporal existence by Krasis’s ritual, their arrival presaged by the cataclysmic flash that erases the priest and ruptures the temple’s atmosphere with raw cosmic force.
- • To consume imbalanced temporal excess and restore cosmic order
- • To answer the summons of a mortal willing to surrender their existence
- • That time is infinite but must be shepherded through sacrifice and renewal
- • That mortals who invoke them understand the irreversible cost of their plea
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The forbidden Atlantean ritual, performed on a bloodstained altar, channels Krasis’s invocations through precise gestures and arcane incantations, culminating in a storm of lightning that sears the chamber and triggers Kronos’s manifestation.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The Temple of Poseidon serves as the sacred nexus where the boundaries between the temporal and the eternal fray under the storm’s oppressive ceiling, its roofless grandeur amplifying the lightning’s fury as the ritual reaches its apotheosis.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
Within this episode
"With Benton incapacitated, the Master’s operation of the TOM-TIT machine accelerates, culminating in Krasis’s successful invocation of Kronos, raising the tempo of the crisis."
Master uses Benton's capture to power TOM-TIT"Krasis’s ritual in the Temple of Poseidon mirrors the Master’s lab experiment, both seeking to harness Kronos’s power, uniting ancient and modern attempts to control time."
Krasis welcomes Kronos ritual begins"Krasis’s arrival via lightning flash foreshadows the impending temporal catastrophe the Master is orchestrating, linking the ancient ritual to the lab’s escalating threat."
Master secures Percival's unwitting consentAcross episodes
"The catastrophic consequences of Krasis's ritual in Atlantis (Episode 22) are directly echoed when he later protests the Master's attempt to control Kronos in Episode 23 ('Kronos cannot be controlled'), serving as a thematic callback to the dangers of temporal power."
Master seizes Kronos control from Krasis"Kronos is summoned by Krasis in E22, which directly triggers the Master's attempt to control it in E23."
Master's reckless summoning of Kronos backfires"Krasis's successful summoning of Kronos in Atlantis (Episode 22) directly enables the Master to exploit this act by bringing Krasis to his lab in Episode 23, where he is blackmailed into servitude based on his knowledge of the ritual."
Master blackmails Krasis into servitude"Kronos's manifestation as a 'ravenous white creature' in E22 repeats in E23, reinforcing its role as an unstoppable force."
Master's reckless summoning of Kronos backfires"The Master's attempted control of Kronos escalates from summoning (E22) to reckless manipulation (E23), culminating in his false declaration of dominance."
Master declares the laboratory safe after subduing Kronos"Both episodes feature Krasis participating in rituals that seek to harness Kronos's power—first in the Temple of Poseidon (Episode 22), then under the Master's guidance in the laboratory (Episode 23)—highlighting a shift from spiritual devotion to coerced technological manipulation."
Master's reckless summoning of Kronos backfires"Both episodes explore the theme of 'forbidden power'—Krasis's ritual (E22) and the Master's overreach (E23) mirror each other as hubristic attempts to harness cosmic forces."
Master declares the laboratory safe after subduing Kronos