The Pantheons:
In the beginning

Book One, a fractured team of young misfit races against time to stop Khan, a godlike force of destruction. Amid fear, loss, and inner turmoil, they must confront their own struggles and limitations before facing the darkness that is Khan.

Why Read The Pantheons?

A World on the Edge

  • Cinematic scenes grounded in real cities and real consequences
  • Modern science colliding with ancient, god-level forces
  • A world where myths don’t fade, they adapt, evolve, and strike back
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Power Is Engineered. Consequences Are Human.

  • Characters shaped by trauma, power, and impossible choices
  • Superhuman abilities tied to psychological and moral collapse
  • Emotional stakes that hit hard
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A Conspiracy at Global Scale

  • Secrets spanning continents and centuries
  • Secrets passed down and hidden through generations
  • Action, suspense, and supernatural intrigue
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World & Lore

The Fracture

The world of The Pantheons exists on a breaking line between mortality and divinity. What began as isolated tragedy escalated into a global destabilization when human emotion, grief, rage, love, triggered forces once reserved for gods. Power no longer belongs to myth or worship, but to those pushed far enough to awaken it, and every awakening tears reality wider, reshaping cities, governments, and the laws that once held existence together.

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The Cost of Power

In this universe, power is never free. Time bends under obsession, justice collapses into vengeance, and godhood reveals itself as a burden rather than an ascension. Those who rise—whether human or divine—are marked by loss, and every attempt to undo death or suffering only multiplies consequence. Heroes fracture, gods fall, and survival becomes a question not of strength, but of what one is willing to sacrifice to hold on.

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The Expanding War

What starts as catastrophe spreads across continents and beyond Earth itself, drawing old rivals, hidden kings, and emerging forces into a conflict too vast to control. The west becomes a chessboard of influence and betrayal, Africa a source of untamed power, and the planet itself a contested ground in a far greater struggle. Humanity is no longer a bystander—it is a variable in a war that decides who inherits the future, and whether that future remains human at all.

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Author Profile

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Joshua Hermans

Genre
Sci-Fi / Supernatural
Influences
Anime, Comics, Thrillers

Joshua is a speculative fiction author drawn to the collision of mythology, science, and human consequence. Influenced by anime, comic books, and grounded sci-fi thrillers, he builds worlds where gods are not symbols of the past, but forces reshaping the present.

The Pantheons is the result of long-form world-building and a single driving question: what happens when power stops being divine, and starts being human?

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