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Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Born and raised in Canada, he rose to prominence at age 13 for being a child star on the Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). His first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, including Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003). Gosling gained wider recognition and stardom for the 2004 romance film The Notebook. This was followed by starring roles in a string of critically acclaimed independent dramas including Half Nelson (2006), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Gosling co-starred in three mainstream films in 2011, the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and the action drama Drive, all of which were critical and commercial successes. He then starred in the acclaimed financial satire The Big Short (2015) and the romantic musical La La Land (2016), the latter of which won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Further acclaim followed with the science fiction thriller Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the biopic First Man (2018). In addition to acting, he made his directorial debut in 2014's Lost River.

Episode 1 narrates the creation, while the 2nd one recounts the arrival of darkness, The Great Darkness, tasked with restoring balance against the light of the source. Episode 3 tells the tale of the transformation of the source into the being known as The Presence, simultaneously giving birth to Paradise. Following a rebellion by Lucifer, the Hell and demons were born. Episode 4 narrates how The Presence gave birth to the Greek gods, tasked with representing different forms of life. The episode recounts the famous myth of Cronus devouring his children. In episode 5, Aztar, an angel of Lucifer, comes to seek forgiveness from The Presence, who turns him into its spirit of vengeance, The Spectre. Episode 6 recounts the creation of the Parliaments of Life (including the Parliament of Trees), where the gods represent the beliefs of humans and the representations of The Presence, while the parliaments act to protect the world. Episode 7 narrates the creation of magic. The Presence brings the goddess Hecate to life, based on its Greek gods. Witnessing this, The Great Darkness creates the Upside Down Man, the opposite of Hecate's light. The Phantom Stranger also appears at the same time as an eye of The Presence. Episode 8 tells the story of the creation of the Lords of Order and Chaos, as well as the first confrontation between the two sides.
