Love And Deepspace’s limited Myths are some of the highlights of the game. While the storyline provides a wealth of content to explore about each character in and of itself, the limited Myths delve into far deeper territory and reveal secrets about each love interest that explain their behavior in the main story.
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The only downside is that collecting, leveling, and unlocking limited Myths and their associated chapters can be both pricey and time-consuming. Luckily, Rafayel ‘s Forgotten Sea Myth returned in March of 2025. The following article contains everything one needs to know about the long-distant past of Rafayel, the mysterious Sea God.
This article contains spoilers for Rafayel’s branch story and his Myth stories in Love and Deepspace.
Who Is The God Of The Sea?
The God of the Sea is not only a deity controlling the oceans in the world of Love and Deepspace, but also the religious center and the leader of the Lemurian people — a magical aquatic race of people who live deep beneath the waves in an underwater city called Lemuria.
There has been more than one Sea God throughout the ages and Sea Gods can die, though Lemurians are a long-lived and essentially immortal race of people.
In the current incarnation, Rafayel is the God of the Sea. He is the only Lemurian who can use the gift of fire beneath the waves, and he has created the Sun Below The Waves — a huge fireball in Whalefall City that illuminates Lemuria and protects its people.
Is Rafayel Still The God Of The Sea?
While Rafayel is technically still the God of the Sea, his power is, in a sense, dormant until he is fully bound to his ‘most devout follower’ or his beloved. Once Rafayel has bound himself fully to his beloved, he will fully embody the spirit of the Sea God and all the powers and responsibilities that come with it.
What Is Lemuria?
Lemuria is a vast ancient civilization beneath the waves. Its inhabitants, Lemurians, are near-immortal merpeople with magical abilities. Lemurians are a people who value love and freedom above all else.
Lemurians do not hunger for war and are not a greedy race. Each Lemurian may also bind themselves to someone (it’s unclear if they can only be bound to humans or if they can be bound to Lemurians as well) and become wholly subservient to them. For a Lemurian, being bound is one of the greatest acts of trust they can complete.
In the current timeline, Lemuria no longer exists. The ocean that housed Lemuria has dried up, most — if not all — of its inhabitants have perished, and its culture is now present only in museums.
Rafayel, as God of the Sea and Lemuria’s prophesied savior, spends much of the main story trying to bring back and avenge his forgotten homeland.
What Is The Tome Of The Sea God?
The Tome of the Sea God is an ancient Lemurian religious text that contains not only information about Lemuria’s culture, history, and religion, but also contains prophecies about Lemuria’s inevitable demise and potential resurrection.
With each incarnation of the Sea God, a new prophecy is written in the Tome of the Sea God.
The Tome exists in a few different forms and locations in the story, but as of Land of Secret Flames — Rafayel’s Branch of Eye of the Storm — Rafayel has absorbed the power of the Tome and fully inherited the Sea God’s powers.
Rafayel: Forgotten Sea Myth, Explained
The Myth begins with the MC narrating the history of worshiping the Sea God. The sea god selects his most devout follower from his human worshippers and grants them a wish. In return, the Sea God’s followers prepare a ‘gift’ for him.
The MC is chosen as a sacrifice for the sea god on a voyage through a stormy sea. As the storm worsens, the crew throws her overboard to quell the sea.
She is taken by Rafayel, the God of the Sea. Rafayel decides to tease her when she asks him for his help. He zaps her with fire from his fingers and laughs. Remembering an old tale about how Lemurian kisses grant you the ability to breathe underwater, the MC sees a kiss as her only opportunity to survive the depths.
The MC kisses Rafayel and steals the ability to breathe beneath the waves for herself. He agrees to save her if she devotes her entire being to following him.
The MC wakes up in Lemuria to two young Lemurians, Algie and Konche, discussing whether they can dissect her or not.
The MC learns that the Sea God lives in Lemuria but that humans must sacrifice a heart to him every so often so that he can fully absorb his power and protect the ocean.
She is told that Rafayel is the Sea God and that at the center of the temple in Whalefall City, a great flame of his creation burns. In a book called the Tome of the Sea God, it is said that if the flame is ever extinguished, Lemuria will fall into a deep slumber for hundreds of years.
The flame is called the Sun Below The Waves. During Rafayel’s coming of age ceremony the flame — which has been growing weaker for ages — must be reignited.
The heart sacrificed must be a human heart because humans are the greediest creatures to exist — a piece of world building furthered by Sylus’s myth, Beyond Cloudfall — and that, because of their selfish nature, any gift they give or sacrifice they make is considered far more valuable than a sacrifice made by other species.
Konche and Algie also tell the MC that Rafayel is said to be the last God of the Sea, which would suggest that Lemuria is in its final days.
In the temple, Rafayel tells elder Amund that he discovered the MC by accident while he was on a forbidden trip above the sea. Amund scolds him for having snuck out of the Temple and burned a guard’s hair, then wishes to confirm that Rafayel knows what he’s doing by choosing the MC to be the human he is forever bound to.
Rafayel assures Amund that so long as the rite still needs to be completed, he’s made his final decision on the matter.
Lemurians can be bound to other people. However, when a Lemuraian is bound to someone, they cannot deny their wishes. That would make the MC Rafayel’s ‘master.’ This is a deep level of trust that is easily broken, and so, the MC being Rafayel’s bonded, ultimately gives her authority over even the Sea God.
Rafayel in true Rafayel fashion decides to be dramatic and naps on the floor of the temple. Meanwhile, a little blue fish appears, and the MC asks it to escort her out of the ocean. The fish with either a very poor memory or direction ends up leading her in circles.
By the time she actually makes it to freedom beyond the city’s walls, Rafayel reappears. The fish was actually part of his magic and had been taking her to explore Lemuria. He had been aware of her journey the whole time.
He explains that the fish had been a test to see if she, a human, actually valued her oaths. She failed the test. He then explains to her that in a month, she is expected to complete ‘the ceremony’ with him, not as a follower, but as his most devout.
With the MC still confused as to what it means to be his most devout, Rafayel explains that she must fall utterly and completely in love with him.
Find one who will kiss you, even if you do not give them the world. Love a soul that is like your own, that which complements you. Love and death are the most important things in a life. Death is a matter of time, so love with all your heart can muster — Lemuria: Tome of the Sea God, Chapter 3
The MC explores the city with Rafayel, Algie, and Konche. Rafayel gives her a blue conch shell to complain into and the MC insults him creatively, annoyed by his lack of interest in what she has to say. Regardless, he continues to show her around the city and eventually, the Temple.
Rafayel doesn’t like being touched, but he lets the MC hold his hand when they travel up the Temple spire.
Rafayel asks to know about the world on the surface, and the MC offers to take him there to see all the rare flowers and animals. Rafayel gets annoyed because he believes she is trying to leave him again.
Once they reach the top of the Temple, they exchange stories about their worlds and the MC offers to take him to see the Sea God’s birthday festival. Rafayel hesitates to give her an answer and the Sun Below the Waves sets, putting him to sleep.
Irritated by his disinterest, but not wanting to leave him, the MC sleeps against his shoulder. Despite disliking being touched, Rafayel not only allows the closeness, but pulls her even closer against his side.
The next day, Rafayel takes the MC to the beach. She shows him the human temple and explains that she was raised by the emissaries there as a follower of the Sea God. However, when she came of age, she learned she was really being raised as a sacrifice. This seems to anger Rafayel.
Later, at the festival, Rafayel and the MC see a puppet show that tells the story of how the Sea God chose to live on land forever to be with his beloved. A little girl asks the MC if the Sea God will stay with his beloved because of true love or because they are bound together?
In the best (worst) response possible, the MC tells the children that all the stories they have heard are made up.
Rafayel, however, tells the children that the Sea God truly would willingly give his heart to his beloved and that he knows because he is a Lemurian. The most important information he tells them is that Lemurians do not fall in love with the people they are bound to. Love for them is always a choice.
Shortly after a group of guards arrive, accusing Rafayel and his follower of stealing the pearl eyes from the Sea God’s statue, Rafayel and the MC are chased through the square. He offers to distract the guards for the MC so that she can escape back to life on the surface if that is her greatest wish.
He explains that if he was to disobey her even once, they could not be bound.
This is perhaps the first example of Rafayel falling in love with the MC as he falls into the ‘If you love her, let her go’ trope.
Rather than give Rafayel a selfish wish, the MC asks instead what he would like, as the festival is meant to celebrate him and not her.
Rafayel refutes that the festival has anything to do with celebrating him, and doesn’t ask for anything from the MC. Instead of either one of them sacrificing the other, Rafayel throws a handful of pearls into the street and declares that he is the God of the Sea.
Driven by typical human greed, the festival-goers scramble for the pearls leaving the couple to make a run for the ocean as the guards and festival-goers are distracted in the street. They come upon a seaside cliff and Rafayel kicks the MC over.
She believes she’s been abandoned to death again and that Rafayel has tired of her, but as the moments pass, he returns and kisses her once more, offering her life and the ability to breathe beneath the waves again. In a moment of peace, Rafayel and the MC walk atop the water’s surface and watch the sunrise.
Finally, he shares with her that he, too, was raised in a cage of sorts. While she was raised as a sacrifice to the Sea God, he was taken as a boy to fulfill his role as the Sea God. Both wanted to escape their prisons. Both needed each other to do so.
The story skips to months later on the night before the ceremony where Rafayel and the MC are to be bound. To prepare her, he tells her a little bit about what to expect and that after the flame goes out the next morning, a new prophecy will show up in the Tome of the Sea God.
Once the fire is re-lit, the ceremony will be over. Rafayel admits that he doesn’t know anything about the ceremony itself, but he knows that all participants will receive his blessing. His first blessing, he gives to the MC, wanting it to be hers alone. He offers her a magical fish, an emissary of the sea.
Finally, he asks her if she will be his follower. She replies that she desires something irreplaceable in return and Rafayel offers his heart. The scene fades to black, so it’s unclear what happens after this exchange, but it can be assumed that the couple exchanged their vows and hearts with one another.
I will cut out your heart with a dagger honed, my darling. And in Love’s name, your heart will become my faith. Your body will be washed Clean, shine like a pearl. I will care for your heart. Till we meet again. And you reclaim it for yourself. – Siren’s Ballad, Act III: Muia
When the story begins again, the MC is in the midst of a disturbing dream. In the dream, she sees a familiar face (which is assumed to be a teenaged Rafayel) who welcomes her as an old friend. He tells her she can see the ocean in the bones of an ancient city in the sand. When she turns to him, he cuts out her heart.
When she wakes, the MC asks Algie about the ceremony, only to be met with even more uncertainty.
The scene then changes to a flashback of Rafayel as a child, hiding from the temple guards with a little fish (the emissary he gave the MC) by his side. The guards can’t find him, and he tires of waiting, so he jumps out and reveals his hiding place. This moment illustrates his isolation and desire for worthy companionship.
On the day of the ceremony, the MC hides similarly, fearing Rafayel won’t be able to find her in the crowd or even wish to look for her. To her surprise, he rides in on an ancient sea creature and lands before her, unveiling her and taking her hand.
The pair stride into the temple alone and exchange their vows to one another. Lemuria is plunged into a deep and terrible darkness, frightening its inhabitants. Hours later, Rafayel returns from the temple alone, his beloved nowhere to be seen. The Sun Below the Waves is but an ember in Rafayel’s hands.
The MC was never seen again. It wasn’t until that incarnation of the young Sea God Rafayel died that a rumor started to circulate about what really happened in the temple that day: Rafayel lied to the Deep Sea about his beloved.
While the Myth ends here, it’s unclear what truly happened that day. It is implied that Rafayel broke his oaths to the ocean and found a way to break the cycle of sacrifice that the Sea God and hs beloved have been forced into for generations.
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January 8, 2024
- Developer(s)
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INFOLD
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INFOLD