Thor: The Deviants Saga (2012 series) #3

Ereshkigal returns to Lemuria with the Unbinding Stone of Oshemar and confronts Ghaur, Priestlord of the Deviants, claiming it (and she) will save their people. Ghaur is not impressed when she is forced to admit she doesn’t know what it does or how to activate it. Then Kro and his band of warriors returns from Olympia bearing a broken resurrection chamber of the Eternals, with the prisoner Phastos to be forced to restore it to working order. The assembled Deviants hail Ghaur as their savior and Ereshkigal is forced to flee for her life, vowing revenge….

Thor flies with Karkas and Ransak (both Deviant mutates who are now with the good guys) over the ocean toward Lemuria and they only know they have arrived when the Deviants shoot down their plane, casting them all in the sea. The Deviants take the two mutates prisoner, deciding they don’t want to risk Thor’s wrath. When the Thunder God awakens, he swims to the massive Deviant city to rescue his friends. He enters and is met by the Forgotten One, the Eternal once known as Gilgamesh. He explains that he was endowed with a gift by the Celestials, an awareness of the pattern to reality so that he can know where and when he is most needed and thus be on the scene. He leads Thor in search of his friends….

Phastos resists torture, refusing to rebuild the resurrection chamber. Karkas and Ransak are brought in and Ghaur mentions his ability to manipulate the minds of any Deviant whose genetic code is known to him. Ransak is immune to his power because of a stable genetic code but Karkas isn’t and Ghaur has him beat Ransak. Thor crashes into the throne room and takes on the giant Tutinax while Ransak and Karkas continue to fight. (The Forgotten One then moves on to the next place he is needed and is soon forgotten, as his name suggests.) Phastos, seeing his friends harmed, relents and agrees to repair the resurrection chamber. He tells Ghaur he needs a supply of Antarctic Vibranium which the Deviants do not have on hand. Phastos proposes going to the Savage Land to acquire some with Thor, who is faster than any craft the Deviants can provide….

Not far away, Ereshkigal sits with the Unbinding Stone of Oshemar, trying to puzzle out the runes engraved thereon, her only hope….