The Ice Sea Queen's name was Chione (Χιόνη), a name meaning "icy" or "snow," with connotations of distance and detachment.
Queen Chione was extraordinarily beautiful — long golden hair, snow-white skin, and water-blue eyes, with a tall and commanding presence. Her temperament was as cold and unyielding as frost itself: domineering and merciless, she issued orders that her subjects were required to carry out without question, and she neither tolerated disobedience nor heeded counsel. Those who failed her faced her fury and severe punishment. Her subjects lived in great fear of her, yet for the sake of their own survival, they had no choice but to comply with her commands.
Word of the Queen's domineering ways spread far and wide, eventually reaching the Heavenly Court.
It should be noted that the dragon deities of the West — such as those of Atlantis — did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Jade Emperor, who governed the dragon deities of the East. The deity overseeing the Western dragon deities at that time was Zeus, a supremely powerful and energetic great god. One day, Zeus transformed himself into a large fish and swam to the Ice Sea Dragon Palace, curious to observe this formidable and beautiful dragon deity queen.
Upon arriving at the Dragon Palace, Zeus shed his fish form and appeared as a strikingly handsome man. He knelt on one knee before the Queen and asked her for one of her earrings as a token of love.
The Queen felt insulted. In the ice sea, fish were merely one category of life under her domain — hardly a superior species. What standing or dignity did a fish have that would entitle it to her earring, let alone her affection?
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