We mere mortals will be graced with a gift forged in the heavens this September: mythology, animation, and creator and executive producer Zack Snyder (Rebel Moon). Twilight of the Gods, coming from The Stone Quarry and Xilam animation studios, brings Snyder’s daring and spectacular vision of ancient Norse mythology to life. 

“My imagination was always really sparked by the Norse gods... Thor, Odin, an adventure story about love and redemption and revenge set in this amazing landscape,” Snyder told Netflix. “It just really made me want to dig in and get involved.”

In a mythical world of great battles, great deeds, and great despair, Leif (Stuart Martin), a mortal king, is saved on the battlefield by Sigrid (Sylvia Hoeks), an iron-willed warrior with whom he falls in love. On their wedding night, Sigrid and Leif survive a wrath of terror from Thor (Pilou Asbæk), which sets them — and a crew of crusaders — on a merciless mission for vengeance, against all odds. This heroic story of love, loss, and revenge, is a journey to hell and beyond … across fantastical lands, battlefields fierce and bloody, and wars waged against deities and demons.

Of course, this isn’t your storybook version of Norse mythology — Twilight of the Gods puts the “adult” in adult animation. Executive producer Deborah Snyder teased, "I think there's an expectation when you see something that Zack Snyder's involved with, that it's going to have really great hardcore action and that it's going to be sexy. For all the Zack fans out there, we needed to really deliver on that."

The god-tier voice cast also includes Rahul Kohli as Egill, Paterson Joseph as Loki, Jamie Clayton as The Seid-Kona, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Hervor, Kristofer Hivju as Andvari, Thea Sofie Loch Næss as Thyra, John Noble as Odin, and Peter Stormare as Ulfr, among others.

The series is co-created by Jay Oliva and Eric Carrasco, with Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, and Oliva also executive-producing. Zack Snyder, Oliva, Tim Divar, Andrew Tamandl, and David Hartman will all be directing episodes.

See the gods and mortals clashing in the first-look photos below, and check back here for more updates as we await more signs from the heavens before Twilight of the Gods debuts on Netflix on Sept. 19.