Zeus

As he appears in Mitch’s story in On Tour with Mitch & Sandy, chapter 1

Real Name: Ζεύς???
Race: Κρονίων?
Age: ≥19 billion years [Earth standard]
Height: 188 cm
Weight: 102 kg
Occupation: Sky Father; God of Lightning, Thunder, and Justice; King of Όλυμπος [formerly]
Affiliation: The Ὀλύμπιοι
Attack Potency: Unknown

“You would cross a man who put down a Titan, really?”

Claiming to be the son of the Titan Κρόνος, Ζεύς was already there when the system was turned on, along with his five siblings Ἑστία, Δημήτηρ, Ἥρα, ᾍδης, and Ποσειδῶν. The Host of Eden doesn’t exactly believe his backstory, but he appeared before them after the first tick of the clock, asking for aid in freeing his siblings, who had just been swallowed by Κρόνος. They refused his plea, but allowed him refuge while he trained to free them himself. After he was confident enough, he not only felled the Titan on his own, but, with the assistance of his rescued siblings and the freed Ἑκατόγχειρες, Ζεύς purged the system of all the other Titans and trapped them in Τάρταρος.

After that, he carved a space for himself in the World Tree that he called Όλυμπος and ruled there for nearly a whole system cycle, up until several thousand years ago. During that time, his family held one of the strongest alliances in the entire system, with the second-largest number of civilizations under their patronage behind the house of Odin. It was very appealing to be under their watch. They only asked for burnt offerings to show your earnestness; a simple scrap in the hearth to Ἑστία was always enough. They were quick to defend their followers even if it was bad for them politically. And most importantly, they never engaged in conquest, only accepting in civilizations that asked for it. Ζεύς alone was strong enough to scare off even the mightiest of gods, having been the one to defeat Κρόνος after all, but between his siblings and their next generation, most conflicts resolved themselves out of caution before they ever had to show up.

Then there was a series of events that happened in quick succession, within the span of a month. First, the dark beast Krandor, similar to the Titans but of a different lineage, had been causing so much trouble that it forced a truce between Ζεύς and Odin to fight the beast together in a battle across the cosmos until they managed to seal him away in the mists of Niflheimr. Krandor was sealed within the entropic equivalent of the Milky Way, so to make sure he couldn’tfind his way out, they put a barrier strong enough that it would require at least both of them to undo around the galaxy in all realms and between them, so that only something as large as an RV or smaller might pass through. This greatly restricted travel between the Terminus World Dìqiú since then, but then it got worse.

Afterward, Ζεύς confronted the Atlantians, who had been conducting human sacrifices to manufacture Chashmal, also known as Chalkolibanon or Orichalcum, primarily for the purpose of fighting gods. For this crime, Ζεύς banned the practice of Alchemy and had his brother Ποσειδῶν wipe the empire out with a massive flood that devastated the entire planet, save a few worthy populations whose different pantheons were allowed to forewarn. The other pantheons could have stopped Ζεύς, but they agreed with his wrath toward Atlantis and opted into starting over with this Terminus World instead.

After that, Ζεύς and Odin laid down a decree that no traffic shall pass through the world aside from emergencies, and all those who did not evolve from that world originally were deported, ushering in thousands of years of what is now seen as normalcy to the denizens of Dìqiú. It wasn’t but a single day after everyone shook on the decision that Ἀθην woke up to a letter on the throne of Όλυμπος declaring her the new Queen, with her parents, aunts, and uncles completely missing until even today. Are they up to some master plan or simply on vacation after billions of years on the job; who can say?

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