Olympians

“	My brothers. We were forged in victory. A victory that ended the Great War and brought forth reign of Mount Olympus. Born from the depths of the Underworld, rooted in the river of souls, our mountain emerged out of the chaos. As it grew, so too did the might of the Olympians. We created a world of peace, a world of prosperity, a world that lives in the shadow and safety of my mountain. A mountain that has come to be the absolute measure of strength and power. Now, on this day, that power is to be tested. The mortal, Kratos, seeks to destroy all that I have wrought. Brothers, put aside the petty grievances that have splintered us for so long. We will unite, we will stand together, and I will wipe out this plague! Olympus will prevail!	”
–Zeus's speech to the other Olympians during the Second Titanomachy.

Zeus and the other Olympians watching the Titans climb up Mount Olympus with Kratos

The Olympians were the third and final generation of Greek Gods who ruled over Greece following the Titans, whom they overthrew under the leadership of Zeus, the son of the Titan King Cronos.

Following their victory over the Titans in the ten-year-long Titanomachy, they established themselves as the rulers of all mortals and lived atop Mount Olympus with Zeus himself ruling as the King of the Gods. Initially, they served as allies to Kratos during the first God of War in his quest to destroy Ares, but following Zeus' betrayal in God of War II, they became the main antagonists for the rest of the Greek Saga of the series.

Ultimately, they were all murdered by Kratos across his years of service and vengeance, with the majority of them being slain by the Spartan warrior during his quest for revenge on Zeus for betraying him which ended up destroying all of Greece and killing almost all mortals until nothing was left but absolute chaos in its wake, with the only survivor being Athena who had returned to life and ascended to a "higher existence" after her selfless sacrifice to save Zeus from Kratos.

Despite this, Kratos chose to return the power of Hope to all of Greece so that the surviving mortals could sustain themselves without the Gods of Olympus, allowing them to rebuild their own land.

Greek Mythology

In Greek mythology, the Olympians (ολύμπιος) were made up of the third and fourth generations of Greek Gods who ruled over Greece atop their place on its highest mountain, Mount Olympus. The original six were the children of the Titan King and Queen, Kronos and Rhea - three sisters and three brothers. In order from eldest to youngest were Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and lastly Zeus.

Worried of losing his power to his children, Kronos began devouring them one-by-one starting with Hestia and when it came time to devour Zeus, Rhea tricked him by giving him a cloth-covered stone and giving it to him. Not bothering to check, Kronos devoured it and believed he had removed any threat to his rule. As for Zeus, he grew to adulthood in secrecy before going back to free his siblings and going to war against his father and the elder generation of gods in a decade-long war called the Titanomachy.

After defeating his father and creating their palaces to rule over Greece, the six siblings and their allies, including the three Cyclops, the three Hechatonchires and minor gods such as Metis and Nike, Zeus and his two brothers, Poseidon and Hades, agreed to split the cosmos and rule together. Zeus won the Heavens and became the King of Olympus, Poseidon getting lordship over the Sea, while Hades became the lord of the Underworld, while the Earth was open to all three of them. Other gods would become known as major Olympians, mainly the children of Zeus such as Athena, Ares, Hepahestus, Apollo, Artemis and Hermes. Others like Aphrodite, born from the castrated genitals of Uranus, also became a major goddess on the mountain and thus the major twelve deities were worshipped as the principal gods of Ancient Greece.

Olympians

Twelve Major Olympian Gods

• Zeus (King) †
• Hera (Queen) †
• Poseidon †
• Demeter
• Hestia
• Athena
• Aphrodite
• Ares †
• Hephaestus †
• Artemis
• Apollo
• Hermes †

Minor Olympain Gods/Demigods

• Hercules †
• Zagreus †
• Persephone †
• Dionysus