Session 26: Putting It Together

General Summary

Prometheus told the party that he knew something of why they wanted to speak to him, but would like to hear it in their own words. Flustered and flooded with unanswered questions, they started by asking how he sneaked onto Mount Olympus. He told them:

Mount Olympus, the physical mountain, has a system of caves beneath it. I transported myself to the innermost of these caves and worked my way up from the inside of the mountain. When I could climb no further, I dug a tunnel myself—a tunnel Zeus has not discovered to this day—that opened beneath the great hearth in the center of the Olympian throne room.
Now, there is one Olympian who always stays by the hearth— Hestia, the eldest of the Olympians, who tends the flame and makes sure it never goes out. She is a solitary goddess, unconcerned with the squabbles of her brothers and sisters. I made an appeal to her, on humanity’s behalf, and she allowed me to take some of her fire out of the kindness of her heart. To get your party through to Olympus, you will need to do the same.

Amara asked how they, as mortals, could get under the mountain. Prometheus suggested speaking to Hades, whose Helm of Invisibility could hide anyone from the gods' sight, and who could split open the earth from below.
Prometheus also warned them about Zeus' power and revealed to them a secret. He asked what they knew of Kronos, and once the party relayed the story of how he swallowed his children, Prometheus said:

Did that ever seem strange to you? Why swallow his children, rather than simply imprisoning them under the earth, as his own father had done? Kronos had grain and fruit and meat aplenty to fill his stomach. But Kronos had a different kind of hunger, a hunger for power that would not be sated. And when he swallowed his children, he consumed their power and used it to augment his own. With each child he swallowed, he grew in might, and soon none could challenge him. Not even Zeus, whose mother Rhea had spirited him away in hopes that he might grow strong enough to overthrow his father.
It was my cousin, the Oceanid Metis, who found a way to weaken him. She devised a spell that could draw the essences of each of the swallowed children out of Kronos. Zeus’ siblings were freed, and together they waged war on their father. When they defeated him, they cast him into Tartarus along with the other Titans.
Look around you. Do you see Kronos? Do you see any Titans?
Zeus had too much of his father in him. He developed the same ravenous hunger, the same obsession with dominance and control. Every time he felt threatened, every time another god or monster or prophecy challenged his reign, every time he began to doubt his own omnipotence—he entered the underworld unbidden and bolstered his own power by consuming one of his imprisoned enemies.
In fighting Zeus, you are not just fighting a god. You are fighting an aggregate of a hundred swallowed gods and titans and monsters.

The party then asked Prometheus about the prophecy and the frustrating vagueness of its instructions. As the Titan of Forethought—not prophecy—Prometheus had no direct knowledge, but he did speculate that perhaps the language of the prophecy was something spoken, rather than something foretold. A possibility; one person's point of view, not an omniscient or absolute declaration of fate.

"Which begs the question: if the prophecy is spoken word, who is its narrator?" Prometheus asked. "The three figures standing over the chained Zeus could be you three, and the voice is urging you to act against Zeus. Or the three figures could be the Fates, and the voice is urging you to turn against them. So who would oppose the Fates, besides Zeus?"
Amara pondered the question, thinking it through. The Fates wanted to restore the natural order of the world, or so they claimed. Order, order, order... The word repeated itself, over and over again, until Amara had a revelation. The opposite of order was chaos. Discord.
"Eris."

With this answer, a whole other slew of questions arose. What was Eris' goal? Meredythe speculated that it could be World-Render, her weapon of immense apocalyptic power, which had disappeared completely. Prometheus told them that Eris had a pocket dimension of primordial chaotic energy where she could be storing World-Render—and where Aegis was most likely to be.

Meredythe said, "So the goddess of chaos now potentially has access to the weapon that can destroy all of reality and is also slowly killing me?"
"It's doing what?" Amara yelped.

Prometheus suggested that the party find their missing companion and confront Eris as soon as possible, before trying to break into Olympus. "And say hello to Hestia for me," he said with a weary but warm look on his face. "It's been a long time since I last saw her."
The party went to speak to Hades about the Helm of Invisibility and splitting open the earth. He gave them the helmet (which the party planned to give to Kallos) and told them the word to activate it: "Zagreus." He also told them that, when the time came for the party to go under Mount Olympus, all they had to do was strike the ground and speak his name, and he would open the earth for them.
With that in mind, the party returned to the world above. Their next stop: the Chaos Zone.

Rewards Granted

Helm of Invisibility

Character(s) interacted with

Prometheus, Hades, the Furies

Report Date

20 Nov 2021