Shadows of Olympus

Shadows of Olympus

Rain, dead phone reception, and a thing with a human face drag you out of ordinary life before anyone explains what you are. By morning, San Francisco has become a divine pressure point: waterfront ruins hide relic trades, private archives guard broken prophecy, sanctuary houses fail from within, and Mount Olympus watches from beside the modern world.

You are an unclaimed demigod with dangerous blood and very little protection you can trust. Apollo reaches you first, charming and evasive, offering help that feels both genuine and controlling. Hermes quietly creates routes toward agency, while Zeus sees uncertainty as a threat that should be contained before it spreads.

The prophecy at the centre of the city gives fragments rather than certainty. Athena, Hades, and Poseidon begin as neutral powers whose support must be earned through evidence, restraint, or respect for older laws. Eris turns every secret into pressure, every choice into public consequence, and every alliance into a test.

Every clue brings help and danger together. You can protect ordinary life, expose divine secrets, bargain with power, resist inheritance, or force Olympus to change by refusing to remain useful.

Characters

Apollo
Eris
Hermes
Ione
Jun
Zeus