Twelve Gods of Olympus

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The **Twelve Olympians** are the major deities of the Greek pantheon.

## Overview

The Olympians are the 12 major Gods of the Greek pantheon. They are the most influential and powerful members of their pantheon. The Twelve Olympians possess some of the most powerful Gods that can be found in Valhalla (including Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and Apollo). Due to this fact, their influence and reputation extend far beyond just their pantheon.

## Plot

### Past

There were originally 13 Gods of Olympus. After winning the Titanomachy Tournament, Zeus became the King of the Gods and the leader of the Greek pantheon. He, alongside twelve other Gods, would rule over the Greek pantheon.

However, Adamas (the second son of Kronos) was unsatisfied with Zeus being made the leader of Heaven, despite being the youngest of Kronos' children and attempted to overthrow him.

Adamas would be stopped and killed by Poseidon. After that, at Poseidon's request, Adamas' name was erased from history. As a result, the Thirteen Olympians became the Twelve Olympians and history was rewritten as if it was always that way.

### Gods' Council

As the Gods were deciding on mankind's destruction, Brunhilde took the Humans' side and suggested the start of Ragnarok.

The Gods, seeing the suggestion as pointless, refused to take part in it, saying that it was a waste of time. However, Brunhilde taunted them, declaring they were "chickening out".

The mere suggestion that they feared direct conflict with mortals caused such anger among the Gods that they decided to accept Brunhilde's proposition, if only to put her in her place.

Due to their immense power, a lot of members from the Twelve Olympians and from the Greek pantheon in general were chosen to participate in Ragnarok as representatives of the Gods. Zeus, Poseidon and Apollo were the Olympians chosen to fight, alongside Heracles.

### Second Round

Shiva was the original representative of the Gods for the second round. However, after finding out that Adam was Humanity's representative for the second round, Zeus took his place. Zeus ended up winning the round, giving the Gods a second point, though Adam had earned his begrudging respect.

### Third Round

To keep up the pressure, Poseidon was the representative of the Gods for the third round. He fought against the Japanese swordsman, Kojiro Sasaki, who was known as History's Strongest Loser. Kojiro ended up winning against Poseidon, earning the first point for Humanity in Ragnarok.

### Seventh Round

Due to Buddha's betrayal, the Gods had a missing spot for their representatives. Hades decided to take Buddha's place for the sake of getting revenge on Humanity for Poseidon's death. He fought in the seventh round against The King Where It All Began, Qin Shi Huang. In the end, Qin Shi Huang won against Hades and put Humanity in the lead over the Gods for the first time.

### Ninth Round

After the Gods' victory in the eighth round tied the score again, Apollo was chosen as the Gods' representative in the ninth round. He fought against Leonidas, the strongest rebel in human history, who held a grudge against Apollo. At the end of this round, Apollo defeats and kills Leonidas giving the Gods victory in this round.

## Differences

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the **Twelve Olympians** are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. They were called *Olympians* because, according to tradition, they resided on Mount Olympus.

Although Hades was a major ancient Greek God and was the brother of the first generation of Olympians (Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia), his realm was the underworld, far from Olympus, and thus he was not usually considered to be one of the Olympians.

Besides the Twelve Olympians, the Greek religion contains many other Gods.

However, in the series only: Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Ares and Aphrodite have been confirmed to be members of the Twelve Olympians and have appeared in the series.

Additionally, the Twelve Olympians in the manga include an additional and original member, called Adamas. Adamas is an original character with no existing equivalent in the Greek Religion.