Mount Olympus

**Mount Olympus** is the spiritual realm located at the top of Olympos and serves as the home-realm of the Olympian deities and the Heavens of the Greco-Roman Pantheon.

It is ruled by the Twelve Olympians, led by King Zeus and Queen Hera.

## Summary

**Mount Olympus** is the highest mountain in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria. The highest peak, Mytikas, meaning "nose", is one of the highest peaks in Europe in terms of topographic prominence.

Olympus is notable in Greek mythology as the home of the Greek gods, located on Mytikas peak.

## Summary

Mount Olympus is the highest spiritual realm of the Greco-Roman Pantheon's cosmos known as **Olympos** (オリンポス, *Orinposu*) and takes the form of a giant mountain reminiscent of the actual Mount Olympus on Earth. It is located on the sacred lands of Olympia, surrounded by the sea of Atlantica, and its roots pierced through the ground into the underworld of Haides.

It is ruled by the Twelve Olympians, the most powerful and revered gods of the Greco-Roman Pantheon, ever since its creation following the end of the Titan dynasty. The leader of Mount Olympus - and subsequently, of the Twelve Olympians - is Zeus, who is the Chieftain-God of the pantheon. Ruling alongside him is his sister-wife Hera, who is the God-Queen of Greco-Roman mythology.

Following the signing of the Angelos Concordat and the formation of the Western Triumvirate, Mount Olympus also became known as the heart of the Western Civilization due to it being the base of the Greco-Roman gods, who are arguably the most powerful members of the Western Faction.

## Appearance

Mount Olympus appears as a giant sky-piercing mountain that, from afar, bears a striking resemblance to Mt. Olympus on Earth. According to Hermes, however, despite its appearance as a mountain, in reality, it is an entire spiritual realm separated from Olympia and functions as the seat of the gods and the heavens of the Greco-Roman Pantheon.

The mountain possesses a fantastical ecosystem of mythological beasts and legendary plant-lifes that cannot be found anywhere else, as well as large rivers and ponds and giant caverns where countless nature spirits make their residences. Some of the natural non-divine inhabitants of Mount Olympus are satyrs, sylphs, and nymphs such as the Oreads, the Naiads, or the Dryads.

The highest-ranked gods such as the Twelve Olympians and their closest companions - consorts, siblings, children - live at the top of Mount Olympus in an *acropolis* built by the Elder Cyclopes and Hekatonkheires, and dwell in palaces and temples built by Hephaestus. Said acropolis lay above the clouds and the paths of the stars, existing in the bright upper-air of the sky. The lower-ranked gods live in smaller palaces and temples scattered across the mountain, and their places, while still magnificent in their own rights, aren't as extravagant as the acropolis, and are built of stone with bronze foundations.

Connecting the temples of the lower-ranked gods with the acropolis on top of Mount Olympus is the **Path of Eos** (夜明けの道パス・オブ・エオス, *Pasu obu Eosu*), a golden path named after Eos, the Goddess of Dawn, due to the rosy-pink color it reflects whenever Apollo drives the Sun Chariot across the mountain. Other than the path, there also exist hundreds of caverns running within the mountain, though due to its complex structure, only Hermes and Ariadne are able to navigate through the entirety of the numerous caves.

## Notable Locations

### Olympia

**Olympia** (神々の聖域オリンピア, *Orinpia*) is the "Earth" of the Greco-Roman cosmos, where the many monsters and the nature spirits unaffiliated with the Olympian gods live. It is a giant realm, roughly twice the size of the Eurasian continent with the same conditions and the ecosystem as the Mediterranean Basin. It is where the numerous resource-producing facilities of the pantheon are located, managed by the modern followers of the goddess Demeter.

### Hyperion Gates

**Hyperion Gates** (天国の黄金の門ハイペリオン・ゲート, *Haiperion Gēto*) is the giant golden gates located at the center of Olympia that serve as the entrance to Mount Olympus where the gods dwell. The sanctuary where the gates are located is served by imperial guards, trained and led by Heracles and his immortal sons, Alexiares and Anicetus, while the actual gates themselves are guarded by the Horai: Dike, Eunomia, and Eirene.

### Olympic Acropolis

**Olympic Acropolis** (神々の永遠の城塞オリンピック・アクロポリス, *Orinpikku Akuroporisu*) is the ancient citadel where the high-ranked gods such as the Twelve Olympians and their consorts and retainers live. It is located on the top of Mount Olympus, with the palace of Zeus and Hera located at the peak of the mountain and the palaces of the other members of the Twelve Olympians are located on a descending pattern (Zeus-Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and Dionysus). The city located at the base of the acropolis is the home of the non-Twelve Olympians gods such as Enyo, Hebe, Eileithyia, Asclepius, Tyche, Nemesis, Nike, Themis...

#### Arena of Ares

**Arena of Ares** (アレスのアリーナ, *Aresu no Arīna*) is the giant arena located in the south-eastern sector of the acropolis. It is a giant arena built in Ancient Greek architectural style by Hephaestus that can change its interior designs to suit whatever events held within it, from a colosseum-style battle arena to an outdoor stadium for sporting events to even a semicircle amphitheater for musical or theater performances.

#### Olympus' Garden

**Olympus' Garden** (オリンパスの庭, *Orinpasu no Niwa*) is a giant marble-walled garden maze located in the northern sector of the acropolis and is dedicated to Hera. Despite its beauty, it is also filled with numerous deadly traps and hidden cursed passageways, which many believed Hephaestus created as a way to mock his mother.

#### Chamber of the Flame

**Chamber of the Flame** (聖なる炎の神殿チャンバー・オブ・ザ・フレーム, *Chanbā obu za Furēmu*), also known as the **Holy** **Temple of the Sacred Fire**, is the temple dedicated to the goddess Hestia, as well as her personal residence. This is where the Flame of Olympus is located, personally tended to and protected by Hestia, which connects the gods' powers and divine domains to their modern symbolisms and cultural impacts, thus allowing them to gain more divine power from the cultural influence their legends and symbolisms possess.

## Entrances

Other than the Hyperion Gates, there are also alternative entrances to Mount Olympus:

* **Ruins of Olympos**: According to Hermes, located on Mytikas, the highest peak of Mt. Olympus in Greece, is the ruins of the original Olympic acropolis created by the Hekatonkheires during the Titanomachy. Although the place had been abandoned after the Elder Olympians conquered Mount Othrys and became rulers of the Ancient Greek cosmos, their divine signature still lingered there in the ruins, which, in combination to its mythological associations with the gods, had created a portal connecting the two locations together.
* **Empire State Building (600th Floor)**: After spending nearly 500 years in Europe, after the United States became the new host of the Western Civilization, the Olympian gods, as well as the entire Greco-Roman cosmos, moved to America. In 1930, as a tribute to their divine father, a group of demigod children of Hephaestus decided to build the Empire State Building and, with the assistance of a group of Hellenistic sorcerers, forged a connection between the spiritual realm of Mount Olympus with the actual building. Impressed by their accomplishment, the gods decided to make the Empire State Building - and with it, New York as a whole - their new center of power in the United States.

## Trivia

* It takes nine days for an anvil to fall from Mount Olympus to Olympia and another nine days for it to fall from Olympian down to Tartarus.
* The tallest mountain on the planet Mars, as well as the tallest mountain on any planet in the Solar System, is named Olympus Mons after the mythological mountain.
* The twin giants Otis and Ephialtes once tried to reach the top of Mount Olympus by stacking mountains on top of each other.