Mortal Realm

Persephone in the Mortal Realm.

**The Mortal Realm** is where humans and some immortals live. It is set in the time of Ancient Greece, and therefore lacks the technology of the godly realms. Occasionally, immortal beings bring technology from Olympus and the Underworld to the Mortal Realm in secret; the nymphs' "forbidden ham radio" and Persephone's "forbidden coffee grinder" are two examples.

The Mortal Realm is where Demeter has chosen to live and run her business Barley Mother, and where Persephone was born and raised. Hades reveals that he was also born in the Mortal Realm, specifically in the region now known as Sicily.

Demeter used to bring spring to the Mortal Realm, before she had her daughter Persephone and began to train her to take over. At one point, Demeter petitioned Zeus for the right to become the Queen of the Mortal Realm, but Zeus refused her request despite the agreement of the other Gods. Eris reveals that Hades also vetoed the idea, as he did not want to lose the rights to his volcanoes.

After the events of Episode 190, the Mortal Realm has been cut off from the godly realms. Persephone has become the interim Goddess of the Harvest and the Earth. She has completely taken over her mother's duties in the Mortal Realm while Demeter, stripped of her powers, lives in the Mortal village of Eleusis.

The Mortal Realm has a warm, presumably Mediterranean climate; Persephone mentions that it is too warm for snow there when she sees it for the first time in the Underworld.

## Locations in the Mortal Realm

### Demeter's Land

Demeter resides on a large plot of land where she grows her crops and operates her business. She employs a large number of nymphs to assist her, who also live on her land. Demeter raised her daughter, Persephone, here. Persephone rarely left the boundaries of her mother's property.

Some of Demeter's fields.Persephone's greenhouse.A gazebo among Demeter's wheat fields.Persephone running through Demeter's fields with the flower nymphs.Persephone and flower nymphs swimming after working the fields.Demeter's fields burning.Part of the living quarters.A building somewhere on Demeter's land.A structure on Demeter's land.The outside of a building on Demeter's land.A room in a building somewhere on Demeter's lands.A treehouse Persephone uses after taking over her mother's job.
#### Flower Nymph Gardens

These gardens were established by Demeter as a special, safe place for Flower Nymph restoration. Demeter also established a treaty with mortals to not trespass. However, a group of mortals disregarded this treaty to expand their city, killing several nymphs in the process. This event would cause Persephone's act of wrath.

Mortals uprooting the sacred plants in the gardens.
### Demeter's Vacation Cottage

A small cottage that Persephone and her mother would visit while on vacation. It is quaint inside and contains Persephone's loom.

### Grand City

The Grand City, so named by the muse Polymnia during her account of Persephone's act of wrath, is where Persephone accidently grew a giant tree causing mass destruction. The city is rebuilt by Demeter during her cover-up of the act.

### Psyche's Home

Psyche is from a human settlement in the Mortal Realm. There is a large Greek temple that dominates this area. Her family are assumed to be wealthy, as she lives in a large home. Eros says that the place is "pretty fancy."

Full view of the settlement and surrounding lands.Psyche presumably inside her home, doing textile art.A public building in the settlement.
### Semele's Home

Semele appears to live in a wealthy settlement in the Mortal Realm. A large temple structure, where a party is held, appears to be her home. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades come to the party disguised as mortals so that Zeus can visit Semele. Hades end up finding an abused dog here and takes her home.

Semele's home.Another view of the outside of Semele's home.
### Sicily

Sicily is the area where Hades was born. At the time it had no name.

The lands of Sicily.Presumably part of Sicily.Presumably part of Sicily after Hades was born, with Rhea and Nyx
### Acheron

Also known as "The Beach", Acheron is where the Mortal Realm meets the Underworld. Newly deceased souls are deposited here and must pay Charon, the ferryman, a single obol to cross into the afterlife. Shades who cannot pay must wait on the shores of Acheron for 100 years. The Titan Styx resides here.

Persephone at the entrance.Shades gathered on the Beach.
### Leto's Home

While banished in the Mortal Realm, Leto lives in a large, gilded home with many windows.

The outside of the building.The interior of the building.
### Artemis' Temple

Artemis has a large temple devoted to her in the Mortal Realm. Eros refers to it as her "main temple."

### Unknown

Unspecified locations in the Mortal Realm.

An area of the Mortal Realm that Hades visited to check on a volcano.An unknown area of the Mortal Realm that Hades and Minthe visited, where Hades first noticed that Spring was different.An unknown area of the Mortal Realm where Ares was before he returned to Olympus.A forest in the Mortal Realm that Artemis walks through.