the gods to go back to Olympus and stay there, and in exchange
they agreed to end the war.
?Zeus agreed as well. If the Scions ended the war, he swore on the
River Styx that the gods would retreat to Olympus and leave the
world alone. But before he sealed his vow he wanted some assurance
that such a terrible war would never threaten Olympus again.
As he saw it, the Greeks? unification of the Scion Houses in order to
fight the Trojans nearly tore Olympus apart. Zeus wanted to make
sure that such total involvement never happened again. As he set
his seal on the Truce and made his unbreakable vow that the
Olympians would leave the earth to the mortals, he also swore to
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return to earth and finish the war if the Scion Houses ever united
again.?
?It sounds like what happened at the end of World War II when
the Allies divided Germany,? Helen remarked. ?They broke the
country up, hoping to avoid World War Three.?
?It?s very much like that,? Ariadne agreed. ?The Fates are obsessed
with cycles, and they repeat the same patterns over and over
all around the world?especially when it comes to the Big
Three?war, love, and family.? Ariadne trailed off for a moment,
thinking some dark thought, before she finished the story. ?Anyway,
Troy was betrayed by one of their own and burned to the
ground, and after a few months of confusion and tricks and payback?
most of which is described in the Odyssey?the Olympians
finally left the earth. Zeus swore that if the Houses ever united
again, he would come back and the Trojan War would pretty much
pick up where it left off.?
?And it left off somewhere just short of the total destruction of
civilization,? Helen said, trying to imagine what ?the end of civilization?