Zeus

Zeus

Personal Information Born: before c. 2902 BC Title(s): Lord of the Sky God of Honor, Justice, Rain, Sky, and Lightning King of Olympus Element: Lightning Air Species: Olympian Gender: Male Distinguishing Features: Long shoulder-length graying black hair, neatly trimmed beard, electric blue eyes Family: Ouranos (grandfather) Gaea (grandmother) Kronos (father) Rhea (mother) Hestia, Demeter (sisters) Hades, Poseidon (brothers) Hera (sister-wife) Metis (cousin-wife, divorced) Themis (aunt-wife, divorced) Apollo, Arcas, Arcisius, Artemis, Ares, Athena, Britomartis, Dionysus, Eilethyia, Epaphus, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Muses, Pelasgus, Persephone, Perseus, Tantalus (children) Occupation: King of the Olympians Affiliation: Olympians Loyalty: Olympus Residence: Olympus

"Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!""

— Zeus to Hera in Athens[[{{{4}}}|[src]]]

King Zeus (Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws: the bright one) (pronunciation: ZOOS) is the King of the Olympians and youngest son of Kronos and Rhea, as well as Greek aspect of Jupiter and the vakha Aran. Zeus was the only child of the ruling Titans to be saved from being swallowed by his father and was raised on Crete to prevent this.

Zeus eventually overthrew Kronos as king of the universe after freeing his siblings. Zeus then became god of the sky after winning a dice game with Poseidon and Hades. Zeus married his cousin Metis but swallowed her whole after Gaea issued a prophecy that if they had a son together, he would overthrow his father. Zeus then married his aunt Themis before the two divorced due to monstrous children. Zeus eventually settled with his sister Hera, who did not tolerate the former's many affairs.

Millennia later, Zeus broke the Oath of the Big Three by siring Thalia Grace by Beryl Grace. Zeus eventually returned to Beryl in his Roman form of Jupiter and sired Jason Grace, then had his Master Bolt stolen by his grandson Luke Castellan, who framed Poseidon and his demigod son Perseus Jackson. Jackson managed to prove himself innocent after taking the Bolt from Ares. Zeus also fought Typhon during the Second Titanomachy and witnessed Jackson refuse his offer of immortality.

After this incident, Zeus became paranoid and damaged in his pride due to being saved by demigods and closed off Olympus, encouraged to do so by Khione. However, this only sped up the process of the Second Gigantomachy and Zeus was incapacitated during the Great Divine Schism, split between himself and his Roman aspect Jupiter. At the end of the Schism, Zeus helped Jason Grace kill the Gigantes king Porphyrion.

Abilities

• Massive Strength: Zeus has incredible physical prowess, being able to lift and hurl entire mountains at his enemies. Zeus also overpowered the incredibly strong Typhon and Hephaestus, as well as flinging the Argo II from Athens to Camp Half-Blood with ease at supersonic speeds.
• Battle Prowess: Zeus is an extremely skilled, formidable, and experienced warrior, able to overpower Hephaestus easily, defeat Kampê, battle Kronos, and crush Typhon under a volcano.
• Height Manipulation: Zeus can tremendously increase his height, to the point where he is half as tall as Typhon (who is around roughly 17,448 ft.)
• Aerokinesis: As god of the sky, Zeus has absolute control over air.
  • Wind Storms: Zeus can generate tremendously powerful hurricanes and tornadoes at will.
  • Flight: Zeus can manipulate the air currents around him to hover and fly at great speeds.
  • Cloud Manipulation: Zeus was able to create an indistinguishable living replica of Hera out of a cloud, which became an intelligent cloud nymph and ancestor of the centaurs.
• Atmokinesis: Zeus has absolute control over the weather.
  • Celestial Hydrokinesis: Zeus and Poseidon started the Flood of Deucalion; the former caused tremendous torrents of rain to pour down from the heavens all over the world for nine days and nights.
• Electrokinesis: As the god of thunder and lightning, Zeus has absolute control over both static and celestial electricity.
• Supernatural Sight: Zeus was able to see Danaë, who was trapped inside an underground bronze cell. He was also able to mentally zoom in and clearly perceive Phaethon driving the Sun Chariot.
• Chlorokinesis: Zeus was able to grow magnificent fields of flowers to lure his daughter Persephone to Hades.
• Knowledge of Plants: Zeus learned of the properties of herbs and plants from the nymphs who raised him.
• Ergokinesis: Zeus can temporarily strip away and restore any other Olympian of their godly powers and/or divinity. Zeus did so to Poseidon and Apollo after the Olympian Riot, Apollo again after he had killed the Elder Cyclopes, and took away Dionysus's alcokinesis abilities. Apollo's divinity was taken away a third time by Zeus after the Second Giigantomachy.
• Shapeshifting: Zeus has always had a talent for shapeshifting, transforming himself into a Titanic version of himself to deceive Kronos and the other Titans, a bull, an eagle, swan, cuckoo, ant, and serpent in order to seduce his many lovers, as well as changing form into that of another mortal or god, such as Artemis or Amphitryon, and even a dazzling shower of gold.
• Teleportation: Zeus can disappear in "a blinding flash of lightning".
• Animal Control: Zeus can summon and control animals that are sacred to him, such as eagles.
• Amokinesis: Zeus was able to make Aphrodite, the very goddess of love, fall in love with the mortal shepherd Anchises.
• Entertainment Skills: Zeus is an excellent entertainer, learning his skills from the Kouretes, with singing "as clear as the streams on Mount Ida" and outrageously hilarious satyr jokes.

Attributes

Zeus's attributes are his Master Bolt and Aegis robe-shield, which he and Athena use interchangeably.

Attendants

Zeus has several loyal attendants, such as the Four Wind Gods, Nike, and Hermes.

Trivia

• Although it is commonly misunderstood that Zeus broke the Oath of the Big Three twice, Jason Grace was sired by Jupiter, not Zeus.
• Zeus is the only Elder Olympian not to be born on Mount Othrys.
• Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades were all indirectly responsible for the events of the First Great Prophecy.
  • Zeus attempted to kill Bianca and Nico di Angelo so that they wouldn't become the demigods of the prophecy and killed their mother Maria di Angelo.
    • An enraged Hades then cursed the Oracle of Delphi, leading May Castellan to be driven insane and her son Luke Castellan to hate his father Hermes for never helping him during her fits of madness, eventually leading him to despise the Olympians, join Kronos, and cause some of the events of the Prophecy to take place.
  • Poseidon's son Perseus Jackson also helped cause the events to pass.
• Clovis, son of Hypnos claimed that Zeus likes tailored suits, reality television, and a "Chinese food place on East Twenty-eighth Street".
• Zeus's Egyptian aspect is Amun.
• Zeus's Norse aspect is Odin.

Notes and references

Preceded by Kronos

Greek Divine Monarch of the Universe b. c. 2902 BC—Present

Succeeded by Incumbent