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MAJOR PLAYERS

Twelve gods. One war. Infinite ways to lose Olympus.

On a modern Olympus—think Hollywood Hills meets Fortune 500 boardroom—worship is currency, celebrity is mandatory, and even the gods have to grind to stay on top. When war breaks out between Troy and Greece, Zeus turns the conflict into a high-stakes game, urging his children to bet on the outcome and profit from human bloodshed.

Dionysus, Zeus’s only half-human son, wants no part of the violence. He came to Olympus to protect his mortal mother, Semele, not gamble on human lives. But when Zeus pressures him to join the War Game, Dionysus realizes that refusing to play could cost him everything—including Semele’s safety.

The ten interconnected stories follow other Olympians caught in similar binds. Artemis, camera-shy and self-sacrificing, only joins the wager to shield her reckless twin, Apollo—and maybe spend some time with her secret crush, Aphrodite. Meanwhile, Ares, a middling nepo baby, hopes a win will finally earn him his family’s respect. As the war ramps up, the gods’ stories collide, exposing deep rifts in a family already strained by public scrutiny.

Only Athena, the callous goddess of strategy and finance, understands the truth behind the wager: Zeus engineered the war to choose his successor. The winner won’t just claim a sizable payoff, they’ll inherit the mountain itself—with it, the power to reshape the world of mortals and gods alike. Athena plans to win. And under her rule, mercy will not be a priority.

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Dionysus, god of festivity, wants to retire. He’s tired of the hangover miracles, the drunken revelries, and keeping up his chipper party-god act. A secret introvert, he’d rather play video games
than listen to mortals chant his name.

But Olympus runs on Merits—a divine energy earned from mortal worship—and walking away means losing everything, including the “eternal life” bargain he secured for his human mother, Semele.

When the Trojan War kicks off, Dionysus is forced into the spotlight, caught between a war he doesn’t believe in and a system that won’t let him opt out.

Artemis—Arti—never imagined she’d be spending her eternity on Olympus. Reclusive and camera-shy, she’d much rather live in a quiet forest—or, at the very least, in the godly suburbs where she and her twin, Apollo, grew up.

But Apollo can’t live alone on Olympus; co-dependent, he needs Arti to rescue him from one PR disaster after the next. Busy protecting him, she hardly lets herself fantasize about a better life—especially when it comes to running away with her crush, Aphrodite.

As the War Game heats up, Apollo, as usual, get himself in trouble—and this time, maybe Arti won’t save him.

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Apollo doesn’t mean to go through break-ups—and break-downs—as often as he does. God of healing, he can’t resist saving mortals, especially those who worship him with the kind of affection he never got growing up.

When Apollo saves Cassandra, a mortal Trojan Girl, from the brink of death, he can’t help but fall in love with her—or rather, with the way she depends on him.

Determined to win the War Game—for Cassandra, for Troy, for the praise he craves—Apollo wagers everything. But for a god who lives for adoration, even victory might not be enough.

Athena knows she’s Zeus’s favorite child—his CFO, his dagger-happy bodyguard, his right-hand man. It’s why Zeus trusted her, and her alone, to know his secret:

Tired of ruling Olympus, Zeus engineered the Trojan War—and the proceeding wager—to find a successor. The winner of the War Game will replace him as monarch of gods and men. For some, victory would mean a gentler Olympus—but if Athena inherits the throne, she’ll see to the opposite.

Hermes isn’t the most powerful god. I.e. since computers got popular, their whole “instant messenger” schtick sort of became obsolete. But, they’ve worked hard to keep their place on Olympus, extracting I.O.U.s from the other gods to stay above water—literally.

See, when they’re not on Olympus, Hermes works miserable (and mandatory!) nightshifts in the Underworld, ferrying dead souls across the putrid River Styx.

For Hermes, losing their spot on Olympus is a matter of life and death. If they aren’t on the mountain, they’ll be conscripted to the Underworld—full time.

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Ares has always had trouble getting people—and gods—to take him seriously. The other Olympians write him off as a hot-head, a nepo-baby undeserving of his God of War title.

When his long-time crush, Aphrodite, finally says yes to a date, things start looking up. Finally, someone he loves sees the effort he’s making to improve himself. 

But when a few humiliating missteps in the War Game jeopardize his reputation, it could mean the end of his new relationship—one he won’t let go of easily.