[LoO] Places in Olympus

[RPGPundit]

Olympus is basically a palace complex the size of a small city, complete with permanent palaces for the family members, quarters for special visitors, a great number of servant quarters, gardens, kitchens, a forge and labratory of sorts for Hephaestus, a theatre... and who knows what else?

What detailed areas would you put on Olympus? Would any of them be particularly unusual or fantastical?

RPGPundit

[Premier]

If Hephaestus gets his own forge, all the other gods would want something to reflect their own interests.
- There could be a room with maps of all the world and animated miniatures duking out mortal battles in real time, possibly more for Athena than Ares - the latter would prefer an armory and perhaps some "magical Holodeck" arena to satisfy his battlelust.
- Winery for Dionysus.
- Horsestables for Poseidon. Also, possibly some "mystical docks" not really connected to actual seas, to receive him when he visits.
- On the same note, a great pit with stairs or something for Hades. Also, treasury.
- Hunting grounds for Artemis.
- Herbarium/surgery for Asclepios.

For more generic things, remember the original Clash of the Titans, with the miniature arena, the figurines of heroes in pigeonholes, and Zeus furtively cheating? That.

[RPGPundit]

If Hephaestus gets his own forge, all the other gods would want something to reflect their own interests.
- There could be a room with maps of all the world and animated miniatures duking out mortal battles in real time, possibly more for Athena than Ares - the latter would prefer an armory and perhaps some "magical Holodeck" arena to satisfy his battlelust.
- Winery for Dionysus.
- Horsestables for Poseidon. Also, possibly some "mystical docks" not really connected to actual seas, to receive him when he visits.
- On the same note, a great pit with stairs or something for Hades. Also, treasury.
- Hunting grounds for Artemis.
- Herbarium/surgery for Asclepios.

For more generic things, remember the original Clash of the Titans, with the miniature arena, the figurines of heroes in pigeonholes, and Zeus furtively cheating? That.

I think those are all great ideas!

One thing that is notable though, that I outline specifically in LoO (do you have the game yet?) is that out of the big long list of gods, not all of them actually LIVE in Olympus. In fact, even discounting those Titans that are locked up in Tartarus, there are quite a few who rarely if ever set foot there. Hades has his own court in the Underworld, and there's a number of gods who live there and not in Olympus at all (like Hypnos and his sons, and Hecate spends a lot of time there too, and obviously Persephone for half the year), and Poseidon lives in his own undersea realm (Atlantis, in the game) where he has his own huge court too.

Each god in the book is given a "location" entry that lists the place or places where one is likely to find them.

So what this means is that there are some gods that are almost always on Olympus, some that would count it as their home but are there only intermittently or rarely (Dionysus, for example, spends very little time there) and others that are almost never found there.

There are also some that used to spend time there but don't anymore, and some that are relatively new residents there (like Heracles).  So Olympus is a changing place.

All of that can affect the geography of the place in interesting ways.

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