Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170707180626/@comment-25155763-20170914225535

Zandris Hugal wrote: I completely agree that the war children is due to Zeus and Hera's tulmultous relationship. I mean, if you think of the way Hera's first twin children, Ares and Eris, were conceived... And the reason why it is so tulmotous is because Hera is a warrior and a fighter. She is no docile goddess.

Yes, Hephaestus controls one of the four elements. But Hera has proven that she can withstand and counter fire. During the Indian War, Dionysus (who at this point was a god) used a "divine flame." This flame was so powerful that it actually scorched th River god Hydaspes, who resorted to begging. When Dionysus refused to stop, Hera - from all the way on Mount Olympus, conjured a wind so powerful that it put out Dionysus' flame (remember, it was burning a river).

In fact, during the Trojan War she directly shows the ability to create fire, for at one point she creates a storm that would "burn the heads of the Trojans and burn their armor." Hephaestus definitely is better with fire than Hera, but Hera can defend herself.

Another thing everyone is forgetting is raw divine power. Gods aren't just metahumans who use designated powers against each other. The are divine beings, with sheer raw energy backing up and being the source of their powers. A stronger god can actually overcome a weaker god when dealing with said weaker god's domain. The best example is when an enraged Hera cursed Aphrodite's divine child (Priapus) with Dionysus to be ugly. Think about that for a second. Hera made the Goddess of Beauty, a fellow Olympian goddess, have an ugly child. If Hera can do that, she can certainly stave off Hephaestus' flame.

Now, the last question. Sure, you say, even if Hera can deflect Hepheastus' fire, what's to stop him from overwhelming her with sheer strength. Remember how Athena managed to push him away when he tried to...have relations with her? Hera is in the same tier of physical strength as the war goddess. When Hera humiliated (and by that, I mean ROTFL stomped) Artemis in the Trojan War, she literally just caught both of Artemis' fists with one hand, and just whacked Artemis on both ears with her bow, all with a smile on her face. Artemis fell to the ground just from these two whacks, and went crying to mommy - literally. During the Indian War, Hera one-shotted Artemis by swinging a club of hail that both incapacitated Zeus' daughter and destroyed her bow in one hit. Just one.

Hera is both an extremely powerful goddess and warrior. There is a reason some hymns dub her "All-powerful Hera." She is a true daughter of Kronos, and would give her son a good spanking. Well Dionysus isn't a fire god so presumably that was a much lesser fire than what Hephaestus is capable of. And I believe that storm was just extremely hot, not made of fire-a calling upon of Notus(one of her airy subjects) most likely. Ad the whole Priapus thing was her sancrity-of-marriage powers, Aphrodite had been unfaithful to her current consort Dionysus. And tbh Hephaestus was a gentlemen and once rejected he would back off, so Athena pushing him doesn't make him any less strong. I think Hephaestus has a lot of untapped power, but he prefers to stay on the sidelines. But if forced into a fight, especially one with the mother who disowned him and tried to claim he once he proved an forging genius, he would go all in. Pompeii plus Mt. St.Helens times fireworks type all in. I guess this is simply a matter of perspective because one has feats but no elaboration on what let those happen(power, divinity status) while the other has plenty of elaborate powers but no real past usage to observe.