Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-4531192-20140214172547/@comment-3146930-20140216234154

Centurios wrote: Eternalmccarthy wrote: Centurios wrote:

Athenaiswise wrote:

KatLvPJO wrote: POSEIDON! Zeus was there to fight typhon, but without Poseidon, the gods would NEVER have won. Even Zeus said it would have been impossible without Poseidon. i totaly agree

Poseidon only tipped the balance and increased their will to fight. In the original fight against Typhon during the ancient days, Poseidon, along with all the gods except Athena (who convinced Zeus to stay) and Zeus, ran to Egypt and took the forma of animals (the Greeks way for explaining the animal headed gods of Egypt). And then Zeus single-handedly defeated Typhon, and then dropped a mountain on top of him. So, ya, Zeus would win. More specific to this fight though, a war between these two gods would be in posedions favour if their forces and children got involved, if gods were included obv zeus would win but i doubt many of his children would get involved.

As for the old days in the PJO cannon i do not think typhoon was defeated alone or as powerful as he is here. If he was then clearly Zeus is a pathetic shell compared to what he was. It was poseidon who ensured typhoon was beaten and this time thanks to posedion he was killed, not just sealed. You are right, all the gods are shells of their former selves. Zeus was, in the old days, the most powerful by far, as he defeated Poseidon, Apollo, and Hera when he was freed from his bondage by Briares. The gods, Olympians in particular, lost much of their power through lack of worship and sacrifices but they didnt fade due to the fact that they are connected to Western civilization. Zeus did fight Typhon solo because all the gods fled at the sight of the monster. Also, Typhon's still alive, Poseidon created an opening to Tartarus and Zeus used his master bolt to knock him into it.

Zeus never hit Typhon a second time with the Master Bolt. The book only says that "Zeus kept pounding the giant with lightning." After the, the river rose up an covered Typhon before dragging him down into Tartarus..