Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24057651-20150518222620/@comment-1820614-20150520225516

To answer a few questions:

1.  I imagine Nyx does not take over because she does not want to. Maybe she is too much an embodiment of night to deal with running the other gods. For all her power she is limited in that way. Just like how Gaea was a sleep most of the time and how Pontus the embodiment of the sea may be asleep. Maybe she has no interest. One reason Zeus and others want to be king is to satisfy their egos. Nyx already knows Zeus is afraid of her and she is greater than him.

2.  The idea of Athena having kids even born from her thoughts is new and has no place in mythology. The same with the idea of slain monsters coming back after awhile. In myth, they stayed dead. A lot of the personalities of the gods and other immortals are made up. He also took quite a few liberties in mixing different myths or changing minor details about them.

3.  In myth, if you broke an oath on the River Styx you were supposed to be exiled from Olympus for ten years, denied the food of the gods during that time, force to life in a deathllike trance for a year, and spend the rest of the years banished from the company of the gods. Of course, Zeus is supposed to enforce this and he is hardly going to do so on himself or his powerful brothers.

4.  I imagine Hepaestus cannot take away his ugliness because it is something so innate about him. His "true form" is damaged and ugly so no matter what form he takes it reflects this. Limits to shapeshifting and all that.