User blog comment:Simplyme/Fading?/@comment-4692918-20111230051457/@comment-4142691-20120514183708

I know, it's so sad. Besides if they had faded like Riordan says, there would be no sun, there would be no moon and the chariots would've vanished as Helios and Selene ARE the sun and moon (the 2 most powerful and worshipped elements in the ancient world fyi). So in theory they're still around, I like to think of Apollo and Artemis as their personal drivers. Even if Artemis took her lunar aspect, Selene is still the titaness of the night, sight, magic, childbirth, lunacy, dew, nursing and month. That should be more then enough to keep her around. Add in the fact that she's as far as I know the only woman Hera has not attempted to get back at for sleeping about 3 or 4 times with her husband. Hah, come to think of it, if the replacing equals fading thing is true than Hera should've faded and Selene was the queen of Olympus.