Welp I think there is an error tied to the gender selection in the flashback. Playing as a girl originally, I only got the gender flip error when I chose to play as a man in the flashback.
This sounds like a great addition, especially since the MC spent the last four years or so on the run. If the MC doesn’t want to be apart of Olympus or just doesn’t care, why would they stick around? Maybe you’ll get it working well eventually.
I really do like the way you have portrayed the character. In Greek literature and mythology, Helen is treated more like a prize to be won than an actual person (even more so than most ancient Greek women 
), so it is nice to see her given a depth and voice that does not even exist in the original stories. You did a really nice job with the entire flashback, and I am curious to see how you handle other mythological characters as they become more prominent in the story.
Also, it makes sense that Helen’s character has moved on after thousands of years. I can just imagine her being like, “But that was Helen of the Mycenaean Era…” The poor MC just relived it though, and now I am wondering how many identity crises Aeson and the Bearer are going to be going through over the course of the story with all the flashbacks. You really do like making them suffer, don’t you? 
Honestly, I just thought that a Helen story line would be an interesting and emotional read and mentioned it. No worries. The actual ROs will be awesome too, not to mention the whole cast of other interesting characters that we get to interact with.
Thanks for replying!
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So far the game is great and I love it. And now I have a slight observation to make. Some of the Greek words you use are on wrong genus(gender), for example when they refer to Athena they say Thea not Theos. It’s not really important I think, since you transfer the word in English. (I am Greek and I am almost finishing High School, and my grades are not perfect so don’t take my word to seriously.) 
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I have always been fascinated by Greek Mythology and history, but unfortunately I have never had the chance to study it in depth. I do enjoy the way this storyline is going. @Rohie has clearly put in a load of time and effort and I am very intrigued as to see where it goes.
Side note: I think if we do get the chance to converse with the gods on a more casual tone, it will be interesting to see how they all act when they are alone with the MC and not in front of the Council. Like Hera might posture that she is better than everyone, but if we got a chance alone we could perhaps see a side of her that no one expected. Perhaps admiration or fear. Depending on choices the MC makes.
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The Gods have lost most of their humanity at this point, if they ever had it. But, being around someone like the MC, someone who is so painfully temporary but somehow the most permanent thing that will ever and has ever existed, will open their eyes. They’re used to the thought of existing forever, while the MC should be praying to live past 18.
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It is the gods who should be praying that they survive 
past my MC acquiring the full strength of the essence! 
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I’m especially curious how Hestia and Aphrodite would act while alone with the MC given their support of Ares’ desire for the MC’s death coupled with their own seeming lack of hostility, and even seeming playfulness towards the MC at times. Actually i can guess that to Aphrodite it’s all a fun game in her own personal drama where she is the star and the MC’s life and dreams are inconsequential to her in comparison to their drama value in evoking poignant emotions from her and her other lovers. The best way to get her to care is probably to appeal to her vanity and/or have a fling with her. Or maybe the MC simply has to win the trials and prove themselves a real hero to her, since a failure isn’t worth her time or annoying Ares over.
Hestia is an almost total unknown to me at this point and I’d love to be able to get her alone, find out her motivations, and try to get her to support the MC. She has a rep for being one of the most level headed and conflict averse of the Olympians, but that may or may not match up with how she is presented here.
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As Vesta, if her priestesses broke their vows of chastity, they’d get buried alive. Just imagine how jealously she guarded her status as the Original Virgin-Goddess.
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As I recall, Hestia rejected both Poseidon and Apollo, and is the only one of Zeus’s sisters that Zeus never slept with. Neither her old fashioned virginity nor Athena’s appear to have transferred to this more modern adaptation however. Athena seems to have had some sort of fling with Hades at one point in this game’s back-story, and Hestia has demi-god children at the institute. So unless she had several immaculate conceptions, she’s no virgin in this tale. Artemis might be the only virgin left of the three.
I think @Rohie said Artemis Athena are both virgin goddesses.
And why you think Athena had fling with Hades?
It’s possible that it didn’t go “all the way” so she may still have her virginity, but reading between the lines of their conversation, Hades clearly cares for Athena and feels hurt and used by her. The pot-shot he threw her way about how she was incapable of feeling love implied some sort of past relationship, one that he isn’t over.
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In the Percy Jackson series, the demigod children of Athena, Artemis, and Heston (and any other virgin goddesses that I may have forgotten) are indeed the result of immaculate conceptions. It’s not really out of the question for Children or the Gods to do something similar.
IIRC, in Percy Jackson, their children just kind of appear in a nonstandard, magical way. Which fits somewhat with the mythology - Athena, for example, sprang from Zeus’ head when he had a headache, for example.
That’s why I left open the possibility of an immaculate conception, although I’m not crazy about the idea of them becoming common place even for goddeses. As for Athena, her conception was by no means immaculate as Zeus had impregnated and then swallowed his first wife, Athena’s mother Metis. Metis gave birth to Athena inside of him.
Ah yes, the cannibalism snuff baby…that old chestnut.
Gotta love ancient mythology.
No fling, exactly…something else that will be explained later.
Also, the mention of Hestia’s children was promptly edited out (late night writing leads to typing Hestia instead of Hermes and so forth). But yes, Hestia and Athena in my version aren’t as anal about their chastity. I’m not saying they’re not virgin Goddesses–they are–but they’re not as…“in your face” about it, I suppose.
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Yup. Gods and goddesses seem impossible to digest however. She’s probably still in his gut, much the way Poseiden, Hades, Hesta, Demeter and Hera were in Cronus’s until she helped Zeus get them out. It’s a sad irony that despite providing Zeus the potion that was key to freeing his siblings, and despite being one of his most valuable advisors in the the war against the Titans, she was soon consigned by Zeus to the very same fate she had helped him free his siblings from all because he was spooked by a prophecy. Every thing she had done for him was so quickly forgotten. It’s a sad story for poor Metis. She’d been better off had she stuck with the Titans and immediately outed Zeus to Cronus when he first secretly visited her asking for help.
I wonder how far in the game we are. There is going to anything else after the trials or the first game will end after the last trial?
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I’d say we’re about 20(ish)% through. There is more to the game than the Trials. In Part 2, it will stop being your main concern. Plus, there’s the whole Second Titanomachy you’ll have to fight in (Part 3).
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I thought it would be only 2 games instead of 3.
It’s all one game, ha. Part one, two and three are just how I separate the main plots archs.
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