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the gods to go back to Olympus and stay there, and in exchange

they agreed to end the war.

?Zeus agreed as well. If the Scions ended the war, he swore on the

River Styx that the gods would retreat to Olympus and leave the

world alone. But before he sealed his vow he wanted some assurance

that such a terrible war would never threaten Olympus again.

As he saw it, the Greeks? unification of the Scion Houses in order to

fight the Trojans nearly tore Olympus apart. Zeus wanted to make

sure that such total involvement never happened again. As he set

his seal on the Truce and made his unbreakable vow that the

Olympians would leave the earth to the mortals, he also swore to

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return to earth and finish the war if the Scion Houses ever united

again.?

?It sounds like what happened at the end of World War II when

the Allies divided Germany,? Helen remarked. ?They broke the

country up, hoping to avoid World War Three.?

?It?s very much like that,? Ariadne agreed. ?The Fates are obsessed

with cycles, and they repeat the same patterns over and over

all around the world?especially when it comes to the Big

Three?war, love, and family.? Ariadne trailed off for a moment,

thinking some dark thought, before she finished the story. ?Anyway,

Troy was betrayed by one of their own and burned to the

ground, and after a few months of confusion and tricks and payback?

most of which is described in the Odyssey?the Olympians

finally left the earth. Zeus swore that if the Houses ever united

again, he would come back and the Trojan War would pretty much

pick up where it left off.?

?And it left off somewhere just short of the total destruction of

civilization,? Helen said, trying to imagine what ?the end of civilization?