The Olympians are real and they continue to exist, meddling with the human world in different ways. Including the siring of offspring with mortals to creature demigods, humans with divine blood in their veins and gifted with power related to their divine parent. Skills or superhuman abilities which would be expected of the deity they are bound to.
For example, a certain son of Poseidon by the name of as Percy Jackson holds power over the water and related matter like air and sea currents. Remaining dry even underwater, and being able breathe under the waters of the world. Son of the God of Storms and Oceans, other unexpected powers include the ability to communicate with horses, as Poseidon created them from the sea form.
Many gods have children but some do not. Artemis and Hestia do not because they have sworn to be virginal, yet the virginal Athena has children due to her unique birth. She merges with the minds of men of great intellect (and mostly blond hair), and her children are born from this merging. Hera does not have any demigod children, as she is the Goddess of Marriage and leaves the 'affairs' to her husband Zeus. Hercules and Hebe have a relatively happy marriage and so few, if any, demigod children.
The most powerful of all divine children tend to be the children of the Big Three, the elder male god brothers. Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. Who tend to be feud and bicker with one another as well, like most brothers... if you give them immortality and great power.
The most important thing about demigods is the fact is they tend to become people who change the world around them. Many of the most famous people in the world have been demigods like George Washington (Son of Athena), Blackbeard (Son of Ares) and Winston Churchill (son of Zeus). They are points which can change the fabric of the world.
Most go unnoticed till sniffed out by Satyrs among the fourth and ninth grades, unclaimed by their parents... till the actions of Percy Jackson at the end of the Second Titan War. From then on, all gods had to claim their children. Once detected they are sent to Camp Half-blood in Long Island, since Olympus has moved to be centered in New York.
So it might not be unexpected for certain characters which affect the world in their own ways to have the blood of the Olympians in them. Have the blood and yet not know their blood-lines... till now. People like...
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