Big Bad Dad

Question: I always thought it's odd that the main guy in starting the Titan war is strangely missing from the official books. So in your opinion, what Titan is Kronus an Avatar of, and what is his role in the Overworld war?

I have always figured that the official Scion line must have had some plan for Cronus that just didn't get put into effect yet - either they were saving him for a later expansion, or he had been "called" by some writer so the others weren't doing anything with him, or something else along those lines. Because you're right, it's super weird that neither he nor any of the other original twelve Titans (except for poor, mishandled Tethys in Scion: God) are involved in the war according to the official books. It's a hole that practically screams to me that someone had a plan and that plan ended up not happening when the line was declared finished. It's sad times.

As far as we're concerned, we're still in the throes of rewriting the Titans, so I don't want to tell you a specific placement for him only to change it in a couple of weeks. However, I will note that in our current games Cronus has frequently been seen fighting with Gaia and her allies in Terra, attempting to wrest control of the wildlands away so he can recreate them as fertile farmlands, and that the Dodekatheon are in a serious panic over his recent re-emergence from Tartarus with his siblings. Zeus could not be reached for comment, but anyone who goes into the storm-god's palace these days runs serious risk of being electrocuted due to the constantly-raging thunderstorm in there.

Others of Cronus' siblings, including Crius, Hyperion and Oceanus, have been more of an immediate issue right now, but it seems clear that he's the real power behind them, and that Zeus' increasing desperation when it comes to trying to control his own Fate probably owes at least a little to his infamous father's return.