Sowing Wild Oats

Question: Do you primarily view the situation in modern Scion as the Titans' escape leading to an upswing in mating between gods and humans (thus making the escape 30+ years or so ago), or that the mating has been consistent historically and that the escape has been relatively recent, thus making it a huge upswing in Visitations only?

This is really something that every game will need to decide for themselves; it's just window-dressing, background fluff that nobody but the Storyteller probably really needs to know, so it's a matter of incidental game flavor. But you asked what we do, so here goes!

While some gods have probably been fraternizing with mortals semi-regularly, most of them probably have not prior to the escape of the Titans. One here or there, sure, but definitely not to the degree they did in Days of Yore, and definitely not to the degree they are now doing in an effort to raise Scions up for the war effort. There are various reasons for this; there are many gods who really don't mess around with mortals much if ever in myth who would have no reason to go around doing that during the pantheons' period of inactivity - it's not like Parvati or Amaterasu or the entire pantheon of the Slavs go around sleeping with mortals at any time ever, so they certainly wouldn't have been doing so without a reason. Then, too, there's the worry that even with Avatars, there's still a possibility of incurring Fatebonds, which would probably deter some of them from bothering with going down to the world to seek romance when there are plenty of lesser immortals around the Overworlds that they could be bothering instead. Finally, and most importantly, making Scions something that are in readily easy and plentiful supply because the gods have oodles of options from their shenanigans devalues them; Scions should be rare, special creatures upon whom the future of the universe and their pantheons rides, and it's hard to do that when they have forty-five identically useful brothers and sisters.

The twenty- to thirty-year lapse really doesn't bother us much; we might think of it as half a lifetime, but that tiny span of time is barely the blink of an eye to a god or a Titan. In fact, it may have been longer; it might have taken some pantheons a few years just to realize that they couldn't handle this on their own and needed shock troops like Scions to help contain it, or some gods may have held out in the name of pride or while they tried to make other alliances or try other rituals to deal with the problem. The Titan War has barely begun in Scion's setting, but that doesn't mean it can't have been around for a few years - when you're dealing with beings who have survived uncounted millennia, a couple of decades doesn't make a very big difference unless you want it to.

Of course, this doesn't mean that some gods haven't been just as actively canoodling with humanity in the ages since they withdrew to the Overworlds; Zeus has almost certainly been just as much of a serial misbehaver during all that time in between as he was before, and those gods who have that sort of personality or inclination probably do have more options available for Visitations than gods who don't. But in general, we prefer the idea that Scions are fairly uncommon and a desperate response by gods who need their powers - it makes them more important and precious in the grand scheme of things, and grants a stronger sense of urgency to the Titan War itself that the gods have only recently been driven to such dire straits.