Anti-Conservation

Question: What is the exact relationship between gods and mortals in your game? Are the mortals aware of the gods activities and rediscovering their old faiths? Is Christianity as a religion still around? Are the gods considered demons? Is there a supernatural masquerade (or one enforced by the gods) in place keeping everyone ignorant? How do the mortals react to PC god's specifically? WHAT'S GOING ON?!

It's Scion basic: the world is just like ours, with the important exception that the Titans have just broken loose, gods are about to have to deal with that and shit is about to get real. All major world religions are of course still in full force just like they are here, with the vast majority of their adherents not believing in any of the polytheistic pantheons' existence (though our Scions do enjoy meddling with them - Goze impersonated a cardinal in Australia and made outrageous demands for a while before they cut his spending account off from the Church). Those who worship polytheistic religions (Hindus, Shintoists, etc.) are still doing it the same way they always have, and would probably be surprised themselves if they actually saw a god.

There's no "masquerade" or any other such World of Darkness nonsense - there's really no reason for one. Why hide your heroic exploits from the people you're saving? The Titanspawn are hardly going to be so kind as to cooperate. Most gods don't have any problem whatsoever with being known as long as that doesn't translate to new Fatebonds, so they have no reason to try to prevent their offspring from being noticed unless they're getting themselves killed (which has occasionally happened; when superhuman forces start busting up the landscape, the United States military gets kind of freaked out).

By the time the PCs made it to higher levels of Demigod, the world was in the grip of Fimbulwinter, so that's taking its toll; a lot of people are starving or freezing to death, the internet and phone service are mostly things of the past, nobody has fossil fuels anymore and everyone's pretty much hunkered down trying to survive in the hopes that things will get warmer at some point. For those billions of people who haven't met the PCs, this just seems like some kind of catastrophic global weather event brought on by the meteor that obliterated California right before it started.

PC gods, now that they've attained that level of badassery, are changing the world's landscape significantly; they have entire cults dedicated to worshiping them as the deities they are and frequently make large changes to the world itself, such as when Zwazo Fou Fou moved a chunk of the southern United States to Africa or Yoloxochitl built a new jungle in the heart of Sao Paolo. The planet's a mess now after five years or so of the Titanwar sprawling across it, but that's kind of to be expected.

Basically, everything started as business as usual and devolved from there based purely on what the PCs did. Depending on where in the long timeline of their careers you are, the world might be pretty much the same as ours or a frozen, half-sunk hellhole of a battlefield.

As Vala keeps reassuring Jioni in the hopes that she won't go on a Harmony-fueled rampage, it'll get better. Honest.