Zeus is dead, and Olympus is one argument away from civil war.
Marcus, the calculating son of Athena, pushes a solution designed to end the crisis quickly: an immediate, public, absolute succession, decided through a champion's tournament where twelve demigods fight until only one remains.
It's not meant to reveal truth.
It's meant to contain violence.
Diana, daughter of Apollo, sees cracks forming beneath the ceremony. Her visions that suggest the tournament is only a distraction, and that something darker is moving behind the gods' politics.
But visions aren't evidence. And in Olympus, proof matters, especially when stability is at stake.
As alliances fracture and the mountain scrubs away blood like it never happened, Ashes of Olympus is a dark, philosophical reimagining of Greek myth, where beauty is not goodness, and order can be the most terrifying weapon of all.