Mount Olympus is a plane of existence where the Old Gods once dwelled and oversaw Earth prior to the War of the Gods.
History[]
Zeus' reign[]
Prior to the creation of humans and Amazons, all of the Old Gods would dwell on and oversee Earth from Mount Olympus, hence they would be forever after also known as the Old Gods. The king of the Old Gods, Zeus would justly rule over his siblings and children.[1]
War of the Gods[]
Ares kills all the Olympians.
After Zeus' creation of Mankind and later the Amazons, Zeus' malevolent son Ares would rebel against all other gods in a jealous rage, and instigate the devastating War of the Gods, which took place on Olympus.
Growing more powerful from the violence of the war he instigated, Ares fought and slew the other gods as they attempted to bring him down until only Zeus was left as he did not participate in the war at first and instead fathered Diana (as a contingency dubbed the 'Godkiller' that could one day defeat Ares) with Hippolyta as a contingency plan should he fall to Ares. Zeus then fearlessly confronted the dramatically enhanced and malevolent God of War and eventually defeated and grievously injured him, banishing him from Olympus and greatly weakening him even centuries later.
With the last of his powers, Zeus created the magical island paradise Themyscira for the Amazons to live, hidden from the God of War. Following the war, Olympus was left empty, with the banished Ares seemingly unable to return.[1]
Isolation[]
After the death of Zeus and the other Old Gods, the remaining gods and the Titans took control of Olympus and ruled it with a heavy hand, especially with humans whom they saw as inferior. This led humans to rebel against them. The Council of Wizards was forced to intervene and, with the Staff of the Gods, they depowered the remaining deities and titans in addition to draining all the magic from Olympus, leaving it devoid of life, to make sure that the remaining gods and titans did not invade the earth in revenge. The wizard Shazam created a barrier which isolated the kingdom of the gods from the rest of the universe and it continued like this for more than five thousand years.
Restoration[]
For centuries Olympus was empty, the daughters of Atlas seek to rebuild it. Following his supposed death, the wizard Shazam was trapped here as well. After Billy broke the magical staff, the Olympus barrier was broken allowing the sisters to descend from heaven to earth to put their plan into action.
Following the deaths Kalypso and Hespera and the sacrifice of Billy Batson, the Shazam Family, the Wizard and Anthea brought Billy to Mount Olympus to be laid to rest as a hero and a god. Having heard of Billy's sacrifice and heroics, Wonder Woman, the last living being with divine power, arrived as well. The daughter of Zeus imbued the Staff of the Gods with her own divine power which resulted in the restoration of the Gods' Realm and Anthea's power and the resurrection of Billy.
Anthea later told Rosa Vasquez that she was going to take some time off on Earth while Mount Olympus healed and spend some time with the common folk, in particular her boyfriend Freddy Freeman.[2]
Geography[]
Mount Olympus is portrayed as an immense mountaintop from which the gods gathered, surrounded by numerous clouds, that overlooked the Earthly plane. From their vantage point, the gods could easily affect mankind, with Ares notably being depicted as imbuing humans with violent impulses from his perch on the mountaintop.[1]
