Known Timeline

The events of Gunmetal Olympus primarily take place within a space of roughly half a year, as covered in The Persephone Trilogy (as of The Persephone Effect). This page aims to provide a roughly estimated timeline of events and a summarised history of the setting as we currently know it. Many of these dates are approximated and should thus not be taken as absolute immutable fact.

It should go without saying, but THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE EVENTS OF THE PERSEPHONE TRILOGY.

The Titanic Era (~100 years before The Hades Calculus)

Before the rule of the Gods, Elysium was ruled by the Titans for an indeterminate amount of time. They would eventually create the Gods as their ultimate progeny, the first being Zeus and Hades. At some point after that, the Gods rebelled in what came to be known as the Titanomachy, slaying and thus overthrowing their progenitors.

Post-Titanomachy

This section is a placeholder. Various key events from side stories such as The Zeus Constant notably take place in this time.

The Hades Calculus

Main article: The Hades Calculus See also: The Zeus Constant, Flower of the Underworld

The vast majority of first book in the trilogy takes place over the course of approximately three months. Many of the dates listed here are based on the outline provided by Callisto Khan in The Zeus Constant, using her "[Time] before the Fall" format, with some added elaborations by Amber Jayne.

3 months before the Fall:

• Persephone escapes the Estate of Wheat and flees to the Underworld.
• Segment 279 of Wall Caryatid is attacked by a colossus.
• 1 day later, the Gods hold council and Hades declares Persephone as the new pilot of Styx.
• 1 week later, the Panathenaic takes place but is interrupted by the attack on Segment 314.
• 1 day later, Hades brings Persephone to the crypts beneath her estate and proclaims her as her pilot before the Machine Dead.

~6 weeks before the Fall:

• The Paralos is sent afield for a month, with the Cerberus Cadre devoted to its reinforcements.

~2 weeks before the Fall:

• The Paralos returns to Elysium after Outpost Altis is restored.

1 week before the Fall:

• Khrysothemis eats Persephone at Aphrodite's gala.

The Fall:

• Battle of Outpost Altis against the Harvester.
• On the same evening, Persephone and Khrysothemis return to the Estate of Wheat and devour Demeter, leading into the opening moments of the next book.

The Persephone Effect

Main article: The Persephone Effect See also: House of the Underworld

Like its predecessor, the second major novel in the trilogy takes place over the course of approximately three months. Most of these dates are approximations made by Amber Jayne as part of its notekeeping for Killers in a Cage based on text given in The Persephone Effect.

Day 1:

• Following the ending of The Hades Calculus, Persephone gets shot in the head by Circe, but gets better.
• She and Artemis are put under house arrest.
• Madalithea, Lydia, & Cassiphone arrive at the House of the Underworld.

Day 2:

• Preparations are made for the Paralos to depart on a scouting mission around Outpost Aeaea.
• Persephone synchronises with Charis for the first time.

Day 3:

• Persephone, Adrastus, Siproites, & the Cerberus Cadre battle the illusory construction of Python at Aeaea.
• Artemis & Apollo announce Persephone & Adrastus as the new Lords of Harvest.
• Persephone & Adrastus attend their first official council meeting. Afterwards, Adrastus negotiates the clone buyback program with Hades.
• Adrastus reconvenes with Siproites, Methe, Khloe, & Ligeia to discuss the future of the Estate of Wheat.
• Hades offers Aphrodite divorce papers.
• Hades, Hephaestus, & Persephone find traces of Demeter's consciousness lingering inside Persephone.

Day 4:

• Adrastus negotiates with Dionysus and Aphrodite to forward the buyback program.
• Hephaestus visits the Vault of the Queen to examine the timelocked relics from Aeaea, then returns home to begin work on the Hybrid eidolons
• Artemis & Apollo meet with the disembodied voice of Mnemosyne.

Day 5:

• Hippolyta & the Cerberus Cadre push north into the wastes and encounter an illusory construct of a Scythe of Cronus. They pursue it further north to the Atlas Mountains where they find the ruins of Rhea's citadel and the corpse of the Harvester, with the colossi's nest believed to be nearby. Ares proposes an expansion pattern to reclaim six outposts in order to form a logistical chain to the area.
• Persephone & Adrastus are inaugurated as Lords of Harvest; Demeter takes control and makes a scene.
• Persephone is locked in her room under watch, while Adrastus is escorted home and forced to face the destruction and bloodshed left behind in Khrysothemis' rampage.

Day 6:

• Persephone attacks Madalithea and Cedalion and escapes and returns to the Estate of Wheat, where she and Adrastus descend into Demeter's laboratory. Demeter's attempt to take full control is interrupted by Circe, but she escapes into another Mark Four body and flees. Persephone is apprehended by the Krypteia and taken to the Garden of the Hesperides.

Day 7:

• Persephone speaks directly with Circe, who has been inhabiting Madalithea's body.
• Demeter arrives at the Court of Light.

Day 8:

• Aphrodite claims Siproites as her pilot.
• Hephaestus, Lydia, and Metioche have a very fun day of tripping on colossus hallucinations.

Day 9:

• Hephaestus shows Aphrodite the work-in-progress Eros, and the pair have divorce sex.
• Phoebe & Phoebus are revealed.

Day 10:

• Annual Pythian Hunt fete.
• Hephaestus visits Persephone in the Garden.

Day 11:

• Hades begins shortlisting second-year cadets to be fastforwarded into full pilothood for the expansion effort. She plays a game of chess with Circe, then chats with Madalithea as though everything is fine (it is not).
• Adrastus visits Persephone at the Garden.
• Hades and Persephone fuck on the autopsy table, only to discover Persephone's insides are turning into ichor and she's slowly dying. She's allowed to return home, and spends several days in hedonistic indulgence.
• Hades lays Zeus to rest amongst the Machine Dead.

Day 15:

• Madalithea kickstarts the Cult of Persephone.

Approximately a month passes between Chapters 15 (Euchomai) and 16 (Seedbed)

Day ~45:

• Mada and the clones execute Axierus.

Interlude, Seasons:

Approximately two months pass over the course of Interlude: Seasons. The distribution of events therein is uncertain, but is presumably chronological.

• Hephaestus & Ares overlook the construction of the first point of the expansion effort and name it Outpost Mycenae.
• Adrastus & Siproites finally talk again after weeks of the former ignoring the latter's calls.
  • Presumably the same day, Persephone calls Hippolyta and asks to meet up sometime. Hippolyta tells Ares xe should replace her.
• 1 day later, Ligeia & Melita are reunited.
  • Persephone brings Hippolyta to Herakles's wake.
• Athena & Circe have a lovely date together where they discuss the loss of the other oracles.
• Demeter and Artemis do some scheming for the coming gala.

Day ~100:

• The Banners hunt and skin a pack of colossi with a force of hybrid eidolons backing them up.
• Hades & Persephone run a hacking simulation integrating Styx's systems.
• Persephone is introduced to what will eventually become Melinoe.

Day ~102:

• Demeter interrogates Madalithea & Cedalion.
• Apollo subsumes Phoebus and immediately leaves to go kill Adrastus.
• Adrastus & Persephone's gala.
• Persephone knowingly runs into a trap, throws Circe's aegis at Mada's head, and meets Mnemosyne.
• Mada & Circe lock in for one last job; Adrastus duels a colossus in the streets; they all fight Apollo.
• The Banners engage the Herald north of Outpost Pella.
• The Maenads fall in battle.
• Mnemosyne drags the Gods into a pocket dimension to have a chat but is cut off by the remnants of Cronus.
• Phoebe kills Apollo.
• Circe sacrifices herself so Mada can live.
• Demeter is brought home in a muzzle.
• Persephone resurrects Adrastus.