Zeus (Empath stories)



Zeus is a character is who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. He is the king of the gods of Mount Olympus who, along with his wife Hera, have raised up a family of gods, one of which was Ares, the god of war. However, Zeus had at various times consorted with female mortals, with one of them bearing his son Hercules.

During The Lost Year, the Smurfs have encountered Zeus in one of their time-traveling adventures, during which they helped his feeble son Hermes (who had not yet attained godhood) on his journey to acquire the Golden Fleece from the Gorgon sisters. When that task was accomplished, Zeus rewarded the Smurfs by arranging the chronosyte crystals in a formation that would bring them home, though that formation would soon after collapse. To his son Hermes, Zeus granted him the boon of incredible speed.

During Empath's journey's in The Lost Year, Ares told Empath that Zeus was now gone, having been overcome by an "unknown and invisible God" that Empath assumed was the Almighty that Tapper had worshiped.