Hera (Empath stories)



Hera is a character is who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. She is the queen of the gods of Mount Olympus who, along with her husband Zeus, 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. Despite her husband's infidelity, Hera remained faithful to him.

During The Lost Year, the Smurfs have encountered Hera in one of their time-traveling adventures, during which they helped her 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, her husband Zeus rewarded the Smurfs by arranging the chronosyte crystals in a formation that would bring them home, though that formation would soon after collapse. Her son Hermes was granted the boon of incredible speed by Zeus.

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. As they were very few of the Olympian gods that were left, it is assumed that Hera is gone as well.