>Olympians are more susceptible to the influence of mankind than other Gods.
>They were cyphers created by the outsider Titans to interface with the new world that Gaia (the God) turned back on them for her own ends after helping make them.
>The city states of Greece over time warped them from neutral "administrators" governing certain functions of the World and Society into the Gods we know due to their cypher nature.
>At first this was as in our timeline where they became twisted by aspects of their job and the culture that worshipped them, like Ares becoming more violent and tempermental. In this Lostbelt mankind figured out how to use their prayers and rituals to program the Gods over time and eventually turned them fully into a toolset to control the world - like a normal user of a system gaining control by working out the password to the admin console.
>That is the principle divergence point for this era: mankind has made slaves of the Gods. Kirsch wishes to keep this going forever and will halt the Age of Man to do it, having already gained some kind of Authority in this era.