Besides the famous or powerful members of the family mentioned above, there were also plenty of clever schemers.
For example, Eris, the Goddess of Discord. The most famous legend concerning her was the Trojan War.
With a single Golden Apple, she had played Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite—three intelligent women—like fiddles. It was not a conspiracy, but an open scheme.
Whoever gave up would be admitting she was not the most beautiful goddess, that she lacked confidence in her own appearance.
In short, the Night Goddess's family wielded widespread influence, most of it concentrated in the Underworld.
Going by chronology, Tartarus, the God of the Abyss, became the body of the Underworld's hell. Erebus and Nyx lived within it, and only afterward did Zeus's family rise to power, with Hades becoming the leader of the Underworld.
It could be said that if the King of the Underworld had remained undecided, these two primordial gods should have held sway over the Underworld. They were its uncrowned rulers.
Unfortunately, the two were far too low-key. When Hades arrived, they neither fought nor competed, tacitly acknowledging him as the master of the Underworld.
From another perspective, Zeus had deliberately found trouble for Hades. The Underworld was full of powerful figures, and Hades was not one of the Twelve Olympians. Even if he suffered grievances, he could only swallow them.
The three chariots slowly came to a stop. Hades was the first to step into the garden, changing from a coachman into a guide.
He had no choice. Behind him stood a crowd of big shots: the King of Gods, the Queen of Heaven, the Earth Mother Goddess, his old father. There was not one of them he could afford to offend.
The three Cyclops Big Brothers were no exception. The three moved as one,