Funeral Games The Fates warn Heron that an unknown intruder cut his lifeline during the battle of Olympus and that he will soon die. Hades returns Seraphim to the surface world with the power to alternate between his human and demonic forms. At Zeus’s funeral games, Ares mocks Heron and nearly beats him to death in pygmachia until Hera intervenes. The gods nearly come to blows over Hera’s right to attend when Gaia arrives and declares that, in three days, a challenge will be held to determine the next ruler of Olympus. Zeus’s spirit grants Heron his signet ring before being taken to the Underworld. Heron tells his friends that he intends to save Seraphim, to their shock.