I had fun with this. I’ve known about Inkscape for a while, but I never used it. I know SVG is much better “image” format for DTP (Desktop Publishing) so I should have looked at it sooner. Particularly because Inkscape is also open-source. SVG basically allows you export your image at any size without a loss in quality that you might get by resizing a jpeg. As it turns out, inkscape is a doddle to use. So easy to start doing stuff, it looks like it’s going to be my default diagramming tool from now! I’ve already converted my lost heroes logo into SVG.
I set myself a little project, to create a “Family Tree” of the Olympian Gods that I’ve mentioned in Lost Heroes. My plan was to make this part of the setting text. I want to do something similar for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Aesir when I finish that. I have idea about something for the Angels as well. Now don’t go thinking this is a complete family tree of all the Olympian Gods, thats just something I don’t have time for and someone body has already done that. This is instead, just the Gods and other characters mentioned as part of the Olympian God pantheon in Lost Heroes RPG.
Family Tree of the Olympian Gods from Lost Heroes RPG
It’s missing a “legend”, though I’m not sure it needs one. It looks pretty cool, because Inkscape simply rocks! 
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Brilliant, I love stuff like this. I’m really into genealogy and was thinking about putting some fun trees on my site similar to this. I may come back and ask if I can use it.
Hi Richard. Thank you very much.
The image there is intended to be part of a free roleplaying game (called Lost Heroes RPG), so it’s only a select number of Gods, not all of them. It also only shows one “opinion” of the family tree, as I discovered that several of them have differing origin stories, so I chose the ones most relevant to Lost Heroes.
I’m planning to release the roleplaying game (plus any diagrams and artwork) under a creative commons license, so there shouldn’t be much of an issue if you want to use it (though asking permission would be very nice!).
Oh. Too bad this isn’t the complete family tree which was what I was looking for. Still, great work on that.
I did see a more complete tree online somewhere. It was rather complex and I don’t know if it is even possible to take into account all the different variants. Many of which are contradictory.
The wikipedia one is quite complete.
Just wondering, where’s Aphrodite?
Hi Jackie, Aphrodite is the daughter of Uranus (one of the Endless Gods), near the top. She is not descended from Zeus.