"After you defeat your enemies, you cannot spare their children or they will come for you once they're grown, and the cycle of revenge never ends." Yeah duh, if you're just gonna leave them there?? No shit they'll hunt you down and avenge their parents.
What you're gonna do is take them in and raise them as your own. Don't lie to them what happened, or try to hide it from them; explain why it happened. Why you really, really had to do that. Because if you can't raise someone to trust you and your judgement after killing their parents in cold blood right in front of them, then maybe you are the villain that they grew up to see you as.
Pretty sure the UN calls both of those genocide.
Why and how are you enemies with an entire ethnicity? That's pretty racist.
Look, you need to understand this ONLY works sometimes. Zeus literally warned a guy of doing just this, bc thr gods themselves would drive your new adopted son to killing you anyway!
Every part of "just do the most logical thing" goes out of the window as soon as literal divine intervention comes into the picture. They hate it when people are sensible, and they'll go out of their way to make sure that stupid shit happens if you try.
Unfortunately, the logical thing to do in case of divine intervention is to have amicable relationship with some other gods prior to that, because the first god to show interest has a priority.
In case of raising children of your slain enemies, I suppose it would mean securing divine blessing for the adoption?
Unfortunately if you didn't do that and are currently experiencing a hostile divine intervention it's kind of too late.
This is why you always make sure to seduce, or at least fuck, the god in charge, to ensure their favour beforehand. An ounce of prevention is worth getting pounded.
