Aphrodite lore

[Osmium]

I am on my second playthrough and realized that I misunderstood a huge part of the worldbuilding my first time around. I'm at Aphrodite's party and talking to Eros and he's explaining why Aphrodite has PTSD. I initially thought this war they're talking about was this vague one with Rome a few thousand years ago that they reference later.

However, Eros said that Ares missed out on the first world spanning war and wanted in on the second one. Some "jackbooted thugs" captured Aphrodite until Hephaestus made weapons for their enemies. Normally, if somebody is talking about Nazis they just say so, which is why I initially didn't pick up on what he was saying. All of this immortal trauma in the plot is from World War 2! That is extremely recent in the grand scheme of things. The idols go back over 3,000 years, but basically all of the bad stuff happened less than 80 years ago? In terms of emotional baggage, you'd think she'd have bigger things from the first 97% of her existence. For a 30 year old person, the most recent 3% of their life was the past 11 months.

There's a stained glass window of a mushroom cloud later in the scene which presumably means Hephaestus made the nuclear bomb and gave it to the Allies. I understand the allegory that makes it kind of a modern day version of Prometheus giving fire to humanity. However, the nukes weren't dropped on Germany, only Japan. Are they saying she was captured by the Japanese? That doesn't make much geographical sense. Is this an alternate universe where the US nuked Germany, too? If the nuke wasn't instrumental in freeing Aphrodite, then what exactly did Hephaestus do? Did he simply make a bunch of regular bullets and planes in addition to the nuke? If so, did he make more than a country? Can he smack his hammer and make a billion bullets and a hundred thousand bombs? Otherwise, why was his help necessary to win the war? Even assuming magic is real this makes less sense the more one thinks about it.

I think this plot detail to make Aphrodite's suffering about World War 2 was clumsy writing. It feels shoehorned in to make Nazis the bad guys and give a supernatural origin for nukes. It doesn't fit with actual historical facts from this relatively recent event. They could have easily made it about some fictional conflict or one from Greek history and say the details were lost to time, much like how the nature of the idols themselves are different than we think.

[Sir Osis of the Liver]

I thought that Aphrodite was hidden on Olympus with other gods. Only thanks to Ares were Nazis able to find them.

And Hephaestus: I imagine it as him giving allies the knowledge how to build the bomb.

[Keoni]

I don't think it was mentioned in game where the bomb was used, just that it was used to help end the war? (Though historically speaking, you were right in that it was dropped in Japan, but does not necessarily mean that she was captured by the Japanese and needed that specific weapon made to save her.)

The gist of what I got was simply this: as part of his deal with the 'enemies' enemy' (which I assume to be the Allies) to help him save/rescue Aphrodite, Hephaestus created/made powerful 'weapons' for them which helped to end the war (with the most deadly being the bomb) and as a result of ending the war, an eventual rescue of Aphrodite was successful.

This is purely my own interpretation, not sure what the developers/writers' train of thought was...