Originally Posted by
Outside_85
She could have been using those powers right from the beginning and the Patrons actually did nothing but enlighten her about their presence. Like I said, we only have Diana's claim they gave her powers, we dont actually see them do anything and because Rucka made them completely mute we have nothing about their actual motives.
Being able, as one of like 3 people, to use Zeus' thunderbolts.
Because everyone would actually like for Diana to remain alive for as long as possible, and if a bunch of gods show up and pretend to bless her with power, then Hera wont be looking too closely at where they are really from.
And your alternative is that Diana, as the daughter of Zeus, was born completely normal with nothing but her Amazon skills going for her, which is preposterous when you consider every single child of Zeus have somekind of power in comics.