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** Probably because even if Apollo's name went unchanged, his ''cultural significance'' to the Romans was still different than what it was to the Greeks. It is hard to handwave because Greek Apollo vs Roman Apollo should still be more similar to each other than Aphrodite vs Venus, but Aphrodite implied that being a love goddess, specifically, is what made it easier for her two sides to coexist, since love is a near-universal common ground for people across cultures. In particular, Apollo governed poetry and music, and these two things would be wildly different between cultures, so him experiencing the divide might actually be Fridge Brilliance when we take Aphrodite's example into account.
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** Probably because even if Apollo's name went unchanged, his ''cultural significance'' to the Romans was still different than what it was to the Greeks. It is hard to handwave because Greek Apollo vs Roman Apollo should still be more similar to each other than Aphrodite vs Venus, but Aphrodite implied that being a love goddess, specifically, is what made it easier for her two sides to coexist, since love is a near-universal common ground for people across cultures. In particular, Apollo governed poetry and music, and these two things would be wildly different between cultures, so him experiencing the divide might actually be Fridge Brilliance when we take Aphrodite's example into account.account.
* How did the pirates get off Circe's island in the first place? Percy and Annabeth stole their ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and Polyphemus sank it. The only other ships that Percy described in Seas of Monsters on that island were after the pirates' time (motor yachts) or were too small for the group to only use one (dugout canoes).
* How did the pirates get off Circe's island in the first place? Percy and Annabeth stole their ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and Polyphemus sank it. The only other ships that Percy described in Seas of Monsters on that island were after the pirates' time (motor yachts) or were too small for the group to only use one (dugout canoes).
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** Maybe Kymopoleia? He does join her storm in the fifth book, except Kym is the goddess of violent sea storms, so why would Dylan be at the Grand Canyon outside of her sphere of influence?
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*** The Etruscan gods are a separate pantheon. Rick Riordan actually wrote a short story during the pandemic where Nico introduces Percy to the last remaining Etruscan god, Charu, He maintains and guards the entrance to the Underworld.
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** Considering that in this universe, [[HistoricalDomainCharacter many significant "mortals" throughout history are secretly demigods]], Jeff Bezos being one just might be the case. Of course, since Jeff Bezos is still alive, Rick Riordan can't mention it in the text lest Jeff Bezos sue him into oblivion...
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* Why is Apollo experiencing the schism? The others had problems because they were Greek deities that were conflated with Roman gods, thus they had different personalities. However, Apollo didn’t have a Roman equivalent so the Romans just added the Greek Apollo to their pantheon.pantheon.
** Probably because even if Apollo's name went unchanged, his ''cultural significance'' to the Romans was still different than what it was to the Greeks. It is hard to handwave because Greek Apollo vs Roman Apollo should still be more similar to each other than Aphrodite vs Venus, but Aphrodite implied that being a love goddess, specifically, is what made it easier for her two sides to coexist, since love is a near-universal common ground for people across cultures. In particular, Apollo governed poetry and music, and these two things would be wildly different between cultures, so him experiencing the divide might actually be Fridge Brilliance when we take Aphrodite's example into account.
** Probably because even if Apollo's name went unchanged, his ''cultural significance'' to the Romans was still different than what it was to the Greeks. It is hard to handwave because Greek Apollo vs Roman Apollo should still be more similar to each other than Aphrodite vs Venus, but Aphrodite implied that being a love goddess, specifically, is what made it easier for her two sides to coexist, since love is a near-universal common ground for people across cultures. In particular, Apollo governed poetry and music, and these two things would be wildly different between cultures, so him experiencing the divide might actually be Fridge Brilliance when we take Aphrodite's example into account.
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** This could be FridgeHorror. In Literature/TrialsOfApollo, Apollo mentions that one day he just woke up and Helios was gone, and Apollo suddenly had Helios’s responsibilities. It’s plausible that once the Romans conflated them due to Greek influence, the original Roman gods faded and suddenly the Greek gods got a second personality. Or even worse, they were originally separate entities that were conjoined into one.
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** This could be FridgeHorror. In Literature/TrialsOfApollo, Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo, Apollo mentions that one day he just woke up and Helios was gone, and Apollo suddenly had Helios’s responsibilities. It’s plausible that once the Romans conflated them due to Greek influence, the original Roman gods faded and suddenly the Greek gods got a second personality. Or even worse, they were originally separate entities that were conjoined into one.
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* Why is Apollo experiencing the schism? The others had problems because they were Greek deities that were conflated with Roman gods, thus they had different personalities, but personalities. However, Apollo didn’t have a Roman equivalent so the Romans just added the Greek Apollo to their pantheon.
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** This could be FridgeHorror. In Literature/TrialsofApollo, Apollo mentions that one day he just woke up one day and Helios was gone, and Apollo had his responsibilities. It’s plausible that once the Romans conflated them due to Greek influence, the original Roman gods faded and suddenly the Greek gods got a second personality. Or even worse, they were originally separate entities that were conjoined into one.
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** This could be FridgeHorror. In Literature/TrialsofApollo, Literature/TrialsOfApollo, Apollo mentions that one day he just woke up one day and Helios was gone, and Apollo suddenly had his Helios’s responsibilities. It’s plausible that once the Romans conflated them due to Greek influence, the original Roman gods faded and suddenly the Greek gods got a second personality. Or even worse, they were originally separate entities that were conjoined into one.
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** Piper's French thing is a specific power from Aphrodite. It's completely separate from their hardwiring for Ancient Greek, so it works by different rules.
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** Piper's French thing is a specific power from Aphrodite. It's completely separate from their hardwiring for Ancient Greek, so it works by different rules.rules.
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* Why is Apollo experiencing the schism? The others had problems because they were Greek deities that were conflated with Roman gods, thus different personalities, but Apollo didn’t have a Roman equivalent so the Romans just added the Greek Apollo to their pantheon.
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** This could be FridgeHorror. In Literature/TrialsofApollo, Apollo mentions that one day he just woke up one day and Helios was gone, and Apollo had his responsibilities. It’s plausible that once the Romans conflated them due to Greek influence, the original Roman gods faded and suddenly the Greek gods got a second personality. Or even worse, they were originally separate entities that were conjoined into one.
** In reality, I guess if we assume that the gods develop like they developed in real life, this question becomes way more complicated. We could argue, for example, that the Zeus and Jupiter likely came from the proto-Indo-European sky god, so theoretically they were always the same person. However, that doesn’t work for many of the gods. But the gods changed forms many times throughout history, and were worshipped in different ways, but only have max two personalities (Greek and Roman) in the books. For example, Arcadian cults had Artemis as the daughter of the Demeter. Poseidon was his usual earth-shaker but also a river spirit of the underworld in Mycenaean religion. The Roman gods mostly developed out of the Etruscan gods, so what happened to them? The Watsonian answer is that the current form of the gods are the forms that are most well-remembered today, as the gods change with civilization.
*** The Doylist answer is Riordan had to interpret them somehow to make the story work.
* How far does the ‘different cultures/different forms’ thing go? There were way more interpretations than just Greek and Roman. Even some islands interpreted the gods differently at different times.
** Do the gods also have an Etruscan form? The Etruscans adapted Greek religion to their pantheon at the same time as the Romans. And the Romans later adapted some of their exclusive deities into the Roman pantheon. Wouldn’t this mean they also have an Etruscan form? Are Tinia, Uni, and Menrva still kicking as Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva’s third personalities?
** Does Artemis of Ephesus exist as Artemis’s third personality? Can’t imagine why Rick decided not to include that in a middle grade book.
** Aphrodite likely came from Phoenician Astarte, which likely came from Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar. Does this mean she’s also running around with Mesopotamian Enu, Enki, and Gilgamesh unbothered by the multiple pantheons like she is in this book?
** In reality, I guess if we assume that the gods develop like they developed in real life, this question becomes way more complicated. We could argue, for example, that the Zeus and Jupiter likely came from the proto-Indo-European sky god, so theoretically they were always the same person. However, that doesn’t work for many of the gods. But the gods changed forms many times throughout history, and were worshipped in different ways, but only have max two personalities (Greek and Roman) in the books. For example, Arcadian cults had Artemis as the daughter of the Demeter. Poseidon was his usual earth-shaker but also a river spirit of the underworld in Mycenaean religion. The Roman gods mostly developed out of the Etruscan gods, so what happened to them? The Watsonian answer is that the current form of the gods are the forms that are most well-remembered today, as the gods change with civilization.
*** The Doylist answer is Riordan had to interpret them somehow to make the story work.
* How far does the ‘different cultures/different forms’ thing go? There were way more interpretations than just Greek and Roman. Even some islands interpreted the gods differently at different times.
** Do the gods also have an Etruscan form? The Etruscans adapted Greek religion to their pantheon at the same time as the Romans. And the Romans later adapted some of their exclusive deities into the Roman pantheon. Wouldn’t this mean they also have an Etruscan form? Are Tinia, Uni, and Menrva still kicking as Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva’s third personalities?
** Does Artemis of Ephesus exist as Artemis’s third personality? Can’t imagine why Rick decided not to include that in a middle grade book.
** Aphrodite likely came from Phoenician Astarte, which likely came from Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar. Does this mean she’s also running around with Mesopotamian Enu, Enki, and Gilgamesh unbothered by the multiple pantheons like she is in this book?
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** Maybe he doesn't actually exist and is a trick of the Mist?
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*** Yeah, I think the book mentions at one point that the Mist has a breaking point, and being kidnapped by a monstrous giant working for a protogenoi stretched it beyond its limits
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*** Yeah, I think the book mentions at one point that the Mist has a breaking point, and being kidnapped by a monstrous giant working for a protogenoi stretched it beyond its limitslimits.
*** Along with what everyone else says with the Mist being less effective to those who believe in the supernatural and that Tristan probably got pushed past the point of the Mist being effective, it's also canon that there are mortals that are able to just naturally see through the Mist regardless if they believe or not (Rachel), and that there are different levels of Mist resistance (Sally Jackson can see through the Mist but not as well as she used to). It is possible that Tristan had a level of Mist resistance as well, although probably not likely.
*** Along with what everyone else says with the Mist being less effective to those who believe in the supernatural and that Tristan probably got pushed past the point of the Mist being effective, it's also canon that there are mortals that are able to just naturally see through the Mist regardless if they believe or not (Rachel), and that there are different levels of Mist resistance (Sally Jackson can see through the Mist but not as well as she used to). It is possible that Tristan had a level of Mist resistance as well, although probably not likely.
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** That's not exactly right. Aphrodite was referring to the fact that she was still lucid and in control of herself, because her Greek and Roman sides were so similar. The other gods' minds were basically falling apart due to the stress of switching back and forth uncontrollably between their conflicting personalities. You may have misunderstood because she does say "This civil war won't affect me as much as it will the others," but she was purely speaking of the identity issues. She would still be in danger if Olympus was destroyed.
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* In the first book, how was Piper able to speak to Boreas in French without realizing it? Did she think she was speaking English? Half-bloods' bilingual capabilities are supposed to be because their brains are hardwired to understand other languages, but the way it's demonstrated here suggests ''English'' is the default and that their brains subconsciously translate everything they hear and say for them, which is...not how speaking foreign languages works.
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* In the first book, how was Piper able to speak to Boreas in French without realizing it? Did she think she was speaking English? Half-bloods' bilingual capabilities are supposed to be because their brains are hardwired to understand other languages, but the way it's demonstrated here suggests ''English'' is the default and that their brains subconsciously translate everything they hear and say for them, which is...not how speaking foreign languages works.works.
** Piper's French thing is a specific power from Aphrodite. It's completely separate from their hardwiring for Ancient Greek, so it works by different rules.
** Piper's French thing is a specific power from Aphrodite. It's completely separate from their hardwiring for Ancient Greek, so it works by different rules.
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*** Camp Half-Blood was founded in ancient Greece by Chiron. At least that's what Riordan Wiki on Fandom says.
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** At a guess, I'd say that it is probably a matter of what each word means, since that's as important to knowing a language as whether you can read the individual letters. Also, English is not related to Latin in the same way the Romance languages are. The closest language to English is actually German.
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** They don't have DNA, but they evidently have some magical stuff that substitutes as DNA, even if it may be a touch more complex (especially in Aphrodite's case, considering how her appearance is based solely on who's looking at her) - ''something'', after all, has to allow half-bloods to inherit certain traits from their parents. Presumably, Piper is half-white because Aphrodite took the form of a white woman during her relations with Tristan McLean.
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** They don't have DNA, but they evidently have some magical stuff that substitutes as DNA, even if it may be a touch more complex (especially in Aphrodite's case, considering how her appearance is based solely on who's looking at her) - ''something'', after all, has to allow half-bloods to inherit certain traits from their parents. Presumably, Piper is half-white because Aphrodite took the form of a white woman during her relations with Tristan McLean.[=McLean=].
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* What happened to the original forms the Roman gods were venerated in, in this version of history? The series acts like the Greek and Roman aspects are inseparable from each other, as though they've always coexisted, but several Roman gods were preexisting and only conflated with Greek deities later... Hence why some of them, like Janus, don't have Greek equivalents. Aphrodite's two forms are apparently so similar that there's no disconnect between them, but Venus and Mars were originally agricultural deities. At the very least, Jupiter being more just and disciplined than Zeus makes a lot of sense, but was there ever a mention of them being worshipped as original constructs?
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* What happened to the original forms the Roman gods were venerated in, in this version of history? The series acts like the Greek and Roman aspects are inseparable from each other, as though they've always coexisted, but several Roman gods were preexisting and only conflated with Greek deities later... Hence why some of them, like Janus, don't have Greek equivalents. Aphrodite's two forms are apparently so similar that there's no disconnect between them, but Venus and Mars were originally agricultural deities. At the very least, Jupiter being more just and disciplined than Zeus makes a lot of sense, but was there ever a mention of them being worshipped as original constructs?constructs?
* In the first book, how was Piper able to speak to Boreas in French without realizing it? Did she think she was speaking English? Half-bloods' bilingual capabilities are supposed to be because their brains are hardwired to understand other languages, but the way it's demonstrated here suggests ''English'' is the default and that their brains subconsciously translate everything they hear and say for them, which is...not how speaking foreign languages works.
* In the first book, how was Piper able to speak to Boreas in French without realizing it? Did she think she was speaking English? Half-bloods' bilingual capabilities are supposed to be because their brains are hardwired to understand other languages, but the way it's demonstrated here suggests ''English'' is the default and that their brains subconsciously translate everything they hear and say for them, which is...not how speaking foreign languages works.
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* What happened to the original forms the Roman gods were venerated in, in this version of history? The series acts like the Greek and Roman aspects are inseparable from each other, as though they've always coexisted, but several Roman gods were preexisting and only conflated with Greek deities later. Aphrodite's two forms are apparently so similar that there's no disconnect between them, but Venus and Mars were originally agricultural deities. At the very least, Jupiter being more just and disciplined than Zeus makes a lot of sense, but was there ever a mention of them being worshipped as original constructs?
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* What happened to the original forms the Roman gods were venerated in, in this version of history? The series acts like the Greek and Roman aspects are inseparable from each other, as though they've always coexisted, but several Roman gods were preexisting and only conflated with Greek deities later.later... Hence why some of them, like Janus, don't have Greek equivalents. Aphrodite's two forms are apparently so similar that there's no disconnect between them, but Venus and Mars were originally agricultural deities. At the very least, Jupiter being more just and disciplined than Zeus makes a lot of sense, but was there ever a mention of them being worshipped as original constructs?
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* In Son of Neptune, it's revealed that the ancient Greek Amazons are the ones who made the company of Amazon. So, in that case, how does Jeff Bezos fit into this equation? Is he like their front man to the mortal world, is he their puppet? Does he know about the Amazons in the company? IS JEFF BEZOS A DEMIGOD?!
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* In Son of Neptune, it's revealed that the ancient Greek Amazons are the ones who made the company of Amazon. So, in that case, how does Jeff Bezos fit into this equation? Is he like their front man to the mortal world, is he their puppet? Does he know about the Amazons in the company? IS JEFF BEZOS A DEMIGOD?!DEMIGOD?!
* What happened to the original forms the Roman gods were venerated in, in this version of history? The series acts like the Greek and Roman aspects are inseparable from each other, as though they've always coexisted, but several Roman gods were preexisting and only conflated with Greek deities later. Aphrodite's two forms are apparently so similar that there's no disconnect between them, but Venus and Mars were originally agricultural deities. At the very least, Jupiter being more just and disciplined than Zeus makes a lot of sense, but was there ever a mention of them being worshipped as original constructs?
* What happened to the original forms the Roman gods were venerated in, in this version of history? The series acts like the Greek and Roman aspects are inseparable from each other, as though they've always coexisted, but several Roman gods were preexisting and only conflated with Greek deities later. Aphrodite's two forms are apparently so similar that there's no disconnect between them, but Venus and Mars were originally agricultural deities. At the very least, Jupiter being more just and disciplined than Zeus makes a lot of sense, but was there ever a mention of them being worshipped as original constructs?
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* How does Roman dyslexia work? With Greek demigods it makes sense, since their brains are hardwired to interpret the Greek alphabet more than anything else, but Latin (the language of the Roman demigods) is written with the Latin alphabet, the same one that English and several other modern languages are used with. As such, it really seems their brains would work with English (or pretty much any other Latin-written language). Is it just they can understand the letters but can't comprehend them as words? Or do they just have a form of dyscalculia instead due to the Roman's use of Roman numerals over Arabic numbers?
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* How does Roman dyslexia work? With Greek demigods it makes sense, since their brains are hardwired to interpret the Greek alphabet more than anything else, but Latin (the language of the Roman demigods) is written with the Latin alphabet, the same one that English and several other modern languages are used with. As such, it really seems their brains would work with English (or pretty much any other Latin-written language). Is it just they can understand the letters but can't comprehend them as words? Or do they just have a form of dyscalculia instead due to the Roman's use of Roman numerals over Arabic numbers?numbers?
*In Son of Neptune, it's revealed that the ancient Greek Amazons are the ones who made the company of Amazon. So, in that case, how does Jeff Bezos fit into this equation? Is he like their front man to the mortal world, is he their puppet? Does he know about the Amazons in the company? IS JEFF BEZOS A DEMIGOD?!
*In Son of Neptune, it's revealed that the ancient Greek Amazons are the ones who made the company of Amazon. So, in that case, how does Jeff Bezos fit into this equation? Is he like their front man to the mortal world, is he their puppet? Does he know about the Amazons in the company? IS JEFF BEZOS A DEMIGOD?!
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* I seem to recall Aphrodite stating that even if Olympus were destroyed, she wouldn't fade away like the other gods, since love is intrinsic to human nature and would continue to exist whether Olympus and the gods did or not. But wouldn't that same logic apply to many of the things the other gods represent? The sky wouldn't disappear just because Zeus fades, and humans wouldn't stop fighting with each other if Ares wasn't there.
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* I seem to recall Aphrodite stating that even if Olympus were destroyed, she wouldn't fade away like the other gods, since love is intrinsic to human nature and would continue to exist whether Olympus and the gods did or not. But wouldn't that same logic apply to many of the things the other gods represent? The sky wouldn't disappear just because Zeus fades, and humans wouldn't stop fighting with each other if Ares wasn't there.there.
*How does Roman dyslexia work? With Greek demigods it makes sense, since their brains are hardwired to interpret the Greek alphabet more than anything else, but Latin (the language of the Roman demigods) is written with the Latin alphabet, the same one that English and several other modern languages are used with. As such, it really seems their brains would work with English (or pretty much any other Latin-written language). Is it just they can understand the letters but can't comprehend them as words? Or do they just have a form of dyscalculia instead due to the Roman's use of Roman numerals over Arabic numbers?
*How does Roman dyslexia work? With Greek demigods it makes sense, since their brains are hardwired to interpret the Greek alphabet more than anything else, but Latin (the language of the Roman demigods) is written with the Latin alphabet, the same one that English and several other modern languages are used with. As such, it really seems their brains would work with English (or pretty much any other Latin-written language). Is it just they can understand the letters but can't comprehend them as words? Or do they just have a form of dyscalculia instead due to the Roman's use of Roman numerals over Arabic numbers?
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** But the Sea of Monsters moves with the rest of Western civilization. It ''used'' to be the Mediterranean, but now it's the Bermuda Triangle.
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* In the first book, Dylan (that kid who turns out to be a storm spirit) says something like "The mistress calls me back" as he prepares to leave the Grand Canyon. It's been some time since I read the book, but I can't recall the identity of this mistress of his being revealed...Was it supposed to be Khione, Gaia, Medea, or perhaps someone else?
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* In the first book, Dylan (that kid who turns out to be a storm spirit) says something like "The mistress calls me back" as he prepares to leave the Grand Canyon. It's been some time since I read the book, but I can't recall the identity of this mistress of his being revealed...Was it supposed to be Khione, Gaia, Medea, or perhaps someone else?else?
* I seem to recall Aphrodite stating that even if Olympus were destroyed, she wouldn't fade away like the other gods, since love is intrinsic to human nature and would continue to exist whether Olympus and the gods did or not. But wouldn't that same logic apply to many of the things the other gods represent? The sky wouldn't disappear just because Zeus fades, and humans wouldn't stop fighting with each other if Ares wasn't there.
* I seem to recall Aphrodite stating that even if Olympus were destroyed, she wouldn't fade away like the other gods, since love is intrinsic to human nature and would continue to exist whether Olympus and the gods did or not. But wouldn't that same logic apply to many of the things the other gods represent? The sky wouldn't disappear just because Zeus fades, and humans wouldn't stop fighting with each other if Ares wasn't there.
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** I think it's because the toolbelt can only make "tools". Hammers are technically tools, weapons are not. It might also be that he has to know what he wants (at least in his head)to summon something.
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** I think it's because the toolbelt can only make "tools". Hammers are technically tools, weapons are not. It might also be that he has to know what he wants (at least in his head)to summon something.something.
* In the first book, Dylan (that kid who turns out to be a storm spirit) says something like "The mistress calls me back" as he prepares to leave the Grand Canyon. It's been some time since I read the book, but I can't recall the identity of this mistress of his being revealed...Was it supposed to be Khione, Gaia, Medea, or perhaps someone else?
* In the first book, Dylan (that kid who turns out to be a storm spirit) says something like "The mistress calls me back" as he prepares to leave the Grand Canyon. It's been some time since I read the book, but I can't recall the identity of this mistress of his being revealed...Was it supposed to be Khione, Gaia, Medea, or perhaps someone else?
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** Why would Aphrodite have given Piper the potion anyway if the Mist could've taken care of everything?
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** Also, weren't the trio surrounded by monsters when Hera was freed, whereas with Artemis it was mostly just Atlas and Luke? Hera probably went divine to incinerate the monsters and get them out of the way so that, if need be, she could deal with Porpoise Fear afterward without being sidetracked. Artemis going divine would've run the risk of killing Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia, or of giving Atlas the idea to do the same thing and assume ''his'' true form. And it's a lot more serious when a Titan does that.
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*** However, these are ''gods'' we're talking about. They're more embodiments of civilization than actual people, and probably don't even function or think in the same way that mortals do. And it's been stated and demonstrated that the demigods are their tools, of sorts. If the demigods do something that they're required to do and that other demigods have created a precedent for in the past, then it makes a lot more sense to the gods that they don't get substantially rewarded for basically "doing their jobs," whereas defending Olympus when the gods couldn't do it ''was'' their going above and beyond. That, and the gods are family. If your family needed you to help with something that only you could accomplish and their life (let alone the fate of the world) depended on it, I don't think you'd really expect that big of a reward either.
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*** Well, according to TheKaneChronicles (they're explicitly in the same universe), the afterlife is whatever you believe. So Egyptians get their souls weighed by Osiris while the Greeks go to the Underworld; in The Throne of Fire, it says that there are Romans that ended up in the Egyptian afterlife because they spent so much time in Egypt that they started to believe in the Egyptian afterlife. So Sammy would have had no reason to believe in the Greek afterlife, and probably wouldn't have been there at all.
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*** Well, according to TheKaneChronicles ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' (they're explicitly in the same universe), the afterlife is whatever you believe. So Egyptians get their souls weighed by Osiris while the Greeks go to the Underworld; in The Throne of Fire, it says that there are Romans that ended up in the Egyptian afterlife because they spent so much time in Egypt that they started to believe in the Egyptian afterlife. So Sammy would have had no reason to believe in the Greek afterlife, and probably wouldn't have been there at all.
