Another Update On The Map; I Have A Wild Headache Right Now And My Stomach Feels A Little Funky But On

Another update on the map; I have a wild headache right now and my stomach feels a little funky but on a good note I have the map layout down for mostly everything; I at least know what camp relatively looks like, the uh actual amount of stuff there so that’s good :] I’m going to go make sure I am not dying, or about to puke. The map 1st draft halfway done and it’ll probably be out soon!

Have a good night everyone :]

*update I ate 1/25 of a wheat thin and am now shaking

Notes on Luke Castellan,

I would like to say first,

Map is almost done!!!! I just have to finish some like very fine-tuned layout stuff when the weekend roles around.

But! This is in part mostly, on Luke’s last name,

Castellan is a governor of a castle/warden of a prison

It works with Luke’s whole thing a little, with the whole Kronos’s right hand man/puppet/vessel or whatever,

What I wanted to talk about were these, Castellanus cloud formations,

These guys right here, specifically what Castellanus clouds are those towers of clouds that are ‘reaching’ up higher into the sky.

Reaching up to the heavens, clawing their ways up.

I just thought that it was interesting that it matched up so well that Luke Castellan clawed and reached up to Olympus, to the heavens, to tear it all down and these clouds that have similar names are the ones that reach up and appear to also be reaching up for the sky.

Probably not intentional but I thought it was cool and interesting over the correlation and this is 100% just a tide over until I do have the whole ‘As historically accurate as I’m willing to research Camp Jupiter map’

Anyway have a good night :]

*note from the future: I’ve realized this could’ve been a joke post or sarcasm, if that is the case- I have been tomfooled. But hey, there’s some reasons that Octavian could get to be the Augur and Senior Centurion!)

Okay, okay! I’d like to present a possible answer. If I’m remembering correctly; Octavian can see the future (like in SoN with the whole ‘the Greek has arrived’ and the whole smoke and special affects) Apollo also notes that Octavian was contacting him when we talk with Apollo in BoO; So in some case he has prophetic powers that could land him in the Augur position, and secondly,

We are drawn attention to in SoN the fact that Octavian is stated to be a good Orator. Now, Oratory skills are nothing to brush off- a bunch of people have come into places of power throughout history due to being good Orators! So could it be safe to say he managed to through being a skilled Orator, making sure he had majority of his cohorts favor, and adding the fact that he was the Augur on top.

Okay that last paragraph was written weirdly, I just woke up. But yeah; his See the future stuff wasn’t stopped until Python took control of the Delphic cave and Apollo got blasted from the sky.

And this answer (i think at least) works okay because it gives him genuinely good reasons to get into the positions of power that he has. Rather than just getting through from money.

But, Augur: could reasonably see the future if looking at the objective fact parts of canon (in my opinion at least from what I remember, and it wasn’t all of one of the POV’s going ‘Welll, can Octavian actually do that?’)

And rising to being the senior Centurion: he could’ve rose through his Orating, careful strategic planning, and generally trying to show himself to look like the best option.

That’s my idea at least, it’s from what I remember from the books- and maybe it does give a okay explanation.

Okay but if Octavian couldn't see the future then how the hell did he gaslight gatekeep girlboss his way into being not only the camp augur but senior centurion of the best cohort because yes he's got money but money doesn't tell the future!!

Brief Michael Kahale questions,

In SoN I we’re told that Centurions have to serve at least 5 years as a legionnaire before becoming a Centurion

And we Know that Michael Kahale was a linebacker in highschool, meaning more importantly that he went to highschool. But, like-

Michael is strongly implied to also be a teenager- I don’t like the idea of a like 23 year old Michael running around with a lot of 16 year olds and being close friends with 18 year old Octavian; and it strongly is implied that he is of similar age of Octavian.

But he went to highschool. And like- it at least feels like he had a year or two of highschool, enough to be recognizable in his linebacker situation and as a demigod to be scouted by Octavian’s father,

Which like, if we go 18 year old Michael kahale- or even 19 year old Michael Kahale at the oldest (though I always like making him 17, this is my own hc and I will not be including it) Anyway- if we go 19 Michael, he’d have to join the legion at 14; which, not impossible, some kids will be entering freshman year as 14 year olds, but- like- WHAT??

It feels, wrong to say it was fresh faced little baby Michael; Reyna makes it feel like he is newer to the legion, and that most of his bulk was Linebacker stuff.

But that implies that he ALSO broke the 5 year rule, that were told is super duper important and is rare to be broken- but really it feels like a lot of people broke it.

Frank obviously did, it’s an improtant plot point. I don’t think we get confirmation that Praetor’s also have this rule, but I feel like they do- and in that case then Percy and maybe Reyna both break that, then now Michael Kahale. Really it feels like no one really cares about this rule if we have this many examples of named characters that don’t follow this rule- not including any side characters were given that would make sense (very thankful that they did not hand over Dakota’s tattoo details so we could reasonably say that he got to the legion at 11 like Octavian, and actually properly followed the explicitly said rules about ranks) Also Hazel! She was at least at the camp for a year before HoO I think, and then only what, another year passes for ToA, she, at the most- could have around 3 years of service and I am only going off of memory here-

Literally no one cares about this 5 year rule unless we imply that 23 year old Kahale is running around and that makes me uncomfortable!

Anyway I’m gonna go to sleep now because I have to go to school tomorrow, good night- if anyone has any actual good explanation for this other than the continuous lack of characterization and attention paid to Camp Jupiter and the concepts presented in Camp Jupiter; I’d love to hear it

extremely upsetting that the ancient romans didn't have zoom because i would pay serious denarii to see mark antony mute cicero's microphone while he's giving a speech

I’m sorry I love reading the song of Achilles.

But I SWEAR TO THE GODS WHEN I TELL YOU

Is is SO HARD to google certain things about people like Patroclus without getting just flooded with TSOA stuff

Like-

I just want to figure out what Patroclus’s home kingdom was called before I just believe Wikipedia and all I get is TSOA

So mean man😭 I just want actual information that isn’t based on that silly book where I cry everytime Thetis is on the page because that ain’t Thetis my dudes.

So scared for when Briesis (Breises? Idk and I don’t want to go reference my copy of the Iliad or google it) comes on the page but that’s not the point!

This post is just me being upset because I tried googling Patroclus information and I just get blasted with TSOA. Not a bad thing- but like

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*I’d like to update that I have confirmed the information and that yes, Patroclus’s home kingdom is named Opus