In the process of the latter, hints about Rhea's true nature and (thoroughly alien) origins are revealed. Percy and co were chatting with a sleeping Rhea's projection (perhaps using some Name related to Motherhood, or something similarly unaggressive) and learn about yet more of Olympus' failings. So.after taking some time, and with a few WOGs, this chap is much less confusing. But I suppose in this case it's Luke who summoned Rhea, and that seems like a plot-relevant thing we're saving for later. If you did a rewrite, what I was thinking is this stuff works best when Percy has a character to exposit to, even if we later find out he's wrong or misguided. Now, part of all this information overload does thematically work with the whole Cosmic Knowledge being Too Much motif in Lovecraft (or at least Lovecraft-inspired media, I haven't read the originals), but it doesn't help. I'm not fully sure if all the kids of Elder Gods are also Elder Gods, because Hypnos is called one but I think elsewhere the Fates were stated to not be? And of course, after all this, you have the inscrutable unfathomable beings known as cats. We have Elder Gods, star-spawn, humans and proto-humans, Young Gods which were proto-humans who ate star-spawn, Old Gods (which aren't that more complicated than Young Gods, but still), Giants which are star-spawn adjacent or something and then later aliens like Selene, Pontus and Apophis which I don't think are just star-spawn (though I seem to remember star-spawn being a generic pejorative term rather than a specific type of being? which makes it even more complicated). I think part of the confusion is that there are just a lot of different kinds of beings running around now. I don't think she'd have fixed the series or anything but it would have been nice to see Rhea come back in the last book of Trials of Apollo or something. I don't think Shujin has commented on it but maybe it was mentioned elsewhere in the thread are Rhea and Cybele the same/different names of the same entity? I think those goddesses were conflated/associated in real-life, right? I like all the lions just lazing around. Some of his surprise and accusations of Apollo lying to him come off as surprising to me, though I try to remember he's 12 and naive (and/or his upbringing with his divine parent(s) made him pay less heed to some of the less than stellar behavior of the gods in general tales). I can understand Percy's anger at Artemis's actions, but he's familiar with the general narrative of Greek gods and their behavior, which already shows them as not-so-great, including Aura and Callisto (though I forget the specifics of what Artemis did to the latter- I think kicking her out after Zeus slept with her?). I suppose if they're all essentially sock-puppets, then they would have the same reaction? I remember Shujin giving an example about Names and Poseidon switching hats before that touches on this subject. It's a question I've had about whether all of Nyarly's Names would be benevolent to Percy (For whatever definition of 'benevolent' we can use when it comes to an Elder God, and knowing that benevolent doesn't equal safe, as seen with the incident when Percy was 5). It also looked like the Morrigan Name was the one bringing out Percy's divinity, when I'd assumed it was the Ananke Name doing that for him before, since it seems like a big deal- the only other being we know capable of it is Adrasteia, the fully divine daughter of an Elder God, and I just feel like the Morrigan Name isn't (or shouldn't be) as powerful? But maybe it's easier to do because Percy's semi-mortal and also fully willing, or Nyarly's just breaking the rules of which Name can do which, I don't know. Percy does know his mother has other Names that are too dangerous even for him, so while I don't think he'd be scared of his mother's other Names showing up, he might be more cautious. Click to shrink.It's also something I was wondering about.
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