![]() ![]() ![]() Once deciding to accept the Prophecy, Percy goes on a journey with Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, to learn more about Luke’s background in order to better be able to defeat him. Although it appears as though Percy is the hero mentioned in the prophecy, the author later reveals that it is Luke. ![]() The Oracle of Delphi, in the form of a mummified doll, reveals the Great Prophecy-the hero will make a choice to ensure the ultimate success or destruction of Olympus, a choice which will ensure the hero's demise. Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood, where he encounters his mentor Chiron (a centaur) and love interest Annabeth Chase (daughter of Athena). Although Percy and Charles succeed in blowing up the ship, Charles dies before he escapes. Kronos has overtaken the body of Luke Castellan, a demigod who has bathed in the River Styx to become invulnerable. ![]() The latter is the Titan god of time, and he is leading the fight against the Olympians. In the first scene of the novel, Percy and his fellow demigod Charles Beckendorf infiltrate Kronos’s ship. The demigods fight on the side of the Olympians, whose home, Mount Olympus, is located on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, NY. When the novel opens, two sets of Greek gods are at war: the original race of gods, the Titans, versus the Olympians, their descendants. ![]()
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