Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160707163148/@comment-5471249-20160731154014

Commander Tool Belt wrote: But Hazel said when Percy arrived she had known immediately that he was powerful, because he had an aura of power. Even more so than her own brother. Hazel had seen Jason too, so if Percy had an aura of power and Jason didn't, then...? The exact wording is important here - Hazel actually said that before Percy turned up, Nico had been the most powerful demigod she knew, MAYBE even more dangerous than Jason. Hazel uses MAYBE, indicating that she wasn't entirely sure, and, as we learn in "House of Hades", hazel and Jason did not know each other very well before Jason's disappearance, so she might not have been entirely familiar with the full magnitude of Jason's powers (and as Dylan states in "Blood of Olympus", Jason has become more powerful since "Lost Hero"). Moreover, while Hazel does say that Nico had been the most powerful BEFORE Percy turned up, that doesn't necessarily mean that Percy is more powerful than Nico, as it it could instead merely mean that the 2 of them are equivalently powerful. Yes, Nico did state in "House of Hades" that Percy was the most powerful demigod he's ever meet, but we shouldn't necessarily take Nico's word for it, as his strong crush on Percy (which Nico had still not gotten over at the time), does give him a considerable bias here.