Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29068459-20170907205347/@comment-29068459-20170908162246

From strictly book lore, I would say that since we have only one example of a Poseidon kid, one of a Hades, and Jason as the example of the Zeus kids, we shouldn't be hasty and say every demigod of the Big Three is like this.

To reinforce my point, let's look at some of the other cabins. In the Apollo Cabin, we know Will has that defeaning whistle. It fits with Apollo's music domain. However, none of the other Apollo kids have it. Will also is the best healer, but not as good at archery as the rest. This is one example of varied powers.

In fact, staying with Apollo, we can mention how Asclepius was so good at healing, he could resurrect the dead, exceeding even Apollo himself in that regard (as seen in BoO).

Another example is in the Hermes cabin. Luke apparently inherited the full range of Hermes' swordsmanship, pretty much fighting on the level of an Olympian god. Yet none of the other Hermes demigods inherited this, seeing as to how Percy practiced on entire cabins at a time by SoM.

About the old myths though, I would rebut that the they did become book lore once Percy Jackson's: Greek Heroes came out. And since that book did add some things never specified in the myths (like Perseus being an excellent archer) I would say Riordan could have put in one or two Zeus demigods (calling lightning from the sky).