User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-4649443-20121104203141

Dissecting the Great Prophecy of Seven:

Ok, so first we have the first line:

                       Seven half-bloods shall answer the call.

Lots of people argue about who the seven really are. Some people say that Nico is one of the seven and Frank isn't. But the line refers to those who answer the call. And seven people already did. That does't mean they're the only ones who play a part of the Prophecy. In the previous Great Prophecy a lot of people(maybe everyone) thought that the hero who turns sixteen and the hero who's soul is reaped are the same person. But they weren't, were they? So I guess you can understand why I think the seven people who have POVs are the Seven.

Next,

                       To storm or fire the world must fall.

There's a really old post I read back when this blog was new, and it said that the "world" may actually be Gaea. I think this may be right, but there are a lot of other things to think about. In the myths, the reason Zeus picked a flood over blasting the world with his lightning bolts to kill off all the people besides Deucalion and Pyrrha because there was a prophecy predicting the world ending in fire. Sound familiar?

Next,

An oath to keep with a final breath.

How many oaths are there? The gods vowed that Chiron would live until humanity no longer needed him. It may be his final breath. NIco vowed he would lead the otheres to Epirus. He may need to sacrifice himself. My guess is as good as anybody's.

Finally,

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

I have to theories to what this means; First, foes unite to close the Doors. Second, there will be many armed foes guarding the Doors.

Ominous Lines:

"Someday soon, he(Percy)'s going to face a sacrifice he can't make. And withous your(Frank) sense of duty, he's going to fail"~Mars

Okay. these aren't Mars's exact words but it gets to the point. If the sacrifice is a person(or people, plural) I can think of three people he absolutely cannot sacrifice for anything. His mom, his half-brother Tyson, and Annabeth. This is really bad, since I don't want any of these characters to die. But it would be bad if it's a friendly monster because it would mean Bessie! I mean, I think the Ophiotaurus can only be sacrificed once, so if Percy can;'t sacrifice or let someone sacrifice it, then Gaea would have a recipe for god soup. Okay that's all for now.

P.S. Oh yeah, before I forget, strange thing about my mind: Whenever I imagine Percy and Jason in my mind's eye, Percy is always younger-looking, and his voice isn't as deep. Probably because we've known him since he was 12, but Jason was 15 when we first met him.