Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-28759193-20160724170410/@comment-31176316-20170308203032

Oceanhalo12 wrote: ^I think that the point was that the only way to keep your weapons/armor is to die in battle. If a soldier died off the battlefield they would practice skylephse, and take their weapons/armor. Therefore most of the soldier's Nico summons are actual veterans rather than tributes or off-duty or whatever else you were saying they could be.

Not to mention that doing what your told is what most soldiers do. Doesn't change what is good and what is bad. That's like saying hit (wo)men aren't murdering they are just 'doing what they are told'. Although this train of thought this brings up a heavily debated political topic: Are soldiers murderers? Lol I'm trying super hard to word these post in a way that stay away from my personal beliefs. So that's exactly the debate i suppose i was bringing up- are soldiers murderers? and the difference between hit (wo)men and soldiers especially in a culture like Rome is that becoming an assassin is generally choice. The army less so.