Hall of the Gods



The Hall of the Gods is the biggest place in Olympus. It is where the Gods have their summer and winter meetings. High above, the blue ceiling can be seen glittering with constellations. The Thrones of the Gods stand in a U around the hearth starting with Zeus and Poseidon's thrones as they are the most powerful greek gods. From Zeus and Poseidon's thrones the goddesses sit on the left side of the hearth and the others sit on the right side. In one corner, a house-size globe of water hovering in the air, and inside it is the Ophiotaurus, half-cow, half-serpent. Hestia's hearth is also in this Hall.

It's first appearance in the Percy Jackson series begins in The Lightning Thief where Percy returns Zeus's lightning bolt after he recovers the stolen bolt. It later appears in The Last Olympian several times as it is used by Percy and Camp Half-blood as a war base over Manhattan after Kronos, resurrected from Tartarus by Luke and additional demigods who fell prey to the Titans, sets Manhattan in a Titan time seige off and on. The last scene of it at the end of The Last Olympian shows everything in disarray since Kronos, Lord of Time, in Luke Castellan's demigod body wrecks the room after he penetrates the entrance to Mount Olympus through the Empire State Building. Thereafter, the gods and goddesses convey in an emergency council even with all of Camp Half-blood there in plain sight. During the council, Athena, Annabeth's mother, appoints Annabeth as Mount Olympus's official Architect (in fact since Olympus was half destroyed) and because Annabeth wants to be an architect (she mentions it many times in the series), Poseidon annouces that he wants Tyson, his cyclopes son and Percy's younger brother, as his lietenant general of the Cyclopes, Zeus also says that he wants to gave Percy Jackson a promotion to the spot amongst the gods beside his father Poseidon as a full blooded god as an award for defending Olympus from attacks by Kronos's Titan armies which Percy, realizing that if he accepts, his best friends Annabeth and Grover will miss him forever, eventually refuses. However, Percy makes his own request as that all the gods must give him promise that they will claim all of their (and any of their demigod childrens by blood) children by the age of thirteen. Zeus, stund, allows the request to be adhered by all of them including Poseidon, Percy's father.