Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150716161525/@comment-1466878-20150721131108

Kronos300 wrote: ^ I believe the other way round.  I think Greek demigods possess more raw power than Egyptians cause they are literally half god. Egyptians need spells, staffs and hieroglyphs to channel their abilities. Demigods on the other hand, I believe, merely use willpower and their hands. Anyways Sadie wins this round because Annabeth has no powers.

But that doesn't really mean anything. :/ That's not the way demigods are made up or function. I guess you could say that demigods in the book series and in the actual myths aren't truly the idea of half-god that you think of in essence. Can't think that just because you have an idea about a set of characters that it overules what we already know lol...

If they were really "half-god" in our definition, or at least if the fact that they were "half-god" actually meant anything in the final product, both the stories and the myths would be radically different.

The way things have worked is that sure, one of their parents was a god, but that parent's traits manifest themselves in recognition or favor by the supernatural or mystical realm more than anything else. In fact, that's 99% of the time all that happens. That's just the way it works.

The only cases that slightly deviate from that are some characters in the books by Riordan and even then it's not really anything really...mind blowing. It's more they're 1/15 god and only in a fraction of their parent's attributes, that is, that 1/15 only even applies to a fraction or a select one or two of their parents traits or abilities while others even aren't inherited or touched upon at all.

It's all a factor that I've felt was really lame in the Riordan books and a serious letdown when looking at the development of some of the storylines. At the same time, though, when that 1/15 did show up, it was really exciting.