A/N: These are prophecies I made for an rp I used to run. If anyone owns an instagram account,you could look up my old account called: camphalf_bloodrp . I've been wanting to write a sequence of stories based off of the rp,but I'm lazy so I'll probably incorporate it in the story I'm trying to write somehow Anyways,enjoy reading. If you need any help on writing a prophecy for your story,PM me.
"Charm the sleepless workers who abide to the laws of death. Look forward steadfastly before the shadows of joy disappears."
Mythology:(1) Orpheus, (2)Adonis
Goal: Save Abby from the underworld.
Number of questers: 3
How many make it back alive: 3
charm the sleepless workers who abide to the laws of death, this is referred to those who are dead and do not need temporal things such as sleep. This is also a double meaning and refers back to when Orpheus "charmed" Hades with his musical abilities.
The characters had gone through the Orpheus entrance to Hades and tried to charm Orpheus himself as well as Charon to let them enter because they had not any money to enter nor were any of them dead.
Look forward steadfastly
Also a reference to Orpheus. It was advice to the characters to not make the same mistake Orpheus had made when he was getting his wife back.
Hades told Orpheus he may leave with his lover on one condition: No matter what,he can not look back at his lover following behind him up the stairs to the world of the living or else she reverts back to being a dead soul.
before the shadows of joy disappears.
The character the questers were trying to get back was named Abby. Her name in Hebrew meant joy. Shadow is just a loose way of saying,"shade" or in Greek equivalent,ghost.
The subplot dealt heavily on one character;the quester who's sisters with Abby. Making a deal with a dying nymph to allow the questers to pass through the entrance,she promised not a single petal will fall from the first Adonis flower and it will be delivered to Lady Persephone. Nicole,Abby's sister,could not keep that promise,and had ultimately stayed behind in the underworld to find the missing petals.
"Bathe in the river where old kings bathed,sinking the flesh of thieves. Burdened with a thickless knot,return home holding one of steel."
Mythology: (1)King Midas and the golden touch, (2)shields of Mars- pignora emperii,(3)breaking the river Styx oath,(4)Dionysus and the Damocles sword
Goal: Save sister from being punished for breaking a river Styx promise carelessly.
Number of questers: 3
How many make it back alive: 2
Bathe in the river where old kings Bathed,
When king Midas asked how to get rid of the golden touch Dionysus told him he must go to the river Pactolus and wash his hands. He did with no hesitation,and everything went back to normal. It is said people found gold flecks in the river after.
In the quest,the character finds mercy from Dionysus and he tells the doomed camper inorder to save themselves they'd have to go to Greece where the flecks of gold still taunt thieves.
Sinking the flesh of thieves.
Double meaning: At first,everyone thought that it was a line for the doomed camper.
The doomed camper had broken a river Styx promise,and the whole point of the quest was to help her not get caught. Not get caught? She's one of the swiftest Hermes kid out there,but got mixed up once and broke the promise. If she bathed in Pactolus,it symbolically meant she's free and washed off the thieving sin she had.
In actuality,it meant her sister,who was on the quest and a daughter of Hermes,was going to drown in the river Pactolus to fulfill her own prophecy of how she'd die collecting the,"ashes of Rome".
Burdened with a thick-less knot,
The thick-less meant that the doomed campers life-line(knot) the fates held was thin;ready to snap any minute.
Return home holding one of steel.
The first part: The sword of Damocles. 2/3 of the questers were able to stick together,but 1 -the daughter of Ares-was side tracked and taken captive by one of Lin's minions.
She was stuck in a room they had put her in,locked. They found out later it was the wrong demigod,and left her to rot. When she woke up,she appeared in a thrown room with much socializing. The people in there were party animals and right in the front sat King Dionysus.
Her legs wondered close to him,and Dionysus began to talk to her direction,but not at her. His words didn't make sense to her,and then he moved out from his thrown. She couldn't understand why,but as her legs were moving to the chair so was the increase of gold and fancy things around her.
Suddenly her limbs felt glued to the thrown,and a sword sharp and capable of killing her dangled above her head,the swords pommel only held up by a horses hair.
She looked at a silver platter and saw her reflection wasn't hers- it was of a trembling man in fear. She could then hear the voice Dionysus was actually responding to- it was that of a man named Damocles.
Right as the sword was about to hit her head,the Hermes sisters were able to find the room and pick at the lock. Everything vanished,but a sword on the ground.
Trembling,the sisters asked what happened and she only told them they had to take the sword with them. If the sword could affect her like that,it must have some sort of power to it.
2)(subplot)This line also refers to the sisters personal prophecy she's known for months where she would die collecting the ashes of Rome as well as another quester who was the daughter of Ares. "Ashes of rome",meant the lost artifacts after Rome had fallen a long time ago(Camp Jupiter exists,but it's weak only having the Athenan Parthenon).
Before the sister drowned,the crew went for a swim,because it was a relief they all survived;they deserved it after three long weeks of hell. They deserved the smile after so much hardship. She remembered a dream she had:
It was the re-hash of an older man making 12 different shields that look exactly alike. There was Mars who threw down the 12 and gave it to the Salii. When Rome had finished its Pax Romano,there was the Crisis of the third century where they were invaded. The Salii hid the shields,none of them knowing if they had the true ancile of Mars. In her dream she remembered she watched one Sali place it in the river...she looked down.
She swam down,only coming up for air when necessary. Once she found it wedged as a keystone in a rock mountain,she was too deep for anyone to find her. Her friend,daughter of Mars,was frantic in search to find her as she made a quick decision to sacrifice herself for the shield right beneath the commotion. She slid her small frame in a gap that lead behind the ancile which held up the mountainous rocks.
She pushed her back to the rock walls,and kicked the ancile out with her feet,the boulders collapsing on top of her. She realized it was not her fate to bring the shield home,but rather her friend,the daughter of Ares. Her last scene she saw of the world was the shield floating up to her friend,knowing her time was done.
It was her fathers gift to let the shield transcend to the top of the river. A steel shield washes up on the shore next to the two surviving campers after hours of them searching. They began to cry,as Hermes shows up to collect his daughters lost soul sitting next to them,the only one to see Hermes being the living daughter.
return home holding one of steel- the surviving sister(who broke the promise) held the Damocles sword as the Ares girl carried the ancile of Mars. Well,one of the anciles of Mars.
This quest is the start of a series of other quests to restore the pignora emperii and return it back to the Romans.
"Beast of Ares lingers on a place named after hunters hero run,the missing taken hidden well,hope of their return must fall."
(1)Caledonian boar,(2)Atalanta
Goal: Save the Demigod victims of past assaults.
Number of questers: 3
How many make it back alive: 3
This was more of a filler quest.
Beast of Ares lingers on,The Caledonian boar was brought into play when the fall of Lin era left remnants of how to bring monsters back to the next antagonists,the Demigod Black Market(DBM).
The Caledonian boar was a tyranny,and two missions before the quest failed to bring it down. Parody of the Caledonian boar hunt.
a place named after hunters hero run,
Hunters hero: Atalanta. In the Caledonian boar hunt,all of them who entered were capable of hunting. Atalanta was the first to shed the boars blood,and was the "winner",gaining the boars hide.
In America,there is a city called Atlanta. (Note: In the MoA,the seven too visit Atlanta,but for a different reason).
The characters make their way to the city known as Atlanta where they find one of DBM's base.
the missing taken hidden well,hope of their return must fall.
It's an rp reference. The goal was to find the missing people the DBM took. The quest was ultimately meant to fail, and it did.
"Find the nimble with wingless backs,chase the snatcher of winds. Out of many,one will show a palace above all mortals. Replace with life,peaceful death hangs in chains between two worlds."
Mythology: (1)Aeolus,(2)Harpies,(3)Thanatos
Number of questers: 3
How many make it back alive: 3
Find the nimble with wingless backs,Aeolus was also refered to as nimble. He had no wings oddly for a person who controls winds.
chase the snatchers of winds.Snatchers were known as Harpies.
Out of many,one will show a palace above all mortals.
Out of many,one in latin is E pluribus unum.
In the quest they believed the special harpy will fly to where they needed to go,but in reality the harpy dragged a man down to hell with a couple others who dropped his wallet as he "fell" through a pot hole.
In his leather wallet laid a single quarter with the Colorado mountain as the quarters tail. Written on all U.S. quarters were the words,"E Pluribus Unum".
Replace with life,
One of them,specifically the child of Thanatos,lead the quest to find her own father. In the end she had let her insecurities get the best of her and felt like she was better taking her fathers place than accidentally killing the living like she has done since birth. The other questers had no idea she made this decision when they were escorted out of the Aeolus palace.
Peaceful death
People are often mistaken that Thanatos is the god of death who is the only one to reap souls. No,if anything you would want him to visit you rather than his sisters who are the gods of violent deaths(Keres). He is the god of peaceful death.
hangs in chains between two worlds.
Thanatos is found in the Aeolus palace which is in the sky between the mortal world and Olympus.
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