Okay, so I finally found my copy of The Mark of Athena and I was flipping through to find my favorite Percabeth scenes when I stumbled upon the mad tea party: i.e. that one scene where Annabeth, Hazel, and Piper had that tea party with Aphrodite.

So Aphrodite was talking about the Civil War and how it was so romantic, Annabeth was arguing about how it was definitely not romantic, and the line "General Beauregard himself made an appearance." shows up.

I had skimmed over it the first few times because I didn't really want to look at Aphrodite's gossip and literally the next paragraph, Piper tossed her scone to the pigeons, so I knew we were finally getting somewhere. As I looked over it again, though, it got me thinking. What if this general was related to our dear, deceased Silena Beauregard?

Then I did a little research on this side character. (Thank you Google, Riordan Wikia, and the multitude of PJO and HOO books in my bedroom!) Everyone knows that Silena was the daughter of Aphrodite, she dated Beckendorf after years of them having a crush on each other, and she was the camp spy that died trying to fight a drakon that could only be killed by a child of Ares, but other than that, what do we really know about her? Even Rick Riordan didn't seem to know much about her. He never mentioned many details about her other than the fact that she was pretty and good at riding pegasi.

I mean, he didn't even seem to be able to make up his mind about her hair and eye color. In The Demigod Files, Silena has black hair and brown eyes. In the Ultimate Guide, Silena has blond hair and blue eyes. I was really starting to worry about the editing process of the series and Rick's memory, which was already slightly in question *cough cough* Hercules scene in MoA *cough cough*, when I read a theory under the abilities area in the Silena Beauregard section of the Riordan Wikia (it's very accurate, by the way; I enjoyed reading it) that Silena has powers of shape-shifting inherited by her mother.

And Silena became so much more awesome in my eyes.

But how is this information relevant to a civil war general that Aphrodite mentions once in a book that Silena isn't even alive in? Let me explain.

The first book of the entire series told us that demigods were the ones behind world's wars, like WWII was the children of Hades in the Axis Powers against the children of Zeus and Poseidon in the Allied Nations. Then it was revealed in TLO that the American Civil War was really a battle of the Greeks against the Romans: Greeks the Union, and Romans the Confederate.

This is where my theory starts to come in. If this 'General Beauregard' is following those same facts, then he was most likely a demigod.

(A Greek one, mind you. Aphrodite phrased her sentence as if he was well known, and she was referring to a party before it was crashed by the Confederates, so I think it is safe to assume that he was a general for the Union army.)

That would mean that Silena (along with Frank, but you already know that) was one of the only recorded Greek legacies, and her lineage goes all the way back to the 1700's.

And Silena just got even more awesome.

But then, I started wondering. If Silena was a legacy, which god was she the legacy of? So I tried to logic my way through it. This general was only mentioned in one paragraph, but there was more information given than what I initially thought.

At first, I thought that the general would be the child of some minor god since the legacy lasted all the way from the 1700's, so the scent must be weaker than an Olympian, and we were screwed. But then I considered the timing of this. I'm not trying to be discriminatory against the minor gods when I say this, but if this guy was a general, and a well known one, at that, he was probably a child of one of the more powerful gods. I'm not saying that minor half-bloods couldn't be generals, but it would be considerably harder for them. I mean, this was a time period where all undetermined and already claimed minor demigods were just shoved into the Hermes cabin, and just historically speaking, you were powerful because you were born into a high status.

Now that I've cleared that up (and I expect no rage comments about that now), let's move on. So this god was most likely a Greek Olympian. Good to know. Now we need to figure out which Olympian it was. Aphrodite didn't refer to the general as if he was a son of hers (and if he was, I might be sick as Silena is her child), so we can probably safely rule that out, and Artemis, Hera, and as far as I know, Heista, are maiden goddesses, so we can also take them off. Now this is where things get tricky. The only other information we get about this general is that he is supposedly a 'scoundrel', as said by Aphrodite. That information doesn't exactly help us, I mean, the gods aren't exactly known for their loyalty, so I decided to look for clues elsewhere.

Silena had an affinity with pegasi, which wasn't exactly something she inherited from her mother, and definitely not gained through experience with horses, because her father has a chocolate shop in the Village, and no information indicates her ever living in the country. There could be a chance that she inherited it from her ancestor, General Beauregard. But then... which god is known for creating horses?

So I reached my conclusion. General Beauregard was a child of Poseidon. Silena Beauregard was a legacy of Poseidon.

Do you believe me? In fact, it makes more sense if you think about it.

The American Civil War took place before the pact of the big three, so there must have been at least one child of the big three running around, especially during a war influenced by demigods. This general was a womanizer and not like our dear, loyal Percy, but as HoH showed us, the children of Poseidon could be as unpredictable as the sea.

This can also explain Silena's shape-shifting abilities. We've never heard of a child of Aphrodite being able to shape-shift, but a legacy of Poseidon? Frank got some animal upgrades, but their powers are pretty much the same. She probably was never able to control water, but the line was pretty diluted. Again, Frank didn't have power over water, either.

So what do you think? Do you agree with me? Do you think Gen. Beauregard is related to Silena? Do you think the general was a demigod? Do you think he was a son of Poseidon? Comment!