The Half-Blood Wars Book 1: Boot Camp

by HephaestusBuilds

In an Alt.History where every god, monster & pantheon exists, Greece & Rome have become global superpowers over the past two thousand years, each controlling & having taken over dozens of countries & nearly having control over their side of the world. Now Greece is putting together an elite team on young Half-Bloods to fight Rome named the Immortal Spartans SYOC. Submissions Closed

3. Aug 9 Update& BIG Question - Please Read

(Updated 8/9/19)

Hey everyone! Hephaestus here with some news and a question for this story. I'm gonna run through some quick stuff then get to the big announcement/question I have for you guys. Man, am I dreading this one…

~ First: I'm SO SORRY for the delay getting this story out. Don't worry, it's NOT dead, I've just expanded on it so much and done so much work on the worldbuilding that I literally made my own Glossary/book bible that's 30+ pages long that's just info for myself to remember.

~ Second: I've officially finished picking the OC's, so please don't send me anymore submissions, they won't be accepted. I received over 40 and I'll honestly say I didn't expect even half that many, that's another reason why I've taken so long starting this story.

~ Third: Right now I'm working on the story/chapter outline and trying to intertwine character arcs as well as figure out the main bad guys and their plan. What I have right now could be really cool, I can't wait to get to it. I'm also working on worldbuilding information, lore, the Glossary(which I'm gonna release in a chapter for you guys to read and discover hidden lore) as well as the Prologue, which I just sent the first draft of to my beta the other day. Once I finish here I'll go back to revising the Prologue and once my beta reads through it and I'm finally happy with it and think it's as good as I can make it, I'll release it.

~ Fourth: Right now I can't give a release date for either the Prologue or Chapter 1 as I haven't finished the story outline yet and I'm going to be filling in for work for an additional 4 hours a day until further notice starting next week(no choice, sorry, but I also wouldn't have said no). But I want to get the Prologue out by September.

~ Fifth: And now it's time for the main reason why I'm putting this out. I've been sitting on this question for awhile now and I've finally decided to ask. As I've been working on this story over the last month or so I've realized some things, mainly that this story is so far removed from PJ or anything Uncle Rick related that it's virtually a new thing. I'm not joking when I say that the only things my story has in common with PJ are that it has Greek, Roman, Norse and Egyptian gods(while mine has ALL the gods ever) and the mention of Celestial Bronze, which I can easily change and make it my own. In this world, Chiron is long dead, Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and everyone we know don't exist, Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter don't exist, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and all the other gods, deities, monsters, titans and beings are made completely new and are redone. I mean, the ENTIRE HISTORY of the world is changed, Greece and Rome have been at war for over 2 thousand years, America was taken over by Greece when the colonies were first formed, every single myth, creature, god, titan, deity and being that has ever been worshiped, celebrated or thought up exist all at one time in my world. This story is so far removed from PJ that I don't feel that I should even list it as PJ anymore.

So, here comes the question, should I work on this story and when I'm ready put it on Wattpad or AO3 instead of FanFiction? Or a combination of the three? At this point this story is basically an original story that isn't connected to PJ at all, so I don't like marketing it as one.

Hephaestus