She also learned about how the Romans dated their calendars, with the year starting with the founding of Rome.Īt one point she was introduced to Caligula, however she did not learn his name as Nero only called him “my kinsman”. The Gaul would take her to ride the Gray Sisters' Taxi if she did good in training.ĭuring this time Meg learned to fight with twin blades. 'Lu' would also help her fake deaths when Nero forced her to kill. She would perform parental tasks such as taking Meg to the doctor and signing permission slips. She was trained under a Gaul named Luguselwa who she calls 'Lu' who doubled as her legal guardian and nanny. Through his sophisticated manipulation over the years, Nero was able to manipulate Meg into believing that he and the fearsome malevolent Beast were two separate people rather than the same man. When she was six years old, Nero killed her father for her disobedience and crushed the rose, and indirectly blamed her for her father's death. Before their separation, her father gave her a rose which was supposed to be a gift from her mother. They went east to New York City, where the god-emperor Nero separated her from her mortal father and proceeded to take her in and raise Meg as his own daughter. When Meg was five years old, her father was threatened by Triumvirate Holdings due to his work in trying to restore the Meliai, which unnerved the emperors, and the father and daughter were forced to flee after their house burst into flames by orders of Caligula. He would take her into the greenhouses and speak as the plants, making her laugh. She lived in Aeithales, a series of greenhouses built by her father. They will have a satyr companion, and Meg knows just who to call upon.Meg McCaffrey was born to Demeter, the Greek goddess of harvest and agriculture, and Phillip McCaffrey, a mortal man and a botanist, in Palm Springs, California. There is one glimmer of hope in the gloom-filled prophecy: The cloven guide alone the way does know. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor-and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles-somewhere in the American Southwest. The words she uttered while seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil triumvirate of Roman emperors plans to attack Camp Jupiter. With the help of some demigod friends, Lester managed to survive his first two trials, one at Camp Half-Blood, and one in Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy.

But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg.

In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos.

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan