We need more ascendants
I really enjoy stories where percy and those around him ascends into godhood through their own power. However something that I keep noticing is there are no ascendants before percy since heracles. And all of a sudden we have a couple possible ascendants in percy, grover, nico, thalia, leo, jason if he lived.
I find such a large gap in time before all these possible canidites seems unlikely, and think there should be more possible ascendents, some historical figures like george washington, or some OCs throughout history. Some ascendents from england, france, belgium, germany would be awesome to see.
And not all of them should actually ascend, have some failures, those that could not reach the pinacle in their fields, or died before they could. Or possibly turned into s guinea pigs like blackbeard.
But how awesome would it be so see the ascended sons of zeus and hephestus in a heated rivalry continuing on to the modern day in edison and tesla, to see major leo ascended as the son of ares. Or to see french daughters of athena and aphrodite ascend together for their strives in clothing production and fashion. Or the children of dio ascending when they create whiskey in ireland or rum in the caribean. And some if not all showing up to help defend manhatten or attack othys would be hype.