The Triumvirate Holdings is an organization headed by the three worst Roman emperors in history (Nero, Caligula and Commodus), and the overarching antagonists (alongside Gaea) of the Percy Jackson franchise. They have forced others to worship them, which helped them gain their divinity. Triumvirate Holdings benefits financially from events such as the Second Titan War and the Second Giant War. The logo is said to be a golden triangle on a field of purple. It is unknown what happened to the company after the Great Imperial War, although it was most likely disbanded.
History[]
Background[]
The company is said to have existed in the shadows for centuries, manipulating world events for their own gain. During the Second Titan War, Triumvirate Holdings supplied Luke Castellan and his allies with the Princess Andromeda, weapons, helicopters and top human mercenaries. Then during the Second Giant War, they aided Octavian, the former augur of Camp Jupiter, with six extremely expensive Cyclopes' built onagers. According to Chiron, the Triumvirate Holdings have more property and more money than even Rachel Dare's father's company. They have many plans in taking over the world, but their main objective in the series is controlling the five Oracles in order to control the future. In order to accomplish this, they form a partnership with the serpent Python, who is in control of the Oracle of Delphi.
The Trials of Apollo[]
The Hidden Oracle[]
The Triumvirate sent mortal thugs Cade and Mikey to beat up Apollo after he was made human as punishment, but they were driven off by Meg McCaffrey, daughter of Demeter. Later, Apollo, McCaffrey and Percy Jackson were ambushed by Nosoi. They were defeated by McCaffrey's Karpos, Peaches, but managed to afflict Percy.
Later it's revealed that Nero, the Beast, took up residence in the same Manhattan skyscraper where the two camps tried to make early peace. He has kidnapped several Camp Half-Blood campers and intimidated Meg McCaffrey to get Apollo to open the doors to the Grove of Dodona so he can burn it due to the Holdings having no way of controlling the ancient oracle. When Nero arrives through the Myrmeke's Lair with his Germani bodyguards, he attempts to burn the captive campers, but a group of dryads sacrifice themselves to save them. After that, Apollo puts some wind chimes he got from Rhea on a tree in the grove to save it as well as getting an arrow made out of the wood, yet Meg sides with Nero.
Camp Half-Blood was then attacked by the Colossus Neronis so Nero could have it as a new front lawn. It managed to destroy the Demeter Cabin, the Dining Pavilion, and even the barrier surrounding the camp. Percy Jackson arrived in a nick of time with his dog, Mrs. O'Leary, to help. The automaton was eventually defeated when Apollo shot an arrow with hay-fever, with the help of Zephyros, into its ear causing it to sneeze its head off.
The Dark Prophecy[]
Apollo travels to Indianapolis with Leo Valdez and Calypso in order to restore the next oracle, the Oracle of Trophonius. They are almost immediately attacked by Blemmyae but manage to escape to the Waystation. Commodus, the New Hercules, is revealed to have taken the Throne of Memory from the Oracle of Trophonius and spread monsters throughout the whole city. He gets mad at his prefects Vortigern, Marcus, and Cleander for letting Meg McCaffrey get away and annoy him. So he had Lityerses, son of Midas, kill them and take their place before being sent to stop Apollo.
Apollo and Calypso go to the zoo to free Britomartis' gryphons, Lit and several Germani are sent to stop them. They almost succeed until Meg arrives to save them. Later when Apollo, Meg and Leo search Commodus' lair under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument after entering through the Canal Walk and defeating the Carthaginian Serpent, they overhear Alaric telling the emperor he put beasts that cannot be killed to guard the Cave of Trophonius. The emperor plans to kill Lit and replace him with Alaric despite ordering Lit to destroy the Waystation by tomorrow morning. After killing another blemmyae, the three release the prisoners: Olujime, Sssssarah, Hunter Kowalski, and Georgina. They also manage to obtain the Throne of Memory in the process.
Unfortunately, they stumble into the Lucas Oil Stadium in the middle of Commodus' naming ceremony rehearsal. The Emperor reveals that the Oracle of Trophonius said that if he destroys the Waystation and Apollo is sacrificed in the real games, he'll be able to rechristen the city as "Commodianapolis" and rule the Midwest forever as god-emperor. He unleashes monsters, animals and mercenaries onto the field causing Apollo and Meg to fight back. Commodus ordered them to stop before revealing a bound Peaches suspended in the air. He prepares to kill the Karpoi by setting him on fire using a train. Apollo rides Livia, the elephant, to block the car. Then he cut off the helmet she was wearing and Livia flung it at the god emperor, causing him to swerve off the track and roll and crash on the field while Meg freed Peaches. Commodus was about to kill Lityerses for letting them through but Leo arrives on Festus along with Thalia Grace and the Hunters of Artemis to save them.
The unkillable creatures guarding the cave to the oracle turned out to be Yales. Because they are endangered, Artemis and the other gods will curse anyone who makes them extinct, so Meg binds them with vines instead. Inside the oracle, Trophonius tortures Meg with memories of her past because she had inadvertently volunteered to be the petitioner for his prophecy.
After Apollo gives her CPR, Trophonius asks them to let the blemmyae inside, who were setting up a bomb as a last resort to get rid of Apollo, destroy the oracle as it too exposed, unable to be defended, and he no longer wants to work for Commodus. Apollo does so but also tricks them into blowing themselves up allowing them to escape. Commodus' forces hold several of the Waystation resident's hostage while Olujime and Lityerses turn against him. Apollo miraculously manages to unleash his Divine Form causing Commodus to vanish and his forces to disintegrate. The prophecy Meg spits out reveals that the Holdings' third emperor is planning to attack Camp Jupiter on the next new moon.
The Burning Maze[]
On their way to Palm Springs, Apollo, Meg and Grover Underwood are attacked by strixes. These malevolent birds of ill omen had orders from the emperor of the west, Neos Helios, to kill them. However, the trio manage to deflect them with strawberries and kill them when sunlight pours into the Labyrinth.
When looking for Gleeson Hedge, Apollo and Grover go to Macro’s Military Madness where they meet Naevius Sutorius Macro, former prefect of the emperor. The emperor has banished him along his his former automaton troops for failing him so many times, they were replaced by human mercenaries, Strixes and Pandai. Macro hoped that catching the former god will get him back into the emperor’s good graces but is killed when Apollo reprogrammed the automatons to self-destruct. However, the talking horse Incitatus received a call from him before the store was destroyed, and went over to check it out but went back to the emperor when the police arrived. Having heard the emperor's full name from Macro, Apollo realizes that the third emperor, Neos Helios, is Caligula.
After Piper McLean joined them, they went to the Hall of Records near Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles in hopes to find the oracle Caligula had captive, Herophile, who speaks in word puzzles. N.H. Financials, a division of the triumvirate, has caused Tristan McLean to go bankrupt and lose everything, with people who were working for him like Jane in on Caligula's plan. Down below, they encounter and battle the sorceress Medea on her sun dragon chariot. She reveals that Caligula's plan is to have her harvest all the godly essence of the faded Titan Helios along with the remains in Apollo to mix it all into him so he can become the new sun god. This resulted in flames popping all over Southern California causing droughts and wildfires killing dryads and satyrs, in what has been referred to as the Burning Maze.
Caligula's palace is fifty expensive yachts linked together in a bridge. It occasionally stopped at Stearns Wharf so Apollo, Meg and Piper went there on the new moon after getting Jason Grace. They managed to retrieve the emperor's original pair of caligae but Incitatus catches them and takes them to the emperor. Apollo nearly commits suicide so Medea can't extract the essence from him, but before that happens a Pandos named Flange informs Caligula that the attack on Camp Jupiter that night has failed, Jason uses Apollo's injury as a distraction to break himself and Meg free of Medea's Storm Spirit trap. Unfortunately, Jason Grace is killed by Caligula via duel, while his ventus horse, Tempest helps them get to safety.
During the battle, a Pandos named Crest abandons the triumvirate to help the heroes. He tells them that the closet entrance to the heart of the Burning Maze is in a bear pit at the Griffith Park Zoo. Apollo wears the caligae they got and solve puzzles to get to Herophile. The puzzles turn out to form a prophecy that tells of Apollo dying in the tomb of Tarquin, the last king of Rome, unless somebody opens the doorway to the "soundless god". But then Medea appears and begins to finish her spell to turn Caligula into the sun god. However, Piper McLean shows up with the Seven Meliai, warriors that Meg's father, Phillip, wanted to bring back before Caligula burned down their home, Aeithales. Apollo takes Herophile's place and begins spouting words to complete the prophecy, this allows Piper to finally kill Medea, allowing Helios to rest in peace. Meg realizes that the words Apollo spouted are an acrostic that make up "Bellona's daughter" meaning Apollo will need the help of Reyna Ramírez-Arellano. On their way out, Incitatus and Pandai attempt to kill the heroes. They failed and got killed themselves, but not before revealing that Caligula is currently sailing towards the Bay Area to launch another attack on Campo Jupiter.
The Tyrant's Tomb[]
After the Burning Maze was extinguished when Helios returned to Chaos, Caligula met up with Commodus in order to continue the assault on Camp Jupiter. As an precaution, they teamed up with a zombified Tarquin so that he would unleash his undead forces to swarm New Rome. When scouting out Tarquin's Tomb, Apollo, Meg McCaffrey, Hazel Levesque, and Lavinia Asimov learn he is working with the emperors and is after the restored Sibylline Books.
Less then a week later Apollo and Meg go on another quest to Sutro Tower to free the soundless god. They manage to free him and the Oracle of Cumae, however by then the two emperors have reached the Bay Area and launched an attack that decimates Camp Jupiter.
Things start to go the emperor’s way at first, with their forces laying waste to the camp and even destroying New Rome. Fortunately, the tide turns quickly in the favor of the demigods. Ultimately, the battle ended in a defeat for Triumvirate Holdings, with both Caligula and Commodus being permanently killed in battle as well as Tarquin being taken out, leaving Nero as the sole head of Triumvirate Holdings.
The Tower of Nero[]
Nero takes advantage of Python's hold over the Oracle of Delphi in order to find out when Apollo and Meg McCaffrey are coming back to New York City. When they “escape” his forces, he tells his followers to be ready to destroy the entire city if the two do not surrender to him in forty eight hours. When Apollo confronts Nero, he attempts to brainwash Meg with no success, leading to Nero's death. Unfortunately, Nero's godly essence is transferred to Python, and Apollo was forced to confront his arch-nemesis. After falling all the way to the depths of chaos, Python is destroyed when Apollo throws him into the nothingness. It's unknown what happened to Triumvirate Holdings after Nero's death and Python's destruction, but it's possible that the company collapsed or at the very least left in a weakened state beyond recovery.
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