History Characters / TheCampHalfBloodSeriesTriumvirateHoldings

* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Already blinded by Apollo two books earlier, in the climax of ''The Tyrant's Tomb'' Commodus has his knees slashed before being caught in the explosion of the tunnel he was in. He manages to crawl away and order a final attack on Camp Jupiter before being strangled and finally reduced to ash by Apollo's [[MakeMeWannaShout powers]].]]

* [[spoiler:KarmicDeath]]: [[spoiler:Piper kills her in revenge for Jason's death.]]

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The history of Rome is well known, including its emperors. Unknown to many, this memory and reverence allowed a trio of the most infamous emperors to extend their lives far beyond their natural limits. Now in the modern day, they seek to use the wealth and influence they have accrued over the centuries to create a new empire, an empire they would see built on the bones of the old gods. They serve as the BigBad of the ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' series. This page details the Triumvirate and their various allies and employees. For a more thorough list of characters in the setting, see [[Characters/TheCampHalfBloodSeries here]].

* FullFrontalAssault: It's noted to depict Nero, completely nude. Apollo's haiku at the beginning of the chapter even asks where its underwear is.

* AxCrazy: Piper accurately describes Medea as "crazy and bloodthirsty". It could even be argued that this is the real reason why the original Jason wanted to leave her in the first place. She even'''murdered her own children''' in the past solely because Jason was their father.

* WomanScorned: So crazy she tries to kill Jason for having the name 'Jason'.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: They are [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deities of Human Origin]], and stand out as being one of-if not the- most ruthless and cruel antagonists that Camp-Half Blood has faced, committing atrocities that Kronos and Gaea could not reach. In fact, [[spoiler: Caligula does what not even ''Gaea, a Protogenos'' could do: kill one of the Seven.]]

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Apollo finds in ''The Tower of Nero'' a fiddle in his tower presumably to play as he [[spoiler: burns all of New York to the ground as a reference to the old rumor that he fiddled while Rome burned as a personal joke.]]

-->'''Commodus''': [[spoiler:MY EYES!]]
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: Even after being effectively blinded by Apollo, in ''The Tyrant's Tomb'' he is still able to swat his arrows out of the air, and is handing him his ass in single combat until Frank's backup plan goes into effect.]]

* HeroKiller: He kills [[spoiler: Jason Grace, one of the main characters of the previous series and one of the most powerful demigods in the world.]]. He's the first antagonist to permanently kill a main character in the Riordanverse, as all other deaths were either temporary (in the case of Magnus Chase and [[spoiler: Leo Valdez]]), or of secondary characters.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: The last word he hears before being incinerated is "Jason".]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Book 3 is much darker and he's the reason. Not only is he TheDreaded to other emperors but to Apollo himself. [[spoiler: He also killed Jason in cold blood.]]

* ThisIsUnforgivable: He considers any Roman demigod who defies him as committing high treason. He invades Camp Jupiter for this very reason. [[spoiler: He also kills Jason partly because of this.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: He is killed by his own automatons.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Caught in the blast of the automatons' self-destruct mechanism.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: When Apollo calls her out on her plan to [[spoiler: kill her own grandfather Helios by infusing his essence into Caligula along with Apollo's to make him the new sun god]], she points out how the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Olympians are family and try to kill each other all the time]]. Apollo hates to admit that she has a point.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Gets curbstomped by the Meliai]].

* DragonTheirFeet: While he's not technically subservient to Commodus and Caligula, he is less of an overarching threat [[spoiler: but survives longer than they do.]]

* HiddenVillain: The Beast is remains in the shadows for most of ''The Hidden Oracle'' and its only in the final chapters of the book is his identity revealed; The Beast is Emperor Nero.

* BladeOnAStick: They wield spears and shields.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Nero [[KickTheDog forces him]] to do this to Luguselwa, [[ForcedToWatch in front of his sister Meg. Lu also happens to be Meg's legal guardian.]] It's painful to witness for all parties other than Nero, being the sadistic asshole that he is.

* WomanScorned: So crazy she tries to kill Jason for having the name Jason.

* {{Yandere}}: UrExample.

* DraconicAbomination: Rather than a simple dragon, he resembles a gargantuan serpent with a multitude of claws, vestigial wings, and heads that constatntly bubble forth and dissipate in wisps of fog along the length of his body.

* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Interestly, {{inverted}} in-story. Apollo made sure to spread the tales of how he [[CurbStompBattle easily killed Python with a single arrow]], which became the well-known "legend". However, the reality is that Python is ''a lot'' more dangerous and even with his godly powers Apollo implies he only barely got by with a victory, which is why he had nightmares about him ''centuries'' after the fight.

A tribe of men with giant ears, eight fingers and toes, they have fur that starts out white and turns to black overtime. Wields a khanda, a sword associated with Sikhism. They used to serve the kings of India.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: A combination of damage and a plague arrow makes it sneeze its head off.]]

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* SatanicArchetype: Aside from the whole "literally being TheAntichrist of the ''Literature/BookOfRevelation''" part, Nero is a prideful lesser deity who seeks to overthrow the Gods and rule in their stead, all the while manipulating half-bloods to help him.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Though he doesn't get all the forces Commodus and Nero used, destroying them apparently focused the power they had gathered into Nero.

* EvilMentor: To a dozen half-bloods, including none other than [[spoiler:Meg McCaffrey]]. He raised them before Camp Half-Blood could find them with the intention of aiding his plot against Olympus.

* TheMan: Rhea explicitly compares their influence to this concept, and they use every venue open to capitalists to gain power.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: They are [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Deities of Human Origin]], and stand out as being one of-if not the- most ruthless and cruel antagonists that Camp-Half Blood has faced, committing atrocities that Kronos and Gaea could not reach.