Hermes/Mercury Cabin (11)

The **Hermes Cabin** (11) is the cabin for the children/legacies of Hermes/Mercury, the Greek/Roman god of travelers, thieves, merchants, and messengers, roads, trade, sports, borders and border crossings, loads, thoughts, communications, money and luck. in his form as Hermes Trismegistus, a Syncretic combination of the Greek Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth, he is also a god of magic, alchemy and philosophy.

## Claiming and cabin

**Claiming**: When Hermes/Mercury claims his children, a glowing caduceus appears over the child's head.

**Building**: The Hermes cabin is a log cabin, but rather old, and has a caduceus over the door.

**Furniture**: The brown paint on the inside is chipped, and the cabin is pretty much crowded at all times. the cabin is full of all the stuff that the children of Hermes have stolen. there is a secret 2nd floor full of prank supplies.

#### Acceptance policy:

Due to Hermes being the god of travelers, they take in all new campers that haven't yet been claimed by their godly parent or other the other Pantheon demigods who's parent(s) don't have a cabin yet, or mortals who have some how ended up at camp

## Cabin members

Head Counselor: Hector Pineda

Lieutenant counselor: Travis Atleta

Greek Members: Michael Pineda

Roman members: TBA

Mortals: Jewel Fregoso (The Oracle), Marko Madrigal (Mortal), Alison Cruz (Mortal), Maria Angelos (Mortal), Típota Thémata (Unknown parentage)

Former members: TBA

Deceased members: Andrew James (Thetis),

Legacy members: Jaden Colchis (Jason and Medea),

## Powers and traits

### Demigod Abilities

1. Children of Hermes, due to their father being the god of thieves, have the ability of Clauditikinesis, which allows them to sense, open, manipulate, destroy or otherwise control locks of any form, even applying to digital, electronic, magnetic or otherwise exotic locks. They can also sense the magical effects or curses lock might have, and if strong enough, dispel them.
2. As their father is God of Trade and bearing Loads, children of Hermes can have the ability to expand storage spaces, allowing them to carry and store massive amounts of objects.
3. Children of Hermes, due to their father being a god of trade and money have a limited form of Chrimatakinesis. Commonly, Children of Hermes have a preternatural sense of the economy, what is valuable, what good investments are and the like, they can even tell how much objects are valued at and differentiate real money from counterfeit. More rarely they can summon money and valuable objects from thin air. [1]
4. Children of Hermes, due to their father being the god of travelers and messengers, have the ability to run at superhuman speeds.
5. Children of Hermes, due to their father being the god of travelers and messengers, have the ability to teleport to anywhere, but it drains them a lot and it is a rare skill possessed by few.
6. Children of Hermes, due to the fact their father 'invented the internet', are able to use the internet freely without drawing attention to themselves from monsters.
7. Children of Hermes can sense any physical traps.
8. Children of Hermes can create spectral wings on their shoes to fly
9. Rarely, Children of Hermes have the ability to tell the future by rolling dice as Apollo granted this power to their father.
10. Children of Hermes, due to their father being the god of communication can understand all languages.
11. Children of Hermes, due to their father being the god of boundaries, can make force fields, though this is a rare skill possessed by few
12. Children of Hermes have innate, supernatural reflexes.
13. Children of Hermes, due to their father being god of travelers, can navigate by the stars, always know true north and even more rarely, can locate and know paths to any destinations.
14. Children of Hermes, due to their father being the god of persuasion, have the supernaturally powerful skill to persuade other. The average child of Hermes is simply as persuasive as a trained car salesman and the strongest manifestation of this ability is nearly as powerful as charmspeak.
15. Rare, some children of Hermes can manipulate luck, as their father is a god of luck.
16. Children of Hermes, due to their father being God of thieves, can sense dishonestly, bluffs or people cheating around them
17. Children of Hermes are able to put people to sleep and turn things to dust as that is what Hermes did when he slayed Argus.
18. Some Children of Hermes, due to their father being God of thieves, can find out any password and decrypt any cipher that stands in their way.
19. Few Children of Hermes have the ability to communicate with tortoises, rams, hawks, and snakes, the sacred animals of their father.

### Traits

1. Children of Hermes tend to be good with money, whether mortal or other. They are naturally good with technology.
2. Children of Hermes tend to have sharp noses, upturned eyebrows, and mischievous smiles.
3. Children of Hermes tend to be kleptomaniacs (Kleptomania is a condition in which an individual experiences a consistent impulse to steal items not needed for use -https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/kleptomania-)
4. Children of Hermes are "jacks-of-all-trades".
5. Children of Hermes tend to be good at alchemy and making potions.
6. Children of Hermes have an ongoing feud with the Chelone kids, as their father turned Chelone into a tortoise.
7. Children of Hermes make good merchants.
8. Children of Hermes are good at astronomy.
9. They tend to have high knowledge but not as high as children of Athena.
10. Children of Hermes are good liars and make up good excuses. They are also incredibly silver-tongued.
11. Children of Hermes are very fertile, as their father is considered a god of fertility. They are quite good at charming others into bed and are decent at sexual intercourse, but they pale in comparison to children of Aphrodite.
12. Children of Hermes are good with bows and arrows, but not as good as Apollo's children. (Unless they practice and get even better)
13. Children of Hermes are often friends with children of Apollo, as Hermes was the inventor of Apollo's lyre.
14. Children of Hermes tend to get along with children of Psyche, as Hermes was a guide of Psyche when she was mortal.