Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25081838-20150101012325/@comment-1867880-20150113011507

Well, it is true that in Percy Jackson, he was freed and escaped, but is he hadn't manipulated Luke Castellan and a few others, it would have been a permanent punishment, as it was intended to be. But I suppose you're right. Unless they somehow lost their immortality, it is almost impossible to permanently punish them. But imprisonment in Tartarus I would say is the closest thing. I mean, if Tartarus was anything similar in the myths to how it described in The House of Hades, I would say that is pretty horrible punishment. However, some of it might be Rick Riordan's invention, since Tartarus was shown to have the ability to kill an immortal Titan. But if that were true in the myths (I have not read the myths in their original sources), then I would view that as a permanent punishment.