About

About Demigod's Guide

The story

Demigod's Guide started as a personal travel companion. A father who wanted his 9-year-old son — a Percy Jackson fan — to feel the same pull that the Greek myths once held over kids in 1980s reading rooms. Crete was on the itinerary. Knossos, the Minotaur's labyrinth, was the star. Everything else followed.

The first version was hand-written for one trip in July 2026. It was good enough that other families started asking for access. So we made it a real product, kept the kid as the primary reader, and started adding regions.

What we're building

A mythology-first travel guide that covers the entire Mediterranean. Crete is the start. Mainland Greece — Acropolis, Olympia, Delphi, Mycenae, Mt. Olympus — is next. Then Italy (Pompeii, Sicily's Magna Graecia, Rome), then Turkey (Troy, Ephesus, Ionia), then the Levant.

Each destination is a real place with a story. Each story is anchored in the public-domain ancient sources — Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, Ovid — written in plain language a 9-year-old can read alone in a hotel room.

What's coming

• House badges: the family member who picks Zeus earns marks for visiting Dikteon Andron; Poseidon earns marks at sunken Olous; Hephaestus at Hephaisteion. V1 lets you pick a god as your "house" and shows it on your profile chip — V1.1 adds the badges.
• Themed routes: "Footsteps of Zeus", "The Minotaur Trail", "Atlantis Mystery" — pre-curated trip lists you can star in one tap.
• Audio narration: Percy Jackson-style read-aloud for younger demigods who'd rather listen than read.
• AR overlays: on-site augmented reality at major sites — "find traces of the Minotaur" at Knossos, point at a column to learn what stood there. Far horizon, but planned.
• Day-by-day itinerary: Drag your starred destinations into a per-day plan that respects opening hours and travel time.

Who it's for

• Families with mythology-curious kids (ages 7+).
• Percy Jackson fans of any age planning a trip to Greece, Italy, or Turkey.
• Classics teachers and homeschool parents.
• Anyone who wants to walk where Theseus walked.

How it's built

Demigod's Guide is a static site that's also a Progressive Web App. It works offline once installed. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. The whole thing weighs less than a megabyte at first paint.

Source code is on GitHub under the MIT license.

Credits

• Map tiles: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
• Map library: Leaflet.
• Fonts: Cinzel, Cormorant Garamond, Crimson Pro (Google Fonts, Open Font License).
• Mythology sources: Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Apollodorus' Library, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Pausanias' Description of Greece — all public domain.
• Built with Astro and Workbox.

Contact

General: hello@demigodsguide.app · Support: support@demigodsguide.app