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FLESH-EATING elder brothers of the
HORSES Cyclopes. Each had a
hundred hands and fifty
Frightening horses that eat heads. Ideal to have on
the flesh of other creatures your side when assaulting
and live in great piles of enemies with rocks.
horse poop. Ideal for
garbage disposal, but a HELLHOUNDS
challenge to clean out.
Huge dogs from hell, with
FURIES black fur, glowing red eyes,
massive strength and
See page 20. speed, and the ability to
appear and disappear
GUINEA PIGS at will. Almost all are
unfriendly to demigods,
Enchanted sailors on with the exception of Mrs.
Circe’s magic island in O’Leary, pet to Quintus.
the Sea of Monsters. She is bigger than a tank,
has a bark slightly louder
HEKATONKHEIRES than an artillery gun and
can shadow travel.
(Hundred-handed ones)
Giant gods of violent
storms and hurricanes and

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HIPPALEKTRYONS
Creatures with the front
half of a horse and the
back half of a rooster.
Their rear feet have huge
yellow claws and they
have feathery tails and
red wings.

HIPPOCAMPI
Sea creatures with the
front half of a horse and
the back half of a silvery
fish, with glistening scales
and rainbow tail fins.

HYDRA
A scaly monster with nine
heads, each one diamond-
shaped with a mouth lined
with jagged teeth. Each

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◄ KAMPE
A creature with the top
half of a woman and the
body of a dragon. The
dragon body is twenty feet
long, black and scaly, with
enormous claws and a
barbed tail. Kampe’s legs
and hair sprout vipers.

mouth spits poison. If one LADON
of its heads is severed, the Enormous, many-headed
hydra grows two heads in dragon that guards the
place of the lost one. golden apples of the
Hesperides sisters. Has
hundreds of heads.

HYPERBOREAN LAISTRYGONIAN
GIANTS GIANTS ►
Thirty-foot tall giants with Eight-foot-tall cannibal
blue skin and ice-gray hair. giants with tattoed arms.

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: yellow pointed teeth,
i leather armor. Carry
; heavy, spiked clubs.

i LYDIAN DRAKON
i Poisonous giant serpent
: with scales harder than
; titanium and eyes that

paralyze.

◄ MANTICORE
■ Has the body of a lion,
: a human face and a
■ leathery, spiky tail which
■ shoots out deadly thorns,
• like crossbow bolts.

MINOTAUR
Half-man, half bull
monster. See page 27,
illustrated page 107.

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NEMEAN LION Blackjack, Percy’s steed, is
A lion as big as a pick-up a gleaming black stallion
truck with silver claws and who helps the demigods in
golden, glittering fur. their quests.

OPHIOTAURUS PELEUS
“Bessie,” a sea creature Guardian dragon of Camp
with the front half of a Half-Blood. Huge and
calf and the back half of a coppery-scaled, he sleeps
serpent. The fate of the coiled around the pine tree
gods and Mount Olympus at the top of the hill.
rests on him.
PIT SCORPIONS T
ORTHUS Deadly insects about the
A dog with sleek brown size of a hand. Can jump
hair and two heads. Guard up to fifteen feet, and
dog at the Triple G Ranch. their stingers pierce
through clothes. Their
PEGASI (see page 39) poison can
Powerful winged horses kill within
created by Poseidon. sixty seconds.

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down and pluck sailors
from their ships.

A SCYTHIAN
DRACAENAE

women with green
scaly skin, yellow eyes and
two tails instead of legs.

SIRENS
People-sized
vultures with black
plumage, wrinkled
pink necks and
human faces.

SCYLLA ; SPHINX

Monster who guards the ; Monster with the body of a

entrance to the Sea of = huge lion and the head of

Monsters. Has six heads a woman. Huge paws have

on long necks which reach claws like stainless steel.

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STYMPHALIAN BIRDS ! Resemble a cross between

Man-eating demon birds i a kid, a Doberman

with evil, beady eyes and I pinscher and a sea lion.

razor-sharp bronze beaks.

Reputed to strip anything i TYPHON

they attack to bones. I An enormous monster

Can only be defeated i once trapped by the gods

by horrible sounds. i under a mountain,

i Human-shaped with

TELEKHINES i mottled green skin,

Six-foot tall sea demons : human hands, the talons

who are metal-workers and : of an eagle and scaly,

make many of the gods’ ; reptilian legs. Once

weapons. Have the faces ; released, Typhon caused

of dogs, with black snouts, ; swathes of devastation.

brown eyes and pointed

ears. Their bodies are sleek : WOLVES

and black with stubby legs ; White timber wolves that

which are half flipper, half ; accompany the hunters

foot. Their humanlike of Artemis.

hands have sharp claws.

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THE LABYRINTH

ENCOUNTERS IN THE LABYRINTH

On their quest in the doorkeeper is Janus, the
labyrinth, Percy, Annabeth, god of doorways,
Tyson, and Grover search beginnings, endings and
for Daedalus’s workshop. choices, who looks to both
the future and the past.
THE TWO-FACED MAN Annabeth is rescued from
her dilemma by the
They meet a man with two goddess Hera, who offers
faces, standing in front of them advice on how to find
two doors. Both faces Daedalus in the Labyrinth.
speak to Annabeth, and
demand that she choose ENDING UP IN JAIL
the right door to open with
a silver key. But which is The questers find
the right door? The strange themselves in a tunnel
which ends inside Alcatraz
Prison in California, where
they encounter the
imprisoned Briares (a
“hundred-handed one”).

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) of cyilcatraz reputation for being a tough pri.son that

■ I lie US urniy built a militan' lortress treated inmates to harsh confinement
and iron discipline.The pri.son closed

; on Alcatraz Island in I8S3. and in in 19.^4, but it was modernized and

IbbI, installed long-range cannons that

reopened h\ the Department of justice

could sink hostile ships three miles later that year to hold the gangsters and

away. In 1861 the island also began criminals w ho were part of the crime
taking prisoners from the C:i\il War, surge sparked by the (ireat Depression.

and by 1898 it had more than 4S() Fhe prison was nicknamed “Den ifs

inmates. In 1906 hundreds of ci\ i|ian Island", f amous inmates included

prisoners were transferred to the island !

Al C.apone, Robert Stroud (the

alter the San Franscisco carth(]uake, “Rirdman of Alcatraz") and Cieorge
and by 1912 a large cellhouse had

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Once powerful, Briares has than three bodies:
been overwhelmed by years
of imprisonment and fears ^^His neck connected to the
the revenge of the monster middle chest... but he had two
Kampe should he attempt more chests, one to either side,
to escape. connected at the shoulders,
with a few inches in between.
TRIPLE G RANCH His left arm grew out of his
The four questers find a left chest, and the same on the
grate that brings them to a right, so he had tzuo arms, but
ranch where they encounter four armpits... The chests all
Orthus, the two-headed connected into one enormous
dog (see page 110) and torso, with two regular but
Eurytion the cowherd, who very beefy legs, and he zvore
suggests they turn right the most oversized pair of
around and go back into Levis Fd ever seen.''
the Labyrinth while they
have the chance. When they The extraordinary animals
refuse, he takes them to raised on Triple G Ranch
meet the boss, Geryon, who include hippalektryons and
turns out to have no less hideous flesh-eating horses
(see Bestiary).

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SECTION SIX

THE
UNDERWORLD

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plELX)S OF PUNISHMENT

ELYSIUM

JUDGMENT o
PAVILION f

j PALACE OF
<5^ HADES

FIELDS of ASPHODEL ENTRANCE TO TARJARUS

THE UNDERWORLD

A GUIDED TOUR OF THE
UNDERWORLD by Nico di Angelo

‘‘Hi! Welcome to my dad^s stalactites - that’s what they’ll
place. My name^s Nico di do to you if one of them breaks
Angelo, son of Hades. Let off the ceiling and spears you!

me show you around....

“OK - this is the pavilion

“You met Cerberus zvhen you where all the newly-dead have
came in, right? Good guard to go: as it says on the banner,
dog, yeah? No one gets past they ’re here for JUDGMENTS

those three heads without an FOR ELYSIUM AND ETERNAL
official escort. This path takes
you straight to the Judgment DAMNATION. Poor chumps!
Cool black tent though, right?

Pavilion. Ignore all these silent “Come right on through and
types zve’re zvading through - see what happens after they’ve
they’re dead - they can’t been processed. That path to
bother you. Note the zuicked

black grass and trees zue have the left goes straight to the

here in the Fields ofAsphodel - Fields of Punishment - the
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Dad tries out his new security gates is Elysium, where
punishment ideas, but he says I guess you all want to end *
the traditional ones still zvork up one day. We have
best: the lava Jlozvs, the neighborhoods from way back
minefields full of exploding in history — you name it, zue^ve
surprises, burning at the stake, got it: Roman, medieval,
running naked through cactus Victorian. Check the gold and
patches...You name it, zve’ve silver flozvers — better than up
got it here. there, I bet. Year-round
barbecues too - can’t be bad.
^‘Anyone not feeling well
should sit down on this bench ‘‘See that gleaming blue lake
here and put their heads in the middle there, zvith the
betzveen their legs until the three little islands? Those are
nausea passes. the Isles of the Blest - folks
that end up on those islands
‘^Now let^s take a look at have chosen to be reborn three
zvhere the right-hand path times and each time have
leads - this one should be achieved Elysium. Bet you
easier for you live folks to zvouldn^t mmd joining them.
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narrow, that’s what they say. “Here we are at the palace. The
You can see how hard it is to do walls are polished obsidian -
that — look at the tiny size of you can practically see yourself
Elysium compared to the Fields reflected in them. Notice the
ofAsphodel and Punishment. height of these automatic
bronze gates and the intricate
^‘Now drag yourselves away carvings on them. Dad’s got
and ril take you to Dad’s images ofpretty much all the
palace. You haven’t seen different ways a human can
anything yet. See those black die. This one here’s an atom
parapets on the horizon? That’s bomb exploding, there’s a row
where we’re heading. Step on offamine victims, trenches from
it! Those three batlike creatures World War 1 - there’s nothing
hovering around you are the he’s missed as far as 1 can see.
Furies - it’s better not to get on
their bad side. “Now this is a special
Underworld garden! Nothing
“No one take that path down growing here needs Jiatural
to the right. Unless you want light - that’s zvhy we have
an unscheduled visit to mushrooms and luminous
Tartarus, that is. plants zvhich don’t need

MYTHS OF ANCIFNTGR.FECF

TARTARUS

TARTARUS IS THL PFFRFST RLCON OF THF WORLD,
UNDIR THE UNDERWORLD ITSELF. IT IS SO FAR DOWN
THAT AN ANVIL THROWN FROM HEAVEN WOULD TAKE
NINE DAYS TO REACH IT. THE SOULS OF THE MOST
WICKED WERE SENTENCED TO ETERNAL TORMENT HERE.
,T IS AN ABYSS SURROUNDED BY WALLS AND CATES OF

BRONZE FROM WHICH NO ONE MAY ESCAPE.

TANTALUS

«u» SON TANTALUS WAS .MPAISONLU IN TARTARUS
SOR TRVINA TO StRVE THE AOOS A DISH OF HUMAN
FLESH, HK PUNISHMENT WAS TO BE KEPT PERMANENTLY
HUNORY AND THIRSTY WHILE STANDING CHIN-DEEP IN
WATER WITH FRUIT HANCINC FROM BRANCHES lUST
ABOVE HIS HEAD, WHENEVER HE TRIED TO DRINK THE

WATER OR EAT THE FRUIT THEY RECEDED lUST BEYOND
HIS REACH, THIS IS WHERE THE WORD ‘TANTALIZE
COMES FROM.

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daylight. And my dad grows Hades allozvs tour parties only
precious stones rather than as far as his hallway, so stay
flowers. These are rubies, this together and don’t try exploring
pile is diamonds - so much further, unless you’d enjoy being
easier than those plants you locked up here for the rest of
guys have to water all the time. your lives. Meet my dad’s
Now nobody step out of line guards; nothing gets past them.
and everyone do exactly as I They may look like skeletons,
say, or you could end up like but they can kill as well as
one of these statues you see anyone alive upstairs.
around you, gifts from Medusa.
As I mentioned before, it’s a “OK, well that just about
good idea to stay on the good wraps up the tour for today.
side of my dad and his friends. Follozu me back to the entrance
and gift shop zvhere you can
‘‘This orchard is the garden of buy souvenirs ofyour visit. And
Persephone (see pages 90 and 91). don’t forget, the tour is free, but
Keep walking and don’t touch you need five golden drachmas
those pomegranates or you’ll to buy your exit permit. This
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ARTIFACTS AND CURIOSITIES

AMBROSIA

The healing god food

used in emergencies when

demigods are seriously

hurt. Ambrosia will cure

almost any injury, although

; too much can make a

: demigod feverish and kills

: mortals. At Camp Half-

The silver chain bracelet : Blood ambrosia comes

worn by Thalia. When ; in squares in sealed bags.

tapped it expands into a ; On Mount Olympus you

huge shield. A gift from • can buy it on a stick.

Athena, the shield is made

from silver and bronze, ANAKLUSMOS

with the monstrous face of : Percy’s sword, which
Medusa protruding from ■ translates as Riptide. The

the middle. It gives off a ; sword turns from an

powerful petrifying aura. • ordinary disposable

ballpoint (with black ink) BASKETBALL SHOES
into a shimmering, double- Shoes given by Luke to
edged bronze sword. It has Percy for his first quest.
a leather-wrapped grip and On the call “Maia,” white
a flat hilt riveted with gold bird’s wings sprout from
studs and always returns to the heels.
Percy’s pocket moments
after it has left his grasp.

BACKBITER T CELESTIAL
BRONZE
Luke’s sword which has KNIFE
one celestial bronze and The Icnife that Luke
one tempered steel edge so gave to Annabeth when
it works on both mortals they first met as children
and immortals. Was first on the street.
used by Kronos to slice up
his father Ouranos.

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CHARIOTS GOLDEN DRACHMAS
Chariot races were Ancient Greek currency ♦
reintroduced at Camp used by demigods to pay
Half-Blood by Tantalus. for rainbow messages to
contact their friends and
relatives.

DINOSAUR TEETH GOLDEN FLEECE
Used by the General to
grow fearsome skeleton The golden ram skin
warriors who relentlessly
pursue their targets. which brings health to

all it touches. i

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GREEK FIRE PANDORA’S PITHOS

A thick green magical A storage jar, also called
Pandora’s box, which held
I' ' liquid which billows green evil, illness and hardship.
smoke and then explodes. . Although told not to open
■ it. Pandora was overcome
i-. Used by demigods when by curiosity and did.

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I ; Made by Tyson for Percy
^ and Annabeth to use in
fighting monsters. ■ a Camp chariot race.

HADES’S HELM
OF DARKNESS

A ski cap that transforms
into an elaborate bronze
war helmet. The helmet
was made for Hades by
the Cyclopes.

INVISIBILITY CAP

A navy Yankees baseball
cap, given to Annabeth
by Athena for her
twelfth birthday. It renders
the wearer invisible.

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NECTAR VIDEO SHIELD
The drink of Reflects surroundings.
the gods, used Made for Annabeth based
alongside on an idea of Daedalus’s.
Ambrosia for
healing. Always
tastes of the
drinker’s favorite
food. At the
gods’ parties on
Mount Olympus,
both nectar and ambrosia
come out of golden
fountains.

REED PIPES STYGIAN DOG
The pan pipes played by WHISTLE
satyrs. Used for various A special dog whistle given
purposes including to Percy by Quintus so he
tracking and banishing
pests. See pages 49 and 50.

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could summon the friendly
hellhound Mrs. O’Leary in
an emergency. The whistle
was made of ice from the
River Styx, and very cold.
It shattered into shards of
ice when blown.

MIST YELLOW
Conjured by gods and DUFFEL BAGS
demigods in order to pull Three magical waterproof
the wool over mortal eyes. bags Hermes gave to
This prevents humans Percy, Annabeth and
from either seeing or Tyson for their
remembering events. sea journey.

WRISTWATCH SHIELD
A shield made for Percy
which expands from a
wristwatch when he pushes
the stopwatch button.

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AUTOMATA

COLCHIS BULLS ; SKELETON

Fiery metal bulls with WARRIORS

fist-sized rubies for eyes = Skeletal

and horns of polished ; warriors
silver. Breathe white-hot ■ conjured by

flame from their hinged ; Atlas to attack

metal mouths. Made : Percy and

by Hephaestus. ; the other

i demigods.

GUARDIANS

Two winged ; METAL SPIDER

bronze statues ; A silver disc that turns

at the Hoover = into a mechanical spider

Dam, who i at the press of a button

come to the ’ and guides Annabeth and

aid of Percy, ; Percy to the

Thalia, Grover, ; underground

and Zoe. ; forges of

: Hephaestus.

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TALOS
A bronze giant the size
of a skyscaper in Greek
battle armor. Discovered
by the demigods in the
junkyard of the gods and
eventually destroyed by
Bianca di Angelo.

MECHANICAL
STATUES
Statues in New York that
were brought to life by
Annabeth after studying
Daedalus’s ideas for
defending Manhattan
from attack. They are
automatons programmed
to activate each other
in a chain reaction.

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MORTALS WHO SEE THROUGH THE MIST

RACHEL ELIZABETH
DARE ►

Mortal girl whom Percy
encountered at the Hoover
Dam, and whose quick
thinking helped him escape
from the skeleton warriors.
Green-eyed, with frizzy
reddish-brown hair. Wears
large, ragged sweatshirts
and paint-stained jeans.
Rachel loves art and played
a key role in one quest,
ultimately finding her true
role in life in The Last
Olympian.

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DR. CHASE PAUL BLOFIS
Annabeth’s father. Bearded English teacher
A professor of military who fell in love with
history who collects old Percy’s mom, Sally
planes. Sandy-colored hair Jackson. Salt and pepper
and intense brown eyes. hair, denim clothes and
Helped Percy and Thalia leather jacket.
when they were trying to
rescue Annabeth. His old MORE CHARACTERS
plane came in handy.
PAN
MAY CASTELLAN Grover Underwood
Luke’s mother. After devoted much of his life to
having Luke with searching for the great god
Hermes, applied for a job Pan, just as his father and
which seriously affected uncle had before him. Pan
her mental health, and was a satyr who was the
has never been the same son of Hermes. He was
since. This was one reason lord of the wild, the god of
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and folk music. Pan of the world and the father
disappeared two thousand of Helios, the first sun god.
years ago and a sailor A warrior in golden armor
heard a voice calling out with miniature suns for
that he had died. The eyes, capable of exuding
satyrs looked up to Pan as blinding light.
their lord and master who
protected them and the PROMETHEUS T
wild places of the earth and
they refuse to believe he The Titan god of
really died. So the bravest forethought and crafty
satyrs in each generation counsel, fire-bringer and
continued the search for brother of Atlas.
him, hoping to wake him
from sleep.

◄ HYPERION

The lord of light and Titan
of the East - the most
powerful of the four Titans
who controlled the corners

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Prometheus made the first POLYPHEMUS
men out of clay and taught A fifteen-foot-tall Cyclops
them architecture, who lived in a cave on an *
astronomy, navigation, and island in the Sea of
medicine. He stole fire from Monsters. He owned a
the gods and gave it to the flock of fearsome
humans. Zeus punished carnivorous sheep, who
him by chaining him to a guarded the stolen Golden
rock where an eagle pecked Fleece which he used to
at him. He was eventually lure satyrs to his island.
freed by the hero Hercules. trap and eat them.

ATLAS MORPHEUS ►
A Titan who stood for The god of dreams and the
endurance. He rebelled son of Hypnos, the god
against Zeus and was of sleep. He sends images
condemned to hold up the to humans in dreams and
sky at the point at which it can shape people’s dreams.
first met the earth. Atlas He can also put whole
is Lord Kronos’s senior sections of a city into a
commander. dreamlike state.



PROPHECY

SEVEN HALF-BLOODS SHALL
ANSWERJTHE CALL.

To STORM ORJ^lRg THE WOR^D
MUST FALL.

AN OATH TO KEEP WITH A FINAL
BRgATH,

AND FOES BEAR^ARMS TO THE
DOORS OF DEATH.

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