List of characters in the Camp Half-Blood series

## Greek/Roman gods
* **Zeus/Jupiter** - King of the Gods, God of the Sky, Zeus is brother to Poseidon and Hades, uncle to Percy, father of Thalia, son of Kronos. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter, brother to Pluto and Neptune, and father to Jason. He is a principal character in the first book
* **Hera/Juno** - Hera is the Queen of the Gods and the Goddess of Marriage. Hera plays a small role in ''The Titan's Curse*
* **Aphrodite/Venus** - Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty. She is mentioned in *The Lightning Thief* and appears briefly in *The Titan's Curse''. Her children reside in Cabin 10 at Camp Half-blood. She is often shown wearing a red satin dress with her hair in long dark-brown waves, although her appearance is shown to change as Percy looks at her, matching every female he has ever had a crush on (one being Annabeth). She encourages Percy to pursue a quest for true love, and she is shown to have interest in Percy's feelings towards Annabeth and promises to make Percy's love life difficult. She appears again at the Council of the Gods and votes to let Percy live. Aphrodite is the last child of Ouranos. Aphrodite is also the mother of Piper McLean, one of the main characters in *The Lost Hero*, and changes her daughter's tomboyish appearance twice to make her more beautiful.
* **Apollo** - Apollo is the God of the Sun. The campers in Cabin 7 are his children. He drives a flying red convertible, a Maserati Spyder, that glows brightly like the sun. He appears to be about 18 or 19 years old and has sandy colored hair and dazzling white teeth. Apollo wears Ray-Ban sunglasses and sports an iPod. Percy notes that he looks similar to Luke, but less evil. He also loves to recite poetry, especially haikus; Percy describes them as so bad that he would rather be shot by an arrow than listen to one, but Zoe says his limerick days were much worse. Apollo helps Percy and his friends by flying them to Camp Half-Blood in ''The Titan's Curse* and later speeding up a train while being disguised as a homeless man.
* **Athena/Minerva** - The Goddess of Wisdom and Battle Strategy. She first appears in *The Titan's Curse'', where she is shown to dislike Percy and his relationship with Athena's daughter, Annabeth.
* **Hermes/Mercury** - The Messenger of the Gods and the God of travelers, Communication, and Thieves. He has nearly no role in the first book but is a significant character in the second book where he helps Percy by giving him a flask full of air, backpacks, and his special multi-vitamins, hoping that he will be able to rescue his son, Luke, who had joined the Titans.
* **East River** - The minor God of the East River. He only appears in *The Last Olympian*. He dislikes Percy and the Hudson River. Percy asks him to sink all of the Titan ships that come in his river, and splits the sand dollar his father gave him for his fifteenth birthday with East River and Hudson so they both agree to his request.
* **Nemesis** - The Goddess of Revenge and Balance. She never makes any actual appearances in the books, but she is the mother of Ethan Nakamura who appears in *The Battle of the Labyrinth* and *The Last Olympian*. Ethan mentions her in both *The Battle of the Labyrinth* and *The Last Olympian*.
* **Pan** - A Satyr who is the God of the Wild. Satyrs have been looking for him for two thousand years. He appears in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*. Once Percy and the others find Pan in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, Pan dies peacefully. She is notably much kinder and more beautiful in the spring and summer.
* **Phobos** - The God of Fear and the son of Ares. He appears in *Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot* in *The Demigod Files*. Later, it is revealed that he is the son of Kronos. Chiron is a centaur; his horse half is a white stallion.
* **Eurytion** - A worker of Geryon and the owner of Orthrus. He is usually seen with a huge club. He is a son of Ares. He is unenthusiastic about and later rebellious against working for Geryon. When Geryon is defeated, he starts planning to take over the Triple G ranch. He gives Annabeth a mechanical spider to find Hephaestus.
* **Phoebe** - The best tracker of Artemis' hunters. She hit the Stoll brothers with arrows in a game of Capture the Flag. She was supposed to go on the quest in''The Titan's Curse*, but the Stoll brothers (at the request of Aphrodite) gave her a poisoned (but non-lethal) shirt that prevented her from going. Percy ended up replacing her. She appears in *The Lost Hero''. The incident with the Stolls appears to have had a lasting effect on her; she appears to think that every boy wants to play a prank on her.
* **Zoë Nightshade** - The lead Huntress of Artemis. She is a daughter of the Titan General Atlas and the sea goddess Pleione. Percy later discovers she made his magic blade, Riptide. She uses a hunting knife and a bow as her weapons. She is a former Hesperide. but was blotted from history for aiding the half-blood Hercules in slipping past the dragon Ladon and obtaining a golden apple. Ultimately, a combination of Ladon's poison and her father's attacks kill her. In remembrance of her sacrifice, Artemis turns her into a constellation, "The Huntress."

## Demigods
* **Annabeth Chase** is a daughter of Athena. So, she is very intelligent. She is fascinated with architecture. In battle, she is a skilled enough fighter to fight along with Percy. She is very good in strategy. She ran away from home when she was seven and met Luke and Thalia, who took her with them to get to Camp Half-Blood. She aids Percy in four of his five quests and is captured in one of them. She is also Percy's girlfriend.
* **Bianca di Angelo** - A daughter of Hades, Nico's older sister, Percy, Thalia and Jason's cousin and later, a Huntress of Artemis. After Artemis is kidnapped in The ''Titan's Curse*, she undertakes the quest to rescue her alongside Percy Jackson, Grover, Thalia Grace, and Zoë Nightshade. She sacrifices herself, leading to her death in a short battle.
* **Butch** - The demigod son of Iris who first as said in the book to have appear in *The Lost Hero*. He is the counselor of the Iris Cabin. It is said he is the best equestrian at camp.
* **Castor** - The son of Dionysus and the twin brother of Pollux. Castor died at age 17 during the Battle of the Labyrinth when he was stabbed in the arm and hit on the head by an enemy demigod.
* **Charles Beckendorf** - A son of Hephaestus, known to be able to build almost anything. He is lead counselor for Cabin 9. He had a minor role in the first four books in the series, but has a larger role in *The Last Olympian*. Most members of Camp Half-Blood call him by his surname, Beckendorf. He sacrifices himself at the beginning of *The Last Olympian* to destroy the *Princess Andromeda'', a ship that was Kronos' headquarters, unaware that it was actually because of Silena (a spy on the camp) that he lost his life. 
* **Christopher** - The demigod son of Hephaestus who first appears in *The Lost Hero*.
* **Chris Rodriguez** - A half-blood son of Hermes (as shown in "Percy Jackson and The Olympians The Ultimate Guide") who had gone to Kronos's side until having gone completely insane in the Labyrinth. Clarisse finds him and brings him to camp where Dionysus makes him sane again. He later has a relationship with Clarisse.  The last one, Briares, was imprisoned by Kampê in the fourth book. There was also mentionings that his brothers Cottus and Gyges have faded due to people forgetting about them. His siblings are Kottos and Gyes. Like all other Hundred-Handed Ones, he has fifty different "faces" indicative of his moods.
* **Hellhounds** - Hellhounds are a main part of Luke's army and monsters in general. They are described as very large black dogs that have fire glowing in their eyes. They were also mentioned to reside in the Fields of Punishment. Daedalus owns a hound named Mrs. O'Leary, who, unlike her relatives, is loving and loyal. Supposedly he can easily guess how much money a person has. It is implied that, at least once, he hit Percy's mother. Grover later tells Percy that Sally (Percy's mother) married Gabe to protect Percy from monsters who would have tracked him down otherwise. He smelled so "repulsively human" that his smell hid Percy's demigod scent from monsters. If she had not married him, monsters would have found Percy sooner. At the end of Book 1, he is turned to stone by Percy's mother (using Medusa's severed head) and sold as a statue, "The Poker Player", earning lots of money in the process.
* **May Castellan** - Luke's mother who attempted to become the Oracle. Since Hades's power prevented her from taking it, she was driven crazy and instead received small glimpses of her son's terrible future. She made huge amounts of sandwiches, burnt cookies, and Kool-Aid for Luke, believing that someday he would return home. She also gave him a blessing to receive the curse of Achilles. It was shown that she had numerous clippings of Hermes from advertisements and many beanbag monsters sitting in the house and on the front lawn.
* **Dr. Frederick Chase** - Annabeth's father. He first appears in ''The Titan's Curse''. He allows Percy, Thalia and Zoë to borrow his car to drive to Mount Tamalpais (Mount Othrys). Annabeth's father is a professor of military history. During ''The Titan's Curse,* he was studying the Third Battle of Ypres. He owns a Sopwith Camel. He and his daughter had a lot of disagreements in the past, which is why she ran away home when she was seven years old. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons, Bobby and Matthew. In *The Titan's Curse*, he battles the monsters on the *Princess Andromeda'' with bullets melded with celestial bronze.
* **Mrs. Dare** - Rachel's mother. She briefly appears in *The Last Olympian*. She went to Clarion Ladies' Academy, a finishing school for society girls in New Hampshire, and wants Rachel to go there as well.
* **Paul "Blowfish" Blofis** - Sally Jackson's boyfriend and later husband, and thus Percy's stepfather. Percy and his mother reveal to Paul the truth, and at first he only half believes them. When Percy, Nico, and Mrs. O'Leary come unexpectedly into Sally's apartment, Paul fully believes, and thinks it's "awesome!". Paul turns out to be an excellent swordsman due to the fact that he was a Shakespearian actor in college and assists in the fight to save Olympus in *The Last Olympian*. He asks Percy for permission before proposing to Percy's mother.
* **Preacher** - A preacher who raised money supposedly for orphans and spent it instead on his mansion until he was caught by the police. He died in a police chase when he drove his "Lamborghini for the Lord" off a cliff. He was carried off to the Fields of Punishment by some wisecracks in the Greek Underworld.
* **Rachel Elizabeth Dare** - A clear-sighted mortal girl who is able to see through the Mist. She is first encountered by Percy during ''The Titan's Curse* as he flees from the skeletons summoned by Atlas. After mistaking her for a monster and realizing she is human, Percy discovers that she can see through the mist. She leads the skeletons away from Percy. Rachel goes to the same school as Percy in "The Battle of the Labyrinth," realizing that the cheerleaders are actually empousai. In *The Battle of the Labyrinth'', she aids Annabeth and Percy by guiding them through the labyrinth to Daedalus's workshop. From there she, Percy, Annabeth, and Nico escape, only to enter again to locate Grover and Tyson. She is present at the deathbed of Lord Pan and, like the others, takes part of his essence within her. By throwing her hairbrush at Kronos, she provided enough of a distraction for Percy to escape the Titan Lord's time manipulation. It is hinted throughout the series that she harbors romantic feelings for Percy. In *The Last Olympian*, she begins having strange visions and becomes the new Oracle of Delphi after Hades's curse is lifted, under the guidance of Chiron and Apollo. Her first act as the Oracle is to deliver the Great Prophecy of the next generation of heroes.
* **Sally Jackson** - The daughter of Jim and Laura Jackson. She is the mother of Percy and she was married to "Smelly" Gabe." She then turned him to stone with the head of Medusa, and married Paul Blofis in the fifth book. In the beginning of the series, it is indicated that Sally works at a candy shop called "Sweet on America" and said that she wanted to be an author when she was young. In the third book, Percy guesses that Sally can see through the Mist and he believes that this was probably the reason Poseidon took interest in her. In the first book, she was thought to be killed by the Minotaur. Later on, it was discovered that she survived and that she was still alive in the clutches of Hades. She was freed once Percy gave the Helm of Darkness (which was also stolen by Luke) to the Furies.
* **William Dare** - He is Rachel Elizabeth Dare's father, who first appears in *The Last Olympian*. He owns a land developing company and is very wealthy. His family lives in a mansion in Brooklyn, where Rachel lives on the top floor. Rachel hates her father because of his job, but he seems to care about her. He said that he and her mother had really been looking forward to the vacation, but, according to Rachel, they both hate the beach, and are just too stubborn to admit it. He supported Rachel's going to finishing school. He walked into Rachel's room in Percy's dream, wearing pajamas with "WD" monogrammed on the pocket.

## Names
Percy is one of the few demigods whose last name does not reflect his godly parent, though his first name does. Many of the campers at Camp Half-Blood have last names that consist of a traditional role or trait of their parent. Other last names are often commonplace: Rodriguez, Nakamura.
* Percy Jackson: "Percy" is a nickname for Perseus, Percy's real name, who was a son of Zeus. Percy's godly parent is Poseidon.
* Annabeth Chase Jackson: "Annabeth" is an anagram of Athena with a couple of extra letters. Also, "Chase" is a near homonym to "Chaste". Daughter of Athena.
* Clarisse La Rue: "Clarisse" is an anagram of Ares with extra letters. Also, to rue is to regret something. 
* Grover Underwood: Without the suffix "r" Grover's name is "Grove" referring to The Wild. Also, Underwood contains the word "wood" referring to trees. He is a Satyr, worshipper of Pan, the god of The Wild.
* Bianca and Nico di Angelo: "d'Angelo" means "of the angels", referring to death. Children of Hades. Their first names are versions of the sibling goddesses Bia and Nike.
* Connor and Travis Stoll: Homonym to "stole". Hermes is the god of thieves. Children of Hermes. Percy himself pointed this out but neither of the Stoll brothers understood the joke. As well, Con, shortened from Connor, is another word for scam or trickery, as Hermes is the god of trickery. Travis can be seen connected to the word travel, and Hermes is also the god of travelers.
* Jake Mason: A mason works with stone. Son of Hephaestus.
* Katie Gardner: alternate spelling of "gardener". Daughter of Demeter.
* Pollux and Castor (last name never revealed): Pollux is the name of a demigod son of Zeus. Castor was the name of this demigod's twin brother (but, he was the son of their mortal father). In the Myth, Castor died, foreshadowing his death in the book. Twins of Dionysus.
*Charles Beckendorf: Char is another word for burn. Son of Hephaestus, god of fire.
* Lee Fletcher: to "fletch" is to add feathers to an arrow. Son of Apollo. And it may, also, be a reference to Lee Adama, a character from the TV series Battlestar Galactica, who was known by Captain Apollo.
* Michael Yew: yew is a type of wood used to make longbows. Also a son of Apollo.
* Silena Beauregard: literally, "beauregard" means "good to look at" in French, the language of love. Daughter of Aphrodite.
* Will Solace: The prefix "Sol" is the Roman name for Helios, also "sol" often refers to the Sun, and Apollo drives the sun chariot. Solace also means comfort or consolation during a time of sadness. Since Apollo is the god of medicine, and since people are distressed when in pain, this is an appropriate name. Son of Apollo.
* Thalia Grace: In mythology Thalia is the name of one of the Charites, also called the Graces. Daughter of Zeus.
* Leo Valdez: "Leo" is the Greek word for "lion", but it could refer to Leonardo da Vinci, an inventor and artist, among other things. Son of Hephaestus, god of technology, craftsmen, artisans, etc.
* Piper McLean: In *The Lost Hero*, Piper reveals that her Grandpa Tom named her Piper because she had a beautiful voice even as a baby. The name Piper means "pipe player". The beautiful voice might be a reference to the fact that she has the Charmspeaking ability, the ability to persuade someone to do things, a power few children of Aphrodite have. Daughter of Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty.
* Jason Grace: To appease Hera, Zeus named Jason after Hera's favorite hero, Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. Son of Jupiter (Zeus), Champion of Juno (Hera).
* Frank Zhang: Zhang, in Chinese, means, "drawing a bow", a weapon. Son of Mars (Ares).
* Hazel Levesque: Levesque means "bishop", who at normally related to choosing whether you go to heaven or hell. Daughter of Pluto (Hades).

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