Carter Kane

**Carter Kane** (brother)

Amos Kane (paternal-uncle)

Mr. Faust (maternal grandfather) & Mrs. Faust (maternal grandmother)

Narmer (paternal ancestor) Ramesses II (maternal ancestor) Setne (maternal relative)

## Equipment

### Item(s)

* Tools of a Magician
* Crook and Flail

**Carter Kane** is the eldest child and only son of Julius and Ruby Kane and elder brother of Sadie Kane. After the death of his mother at the age of eight, he spent the next six years traveling the globe with his father and living out of a suitcase. He would visit his maternal grandparents and Sadie twice a year in London, with the siblings each envying each other’s lives. When he was fourteen, Carter became aware of the House of Life and he and Sadie brought back a long forbidden form of magic. Carter later becomes the Pharaoh of the House of Life and is one of the three most powerful magicians in the world.

## Personality

Carter Kane is very protective of his family and friends and would do anything to ensure their safety. He tends to be a gentleman because of the way his dad had raised him, and is usually thinking of how to solve their next problem. He is funny and usually stammers around girls. He mostly thinks outside the box and puts others' lives before his own.

He's shown to be much more disciplined and mature than his sister, obeying his father and the rules as well as thinking before he acts.

While lacking self-confidence in himself, Carter is a natural leader, something that he grows into over the course of the series. After learning his secret name, Sadie saw the trait of leadership woven very clearly into his character to the point where Sadie was confident in his ability to lead when before she would have feared it. His leadership is noted by several characters including Amos Kane and Ra who both push Carter to become the first Pharaoh in thousands of years. In Ra's case, he states that its Carter's destiny to become the leader of the gods and magicians and shows great faith in him, agreeing with Sadie that Carter is up to the task.

## Appearance

Carter is an African American teenager. He used to have short, curly brown hair, but it grew out messily as the series progressed, and brown eyes.
When Carter was traveling with his father he 'dressed like a junior professor,' with crisp dress shirts and khakis. He eventually started to wear more casual fashion (jeans, t-shirts, hoodies etc.).

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Egyptian Magic**: Carter is a very powerful magician. He has more experience than the initiates of the other Nomes, and his progress is quickened due to the Path of the Gods. Several gods and magicians have commended him for his immense magical powers and combat prowess. Carter's specialty is combat magic although he uses other types of magic from the Path of Horus to fight as well. However, his skill in areas other than combat magic is rather limited due to his lack of proper training and those kinds of magic not being his specialty. Over time, Carter has gotten better at using other forms of magic, but his skill still tends to be lacking and rudimentary at best, causing Carter to usually prefer to leave such tasks to others such as Sadie or Walt Stone.
	+ **Duat Usage**: After some instructions from Bast on how to create a space in the Duat, Carter is able to store any of his things in his locker. His combination is revealed to be 13/32/33 (taken from retired Lakers). By concentrating harder, Carter can also use the Duat to retrieve something he has lost, like his *khopesh*, although he can not always summon it back. Carter has become good enough to instinctively summon his sword at Set's presence, something the god of evil commended him for. With the power of Horus, such as when using combat magic, Carter can dispatch powerful demons like the Set animal to the Duat, something that impressed Bast given the amount of energy such a feat took.
	+ **Execration**: When working with his sister at least, Carter is capable of casting an execration. Working with Sadie, Horus and Isis, Carter can cast a shadow execration powerful enough to destroy Apophis himself.
	+ **Communication**: By giving someone the Eye of Horus symbol, that person can contact him simply by calling his name wherever he is and he can find them. It is unknown if he can communicate back with others this way, but can at least be contacted like this.
	+ **Hieroglyphic Spells**: Although he is not very proficient in this, Carter can do certain hieroglyphic spells. He can bring a bird to life, summon a knife, cause cameras to blink and diffusing technology. However, Carter himself states heis sister, Carter is not adept at summoning portals and has only used them once in the whole series. After finding out that Sadie was in trouble, Carter and Walt used a portal at the Brooklyn Museum to transport themselves to London. Carter mentions that it took a lot of effort and openly showcased his dislike for portals. This was never used again by Carter in the whole series. At one point, Bast tells Carter that portal summoning just isn't in his area of expertise as a combat magician so it may not be entirely his fault.
	+ **Surveillance Magic**: Carter displayed the ability to use surveillance magic and lower his vision into the Duat. He used this when heading towards Thoth's base in Memphis and found the demons attacking him to be connected to Apophis through red coils of Chaos energy. He also realized that Thoth was trapped there and his magic was being blocked from leaving his pyramid. Whilst using surveillance magic, he saw Thoth in his ancient animal-headed form. Carter can also tap into the power of Horus to increase his surveillance magic and expand his senses greatly.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Carter has the power to move things without touching them. He first displays this when he opens the front door of Brooklyn House by extending his hand and the door lifts up, following his movements. He later uses it to open the door of his dormitory in the First Nome. After releasing Horus, Carter can still use telekinesis to move statues, ceiling beams etc. although it requires more effort. Later, Carter uses telekinesis to evaporate the water surrounding Zia Rashid's tomb. By channeling the power of Horus, Carter's telekinesis becomes much stronger and he is even able to part the Nile, destroying water demons attacking him and Bes. As the Eye of Horus, Carter can use telekinesis to summon his sword to his hand. Carter's telekinesis is also amplified with the crook and flail of Ra, enabling him to force gods such as Babi and Nekhbet to bow, pledge their allegiance to him and deflect Kwai's powerful storm magic despite being in a weakened state. He later uses it with a magic rope to effortlessly deflect a stream of fire the near-immortal Setne sends at him. Though its not necessary, Carter generally channels his telekinesis through his weapons rather than his hands although he can do both.
	+ **Transformation**: Carter can transform other people into animals. As the Eye of Horus, Carter can forcefully transform even gods of immense power, like Set, into fruit bats for several seconds. Carter himself has experienced a forceful transformation twice: When he faced Thoth's magicians and was morphed into a lizard and when he faced Menshikov and the latter tried to transform him into a serpent although Carter's combat avatar provided a resistance to it. After demerging with Horus and low on energy, Carter was able to transform Amos Kane into a hamster so that he could use his falcon form to fly him away from the Washington Monument. However, when Amos started fighting it soon after, Carter had to land and let him transform back, not being able to maintain the transformation.
* **Path of the Gods**: Carter is both the former host and later Eye of Horus, but chose to give up the god's power until he understood it better. His progress was enhanced thanks to the divine magic from the Path of the Gods, allowing Carter to utilize Horus' power for his own.
	+ **Animal Charming (limited)**: Due to following the Path of Horus, Carter can exert a certain level of control over the war god's sacred animals. He discovers this ability when he yells at the rampaging griffin Freak and who momentarily pauses before resuming his attack when Carter fails to give him any more orders. Using *ha-tep*, Carter was able to force the griffin to calm down and tame Freak to his will. Afterwards, Freak became loyal to Carter who can command the griffin and seemingly understand what he means to an extent.
	+ **Chop of Horus**: After fusing with Horus a second time, Carter displayed use of a karate chop with the power of Horus and it was able to destroy slabs of stone trapping Bes. However, due to his inexperience with it, Carter broke a few bones in his hand.
	+ **Combat Avatar**: By channeling the power of Horus, Carter can summon the war god's combat avatar; a glowing blue twenty-feet-tall hawk-headed warrior with a blade of energy, which mirrors Carter's *khopesh*. Whilst using the hawk warrior, Carter has tremendous strength, endurance, durability, and Horus' aptitude with weapons. With combat magic, Carter rivals experienced magicians, magicians hosting gods, and even gods themselves. Carter was able to send the Set animal to the Duat in this form and was later complimented by Bast for his feat. The only weakness is that Carter's speed is drastically reduced and he cannot use combat magic for a very long time as it depletes his magical reserves. Whilst in the Duat, instead of being encased in it, Carter himself transforms into the hawk warrior since magic flows more strongly there.
	+ **Controlled Ba Travel**: As the Eye of Horus, Carter can send his *ba* to the throne room of the gods and summon them to combat. He can also change his appearance although the gods see him as Horus the Avenger.
	+ **Enhanced Abilities**: With the power of Horus, Carter can summon the physical abilities of the war god into himself. Carter describes his skin turning as thick as steel and his muscles becoming as powerful as hydraulic pistons. In this augmented state, Carter's strength is able to rival the Apis Bull's and he has mentioned that he can easily smash the massive dining table at Brooklyn House to pieces. Carter also becomes fast enough to match the Apis Bull's charge. In this enhanced state, Carter also has the eyesight of a falcon and his reflexes are increased. As the Eye of Horus, Carter was able to carve a path for him and Sadie with his immense strength although the entire tunnel collapsed as a result.
	+ **Falcon Transformation**: Carter could transform into a falcon, since it was Horus' sacred animal. Due to being the host of Horus, Carter could stay transformed longer although had greater difficulty morphing back. He was able to, at one point, transform directly from his falcon form into his combat avatar though it took more energy. He was able to, at one point, transform directly from his falcon form into his combat avatar though it took more energy. As a falcon, Carter has sharper senses and receives a massive boost in speed, becoming tremendously fast. He'll sometimes retain falcon feathers after battle which he states is due to some transformations being messy, indicating that transformations done in haste can leave remnants behind.
	+ **Fist of Horus**: This spell summons the fist of his combat avatar. Carter used this with sympathetic magic and can also use the Fist of Horus by speaking *khefa*, the Divine Word for 'fist'. It was able to hurl Set away, although it did not do any damage, and break the magic-augmented doors of Menshikov's palace. Carter speaks *Ha-wi*, the Divine Word for 'Strike', and summons the Fist of Horus to repel Bloodstained Blade.
	+ **Horus Communication**: Even after releasing him, Carter is able to converse with Horus, which started after the war god spoke to him in the Duat. The better he becomes at channeling Horus, the stronger their mental communication is. Their communication is now so good that when Setne tried to use his magical persuasion on Carter, Horus was able to warn the latter. Carter can also get help from Horus on using divine magic although the war god usually only assists in emergency situations.
	+ **Seals**: Carter had the ability to put seals on doors and gates to enforce them with power. These doors or gates are imprinted with the Eye of Horus. This seal isn't tremendously strong and it only works for a short while.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Wand**: After getting himself a new kit in the First Nome, Carter used his wand until his encounter with the water demons. He later used his wand from his father's tool kit and is still using it. He can summon a shield of force around himself, by focusing his will. By thrusting his wand, Carter can send walls of energy into his opponents. Carter can also send a burst of magic into anything his wand is in contact with to shock them although this does not apply to demigods. This is Carter's main defensive weapon.
* **Julius Kane's Kit**: Once his father, Julius, became Osiris' host, Carter kept his magician kit so as to protect his memory. He later stows the kit in his Duat locker, but takes his father's wand to replace his own lost one.
* **Crook and Flail**: Once he lost his *khopesh* and wand, Carter used the crook and flail of Ra in a brief fight against Menshikov. Before that, Carter used them to shatter the dazed Zia's staff by making an X formation. By lashing the crook and flail through the air and using his mind, he can direct a telekinetic force towards his enemies, which becomes more effective whilst using combat magic. Additionally, because the flail channels Ra's power, Carter has limited fire magic such as summoning columns of fire and setting the flail on fire. Carter was even able to injure Apophis after he attacked him in a rage with the flail, causing three burn marks to appear on the Serpent's neck that did not heal. Carter was allowed to keep these by Ra after the battle.

### Weapons

* **Khopesh**: After taking a khopesh from Brooklyn House, it became Carter's main offensive weapon. Carter loses it in Luxor although retrieves it during his fight with the Set animal. He continues to use this khopesh until getting bitten by the *tjesu heru.* He uses a new khopesh although loses it again in the fight with a massive hippo demon. Carter has gotten a new khopesh and is currently using it. Carter can also use his khopesh to set up a blue shielding spell by stabbing his sword into the ground and channeling his magic through it.

## Etymology

* ***Carter*** is a masculine given name of Old English origins meaning "one who transports goods".
* ***Kane*** is an Irish surname meaning "war like".

## Trivia

* Carter does not dream in color, rather he dreams in black, white, and various shades of gray.
* Carter has had a fear of Scorpions since he found one in his shoe when he was younger.
* Carter's birthday is in June.
* Carter is named after Howard Carter, the explorer who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb.
* Carter generally prefers to use weapons over spells, except the occasional Divine Word. He also shows a lack of knowledge or ability to perform some tasks asked of him, attributing it to being a combat magician, such as when Bes asks him to part the Nile, which Bes calls "basic stuff." However, as shown with his and Sadie's Shadow Execration, Carter is as capable as his sister of performing complex spells with enough time and practice with each spell.
* Carter's tendency to channel his powers and spells through his weapons rather than simply using them regularly is similar to Thalia Grace who often channels her powers through her weapons.
* Despite being obsessed with the LA Lakers, Carter is shown to be terrible at playing basketball. However, Khufu agrees to give him lessons and he gets better.