Martin Rowess

Martin Rowess is a Greek demigod, the son of Hephaestus and a mortal woman. He was tasked with protecting a magic key by his father and ultimately died for it at six years of age.

**Series**

Martin is featured in the following series:

* Demigod Quest

**Early Life**

Not much is known about Martin's early life. He was a smart kid, able to plant landmines in his yard and link them to the end of a music box song. He has no mortal mother around and takes orders from Hephaestus, basically raising himself.

**Demigod Quest**

Demigod Quest #2, The Son of Fire: The demigods go to Reno and find Martin's little house in the middle of nowhere where he appears to live alone. He comes out of the house to give Libby a music box, which played "Tiny Dancer" then blew up several landmines he had planted around the house, nearly injuring the demigods. Heather goes in to find Martin, who explains that his father told him to protect the key with his life. Hal shows up and then Justice shows up, and Martin chooses death over giving Justice the key. He burns himself alive and explodes into a wave of fire.

Later, a half-phoenix, half-man shows up and attempts to kill them, but they realize that children of Hephaestus are reincarnated as phoenixes after death and this is actually Martin, not transformed correctly, and he communicates with Flare, Andy's phoenix, and Xena, Libby's owl. They give him back his goggles so he can see properly again. He wants his key back, so they give it to him. Martin then stabs the key into his own heart and explodes into fire and ashes, the key disappearing with his body as he leaves the ashes on the ground with the message that the demigods only have three more days to get to Alaska and finish this part of their mission.

**Personality**

Martin is determined, brave and outspoken, though still very much a child and wanting to have fun the way he should, but he put duty before anything else. He was incredibly smart and could invent and build just about anything, spectacular even by the standards of a child of Hephaestus.

**Appearance**

Martin is described as a small kid, around six, with a mop of brown hair, green eyes, and steampunk type goggles acting as his glasses. He generally wears grease stained overalls and baggy, patched clothes.

As the half-transformed phoenix man, he is a red and white, ten foot tall humanoid bird with a feathery chest and arms that were attached to red wings, but had human hands and a beak on a human face, and yellow eyes.

**Powers**

**Godly Parent**

* Fire
* Blacksmithing
* Metal
* Mechanics
* Phoenix Reincarnation

**Nymph Powers**

* Earth Manipulation

**Magical Items**

* Hephaestus's Key

**Friends and Enemies**

* Justice, Truth, Fear, Fates (enemies)

**Dream Cast**

\*as of 9/13/2020

* UNKNOWN

**Trivia**

* Martin basically raised himself.
* Martin was only six and a half when he died.
* Martin was willing to die to protect the key out of belief in his father, not knowing how important it really was.
* When the idea of a son of Hephaestus with the same name was created, he was going to be around 18 or 19 and was going to have generally the same personality and appearance.
	+ He was originally going to be a very important character in the series, but there were too many major characters in the series already with eight narrators as well as series regulars Ray Henry and Matt Trout and the return of Kit Thomas and Neal Lars for a short time, it felt as though there were too many characters that were joining in the quest, so Martin lasted a short time only.