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In the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth, he plants a sprig of moonlace in Manhattan, fulfilling his promise to her to plant a garden at his home.
In The Last Olympian, he says that Calypso should be excused and released.
Rachel Elizabeth Dare: Even though Percy is not known to love Rachel, it is known that she likes him.
Percy was unsure about having a crush on Rachel and never truly admits it.
His feelings were mixed mainly because of his feelings towards Annabeth.
In time, his growing feelings for Annabeth stopped him from ever developing a relationship with Rachel.
In The Last Olympian, Rachel kisses Percy in Paul's Prius right before he sets off to the Princess Andromeda, where it was very likely he could have died.
On Olympus, Rachel tells Percy that he was just a distraction for her.
She tells him that they can never be together because she took on the spirit of the oracle, restricting her from dating.
Percy thinks of this as Rachel "dumping" him but takes it very lightly and says he intends to continue to be friends with her.
Relationship with Olympians
Poseidon: Percy is on good terms with Poseidon primarily because he is his son.
At the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth, Poseidon states that Percy is his favorite son.
Poseidon even forgives Percy for sitting on his throne in The Last Olympian.
Poseidon states that not even Hercules is as good a hero as him.
Zeus: Zeus, the king of the Gods, has mixed feelings for Percy.
He is upset over Percy's birth because it violates the pact that he, Poseidon, and Hades made after World War Two to not bear any more children, but is pleased when Percy returns his Master Bolt to him in The Lightning Thief.
During the winter solstice in The Titan's Curse, Zeus votes to let Percy live, but this may have been tied to the fate of his own daughter, Thalia, as well.
However, Thalia had agreed to become one of Artemis' Hunters before this, so it is possible that this may not have mattered.
In spite of all of this, Zeus tells Percy that if he ever finds him in his realm (the sky), he will strike him down.
After Percy fights in the battle at the end of The Last Olympian, Zeus offers Percy godhood, and therefore immortality, for saving Olympus from the Titans.
Hades: Hades, the lord of the underworld, has mixed feelings about Percy.
Percy previously accuses him of stealing Zeus' Master Bolt when it was in fact Luke who stole it.
Later however, he returns to Hades his Helm of Darkness and clears his name of all charges pressed against him.
In The Last Olympian, Hades is shown assisting Percy during the war, even talking with his son, Nico, who also has a decent relationship with Percy, afterwards.
When mentioned by Percy during his decision of rejecting immortality, Hades is shown casually addressing him, with none of the malice that he normally shows throughout the series.
Ares: The god of war dislikes Percy.
His hatred for Percy only intensifies when Percy defeats him in a duel in The Lightning Thief.
It is dangerous for Percy that they are on bad terms because Ares, being the god of war, thinks highly of revenge and is quite violent.
Ares puts a curse on Percy, saying that when he needs his sword the most, it will fail him.
He only goes along with granting Percy godhood because he can fight him as many times as he wants and Percy will just keep coming back.
Athena: The goddess of wisdom, war, strategy, industry, justice and skill disapproves of Percy's friendship with her daughter Annabeth because of the historical rivalry between herself and Poseidon, but Percy has not done anything against her directly.
In The Titan's Curse, she may have helped to guide him at the Hoover Dam.
However, in the same book, she also voted that he be destroyed.
In The Last Olympian, Athena is on good terms with Percy, with the exception of his relationship with Annabeth.
Hera: the goddess of women,marriage and family, neither likes nor dislikes Percy.
Near the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth he and Annabeth both disagree with her views of families having to be perfect, siding with Hephaestus on the matter instead, even though Hera helped them numerous times in the book.
Percy also insults her by mentioning Thalia, one of Zeus' children not borne by her, whom Hera historically despises, along with Hercules.
She swears to make Annabeth regret her decision, much like Ares did to Percy, but it is not directly stated whether she included Percy in this statement.
She makes Ares write a thank you letter to Poseidon for saving Olympus, revealing that she may care for him.
Dionysus (aka "Mr. D"): Percy primarily has been on Mr. D's bad side from the very second they met.
Percy does not like Dionysus very much either, for he constantly antagonizes Percy (and all other demigods, for that matter) by never calling them by their real names (preferring to call him "Peter Johnson" or "Perry Johansson"), but he saves Percy's life in The Titan's Curse.
One of the other reasons he may dislike half-bloods is because of the way they treat mortals; he mentions Theseus and Ariadne, Jason and Medea, and alludes to Hercules and Zoё Nightshade in The Titan's Curse, mentioning how the former in all three cases used and later abandoned the latter.
However, at the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth, their relationship comes to better terms after one of Dionysus' sons dies in the final battle.
Dionysus believes Grover's news of Pan's death, disbands the Council of Cloven Elders when they are at a tie, and cures Chris Rodriguez, a previous traitor half-blood, of the madness he obtained in the Labyrinth.
Most shockingly, he calls Percy by his real name, although he later denies this.
They are on much better terms by the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth.
Although Dionysus denies this, he favours Percy with his judgement, help, and advice, more than any other god in the series.
This may be proof that Dionysus is acknowledging Percy, and that their relationship is improving.
Hephaestus: Is grateful to Percy for having discovered who was using his forge under Mt. St. Helens, even though he causes an eruption that destroyed the forge and awakened Typhon (who had been imprisoned under it), but also dispersed and/or killed the users.
At the end of the 5th book, Hephaestus said that Percy had done a 'Pretty bang up job, mostly'.
Historically, Hephaestus and Poseidon have close ties in the terms of the Cyclopes who work for both of them.
Artemis: Percy is on Artemis' good side since he helped find and save her in The Titan's Curse.
She even declared him a hero in the halls of Olympus itself and started calling him a man rather than a boy after he helped her defeat Atlas.
His respect for Zoë Nightshade, and his deep loyalty, regardless of gender, has also improved her view of him.
Hermes: Percy is on good terms with Hermes, who convinced him to go on a quest in The Sea of Monsters and gave him magic items to assist him in his journey.
He also explained the relationship between gods and heroes to him.
Their relationship took a turn for the worse after realizing that Percy could not save Luke and Hermes grew bitter to all heroes.
But after the war, their relationship was mended upon Percy's counseling and sympathy of Luke's situation and prophecy as well as how powerless Hermes was, on some occasions, when somebody includes Luke Castellan, Hermes gets mad at that person.
Aphrodite: Aphrodite is on Percy's good side, probably because she is intrigued by Percy's desire to save Annabeth.
She expressed an interest in their relationship, meaning that she plans to meddle with it in some way.
She also said she would make Percy's love life hard, just because she likes him.
The way she meddled with it was by making Percy meet Rachel and causing him to be confused about Annabeth.
Apollo: Apollo treats Percy like a younger cousin (which he is).
The sun god helped Percy twice in The Titan's Curse so that they could save Artemis, his sister.
Being the god of prophecy, he also told Percy how important dreams could be.
Demeter: Demeter and Percy have a poor relationship due to Percy's lack of respect towards her.
Hestia: Percy and Hestia have a good relationship.
In The Last Olympian, Percy entrusts her with Pandora's pithos that contains the spirit of hope, Elpis, saying that "hope is best kept by the hearth".
This helps mend her anger towards the gods for giving her a small role, as well as her perception of demigods, which Kronos had used to bring many of the minor gods to his side.
She also helps him and shows him the stories of Luke.
Official Percy Jackson Site
The iPad is a small tablet computer made by Apple Inc. Apple first showed it on January 27 2010.
It is larger than a smartphone and smaller than a laptop computer.
It has a multiple touch interface (use two or more fingers to do certain things).
It is different than a laptop in that it doesn't have a keyboard.
Instead, it has a "virtual keyboard" using the touch screen, and a physical keyboard can be added.
It doesn't have Adobe Flash.
This keeps it from crashing, but some websites will not display correctly.
Until iOS 9, also you cannot have multiple windows open at the same time and drag and drop things between them.
Apple made an early version of a tablet computer in 1993 called the Newton MessagePad.
It had similar functions to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad except it didn't have advanced things like the internet or a voice program.
Apple stopped making Newtons in 1998.
Apple re-entered the mobile device market in 2007 when the iPhone was released.
Some of the iPhone's features are based on the Newton.
By the end of 2009, rumors about the iPad had been around for several years, and on January 27, 2010 Steve Jobs announced the iPad.
It was not the first tablet to be sold, but it was the first one to sell in large numbers.
It also was the first one that was controlled almost entirely by fingers touching the screen.
Many of the earlier tablets (and PDAs, or personal digital assistants) used a lot of buttons or a stylus to control the tablet.
Later models
Apple announced the iPad 2 on March 2, 2011 and it was released on March 11, 2011.
It had a new sleeker design and had a front and back video camera.
It was also a lot thinner and had curved edges because people were complaining that the first gen iPad made their hands sore.
On March 16, 2012 Apple released the iPad 3.
It kept the iPad 2's design but was slightly thicker and was the first iPad to have a retina screen for a sharper picture.
It has 50% more pixels than a standard HDTV screen.
On November 2, 2012, Apple released the iPad 4 which featured an A6 processor, a new connector called Lightning which replaces the old 30 pin dock connector, and an updated FaceTime camera.
They also released a new iPad called the iPad Mini which featured a 7.9 inch screen instead of the normal 9.7 inch screen, though it didn't have a retina display.
On October 22, 2013, the new iPad Air was announced which looked like the iPad Mini but still had the full size screen.
It also had the newer A7 processor that the iPhone 5s had.
At the same time, a new version of the iPad mini was announced that had the better Retina display.
On October 16, 2014, the iPad Air 2 was announced along with the iPad Mini 3.
The iPad Air 2 has a thinner design than the iPad Air and has new features, such as a better camera and a Touch ID fingerprint reader.
The iPad Mini 3 has the same design as the iPad Mini 2, but has a better camera and also has the Touch ID fingerprint reader that the iPad Air 2 has.
On September 9, 2015, Apple announced a new version of the iPad, the iPad Pro.
It comes with either a 12.9 inch and a 9.7 inch screen and the A9X processor.
Apple made a hardware keyboard that plugs into its side, and a stylus pen, the Apple Pencil, that can be used to draw on the screen as if it was a piece of paper.
On October 30, 2018, Apple announced the new update to their iPad Pro line.
The update showcased the thinnest iPad ever, at 5.7mm thin, an improved processor, dubbed the A12x processor, a larger screen, and FaceID support.
The screen uses Apple's all new liquid LED technology, first seen in the 2018 released iPhone XR.
The new iPad Pro's also came with a slew of accessories, including a brand new Smart Keyboard, Apple Pencil, and multiple cases.
Apple also changed the charging system from their long used Lighting connector, for a USB-C charger.
Apple's new iPad Pro line come in two sizes.
Galaxy Tab
Microsoft Surface Tablet
It uses the general structure of a computer programming language, but omits details that are required by machines to execute the code.
The primary purpose of writing pseudocode is to enable humans to understand the computer program or algorithm without having to understand the programming language.
Pseudocode does not follow the syntax and grammar of any specific computer programming language.
Variable declarations are generally omitted.
Function calls and blocks of code, such as code for a loop, are often replaced by a one-line natural language sentence.
FOR I FROM 1 TO 50:
PRINT I
SET X = 1
FOR I FROM 1 TO 16:
PRINT X
SET X = X * 2
define AND(A, B) do
if A then
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The University of Central Florida is the biggest university in the state of Florida, and the second-biggest in the entire United States.
It also has more undergraduate students than any other single campus in the U.S. It is located in Orlando, one of the most popular places to visit in the entire world.
Living in such an exciting city makes the University of Central Florida very attractive to students who want to get jobs or internships nearby.
Sometimes the University of Central Florida's name is shortened to UCF, especially when talking about the school's sports teams.
UCF was founded in 1969 and has continued growing ever since.
A CAPTCHA is a test that is used to separate humans and machines.
CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."
It is normally an image test or a simple mathematics problem which a human can read or solve, but a computer cannot.
It is made to stop computer hackers from using a program to automatically set up hundreds of accounts, such as email accounts.
It is named after mathematician Alan Turing's Turing test.
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free software license created by the Free Software Foundation.
It is similar to the GNU General Public License and is also an open source license.
It's mostly used for "library" software (meaning parts of other software), with the license name formerly meaning Library General Public License.
LGPL Official Page
Waterloo Maple Inc. (Maplesoft) is a Canadian software company.
They are in Waterloo, Ontario.
They are most well known for creating the Maple computer algebra system.
Maplesoft Corporate Website
Symbolic Computation Group website
In some operating systems, the null device is a device file that ignores anything written to it but returns that the write worked.
This device is called /dev/null on Unix and Unix-like systems, NUL: or NUL on CP/M and DOS (internally \DEV\NUL), nul on newer Windows systems (internally \Device\Null on Windows NT), NIL: on Amiga systems, and NL: on OpenVMS.
In Windows Powershell, the equivalent is $null.
It returns nothing to any process that reads from it, returning EOF immediately.
In IBM DOS/360, OS/360 (MFT, MVT), OS/390 and z/OS operating systems, such files would be assigned in JCL to DD DUMMY.
Magenta rose is a color that is a representation of the color of a particular type of rose called a magenta rose, which can come in various tones of magenta or rose.
The first recorded use of magenta rose as a color name in English was in 1927.
Meaning of magenta rose
The color magenta rose represents the flower called a magenta rose.
The color magenta rose may represent Valentine's Day since the colors rose and magenta (as well as red) are used to represent Valentine's Day.
Thus, the color magenta rose may represent romantic love.
Tones of magenta rose color comparison chart
Light Pink Lace (Xona.com color list "Pink Lace Light") (Hex: #FFF1FB) (RGB: 255, 241, 251)
Lavender Rose (Hex: #FBA0E3) (RGB: 251, 160, 227)
Persian Pink (www.99colors.net) (Maerz & Paul) (Hex: #F77FBE) (RGB: 247, 127, 190)
Hot Pink (web color)(Hex: #FF69B4) (RGB: 255, 105, 180)
French Pink (Pink (pourpre.com)) (Hex: #FD6C9E) (RGB: 253, 108, 158)
French Rose (Maerz & Paul) (Hex: #F64A8A) (RGB: 246, 74, 138)
Violet Red (Crayola) (Hex: #F7468A) (RGB: 247, 70, 138)
Wild Strawberry (Crayola)  (Hex: #FF3399) (RGB: 255, 51, 153)
Fluorescent Pink (Crayola Twistable colored pencils) (Hex: #FF008F) (RGB: 255, 0, 143)
Brilliant Rose (Crayola "Magenta") (Hex: #F653A6) (RGB: 246, 83, 166)
Bright Magenta Rose (Hex: #FC51AF) (RGB: 252, 81, 175)
Rose Bon Bon (Pourpre.com) (Hex: #F9429E) (RGB: 249, 66, 158)
Persian Rose (Maerz & Paul) (Hex: #FE28A2) (RGB: 254, 40, 162)
Vivid Persian Rose (Hex: #FF1CB1) (RGB: 255, 28, 177)
MAGENTA ROSE (Hex: #FF00AF) (RGB: 255, 0, 175)
Shocking Pink (Elsa Schiaparelli) (Hex: #FC0FC0) (RGB: 252, 15, 192)
Hot Magenta (Crayola) (Hex: #FF00CC) (RGB: 255, 0, 204)
Purple Pizzaz (Crayola) (Hex: #FE4EDA) (RGB: 254, 78, 218)
Amaranth  Magenta (Hex: #ED3CCA) (RGB: 237, 60, 202)
Rich Magenta Rose (Hex: #E010A8) (RGB: 224, 16, 168)
Deep Magenta Rose (Hex: #C120A2) (RGB: 193, 32, 162)
<li style = "background-color: #b55489;"> Fandango (Maerz & Paul) (Hex: #B55489) (RGB: 181, 84, 137)
Shades of magenta
Shades of pink
Grover Underwood is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
He is a satyr, a mythological Greek being that is half goat and half human.
He has the upper body of a human and the legs and horns of a goat.
He uses fake feet when he wants to look like a human.
His horns are usually hidden by his curly brown hair (although they do eventually grow too tall for him to hide them) and sometimes an orange rasta cap.
Although he is 32 years old, he is like a sixteen year-old human because satyrs age half as fast as humans do.
Grover is played by Brandon T. Jackson in the movies Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters the film adaptations of the first and second books in the series, The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters.
Grover is the best friend of Percy Jackson.
He is also a satyr, which means he has the upper body of a human and the legs of a goat.
He has an empathy link with Percy.
This means if one of them dies, the other will probably die, too (or that they will be left forever in a vegetative state, where they are asleep and never wake up).
Grover gets afraid easily.
When this happens, his eyes turn into slits like a goat's.
He starts eating furniture and tin cans .
He always tries to defend his friends.
He is very loyal.
Grover also can deal with dangerous situations well.
An example would be when he was kidnapped by Polyphemus the Cyclops.
He likes enchiladas.
He is afraid of rabbits (which Thalia calls his "bunny phobia")
Grover loves nature very much and hates pollution because he is a satyr.
He secretly loves Artemis, the goddess of the hunt.
He says, "She's so...into nature."
He also likes to be near the Hunters of Artemis.
Grover's girlfriend is a nymph named Juniper.
They are first seen together in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
He helps out animals.
He can also talk to them.
Grover likes to look for Pan, the god of the wild.
He is also afraid of cyclopes.
Grover the satyr and a keeper, goes undercover at Yancy Academy as a disabled student in order to discover if there bloods who attend to kill crips because most half-bloods have AD-HD and dyslexia and can do special things.
There he discovers Percy Jackson, a half-blood, and alerts Mr. Brunner the Latin teacher, who turns out to be Chiron, Camp Half-Blood's activities director.
Grover reveals his satyr form to Percy when the Jacksons go to a beach house in Montauk, New York before they are attacked by a minotaur.
He accompanies Percy along with Annabeth Chase, Athena's daughter, on a quest to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's stolen Master Lightning Bolt.
At the end of the book Grover gets his searchers license to go look for Pan, the god of the Wild.
In The Sea of Monsters, Grover is searching for the lost god Pan, god of the Wild, when he is captured by Polyphemus the Cyclops.
Grover is trapped in a bridal boutique, mistaken for a female Cyclops and is taken to Polyphemus's lair in the Sea of Monsters, where he creates the empathy link between him and Percy.
In his dreams, Percy sees how Grover is trapped by Polyphemus, the blind cyclops that once held Odysseus captive, and is about to meet the same gruesome ending as all satyrs before him, including his father, who went searching for Pan.
Along with Annabeth and Percy's half brother Tyson, Percy journeys on an unapproved quest to find Grover.
At the end, the Golden Fleece (a powerful healing item) releases Thalia's spirit from the pine tree that kept it.
Grover is undercover once again, this time at a military school, where he discovers two children, Nico and Bianca di Angelo, that he suspects are half-bloods.
In the excitement of his discovery, Grover asks Percy to come and help him safely bring the half-bloods to camp half-blood.
In the process of trying to get to the di Angelos, a manticore (Dr. Thorn) attempts kidnaps Percy, Bianca, and Nico, only to lose them to Thalia, Annabeth, and Grover.
As they battle Dr. Thorn, the Hunters of Artemis step in and rid of the monster by making him trip off a cliff, which led to the loss of Annabeth, her being on Thorn's back.
Artemis leaves her Hunters to be escorted to Camp Half-Blood by Percy, Grover, and Thalia.
Artemis is then kidnapped, which means that a quest must be launched to save her.
That quest consists of Grover, Bianca (who is a new Hunter of Artemis), Zoe Nightshade (The chief Hunter of Artemis), Thalia, and Percy, who journey across the country to Mt. Tampalais.
On the way, Grover is involved in several situations where Pan, god of the Wild, speaks to him.
The first was in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where the presence of Pan made the birds on Grover's coffee cup and a rubber rat come to life, also bringing a giant wild boar to help Percy, Thalia, him, Bianca and Zoe escape the skeletal army.
The second incident happened when Grover was alone.
Pan spoke to him, saying, "I await you."
Both times, Grover was drinking coffee, so he and the other satyrs believe, that this had something to do with Pan's appearance.
It is in this book that we meet Juniper, Grover's nymph girlfriend, who is sobbing hysterically as The Council of Cloven Elders' decide that Grover has been searching far too long for the god Pan — they give him a week to find Pan, and if he does not, his searcher's license will be revoked.
He, Percy, Annabeth and Tyson head into the Labyrinth this time to find its creator, Daedalus, and his workshop.
Sometime in the book, Grover and Tyson split up from Percy and Annabeth.
However, Grover meets a monster.
Later, Grover finds Pan and learns the truth about his disappearance and that he, the God of Wild Things, must fade away and leave the job of making the earth green again to Grover, Annabeth, Percy, Tyson and everyone else on the planet.
Grover unleashes the cry of Panic, greatly disrupting the Battle, and distracting the enemy long enough for the campers to surge and eventually drive them back into the Labyrinth.
Grover has been missing for 2 months; Percy and Nico decide to look for him on their way to the Underworld.
Percy locates Grover through his empathy link in Central Park and finds him under a giant elm tree.
Percy wakes him up by yelling, (via empathy link) "FOOD, PANCAKES!".
He tells them he just took a nap and they figure out that Morpheus, the god of dreams, put Grover to sleep.
In that way, Grover gives Percy and Nico info that some minor gods are on Kronos' side.
He helps Nico and Percy get into the Underworld by playing his reed pipes to open up an entrance in Central Park.
After, his exile is ended and he is given a position in the Council of Cloven Elders.
Grover is then appointed as the new Lord of the Wild, causing him to collapse with joy on the spot.
Weapons/Magical Items
Nature-powered reed pipes, on which he can play many songs that sound terrible but improve as the books go on.
Magic shoes in The Lightning Thief
Pans Scream in “The Battle of the Labyrinth”
Riptide or Magic Sword deadly to: gods, Demigods and monsters.
The right whales (Eubalaena spp.),
also known as the black whales are baleen whales with bow-shaped lower jaw and a head that is up to one-quarter of the body length.
The head is hairier than most whales; up to 300 hairs are found on the tip of the lower jaw and 100 are on the upper jaw.
There are also callosities (a series of horny growths) behind the blowhole, on the chin, above the eyes, on the lower lip, and on the rostrum (the beak-like upper jaw).
Right whales are similar to bowhead whales, but smaller.
These whales are rich in blubber and have 2 blowholes.
The eyes are very small and lips are large.
Right whales were named by whalers who considered them the "right" whales to hunt, since they were rich in blubber, they were easy to catch (they are relatively slow swimmers) and they floated after being killed.
The right whale's name came from hunters, who thought that they were the "right" whales to hunt.
This was because they had lots of blubber.
They were also easy to catch (because they were relatively slow swimmers) and they floated on the surface of the water after being killed.
Because of these things, right whales are the most endangered of the great whales.
Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr.  (born June 5, 1964) is an American author best known for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series.
He helped develop the 10 books in  The 39 Clues series, published by Scholastic Corporation, and wrote the first book in the series, The Maze of Bones.
Riordan was born in San Antonio, Texas.
He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin where he double-majored in English and history.
For fifteen years, he taught in public and private schools in California and in San Antonio.
He was awarded St. Mary's Hall's first Master Teacher Award in 2002.
Riordan is the multi-award-winning author of the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults; his The Maze of Bones reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008.
His Percy Jackson and the Olympians series features a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is the modern-day son of an ancient Greek god.
Film rights were purchased by Twentieth Century Fox and a feature film was released on February 12, 2010.
Riordan lives in San Antonio with his wife and their two sons.
Recently, Riordan has stated that he is working on a new series based upon the Egyptian pantheon, which then turned out to be The Kane Chronicles, with the first book, The Red Pyramid, to be released May 4, 2010.
He also won 13 awards the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original, the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Middle Grade & Children's ( 5 times 2011-2015 ), Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original ( 5 times 2011-2015 ), Hampshire Book Award, and the Shamus award for best first PI novel!
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
(Film: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief )
The Lightning Thief – June 28, 2005 hardcover, March 21, 2006 paperback
The Sea of Monsters – May 3, 2006
The Titan's Curse – May 1, 2007
The Battle of the Labyrinth – U.S.A. May 6, 2008, U.K. July 3, 2008
The Last Olympian – May 5, 2009
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Companion Book(s)
The Demigod Files – February 10, 2009
The Demigod Diaries- Unknown
Demigods and Monsters – February 10, 2009
The Ultimate Guide – January 19, 2010
(Series: 39 clues)
The Maze of Bones – September 9, 2008
Tres Navarre Series
Big Red Tequila – June 1997
Widower's Two-Step – June 1998
The Last King of Texas – January 2000
The Devil Went Down to Austin – June 2001
Southtown – April 2004
Mission Road – June 2005
Rebel Island– August 2007
The Red Pyramid – May 4, 2010
The Throne of Fire - May 3, 2011
The Serpent's Shadow - May 1, 2012
Heroes of Olympus Series
The Lost Hero – October 12, 2010
The Son of Neptune - October 4, 2011
The Mark of Athena - October 2, 2012
The House of Hades - October 8, 2013
The Blood of Olympus - October 7, 2014
The Trials of Apollo Series (Sequel to Heroes of Olympus)
The Hidden Oracle - May 3, 2016
The Dark Prophecy - May 2, 2017
The Burning Maze - May 1, 2018
The Tyrant's Tomb - September 24, 2019
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Series
The Sword of Summer - October 6, 2015
The Hammer of Thor - October 4, 2016
The Ship of the Dead - October 3, 2017
Nine from the 9 Worlds - Companion Book - October 2, 2018
1998 Shamus Award and Anthony Award for Big Red Tequila
1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-Step
2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief
2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters
2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief
Official Rick Riordan Site
Official Percy Jackson UK Site
Miss Erin interview
Starred Review of The Last Olympian
Teen Libris interview
Luke Castellan is one of the main antagonists (being a traitor) in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians series.
He is a demigod son of the Greek god Hermes.
Luke is played by Jake Abel in the movies Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the film adaption of the first book, The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the film adaption of the second book The Sea of Monsters.
Character background
Luke is first introduced in The Lightning Thief as the 19-year-old counselor for the Hermes cabin.
He was born the year 1986.
While the rest of Percy's cabin mates complain about him because he is undetermined, Luke tries to make him feel at home, even stealing a toiletry bag for him.
Luke first came to Camp Half-Blood when he was 14, alongside Thalia Grace, daughter of Zeus, and Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena.
Luke has a scar on his face, a relic from his battle with the dragon Ladon, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides, while on a quest.
In The Last Olympian, it is shown that his mother attempted to become the Oracle of Delphi and has succumbed to the curse of Hades.
Her crazed prophetic ramblings affected Luke greatly, and forced him to run away when he was nine.
In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Luke's body becomes the vessel that harbors Kronos' essence.
Luke dies in The Last Olympian when he is given Annabeth's knife by Percy.
He sacrifices himself to defeat Kronos by stabbing himself under his left arm where his mortality was still kept intact after his bath in the River Styx (known as his Achilles heel).
As he dies, he asks Percy to make sure all the demigods are claimed to avoid this happening again which might mean that they had become friends again because he is forgiven by Percy.
Although he is seen as a villain throughout the series, in the end he is treated like a hero and forgiven by everyone.
He is also the hero mentioned by the prophecy of the Oracle in The Last Olympian.
Power/abilities
Luke has ADHD like other half-bloods, which allows him a heightened awareness in combat.
As with most other half-bloods, Luke is dyslexic because his brain has been "hard-wired" to read Ancient Greek.
Luke is said to be an amazing fighter and swordsman, "The best swordsman in 300 years", as mentioned by a Hermes camper in The Lightning Thief, although Thalia Grace, his old friend, can always beat him in battle.
He has the Curse of Achilles, which gives him near invincibility except in one part of his body (in this case, beneath his left arm).
His soul is fused with Kronos', giving him Kronos' abilities.
Being a child of Hermes, Luke has abilities that involve traveling and theft.
He has displayed such powers twice.
In The Lightning Thief, he slashes through the air and disappears through the ripple he created.
In The Titan's Curse, he conjures up a pool of water and a sacrificial fire by waving his hand.
Strong willpower, as evidenced by his ability to host Kronos in his body without completely losing his identity.
He also can use powers to break locks and open doors
Weapons/magical items
Backbiter – a blade with one side of celestial bronze melded with tempered steel.
The celestial bronze allows for the wounding of immortals and monsters, while the steel injures mortal.
Backbiter is a foot longer than Anaklusmos, Percy's sword.
Percy sensed a tragedy in the making of Backbiter.
In the fourth book, it is revealed that the metal used for Backbiter came from Kronos's scythe.
It is reforged into its original form for its master's rising.
A pair of magical sneakers that can sprout wings when the owner says, "Maia", the name of Luke's paternal grandmother.
The sneakers were given to him by his father Hermes and bear a close resemblance to Hermes's own winged shoes.
In The Lightning Thief, Luke cursed them into pulling the wearer of shoes into the pits of Tartarus; however, since Grover put them on instead of Percy it confused the curse.
The shoes are now gone, for they slipped off of Grover and fell into Tartarus.
Kronos's Scythe – when Kronos is brought back to life in Luke's form, the telekhines gave him Kronos's scythe, which is reforged out of Backbiter.
No amount of celestial bronze can beat it.
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Rachel Elizabeth Dare is a red haired fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians stories.
Unlike other big characters in the series, none of her parents are gods.
Instead, they both are mortal.
Despite this, Rachel has the ability to see through Mist, a thing that makes most humans unaware of the Olympians and immortals.
She has the power to predict things, which is not common even with demigods.
Because of these powers, the Oracle of Delphi passes into her from the cursed remains of the previous oracle.
She therefore becomes the next Oracle of Delphi, Oracle of the Gods as well as the resident oracle at Camp Half-Blood.
By becoming the Oracle, she gives up her romance with Percy because the Oracle must be a maiden.
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In this book, Rachel first appears at the Hoover Dam (in which they have a dam problem).
Percy is being chased by a group of Spartoi when she sneezes.
Percy turns around and his sword, Riptide, goes through her body.
He realizes she knows it is a sword.
He also finds out that she can see through the Mist.
She saves Percy from the Spartoi by sending him into a restroom behind her and the skeletons to the generator room, which makes electricity.
In The Battle of the Labyrinth, more details on Rachel's life are given.
She shows up at Percy's new school, Goode High School.
She can see that two cheerleaders are really empousai and helps Percy escape from Kelli, one of the empousai.
Later, Percy asks her to help him navigate Daedalus's Labyrinth, a maze he built, to find him.
She goes with Percy and Annabeth through the maze.
After finding out Daedalus has made a deal with Kronos, she escapes with Percy and Annabeth.
Eventually, the three find Kronos's headquarters.
Kronos has started to live in Luke Castellan's body and tries to catch Percy.
Rachel appears with Annabeth and Nico di Angelo and throws her blue plastic hairbrush at Luke's eye.
This confuses Kronos and lets Percy escape.
She also helps find Pan, the lost god of nature.
She is there when he dies.
Later, she leaves Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Grover Underwood, and Tyson.
Before she does, she tells them that her father is a rich businessman who buys forests.
He cuts them down and use them to build shopping malls.
Pan's death affects her, mainly because of her father's job.
She wants to hang out with Percy again.
Annabeth is not happy about this.
Percy promises to call her.
He says that he has memorized her phone number.
Rachel is happy about this.
Percy thinks of inviting her to his birthday party.
He is too afraid to do so.
Rachel and Percy become good friends in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
Annabeth becomes jealous of her.
Rachel also sees that Percy and Annabeth like each other more than they will admit.
The Last Olympian begins with Percy driving her to the beach in Paul Blofis's Toyota Prius.
She asks him to go with her and her parents on a vacation in St. Thomas, which he refuses nicely.
They are interrupted by Percy's pegasus, Blackjack.
He lands on the car with Charles Beckendorf riding him.
Percy goes to sink the Princess Andromeda, a ship which Kronos is using as his base.
Rachel kisses him for good luck before he leaves.
In Percy's dreams, he sees Rachel writing things in Ancient Greek.
She is drawing pictures of things she has never seen before, like a picture of Luke Castellan at age nine.
When she goes on vacation with her parents, she asks them to return to New York by making a deal with her father to go Clarion Academy.
Clarion Academy is a finishing school (a girls' school that teaches culture and social things) for girls that her mother also went to.
This was all because she felt that Percy was in danger.
Later on, Rachel flies to Camp Half-Blood on Blackjack.
She takes in the spirit of the Oracle because Hades lifts the curse he had put on it.
She says the next Great Prophecy.
Rachel then goes back to the mortal world for the school year, leaving the campers without their oracle until the next summer.
Rachel's father is extremely wealthy, but she does not like the way her familly lives.
She prefers helping charity.
She also likes art, and sketched multiple realistic images of the past and future (sometimes things she never could have seen, like a 9-year-old Luke Castellan).
Rachel is a love interest for Percy, which created tension between her and Annabeth.
However, she explains that she was attracted to Percy because he was the one who led her to her destiny as the Oracle.
As the Oracle, she cannot fall in love or have children.
She has respect for Annabeth and Percy's relationship.
She can see through the Mist, an unusual ability for most mortals.
She became the Oracle, allowing her to see the future.
She can navigate through the Labyrinth.
Nico di Angelo is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & The Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus series and The Trials of Apollo.
In the series, he is the demigod son of Hades and mortal Maria di Angelo.
As such, Nico has extraordinary powers of necromancy and the power to command the dead; he is a son of one of the "Big Three" Greek gods, the other two being Hades' brothers Poseidon and Zeus.
Nico is chronologically over eighty years old as a result of his prolonged stay in the Lotus Casino in Las Vegas, an enchanted hotel where one does not age and time does not pass at its normal pace.
He was ten years old in the Titans Curse.
He and his sister, Bianca Di Angelo, were placed in the Lotus Casino sometime around World War II and eventually taken out by a “lawyer” (The Fury, Alecto) when Hades commanded.
He also found his half-sister Hazel Levesque in the Underworld and took her back to Camp Jupiter as she was a child of Pluto.
He is currently in a relationship with Will Solace.
Nico is said to have shaggy, messy black hair, olive skin (Although it has paled over time) and dark brown eyes.
After his time in the maze, he is described as having a pale complexion.
He usually wears dark clothing including black ripped jeans and is also mentioned on several occasions to be wearing an aviator's jacket.
By the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth, he also wears a skull ring, a gift from his deceased sister Bianca.
In The Titan's Curse, Nico is a composed kid who loves a trading card game called Mythomagic.
However, since his sister's death in The Titan's Curse at the hands of a defective Talos, he has a hateful resentment toward Percy.
He later thinks Mythomagic is a stupid game, and burns all his cards in a fire.
He becomes more sullen and solitary, saying that "only the dead respect him... and only out of fear".
He believes that he will never be accepted with the living, but forgives Percy after Bianca tells him that it wasn't Percy's fault that she died.
He also accepts the small figurine of Hades that Bianca wanted him to have before she died in The Titan's Curse.
In the fifth book, he brings Percy to his father to get information that proves to be the least his father can give, and his father ends up putting Percy in a dungeon.
However, Nico rescues Percy from the dungeon and takes him to the River Styx where Percy becomes almost invincible.
In the end of The Last Olympian, Nico convinces his father, Hades, to help the other gods fight in the war against the Lord of Time, Kronos, and his army, and plays a major role in the victory.
The relationship between Percy and Nico becomes close for they both might have been the child of the Great Prophecy.
Nico Di Angelo's fatal flaw is holding grudges, as Bianca tells him.
In his  case, it can lead to not wanting help or not asking to be saved in deadly situations because he does not like someone.
Examples are his not wanting to be helped by Percy, even when Geryon was going to sell him to the Titans and not wanting to go back in the Labyrinth with them.
Bianca shares this with him, as she also had the same fatal flaw in life, although this did not lead to her death.
Bianca also says that holding grudges is the demigods of Hades' fatal flaw.
In the fifth book, Nico tells his father, Hades, that he is holding a grudge that could end up killing the Olympians and the campers.
In The House of Hades, Nico is forced by Cupid to reveal that he had had a crush on Percy Jackson.
This reveals that he is homosexual.
In The Blood of Olympus, he later says that he does not feel that way anymore about Percy and that he had been young and impressionable at the time, (by saying Percy is: "not his type) and is seen to be potentially crushing on Will Solace (head counselor of the Apollo cabin).
Nico is ten years old and first appears with his sister, Bianca, in a military school called Westover Hall in Bar Harbor, Maine.
They are sought out by Grover Underwood, the satyr, who believes them to be two very powerful unknown half-bloods.
Nico seems to be very interested in Mythomagic, a game about Greek mythology.
When his sister Bianca accepts Artemis's proposal to become a Hunter, Nico gets angry at her for "abandoning" him.
Percy finds Nico eavesdropping on Bianca and Zöe Nightshade (one of the Hunters of Artemis, a daughter of Atlas), and Nico makes Percy to promise to keep his sister safe.
He does not appear again until the end of the book, where Percy explains to him that Bianca died to save the others on the quest.
Nico creates a large crack in the ground to swallow up the skeletons that were chasing Percy.
The he immediately turns on Percy, telling him he hates him, and reminds him of the oath he took to keep Bianca safe.
Nico is last seen running into the woods at night, after screaming at Percy.
The Battle of The Labyrinth
Nico is supposedly eleven years old in this book.
He is first seen talking with an unknown ghost who is trying to tell Nico how to trade his sister's soul for another soul, when Percy is sent a collect Iris Message sent by Bianca Di Angelo, Nico's sister.
It is revealed in this book that Nico can summon the dead.
Nico is then seen when Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson visit Triple G Ranch, where Percy then saves Nico from being sent to the Titans.
Nico, still angry at Percy, finally understands that it was Bianca's choice to go into the Talos robot, and that he shouldn't be mad at Percy.
The others leave Nico at the Ranch, where he supposedly meets King Minos (in ghost form) again, who convinces him to go back into the Labyrinth to supposedly save Percy and the others.
He is next seen being dragged into Daedalus' workshop by one empousa and two Laistrygonians, in chains, after being tricked by King Minos.
He escapes with Percy, Annabeth, and Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who have to go back into the Labyrinth to find Grover and Tyson, who had stayed behind to look for Pan, god of the Wild.
Along the way, they see Kronos in the form of Luke, and Nico, in a desperate attempt to save everyone, shows his true powers, and makes it known to Kronos that he is a son of Hades.
They meet the wild god Pan, who gives everyone except for Nico a cryptic future reading and then vanishes.
After they get out of the Labyrinth, a full-fledged battle erupts between the Titans and Camp Half-Blood, in which Nico summons a dozen undead soldiers to fight the dracanae, passing out in the process.
He is revived with nectar and ambrosia, and he states that summoning that many soldiers required a lot of energy.
After the campfire, he is seen talking with the ghost of his sister Bianca.
He then tells Percy, who came out to see what was going on, that he did not belong at camp, but instead in the Underworld; he would train there instead.
He also goes to search for his mother.
He is last seen on Percy's apartment fire escape giving Percy news on Daedalus and a way to beat Luke for good.
Before mentioning it, Nico is distracted by Percy's blue birthday cake, and Percy invites him in to talk.
Nico is twelve years old in this book.
His theory to gain an edge over the Titans is to make Percy invincible by having him bathe in the River Styx, similar to the myth of Achilles.
It is shown that after Bianca died, Hades feels he has no competent child, repeatedly mentioning that Bianca could do a better job at fulfilling their father's demands than Nico.
It is also revealed that the lawyer who removed the children from the Lotus Casino was Hades' lead Fury, Alecto, in disguise.
Nico is in about the quarter of the way in the book, he brings Percy Jackson to May Castellan's house, and Hades palace to talk with Hades but instead to Percy Jackson gets put in the dungeon and rescued by Nico.
He fights but comes a little late to help with the Kronos war, at the end of the book he talks about Rachel Elizabeth Dare being missing.
Nico appears in the beginning of the book, He is visiting his half-sister Hazel, who was showing Percy (after losing his memory) Camp Jupiter at the time.
Nico lies to Percy about knowing him after he finds out that Percy's memories have been stolen and simply says that he's an ambassador for Pluto at the Roman camp.
It is later made clear that this was to preserve diplomacy (since Greeks and Romans didn't get along) and not interfere with Hera's plans - rather than a malicious urge.
Though Nico was inside of a bronze jar (after getting captured)  during most of The Mark of Athena, he does get rescued by Piper, Jason and Percy.
Nico also explains to the others where and the doors of death are and how to close them.
When Percy and Annabeth are holding on for dear life at the edge of a chasm that lead to Tartarus, Nico desperately tries and fails to save them before they fall into Tartarus, promising he would lead the others to the other side of the doors of death.
He doesn't do much just talking, not much action with him in this book.
Nico admits his feelings for Percy when he is confronted by Cupid.
This makes Nico the first demigod acknowledged as gay in the series.
He indirectly shares this secret with Jason, who is with him at the time, and then is obliged to explain.
Nico appears to trust Jason in this scene, even if only grudgingly.
Afterwards, Nico offers to shadow travel the Athena Parthenos in an attempt to bring the Roman and Greek camps together.
He is accompanied by Praetor Reyna and the satyr Coach Hedge.
The Blood of Olympus
Nico helps transport the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-blood to halt the attack from the Camp Jupiter.
He is joined by Reyna and Coach Hedge.
The trio shadow travel halfway around the world, causing Nico to lose a lot of his strength and start to "fade".
When facing Bryce Lawrence, it was demonstrated that Nico could turn people into ghostly specters with enough effort.
Hades was also alluded to have been aware about Nico's romantic feelings for Percy during one of his conversations with his son.
Hades gives Nico his blessing and tells him he'll prepare a room for Nico in the Underworld for if his mission should fail.
He also informs Nico that he wants him to be happy, and that he is proud of his son.
Upon landing at Camp Half-Blood with Reyna and Coach Hedge he leaves them to destroy the onagers, where he finds Will Solace, Lou Ellen and Cecil.
Will Solace and Nico start bickering, which amuses Lou Ellen and Cecil.