The House of Hades characters

Appears from the start

A son of the sea god and hero of the earlier stories, who at this book's opening has fallen with Annabeth into Tartarus, the deepest pit of the underworld, a place no living demigod is meant to survive. Brave, stubborn, and powerful over water, he refuses to be parted from her as the two struggle across a nightmarish landscape toward the underside of the Doors of Death. His loyalty and quick thinking are tested to their limits in a realm where the very air is poison.

Appears from the start

A daughter of Athena, a brilliant strategist and architect, who has fallen into Tartarus alongside Percy. Resourceful and clear-headed even in terror, she navigates the pit by wits as much as by strength, determined that the two of them will reach the Doors of Death and rejoin their friends. Her intelligence and resolve carry them through horrors that would break most heroes.

Appears from the start

A son of the sky god and former Roman praetor, steady and dutiful, with command over wind and lightning. With Percy and Annabeth lost below, he helps lead the remaining crew of the Argo II toward the mortal side of the Doors of Death. He continues to weigh his divided loyalty to the Greek and Roman camps as he shoulders more of the burden of the quest.

Appears from the start

A daughter of Aphrodite with a persuasive charmspeak, braver and more capable with each trial. Loyal to Jason and her friends, she uses her voice and her cool head to steer the crew through danger and to steady frightened allies, growing surer of her own strength on the voyage to Greece.

Appears from the start

A son of Hephaestus and the inventive builder and pilot of the warship Argo II, able to summon fire and improvise machines from scraps. His jokes still hide a private loneliness at being the odd one out among the couples aboard, a loneliness that shapes his part of the journey as the ship crosses the Mediterranean.

Appears from the start

A daughter of Pluto who can draw metals and gems from the earth, gentle and brave, with a growing sensitivity to the mists and magic of the underworld. Close to Frank and to her half-brother Nico, she begins to explore deeper powers over illusion and perception as the crew faces enemies that ordinary strength cannot beat.

Appears from the start

A son of Mars and a skilled archer who can shift into animal forms, loyal and increasingly self-assured, though his life is still bound to a fragile piece of wood he guards. Devoted to Hazel, he keeps proving his courage as the quest grows more perilous, stepping into a larger role among the crew.

Appears from the start

A son of the underworld god who commands the dead and travels through shadows, freed after being held captive in the previous book. Solitary, guarded, and drained by his ordeal, he sails with the crew, uniquely able to sense the dead and the Doors of Death, and carrying private burdens he keeps to himself.

Also known as Coach Hedge

Appears from the start

The gruff, club-wielding satyr who chaperones the young demigods aboard the Argo II. Quick to threaten and quicker to fight, he guards his charges fiercely beneath the bluster and keeps a rough order on the ship as the dangers mount.

Also known as Gaia

Appears from the start

The primordial earth goddess, still stirring toward full wakefulness. Speaking through the ground and through dreams, she drives her giants and monsters against the demigods and schemes to keep the Doors of Death open so her forces cannot be stopped, edging ever closer to the moment she can rise and remake the world.