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The various nature spirits seen in The Camp Half-Blood Series (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo) and companions like The Demigod Files and The Demigod Diaries. For the full list of characters, click here.
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Satyrs/Fauns
General
Beings with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a goat. They often seem to be clumsy due to wearing fake feet when in the presence of mortals. Their personalities vary mostly depending on if they're greek (satry) or roman (faun).
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Satyrs/Fauns are essentially humans with goat traits and are all male. Their female number are nymphs of any kind, who are embodiments of natural features in the form of attractive women with their most distinguishing trait being an inhuman skin palette depending on the kind of nymph they are.
- Detect Evil: Jossed they can smell demigods and monsters, not all of which are evil.
- Disability Superpower: Not really but they are often presented as this, using crutches and other such instruments when among muggles to disguise their goat-legged gait.
- Fauns and Satyrs: Well, they're the fauns and satyrs of Greek myth. Duh.
- Green Thumb: They can make plants grow with music.
- Herald: Many satrys end up becoming this when they go get a demigod, revealing the magical world.
- Long-Lived: Satyrs have double the lifespan of humans and demigods. Grover, who is in his thirties, is considered a teenager among satyrs.
- Magic Music: Many use music to make plants grow.
- Reincarnation: When killed they become plants.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It seems that satyrs and nymphs have a natural fear of dogs. Juniper runs away from Mrs. O'Leary the hellhound, and Gleeson Hedge, for some reason, has nightmares about 101 Dalmatians.
Council of Cloven Elders
Grover Underwood
Played by: Brandon T. Jackson (films), Bjorn Yearwood (young, films), Aryan Simhadri (TV series)
A satyr and Percy's best friend, Grover is the Searcher sent to Yancy Academy to keep an eye on Percy. He leads Percy to Camp Half-Blood and joins him on each book's quest (except the second, where the object is to rescue him). His dream is to find the lost god of the wild, Pan. Following Kronos' defeat, Grover takes Leneus' place among the Council of Cloven Elders.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: He doesn't have acne in the films and Disney+ series. While Brandon T. Jackson's version retains his wispy beard, Aryan Simhadri's is clean-shaven so far.
- Adaptational Badass:
- In the films, he's adept at Cane Fu and personally defeats the Hydra with Medusa's head.
- In the Disney+ series, he bravely goes against Mr. D's orders not to inform Percy of Sally's survival, in front of Mr. D himself, whereas in the books, he meekly follows Mr. D's orders with no question.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Has black hair instead of brown in both the film adaptations and the Disney+ series. Aryan Simhadri's version is also clean-shaven.
- Ambiguously Brown: Grover is a bit of a Schrodinger's POC, in the sense that multiple official sources have jumped between him being white or dark-skinned. The books never explicitly mention his skin color, with his most consistent physical description being his curly brown hair (which certainly isn't a trait exclusive to Caucasian people). However, the graphic novels, official artwork, and cover for The Burning Maze all portray him as seemingly white. But in the illustrated edition of The Lighting Thief, he has light brown skin and the movies and Disney+ series have him played by a black and Indian actor respectively.
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: Grover tells Percy the story of Thalia Grace during his first day at camp, but evades saying who everyone else involved was. He later reveals those people were Annabeth, Luke and himself.
- The Atoner: He wanted a second chance in safely bringing another half-blood to camp after failing to protect Thalia Grace. He finally gets his closure after helping his best friend succeed in his first quest.
- Bad Liar: He's shown to be one repeatedly throughout the books as Percy once pointed out.Grover: They only do that when you... when someone's about to die.
Percy: Woah. You said "you".
Grover: No I didn't. I said "someone".
Percy: You meant "you". As in me.
Grover: I meant "you", like someone. Not you, you.
Sally: Boys! - Best Friend: Along with Annabeth Chase, he is Percy Jackson's first genuine friend he ever made, being the one to introduce Percy to the world of Greek Mythology and accompany him on dangerous quests. Their friendship even goes so far as to creating an Empathy Link.
- Beta Couple: With Juniper. They get together with little pomp and circumstance compared to Percy and Annabeth, who are constantly bickering.
- The Bus Came Back: In The Burning Maze, he becomes the guide for Apollo and Meg, after showing up only in passing in The Heroes of Olympus.
- But Now I Must Go: After the Burning Maze case is done with, he decides to part ways with Apollo and Meg so he can return to Camp Half-Blood.
- Butt-Monkey: Mostly in The Lightning Thief, though he still has his badass moments later on in the series. He simply can't seem to catch a break.
- Cane Fu: In the films, he's quite adept at using his crutches as blunt weapons, as Gabe and some guards at the Lotus Casino find out the hard way.
- Cowardly Lion: He's relatively small for his size, easily frightened, constantly complains about going into dangerous situations, but will literally go to hell and back for his friends.
- The Chosen One: A variant. In Battle of the Labyrinth, Pan states that he specifically chose Grover to deliver the message of his death to the world and even passed his unique Panic Cry ability onto Grover.
- Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
- Disappeared Dad: Like all searchers, both his father and his uncle are mentioned to have never come back since they left for their search for Pan, and we know what happened to them.
- Distressed Dude: In Sea of Monsters.
- The Empath: As a creature of nature, Grover can naturally sense emotions from people and animals. He is also able to create an Empathy Link with his best friend, Percy, something Annabeth claims is difficult to master by satyr standards, likely as a sign that Grover is more powerful than he'd admit.
- Extreme Omni-Goat: Well, omni-satyr. Grover will eat anything, including tin cans, wax paper and playing cards.
- Friend to All Living Things: Comes with the territory.
- Green Thumb: Melodies played on his reed pipes can make plants grow.
- He's Just Hiding: In-universe, he does not believe Pan dead and his main motivation is to gain a Seeker's license so he can search for him. He's right, and he does find Pan...in time to see him actually die.
- Herald: He's the one who reveals the existence of the mythical world to Percy.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Percy Jackson. They even share an empathy link.
- Hide Your Otherness: In the mortal world, he wears a rasta cap to cover his horns and long pants and shoes filled with Styrofoam to hide his goat legs and hooves.
- Inept Mage: Initially. He grows more into his power as the series progresses.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He's in his thirties and frequently mingles with teenage demigods. But since satyrs age half as fast as humans, he's the satyr equivalent of a teenager anyway.
- Interspecies Romance: Technically with a tree. In mythology, though, Juniper is a dryad, and nymphs are often treated as the female versions of satyrs.
- Magic Music: His music can cause plants to grow.
- Meaningful Name: Grover Underwood is a satyr, a type of nature creature.
- Nice Guy: He remains kind, caring, and protective despite being the resident Butt-Monkey.
- Plucky Comic Relief: More so earlier on before the series gets Darker and Edgier, but the series still manages to get a few jokes in at his expense.
- Prone to Tears: He's the character who comes close to crying (or straight up cries) most frequently in the first books, only beaten by far by Apollo on the third saga.
- Put on a Bus: In The Heroes of Olympus series. It's explained that as a Council Elder, he has to travel through North America to help those affected by disasters caused by Gaia. He only appears in a dream in The House of Hades, where he accompanies Rachel to meet with Reyna and Octavian.
- Race Lift: White in the books, Black in the films, several actors of color in the musical (depending on the production), and Indian in the Disney+ series due to Rick Riordan's preference of
talent over appearance. - Super-Scream: In The Battle of the Labyrinth, he discovers that Pan has gifted him his "Panic Cry", which sends Kronos' camp invasion force back into the labyrinth in a hasty retreat. He still has this ability as of The Burning Maze.
- Survivor's Guilt: After Thalia Grace's death, he blames himself fully for it, even after many years have passed.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: In The Last Olympian, he's made a Lord of the Wild and gets a position on the Council.
- Throwing Off the Disability: When among muggles, he hides his goat-legged gait by pretending to have a muscular disease in his legs. In the films, he instead opts to use crutches.
- Took a Level in Badass: Goes from being the unquestionable Butt-Monkey in The Lightning Thief to being a competent member of the good guys' team whose skill set complements the more action-oriented demigods.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cheese enchiladas. And tin cans.
- Undying Loyalty: To his best friends, Percy and Annabeth. No matter how low his self-esteem is, Grover will face all fears known to satyr-kind if it meant helping his friends save the world.
- The Un-Favourite: The Council of Cloven Elders has a very strong dislike for Grover out of all their satyrs, particularly after book four.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- Like all satyrs, Grover hates being underground because they always smell of "death" and greatly hinders his ability to sense monsters. Even while exploring the Labyrinth for just five minutes, his hyperventilating was the loudest noise in the corridors.
- Due to past experiences, he's also terrified of Cyclopes. Ironically his friend Tyson, who is a Cyclops, feels the same about him.
Silenus, Leneus, and Maron
Played by: Jason Gray-Stanford (Maron), Garfield Wilson (Leneus)
The Council of Cloven Elders, three Satyrs who act as the authority of their species, and coordinate the search for Pan. They are the ones who give Grover his Searcher's License, only to then threaten to take it away when he actually finds a lead.- Due to the Dead: Despite being a slimey Jerkass, Leneus' death is still treated tragically, and he's comforted as he dies by Percy and Grover. Their discomfort at his passing is made all the more uncomfortable because he was such a jackass, but they have enough decency to be kind as he dies and don't mention what an ass he was afterward. Ironically, when Leneus believed Grover was dead, he did anything but give him any respect of dues.
- The Fundamentalist: They're so stuck up their own asses in their beliefs that when they hear word and see evidence of Pan's will, they reject it because it doesn't match what they'd already decided is true. What's more, their blind dedication to sending Satyrs to search for Pan is responsible for Pan's death being drawn out for two thousand years, which made it far more painful then it needed to be.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: Rather than make any effort to protect the wild, which is dying, they put all their hopes into finding Pan under the blind faith that he could somehow restore it, a search that has gone on for two thousand years without any luck, and refuse any other plan. When Grover is contacted by Pan, they refuse to believe it simply because they don't believe Pan would contact him and not any of them. And, when Grover retells the news of Pan's death, and his final words being that it is up to them to save the wild themselves, they accuse him of lying rather than accept the news.
- I Reject Your Reality: As said, when Grover tells them Pan is dead, and it's up to all of them to protect the wild, they accuse him of sacrilege and vote to have him exiled rather than accept Pan is gone. This is after witnessing Grover use the power of Panic, gifted to him by Pan upon his death, which they try to explain away as Pan giving them all a boon or, possibly, Grover just being so bad at music he was able to scare off an entire army. Despite not even having his flute on him at the time. Bare in mind they continue to believe this even after Percy and others vouch for Grover's testimony.
- Jerkass: Silenus and Leneus moreso, who are condescending, sanctimonious assholes that consider themselves and their missions to be more important than anything anyone else is doing, and demand respect without offering any in return. Maron is The Quiet One and so seems more reasonable, but he still votes with the others.
- Kick the Dog: When Grover goes missing, they assume he's dead, and outright tell his girlfriend Juniper she should forget about him. Percy, Grover's best friend, responds by lifting the stubborn goat and lets it sink in that Kronos won't let the satyrs go free.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Leneus assists in the effort to turn Hyperion into a tree.
- Let Them Die Happy: When Leneus dies, Grover tells him that he scattered the Titan army even though it's only a ceasefire.
- Skewed Priorities: They're more concerned in finding Pan rather than the fact that an evil Titan Lord is rising and committing war against the gods and nature itself. Percy calls Leneus out for this and demands the old goat to go recruit all the nature spirits for their inevitable war and Pan won't help them against Kronos because Pan is dead!
- Small Name, Big Ego: Played With as they are the head of the Satyrs, so they are kinda a big deal, but Satyrs aren't a particularly important race all things considered and the Cloven Elders in particular don't get much respect from the Gods or Chiron, though this seems to be in response to how much of a total jerkass the trio are. Leneus especially has serious delusions of importance, refusing to get involved in the war until Percy threatens him, then acts as if he's doing everyone a big favour and they couldn't possibly win the war without him.
Satyrs
Ferdinand
Grover's uncle, who was killed by Medusa.
- Desecrating the Dead: Kronus' forces later use Medusa's shop as a temporary base in their march onto Olympus, and proceed to desecrate her victims. Ferdinand particularly is noted to have had his arm broken off and vandalized.
- Extreme Omni-Goat: Camp Half-Blood Confidential reveals he once ate a quiz show buzzer.
- Posthumous Character: He is already a statue by the time we meet him in The Lightning Thief.
- Taken for Granite: How Medusa killed him — Grover realizes what happened to him when he sees his statue in Medusa's collection.
Gleeson Hedge
"If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over."
A protector and satyr.
First mentioned in a throwaway line in The Last Olympian, he is properly introduced in The Heroes of Olympus as being one of the teachers at the Wilderness School attended by Jason, Piper, and Leo. During the fight with the venti he is captured, and is later rescued from Medea. He later becomes the Seven's official chaperoen on the Argo II. A middle-aged satyr, he feels the need to prove that his age doesn't make him useless. As such, he is constantly raring to fight and puts a lot of emphasis on survival of the fittest, but he's also very quick-thinking and does truly care about the heroes underneath his gruff exterior.
- Ascended Extra: He is first mentioned by Grover in a one-liner in The Last Olympian, and becomes a major supporting character in The Heroes of Olympus.
- Blood Knight: He...loves violence. He wasn't bothered that Leo attacked New Rome since it meant fighting.
- Doting Parent: Shows off his new baby boy to everyone from both camps at the final victory feast.
- Expy: A short-tempered satyr and trainer of heroes with security complex? Sounds just like Phil from Hercules.
- Extreme Omnivore: He'll eat anything, like most satyrs.
- Fauns and Satyrs: He's a satyr.
- Fearless Fool: He acts like this, being excited to fight even if the odds of winning are next to none because it means violence.
- Happily Married: He and Mellie got married before the Argo II departed.
- Henpecked Husband: While not henpecked per se, he never defies Mellie's wishes. He is absent from the majority of the action in The Burning Maze because Mellie objects to him participating.
- Hidden Depths: All the badass Blood Knight tropes are his characterization from the first three books. In book four, we learn that he and Mellie got married not long before Argo II left, that Mellie's pregnant, that Hedge still feels guilt over not running to his mother's rescue because he was saving Clarisse at the time, and that he's terrified that something will happen to his wife and baby while he's stuck on the other side of the planet.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Revealed in The House Of Hades that while he was bringing Clarisse in to Camp Half-Blood, his mother contacted him in a panic. He couldn't believe anyone would try to hurt a cloud nymph, so he brought the demigod in before looking for his mother. He never found her. Lends his fears for his wife and baby just that extra edge.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With the Seven.
- Interspecies Romance: With Mellie, an air nymph.
- Large Ham: Hedge is very loud and flamboyant with his actions.
- Leeroy Jenkins: He's...very eager to go into battle, even if who they're fighting is a potential ally.
- Lineage Comes from the Father: Apparently the son of a satyr and an aura is a satyr. On the other hand, all known satyrs are male and all known aurae are female, so it might be that any daughters would be aurae. Hedge says his own mother was a cloud nymph.
- Meaningful Name: "Hedge" is a plant-related nature spirit.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently has nightmares about 101 Dalmatians.
- Official Couple: With Mellie.
- Papa Wolf:
- He is terrified that he won't be able to save his wife and baby, being stuck on the other side of the Atlantic. When it is suggested that he be one of the three to shadow-travel back to Camp Half-Blood in hopes of diffusing the war, he is elated.
- He also cares a lot about the demigods entrusted to him. When he receives news of Jason's death, he wastes no time to go to Malibu and help Piper arrange his funeral.
- Sixth Ranger: He takes part in the voyage to Greece, despite not being one of the Seven.
- Team Dad: He's gruff, stern, and attempts to keep the Seven in line in his own way. He's also prone to grounding them.
- Tranquil Fury: Surprisingly, he manages to keep quiet after Apollo delivers news of Jason's death. This only creeps Apollo more.
- Would Hit a Girl: In Mark of Athena, he knocks out Keto, an ocean deity, with a kick to the head.
Fauns
Don
"Man, congrats and stuff! Awesome! Hey, do you have any spare change?"
Often hangs around Camp Jupiter asking for change and food.
- Ascended Extra: He's a major supporting character in The Tyrant's Tomb.
- Back-Alley Doctor: Worked as a nurse after the Romans battle a army.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Stayed behind at Caligula's fleet to ensure that the mortars were redirected back at the ships, and was caught in the blast. He survives for a few hours but eventually he succumbs to his injuries.
- Hobo: Lives as one at Camp Jupiter.
- The Medic: See Back-Alley Doctor above.
Nymphs
General
Nature spirits responsible for the beauty and preservation of a particular location or landform. They can often be found in mountains, groves, springs, rivers, trees, valleys or grottoes.
- Achilles' Heel: Destroy the thing they're the spirit of and they die.
- Our Nymphs Are Different: Well, actually they are pretty similar to their mythological inspiration.
Echo
The mountain nymph of Mount Chithaeron (known as an oread) who fell in love with Narcissus. She was cursed by Hera to always echo what she previously hears as punishment for covering Zeus' tracks by distracting her with idle gossip.
- Hopeless Suitor: For Narcissus. She loves him, but he only loves himself.
- The Echoer: Of course.
- Ironic Echo: Literally. She's been cursed by Hera for gossiping a lot to echo whatever she hears last.
- Love Martyr: She's spending her second chance at life still trying to help Narcissus break from his curse. He pays no attention to her, and because of her curse she's almost invisible to everyone else.
- Love Redeems: She's trying to do this for Narcissus.
- Visible Invisibility: Part of her punishment at the hands of the gods, she always mirrors any background she walks in front of, causing her to appear camouflaged and invisible. She shows her true face to Leo for a moment, and Leo remarks that she was actually kind of pretty, although the memory of her face was already slipping away.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: When she kisses Leo, he marvels at her blue eyes.
Juniper
Grover's dryad girlfriend, who is first introduced in the third book.
- Beta Couple: With Grover, with whom she gets with far quicker than Percy and Annabeth do.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Implied to be this in The Demigod Files, where Grover comments on the beauty of the tree nymphs up in Lake Placid, but then asks the interview to edit that part out so that Juniper won't kill him.
- Depending on the Artist: In The Battle of the Labyrinth, she's implied to have a human skin tone, as Percy doesn't realize she's a dryad until he notices her pointy ears and eyes tinged green from crying. However, in the picture to the right, she has green skin.
- Dub Name Change:
- In the Spanish translations of the books, her name is changed to "Enebro," which doesn't sound like a girl's name at all.
- In the Polish translation, her name is changed to "Kalina," which is both the name of a plant and a feminine given name.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Her tree is a juniper tree, hence her name.
- Genki Girl: Very cheerful.
- Glomp: Does this to Grover when he comes back to camp in the final book.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Wears a purple gossamer dress in The Last Olympian.
- Interspecies Romance: She's a dryad, while Grover is a satyr.
- Only One Name: "Juniper."
- Satellite Love Interest: She's really only significant because of her relationship with Grover.
Mellie
Former personal assistant to Aeolus. At the end of The Lost Hero, she replaces Jane as Tristan McLean's secretary.
- Genki Girl: As an air nymph, she's very perky and cheerful.
- Happily Married: She and Hedge got married before the Argo II departed.
- Interspecies Romance: With Hedge, who is a satyr.
- Parting-Words Regret: She breaks down in tears when she hears about Jason's death. Not only because it is sad, but because she has been hating him for several months after he broke up with Piper.
- Right-Hand Hottie: To Aeolus. She's considered very beautiful.
Daphne
One of Apollo's two great loves. Shows up in a hallucination of his.
- What the Hell, Hero?: The hallucination of her gives Apollo a much-deserved one for stalking her.
Meliai
Ancient dryads of ash trees, children of Gaia and Ouranos. They faded away long ago, but Philip McCaffrey managed to experiment with seven seeds that later give birth to the Meliai.
- Amazon Brigade: All of them are warrior women.
- Badass Boast: They withstand the heat of Hyperion's light and claim it'll take more than that to finish them.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: If she is near the Palm Springs area, Meg can call the Meliai to protect her. Meg, who is already a powerful demigod daughter of Demeter.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: They easily access the Burning Maze through the Downtown Los Angeles area, which is guarded by Caligula's elite army. When they come out, they utterly defeat Incitatus without breaking a sweat, and without anyone else to help them.
- Horrifying the Horror: How quickly they dispose of Incitatus and his lackeys surprises everyone present. Even Meg.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: They complement the spears with honey-gold wooden shields.
- Statuesque Stunner: Seven feet tall, to be precise.
- Undying Loyalty: They are loyal to Meg because her father remade them and she planted their seeds, ensuring their birth. Not to mention that both are connected to Demeter, whom they respect.
