The Kane Chronicles
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The Kane Chronicles is a fictional trilogy by Rick Riordan
about the adventures undertaken by Carter and Sadie Kane, the two main characters, in their quest to awaken the sun god,Ra.He is the god of all the gods or the supreme god. It is set in the modern United States
, in the same sort of universe as Percy Jackson and the Olympians
and The Heroes of Olympus
. The books are predominantly based on Egyptian mythology. The first book was released on May 4, 2010. The second book followed on May 3, 2011. The third book is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2012.
The protagonists are Carter and Sadie Kane who discover that they are descendants of two Pharaoh
s, Narmer
and Ramesses the Great
. They learn that the legendary beings of Egyptian mythology still exist and have always existed, including shabti
, Egyptian magicians, the House of Life, otherwise known as the Per Ankh, and the Egyptian gods and goddesses
. Rick Riordan explained where the idea came from in an interview:
on Christmas Eve
for visitation day with Sadie, who lives with her maternal grandparents in London
. Julius, their father, has custody of Carter and takes him on his travels as an archaeologist. Their mother is dead, and their grandparents believe it's their father's fault, but Sadie and Carter do not know what happened, and their father refuses to tell them. Their father releases the Ancient Egyptian gods Set
, Osiris
, Isis
, Horus
,and Nephthys
, but got trapped and captured by Set. They believe that restoring the gods and goddesses is the only way to save the world despite the fact that hosting and unleashing gods meant a death sentence in the House of Life.
Set wanted to rule over the modern world and turn it into a desert. Sadie and Carter, the strongest magicians ever born, must find a way to defeat him before it is too late. Carter hosts the god Horus, (which makes him supposedly destined to rule the gods). Sadie hosts the goddess Isis. Amos was captured by Set and was made Set's host, and Julius Kane is hosting the god Osiris. Soon, they go on a daring journey with their chaperone and friend, the cat goddess Bast
. It turns out that their mother was a diviner (she could see the future.), and Bast was in Apophis
's prison, fighting Apophis. Bast was losing the fight, and the prison was weakening, so their mother freed Bast and re-sealed the prison, using so much magic that she was incinerated. Along the way, they meet Zia Rashid, a fire elementalist in the House of Life, but chooses to rebel with Sadie and Carter, who Carter immediately takes a liking to. Also, the two siblings learn the true secrets of their family history.
Eventually, Carter and Sadie meet Set and fight him together with the powers of Horus and Isis. Carter and Horus fight using a super-powerful combat avatar and Sadie uses the power of Isis, a goddess of magic, to create a portal even though it's during the Demon Days. The portal teleports the pyramid and everything directly around it to Washington, D.C. Set is stopped from destroying the world, but Sadie does not complete the ritual that will completely destroy Set because she realized that the actual perpetrator of the Chaotic events was the serpent Apophis, not Set. Aphophis intended to use the pyramid's Chaos power to make his way into the mortal world.
Sadie and Carter witness Zia die, but it turns out that "Zia" was a shabti
, a magic statue, made to protect the actual Zia, who was hosting Isis's sister, Nephthys. The siblings go back to their Brooklyn mansion hauling an upset Amos. Amos later departs for Egypt to heal and rid himself of the evil taint that had plagued him when he hosted Set. They receive an amulet from their father, who has now merged with Osiris and is living in the Underworld. They lock the amulet in the school locker Sadie saw in a dream. This is the item which is stored in the locker that Carter mentioned in the beginning. Carter is tempted to wear his amulet, which gave him the power of Horus, but he locks his and Sadie's up so they do not wear and consume the power of the gods all over again. The book ends with Carter cautioning anyone who finds the locker with Osiris's amulet in it to be careful and come to Brooklyn for training.
The story begins with Carter and Sadie breaking in to the Brooklyn Museum during a wedding to search for the Book of Ra, which will allow them to raise Ra to help them imprison, or kill, Apophis: the lord of chaos. Along with them are Khufu the baboon, and their new trainees, Jaz and Walt. Instead, they find a papyrus scroll that is booby trapped with a series of fire traps and demon-summoning curses. Carter and Walt distract the demons, while Jaz performs a spell that banishes them back to the Duat. But this results in Jaz falling into a coma-before she does, she manages to hand Sadie a wax statue to heal Carter.
Carter escapes from the museum with the griffin before the police arrive. When they arrive back in the mansion, Carter explains to the new trainees that they must find Ra, the sun god, before Apophis wakes in four days and swallows the sun as well as all of existence. They also find out that to do this, they must find the three scrolls that control the embodiments of Ra, one of them being the scroll that Sadie found in the museum. However, new enemies await, such as Vladimir (Menshikov) who serves Apophis and holds one of the key scrolls in freeing Ra.
Sadie returns to London to celebrate her 13th birthday, but when she arrived, her grandparents were forced to host Nekhbet, the vulture goddess, and Babi, the baboon god, and hunting down Sadie, and her friends, Liz and Emma. They get rescued by the dwarf god Bes, who was able to use his extreme ugliness as a weapon. They met up with Carter and Walt along the way. When Bes opens a portal, he insists for Walt to get out for reasons Sadie and Carter does not know. They teleported to Russia, Menshikov's Nome. They get inside Menshikov's headquarters, and found out that he was summoning Set. They get the scroll but are attacked by Menshikov's two-headed snake. Sadie manages to destroy the snake, but not before it bites Carter. Set tells them the location of the last scroll: The Valley of the Golden Mummies, and also the location of the real Zia. After Sadie heals Carter with the statue, Sadie calls on Walt to help her with the scroll, while Bes and Carter go to find Zia.
Carter and Bes finds some nomads to take them to The Place of Red Sands, Zia's birthplace and where she was hidden. Nephthys, who was using Zia as a host, leaves Zia, but Mehsikov and Desjarins arrive. Carter has the weapons of Ra, the crook and flail, and uses it to fight Menshikov, but Menshikov curses him, making snakes wrap around him and poison him. Bes got trapped in a cage.
Meanwhile, Sadie and Walt arrive at the Valley of the Golden Mummies, meeting a ghost called Mad Claude, who wants them to get the mummies' spirits to the Afterlife, as the rites were not done properly. When they cannot, Mad Claude became enraged and called on the other mummies to kill them. Sadie manages to find the last scroll, but they got trapped by mummies. Ptah, a god, sends rats to help them and creates a portal to Carter and Bes. The portal destroys Bes' cage, and he scared them away. It turns out Walt is cursed and will die young, which was why Bes sent him away. Menshikov is preparing an army to attack the Brooklyn House, so Walt and Zia go back to protect it, while Sadie, Bes, and Carter go into the Duat to free Ra and defeat Apophis.
There were 12 Houses, each representing an hour of the night. At the Gates of the Fourth House (Can only be entered before 4 O'Clock), they find Khnum, the first part of Ra, who forgot what his secret name is. Using the Book of Ra, Sadie read out his secret name, returning his essence to the scroll. They enter the Fourth House, and it took them four hours to find Ra, who was really senile. The Eighth House can only be entered before 8 O'Clock. They travel to the Seventh House, where Osiris, a.k.a, their dad, and the ghost of their mom, awaits them. They invite Khonsu, the moon god, who can make time go back in the night, but have to gamble for it. If they lose a round, the moon god will get their ren. They will have no memories. They have to win 3 rounds. In the end, they won the first round, but lost the second, causing Bes' identity to be lost. They won the last two, and given the extra time, they get into the Gates of the Eighth House and travel towards the Twelfth House. Menshikov was there, possessed by Apophis. They let Ra merge with his last aspect, Khepri the scarab god, but freed Apophis (they must in order to get Khepri). It turns out Desjarins witnessed it, and helped them banish Apophis, but burned up from using too much magic. He warned them that Apophis will return in time.
They get back to the Brooklyn house, found out that because of the power of Ra, they were able to hold the enemies and win the fight. But the gods were not happy with them, especially Horus and Isis, since bringing back Ra made Horus lose his throne. Walt is dying in a year unless they can find a cure, which was lost, since Menshikov was the last person to know it. Bes was sitting in the Fourth House, not having any memories, not knowing who and where he is. Apophis will return, and Ra is in no shape to fight him.The House of Life is still trying to crush them, as they think that Desjarins died by the hands of the Kanes, and Amos is the new Chief Lector.
The title, The Throne of Fire, was announced in a blog post by Riordan on January 13, 2011. The book became available worldwide on May 3, 2011. Rick announced on his website that the third book of the series will be coming in spring 2012.
series, but takes up facts about Egyptian mythology and The Kane Chronicles. It is scheduled to be released on March 20, 2012.
Rick Riordan
Richard Russell "Rick" Riordan, Jr. is an American author best known for writing the Percy Jackson & 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...
about the adventures undertaken by Carter and Sadie Kane, the two main characters, in their quest to awaken the sun god,Ra.He is the god of all the gods or the supreme god. It is set in the modern United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, in the same sort of universe as Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a pentalogy of adventure and fantasy fiction books authored by Rick Riordan. The series consists of five books, as well as spin-off titles such as The Demigod Files and Demigods and Monsters. Set in the United States, the books are predominantly based on Greek...
and The Heroes of Olympus
The Heroes of Olympus
The Heroes of Olympus is a fantasy book series written by Rick Riordan and based on Greek and Roman mythology. It is the sequel series to the Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy....
. The books are predominantly based on Egyptian mythology. The first book was released on May 4, 2010. The second book followed on May 3, 2011. The third book is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2012.
The protagonists are Carter and Sadie Kane who discover that they are descendants of two Pharaoh
Pharaoh
Pharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. The title originates in the term "pr-aa" which means "great house" and describes the royal palace...
s, Narmer
Narmer
Narmer was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period . He is thought to be the successor to the Protodynastic pharaohs Scorpion and/or Ka, and he is considered by some to be the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, and therefore the first pharaoh of unified Egypt.The...
and Ramesses the Great
Ramesses II
Ramesses II , referred to as Ramesses the Great, was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire...
. They learn that the legendary beings of Egyptian mythology still exist and have always existed, including shabti
Ushabti
The ushabti was a funerary figurine used in Ancient Egypt. Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as substitutes for the deceased, should he/she be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife...
, Egyptian magicians, the House of Life, otherwise known as the Per Ankh, and the Egyptian gods and goddesses
Egyptian pantheon
The Egyptian pantheon consisted of the many gods worshipped by the Ancient Egyptians. A number of major deities are addressed as the creator of the cosmos. These include Atum, Ra, Amun and Ptah amongst others, as well as composite forms of these gods such as Amun-Ra. This was not seen as...
. Rick Riordan explained where the idea came from in an interview:
“In my classroom, there was only one thing that was more popular than Ancient Greece, and that was Ancient Egypt,” said Riordan, who taught middle-school Social Studies and English for 15 years. “This was a matter of listening to a lot of fans, and a lot of young readers.”
The Red Pyramid
The Red Pyramid is the first book in the series and was released on May 4, 2010. The book is written as an audio recording made by the Kane siblings. The story begins with Carter and his father arriving in EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...
for visitation day with Sadie, who lives with her maternal grandparents in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. Julius, their father, has custody of Carter and takes him on his travels as an archaeologist. Their mother is dead, and their grandparents believe it's their father's fault, but Sadie and Carter do not know what happened, and their father refuses to tell them. Their father releases the Ancient Egyptian gods Set
Set (mythology)
Set was in Ancient Egyptian religion, a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners. In later myths he was also the god of darkness, and chaos...
, Osiris
Osiris
Osiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
, Isis
Isis
Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
, Horus
Horus
Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists...
,and Nephthys
Nephthys
In Egyptian mythology, Nephthys is a member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis, a daughter of Nut and Geb. Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites because of their role as protectors of the mummy and the god Osiris and as the sister-wife of Seth.Nephthys is regarded as...
, but got trapped and captured by Set. They believe that restoring the gods and goddesses is the only way to save the world despite the fact that hosting and unleashing gods meant a death sentence in the House of Life.
Set wanted to rule over the modern world and turn it into a desert. Sadie and Carter, the strongest magicians ever born, must find a way to defeat him before it is too late. Carter hosts the god Horus, (which makes him supposedly destined to rule the gods). Sadie hosts the goddess Isis. Amos was captured by Set and was made Set's host, and Julius Kane is hosting the god Osiris. Soon, they go on a daring journey with their chaperone and friend, the cat goddess Bast
Bast
Bast may refer to:* Bast a slang term used as reference to the word Bastard* Bast, or Bastet, a goddess in Ancient Egyptian mythology* Bast fibre, a type of plant fiber* Bast, Afghanistan...
. It turns out that their mother was a diviner (she could see the future.), and Bast was in Apophis
Apophis
Apophis may refer to:* Apep, an Ancient Egyptian mythological demon, in Greek known as Apophis* Apepi , a Hyksos pharaoh of Lower Egypt* 99942 Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid...
's prison, fighting Apophis. Bast was losing the fight, and the prison was weakening, so their mother freed Bast and re-sealed the prison, using so much magic that she was incinerated. Along the way, they meet Zia Rashid, a fire elementalist in the House of Life, but chooses to rebel with Sadie and Carter, who Carter immediately takes a liking to. Also, the two siblings learn the true secrets of their family history.
Eventually, Carter and Sadie meet Set and fight him together with the powers of Horus and Isis. Carter and Horus fight using a super-powerful combat avatar and Sadie uses the power of Isis, a goddess of magic, to create a portal even though it's during the Demon Days. The portal teleports the pyramid and everything directly around it to Washington, D.C. Set is stopped from destroying the world, but Sadie does not complete the ritual that will completely destroy Set because she realized that the actual perpetrator of the Chaotic events was the serpent Apophis, not Set. Aphophis intended to use the pyramid's Chaos power to make his way into the mortal world.
Sadie and Carter witness Zia die, but it turns out that "Zia" was a shabti
Ushabti
The ushabti was a funerary figurine used in Ancient Egypt. Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as substitutes for the deceased, should he/she be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife...
, a magic statue, made to protect the actual Zia, who was hosting Isis's sister, Nephthys. The siblings go back to their Brooklyn mansion hauling an upset Amos. Amos later departs for Egypt to heal and rid himself of the evil taint that had plagued him when he hosted Set. They receive an amulet from their father, who has now merged with Osiris and is living in the Underworld. They lock the amulet in the school locker Sadie saw in a dream. This is the item which is stored in the locker that Carter mentioned in the beginning. Carter is tempted to wear his amulet, which gave him the power of Horus, but he locks his and Sadie's up so they do not wear and consume the power of the gods all over again. The book ends with Carter cautioning anyone who finds the locker with Osiris's amulet in it to be careful and come to Brooklyn for training.
The Throne of Fire
Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods have not given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians. The other branches of the House of Life have been hunting them down once they left the safety of their branch, the Brooklyn House. And now their most threatening enemy yet—the chaos snake Apophis—is rising. If they do not prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will come to an end.The story begins with Carter and Sadie breaking in to the Brooklyn Museum during a wedding to search for the Book of Ra, which will allow them to raise Ra to help them imprison, or kill, Apophis: the lord of chaos. Along with them are Khufu the baboon, and their new trainees, Jaz and Walt. Instead, they find a papyrus scroll that is booby trapped with a series of fire traps and demon-summoning curses. Carter and Walt distract the demons, while Jaz performs a spell that banishes them back to the Duat. But this results in Jaz falling into a coma-before she does, she manages to hand Sadie a wax statue to heal Carter.
Carter escapes from the museum with the griffin before the police arrive. When they arrive back in the mansion, Carter explains to the new trainees that they must find Ra, the sun god, before Apophis wakes in four days and swallows the sun as well as all of existence. They also find out that to do this, they must find the three scrolls that control the embodiments of Ra, one of them being the scroll that Sadie found in the museum. However, new enemies await, such as Vladimir (Menshikov) who serves Apophis and holds one of the key scrolls in freeing Ra.
Sadie returns to London to celebrate her 13th birthday, but when she arrived, her grandparents were forced to host Nekhbet, the vulture goddess, and Babi, the baboon god, and hunting down Sadie, and her friends, Liz and Emma. They get rescued by the dwarf god Bes, who was able to use his extreme ugliness as a weapon. They met up with Carter and Walt along the way. When Bes opens a portal, he insists for Walt to get out for reasons Sadie and Carter does not know. They teleported to Russia, Menshikov's Nome. They get inside Menshikov's headquarters, and found out that he was summoning Set. They get the scroll but are attacked by Menshikov's two-headed snake. Sadie manages to destroy the snake, but not before it bites Carter. Set tells them the location of the last scroll: The Valley of the Golden Mummies, and also the location of the real Zia. After Sadie heals Carter with the statue, Sadie calls on Walt to help her with the scroll, while Bes and Carter go to find Zia.
Carter and Bes finds some nomads to take them to The Place of Red Sands, Zia's birthplace and where she was hidden. Nephthys, who was using Zia as a host, leaves Zia, but Mehsikov and Desjarins arrive. Carter has the weapons of Ra, the crook and flail, and uses it to fight Menshikov, but Menshikov curses him, making snakes wrap around him and poison him. Bes got trapped in a cage.
Meanwhile, Sadie and Walt arrive at the Valley of the Golden Mummies, meeting a ghost called Mad Claude, who wants them to get the mummies' spirits to the Afterlife, as the rites were not done properly. When they cannot, Mad Claude became enraged and called on the other mummies to kill them. Sadie manages to find the last scroll, but they got trapped by mummies. Ptah, a god, sends rats to help them and creates a portal to Carter and Bes. The portal destroys Bes' cage, and he scared them away. It turns out Walt is cursed and will die young, which was why Bes sent him away. Menshikov is preparing an army to attack the Brooklyn House, so Walt and Zia go back to protect it, while Sadie, Bes, and Carter go into the Duat to free Ra and defeat Apophis.
There were 12 Houses, each representing an hour of the night. At the Gates of the Fourth House (Can only be entered before 4 O'Clock), they find Khnum, the first part of Ra, who forgot what his secret name is. Using the Book of Ra, Sadie read out his secret name, returning his essence to the scroll. They enter the Fourth House, and it took them four hours to find Ra, who was really senile. The Eighth House can only be entered before 8 O'Clock. They travel to the Seventh House, where Osiris, a.k.a, their dad, and the ghost of their mom, awaits them. They invite Khonsu, the moon god, who can make time go back in the night, but have to gamble for it. If they lose a round, the moon god will get their ren. They will have no memories. They have to win 3 rounds. In the end, they won the first round, but lost the second, causing Bes' identity to be lost. They won the last two, and given the extra time, they get into the Gates of the Eighth House and travel towards the Twelfth House. Menshikov was there, possessed by Apophis. They let Ra merge with his last aspect, Khepri the scarab god, but freed Apophis (they must in order to get Khepri). It turns out Desjarins witnessed it, and helped them banish Apophis, but burned up from using too much magic. He warned them that Apophis will return in time.
They get back to the Brooklyn house, found out that because of the power of Ra, they were able to hold the enemies and win the fight. But the gods were not happy with them, especially Horus and Isis, since bringing back Ra made Horus lose his throne. Walt is dying in a year unless they can find a cure, which was lost, since Menshikov was the last person to know it. Bes was sitting in the Fourth House, not having any memories, not knowing who and where he is. Apophis will return, and Ra is in no shape to fight him.The House of Life is still trying to crush them, as they think that Desjarins died by the hands of the Kanes, and Amos is the new Chief Lector.
The title, The Throne of Fire, was announced in a blog post by Riordan on January 13, 2011. The book became available worldwide on May 3, 2011. Rick announced on his website that the third book of the series will be coming in spring 2012.
The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide
The book is somewhat similar to The Ultimate Guide from the Percy Jackson & the OlympiansPercy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a pentalogy of adventure and fantasy fiction books authored by Rick Riordan. The series consists of five books, as well as spin-off titles such as The Demigod Files and Demigods and Monsters. Set in the United States, the books are predominantly based on Greek...
series, but takes up facts about Egyptian mythology and The Kane Chronicles. It is scheduled to be released on March 20, 2012.
Main characters
- Carter Kane: (Age 14) Carter is a descendant of NarmerNarmerNarmer was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period . He is thought to be the successor to the Protodynastic pharaohs Scorpion and/or Ka, and he is considered by some to be the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, and therefore the first pharaoh of unified Egypt.The...
and Ramesses the GreatRamesses IIRamesses II , referred to as Ramesses the Great, was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire...
through both sides of his family. He is one of the main protagonists, and,in the first book, is described as always dressing "impeccably" in dress shirts and pants, but eventually relaxes into a more modern style. He has dark skin with dark curly brown hair and brown eyes. After the death of his mother, he spent six years traveling with his father and 'living out of a suitcase' as he puts it. His specialty is combat magic and his preferred weapon is a KhopeshKhopeshKhopesh is the Egyptian name of the Canaanite "sickle-sword", in Assyrian known as sappara. Its origins can be traced back to Sumer of the third millennium BCE....
, an Ancient Egyptian sword. He first becomes the hostHost (biology)In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a parasite, or a mutual or commensal symbiont, typically providing nourishment and shelter. In botany, a host plant is one that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna...
of HorusHorusHorus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists...
until the end of The Red Pyramid. He likes Zia Rashid, who turned out to be a 'shabti' at the end of the first book.
- Sadie Kane (Age 13) Sadie is Carter's sister, and, like him, has magic in her blood. She looks more like her mother, having been described in the books as a tall girl with blond hair (most of the time it is streaked with bright colors), blue eyes, and pale skin; bearing little resemblance to Carter or her father, Julius Kane. Like her brother, she is a descendant of NarmerNarmerNarmer was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period . He is thought to be the successor to the Protodynastic pharaohs Scorpion and/or Ka, and he is considered by some to be the unifier of Egypt and founder of the First Dynasty, and therefore the first pharaoh of unified Egypt.The...
and Ramesses the GreatRamesses IIRamesses II , referred to as Ramesses the Great, was the third Egyptian pharaoh of the Nineteenth dynasty. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire...
. She was raised in EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
by her grandparents after her mother died. Sadie loves chewing bubble gum and listening to her iPodIPodiPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
. She's always been 'precocious' as she puts it, a real troublemaker. She is a learning magician and is a talented spell caster. She can read hieroglyphics, understand and translate the Egyptian language, and becomes the host of IsisIsisIsis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
after her father releases five gods at the London Museum. She is skilled at most types of magic and is also known for her sharp tongue. In the first book, she immediately becomes attracted to AnubisAnubisAnubis is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu . According to the Akkadian transcription in the Amarna letters, Anubis' name was vocalized as Anapa...
, the god of death and funerals. In The Throne of FireThe Throne of FireThe Throne of Fire is a 2011 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the second novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his thirteen-year-old sister Sadie Kane, as they discover...
, she develops a crush on Walt, one of the new trainees at Brooklyn House.
- Bast — Ancient Egyptian goddessGoddessA goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing....
of catCatThe cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...
s. After Ruby Kane died, releasing her from Apophis' prison, she promised Julius that she would watch over Sadie, although she eventually takes charge of Carter as well. She is hosted by Sadie's cat Muffin in the first book and is transformed to her human form later on. She usually travels with Sadie and Carter, holds her own classes for the trainees, and always has an expression on her face that's either concerned or amused. As Sadie likes to say, 'You just never know with cats.'
- Amos Kane — Carter and Sadie's uncle. Though he tried to fight it for most of the book, he was the host of SetSet (mythology)Set was in Ancient Egyptian religion, a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners. In later myths he was also the god of darkness, and chaos...
. Carter said 'He looked like one of those jazz guys that my dad would drag me in to see in concert.' At the end of The Throne of FireThe Throne of FireThe Throne of Fire is a 2011 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the second novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his thirteen-year-old sister Sadie Kane, as they discover...
it is revealed that until Michel Desjardins' death, he was the second most powerful magician in the world,therefore, becoming the new Chief Lector. However, his claim is upset by many.
- Zia Rashid — A magician who has mastered fire magic and serves as a scribe for the House of Life. Her parents died when he village was destroyed by the chaos snake ApophisApophisApophis may refer to:* Apep, an Ancient Egyptian mythological demon, in Greek known as Apophis* Apepi , a Hyksos pharaoh of Lower Egypt* 99942 Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid...
. She is reluctant to trust Sadie and Carter because of her loyalty to the House of Life in the first book, but she eventually befriends them. Because she was at the London Museum at the time of the explosion, she became the host for the goddess Nephthys. The Chief Lector Iskandar hid Zia to protect her from the House of Life and replaced her with a shabti who helps Carter and Sadie. Carter develops feelings for her before discovering she is a shabti and goes to find her hiding place in the second book. Throughout The Throne of FireThe Throne of FireThe Throne of Fire is a 2011 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the second novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his thirteen-year-old sister Sadie Kane, as they discover...
she is unsure about her feelings for him, confused by the memories sent to her by her shabti counterpart, as well as by the nightmares she experienced while asleep under the Nile. When awakened, Zia seems to get along quite well with Sadie with slight hopes that she and Carter can have a relationship together in the future, though she is unsure. She is described as having dark hair cut to her jawline, amber eyes (which Sadie describes as "Either really beautiful or really scary"), and vaguely Arabian features.
Other characters
- Walt Stone – (Age 16) A character from The Throne of Fire. He is a natural sau (charm-maker). He is from Seattle, WashingtonSeattle, WashingtonSeattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
. He is said to have dark brown skin, black hair in a buzz cut, and dark brown eyes. He is the first to respond to their recruitment message with the djed symbol. He is a descendant of AkhenatenAkhenatenAkhenaten also spelled Echnaton,Ikhnaton,and Khuenaten;meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC...
and is dying of a family curse, as did Tutankhamen. He has feelings for Sadie, but she is torn between him and Anubis. Sadie mistakenly thinks he likes Jaz when she sees them holding hands. He is really seeking Jaz's help as a healer. - Jaz – A character from The Throne of Fire; a healer. Her full name is Jasmine. She is from Nashville, TennesseeNashville, TennesseeNashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. She is said to have light blond hair and bright blue eyes. She is following the path of Sekhmet. She is a healer and in Throne of Fire she is in a coma quite early on, because she tried to banish some bau (bad spirits). She later helps Sadie's Ba by showing it how to cure Carter. She is awoken by Ra's Power at the end - SetSet (mythology)Set was in Ancient Egyptian religion, a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners. In later myths he was also the god of darkness, and chaos...
— Ancient Egyptian god of EvilEvilEvil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is usually seen as the dualistic opposite of good. Definitions of evil vary along with analysis of its root motive causes, however general actions commonly considered evil include: conscious and deliberate wrongdoing,...
, ChaosChaos (cosmogony)Chaos refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, more specifically the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth....
and DesertsDésertsDéserts is a piece by Edgard Varèse for brass , percussion , piano, and tape. Percussion instruments are exploited for their resonant potential, rather than used solely as accompaniment...
. Amos Kane acted as a host to him unwillingly. He is Associated with the color red. In the duat, he is a tornado made of sand and fire. His true name in the story is "Evil Day". He is the Main Antagonist of The Red Pyramid, and a minor supporting character in The Throne of Fire. - HorusHorusHorus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists...
— Ancient Egyptian God of Warfare. His host is Carter Kane. His symbol is the eye of Horus. - IsisIsisIsis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
— Ancient Egyptian Goddess of magicMagic (paranormal)Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...
. Her host is Sadie Kane. Her symbol is the knot of Isis. - OsirisOsirisOsiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
- Ancient Egyptian God of the Dead. His host is Julius Kane. - NephthysNephthysIn Egyptian mythology, Nephthys is a member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis, a daughter of Nut and Geb. Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites because of their role as protectors of the mummy and the god Osiris and as the sister-wife of Seth.Nephthys is regarded as...
— Ancient Egyptian Goddess of [night]] and Lamentation. Wife of Set and mother of Anubis. Zia is her host. - Julius Kane— Carter and Sadie's father, he is a PhD in EgyptologyEgyptologyEgyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...
. Julius has dark brown skin, piercing brown eyes, is bald and has a goatee. He becomes the host of OsirisOsirisOsiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
, god of the dead, and he is imprisoned in a golden sarcophagus by Set. Later resurrected while hosting Osiris in The Red Pyramid (novel)The Red Pyramid (novel)The Red Pyramid is a 2010 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his twelve-year-old sister Sadie Kane, as they discover that they...
. His symbol is the djed. - BesBesBes was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households and in particular mothers and children. In time he would be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad...
- Egyptian God of Dwarves. He works as Carter's and Sadie's driver during The Throne of Fire. He is also described with a wonderful personality, but is also extremely ugly and embarrassing. - Serqet — Egyptian Goddess of ProtectionSafetySafety is the state of being "safe" , the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be...
and Arachnids. - AnubisAnubisAnubis is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu . According to the Akkadian transcription in the Amarna letters, Anubis' name was vocalized as Anapa...
— God of Funerals. He appears to Sadie as an "incredibly hot" 16-year-old boy with black hair, wearing a leather jacket, jeans, and combat boots. He later appears in human form to Carter as well. Anubis enjoys giving Sadie sarcastic comments whenever Sadie talks back at him, and he likes to treat her like a kid. In The Throne of Fire, he tells Sadie where a scroll of Ra is, gives her a netjeri and kisses her. He also tries to help Walt ease his pain. - Michel Desjardins — Appointed Chief Lector of the House of Life after Iskandar dies. Has a strong hatred of Carter and Sadie for their association with the gods. His last name means "of the Gardens" in French. He dies in the second book when he sacrifices himself to temporarily imprison Apophis the chaos snake.
- Iskandar — Otherwise known as Chief Lector during Alexander the Great's time period. The first Chief Lector, 2,000 years old at death.
- ThothThothThoth was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat...
— Ancient Egyptian god of WisdomWisdomWisdom is a deep understanding and realization of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgements and actions in keeping with this understanding. It often requires control of one's emotional reactions so that universal principles, reason and...
, ScribesScribesScribes is a minimalist and extensible text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power. Scribes focuses on ways workflow and productivity can be intelligently automated and radically improved...
, Baboons, Ibises and MagiciansMagic (paranormal)Magic is the claimed art of manipulating aspects of reality either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult laws unknown to science. It is in contrast to science, in that science does not accept anything not subject to either direct or indirect observation, and subject to logical...
. Founder of the "Per Ankh," the House of Life. He lives in Memphis, TennesseeMemphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
, but thinks it is Memphis, EgyptMemphis, EgyptMemphis was the ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, the first nome of Lower Egypt. Its ruins are located near the town of Helwan, south of Cairo.According to legend related by Manetho, the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes around 3000 BC. Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom, it remained an...
. He is a professor at the University of MemphisUniversity of MemphisThe University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
. He explains the book of banishing Set after a challenge in Graceland in "The Red Pyramid." - Ruby Kane — Carter and Sadie's mother, who sacrificed her life to help save the world. She released BastBastBast may refer to:* Bast a slang term used as reference to the word Bastard* Bast, or Bastet, a goddess in Ancient Egyptian mythology* Bast fibre, a type of plant fiber* Bast, Afghanistan...
. - SobekSobekSobek , and in Greek, Suchos was the deification of crocodiles, as crocodiles were deeply feared in the nation so dependent on the Nile River...
– Egyptian God of the river and crocodiles. His sweat is said to have made the rivers of the world. - SekhmetSekhmetIn Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet , was originally the warrior goddess as well as goddess of healing for Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert...
– Egyptian Goddess of warWarWar is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...
, battles and lions. She has an opposite side of her that is more gentle portrayed as Hathor, goddess of cows and turquoise. She was the Eye of Ra, but became too blood thirsty. She gave off the Seven Arrows of Sekhmet. - HathorHathorHathor , is an Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of love, beauty, music, motherhood and joy. She was one of the most important and popular deities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt...
– Egyptian Goddess of joyJoyJoy may refer to:* Happiness, an emotion* Joy , people with the given name or surname Joy-Music:Bands & performers* Joy * Joy Albums* Joy ; also the title track from that album...
, motherhood, cows, turquoiseTurquoiseTurquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl648·4. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique hue...
and loveLoveLove is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...
. She has an opposite side of her that is fierce and destructive, portrayed as Sekhmet. - TawaretTawaretIn Egyptian mythology, Taweret is the Egyptian Goddess of childbirth and fertility. The name "Taweret" means, "she who is great" or simply, "great one"...
- Egyptian Goddess of hippopotami, pregnancy and childbirth. She is quite fond of Bes. She runs the Sunny Acres Assisted-Living Community, located in the Fourth House of life - Khufu — Amos's pet baboon. Khufu enjoys basketball, always wearing a Los Angeles LakersLos Angeles LakersThe Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
jersey, and only eats things ending in O, i.e. CheeriosCheeriosCheerios is a brand of breakfast cereal by General Mills introduced on May 1, 1941 as the first oat-based, ready-to-eat cold cereal. Originally named CheeriOats, the name was changed to Cheerios in 1945 because of a trade name dispute with Quaker Oats. The name fit the "O" shape of the cereal pieces...
, OreoOreoOreo is a trademark for a popular sandwich cookie by the Nabisco Division of Kraft Foods. The current design consists of a sweet, white filling commonly referred to as 'cream' or 'creme', sandwiched between two circular chocolate or golden cookie pieces....
s, DoritosDoritosDoritos is a brand of seasoned tortilla chips created by Arch West and produced since 1964 by the American food company Frito-Lay ....
, Flamingos, Armadillos, buffaloesAfrican BuffaloThe African buffalo, affalo, nyati, Mbogo or Cape buffalo is a large African bovine. It is not closely related to the slightly larger wild Asian water buffalo, but its ancestry remains unclear...
, etc. - Philip of Macedonia – Amos's pet albino crocodile. He fell into the East River while fighting enemies who ambushed the mansion in New York but survived. He is revealed to be a shabti.
- Doughboy – Julius Kane's shabtiUshabtiThe ushabti was a funerary figurine used in Ancient Egypt. Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as substitutes for the deceased, should he/she be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife...
. His legs were taken away due to the fact that he hated his master and tries to run away or even kill him. Owners of shabtiUshabtiThe ushabti was a funerary figurine used in Ancient Egypt. Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as substitutes for the deceased, should he/she be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife...
often do this to prevent escape. - Leroy- The Set animalSeth animalThe sha is assumed to be some canid, or wild dog, inhabiting the deserts of North Africa, particularly the region adjacent to the Nile Valley in Egypt. It is the totemic animal of the god Set, for which reason it is commonly known as the Set animal, Typhonian animal, or Typhonic beast...
. Carter gave the Set Animal the name Leroy. Leroy does not like his new name. He is put into Carter's "magic locker" in the Duat and Carter and Sadie hope he stays there for the foreseeable future. (Note that the name "Leroy" is a joke that Rick Riordan often uses.) - Nut (goddess)Nut (goddess)In the Ennead of Egyptian mythology, Nut was the goddess of the sky.-Goddess of the sky:...
- The sky goddess of Ancient Egypt and mother of Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set and Nephthys. Wife of Geb, the Egyptian god of the earth. Free-form goddess, which means she has no host. - GebGebGeb was the Egyptian god of the Earth and a member of the Ennead of Heliopolis. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter was earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow. The name was pronounced as such from the Greek period onward,...
- God of the earth. Father of Osiris, Isis, Horus, Set, and Nephthys. Husband of Nut. - ShuShuShu may refer to:*Shū ** , Japanese Kanji.*Shu * 蜀 , an abbreviation of Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China, as well as the following historical regimes that have existed in this region:...
- God of the wind. Father of Nut and Geb. Separates Nut from Geb because of the curse given to them by Ra, mentioned in the first book - The Red Pyramid (novel)The Red Pyramid (novel)The Red Pyramid is a 2010 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in The Kane Chronicles series, which tells of the adventures of modern day fourteen-year-old Carter Kane and his twelve-year-old sister Sadie Kane, as they discover that they...
. - RaRaRa is the ancient Egyptian sun god. By the Fifth Dynasty he had become a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the mid-day sun...
is the sun god. In The Throne of Fire, the Kanes and their trainees, Jaz and Walt, try to revive Ra, who retired to the heavens because he became too senile, and the only one who can convince Set and Osiris/Julius Kane to defeat ApophisApophisApophis may refer to:* Apep, an Ancient Egyptian mythological demon, in Greek known as Apophis* Apepi , a Hyksos pharaoh of Lower Egypt* 99942 Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid...
, the Serpent of Chaos. He is found only to be revealed as slightly insane. He makes references to "zebras" and "weasels", which Sadie realizes is code for Zia and Walt. - NekhbetNekhbetIn Egyptian mythology, Nekhbet was an early predynastic local goddess who was the patron of the city of Nekheb, her name meaning of Nekheb...
Egyptian Goddess of the Vultures. Takes Sadie's grandma as host. - BabiBabiBabi may refer to:* Babı, a municipality in Azerbaijan* Babi Dynasty, founded in 1735 by Muhammed Sher Khan Babi , Nawabs of this dynasty went on to rule over Junagadh in Gujarat, from the 18th to the 20th century....
Egyptian God of the savage alpha male baboons and the darkest side of the primates. Takes Sadie's grandpa as host. - Vladimir Menshikov Evil sorcerer. Owner of the middle scroll of the book of Ra. Tried to awaken Ra using only one part of the book. The result was his eyes becoming horribly scarred and his voice becoming raspy from sunfire going in his throat. He then wants Ra to be awakened but for revenge and turns to aiding Apophis, hoping to see the swallowing of the sun. He is Russian. He becomes Apophis's host at the end of the Throne of Fire but Apophis is cast from his body by Desjardins. He is the main antagonist of The Throne of Fire.
- Freak - An ancient Egyptian griffin that Carter found at the museum. He is also the animal of Horus. His name comes from the sound he makes (FREEEEK!).
- Felix - Another trainee. Nine and seems to be obsessed with penguins. Other than summoning penguins, he is not particularly proficient at magic.
- ApophisApophisApophis may refer to:* Apep, an Ancient Egyptian mythological demon, in Greek known as Apophis* Apepi , a Hyksos pharaoh of Lower Egypt* 99942 Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid...
- God of Chaos, a massive serpent. True Name "The Hated One" - PtahPtahIn Ancient Egyptian Religion, Ptah was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen , meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land, though Tatenen was a god in his...
- God of workmen and he also known as the god of "opening of the mouth ceremony" performed by priests at funerals to release souls from their corpses, was said to have been created by Ptah.