Ichthyocentaur

An Ichthyocentaur (Ιχθυοκενταυρος in Ancient Greek) is a quarter horse, quarter fish, and half human.

History
Ichthyocentaurs are the aquatic half-brothers of the centaurs, commonly known as 'fish centaurs'. Unlike their siblings, however, they are much more civilized and operate throughout the ocean. They also train merpeople heroes at Camp Fish-Blood.



The Mark of Athena
Chiron suggests that the Seven find his half-brothers to help them in their quest. Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang and Leo Valdez are dropped into the Atlantic, after they burn the Skolopendra, one of Keto's children, and are rescued by the Ichthyocentaurs, after the sea monster retreated back into the deep. They are interrogated by Aphros and Bythos and later freed. They meet several other fish centaurs and see their camp. They are later sent back to the Argo II, with brownies from Aphros, who teaches home making and cooking, after been given assurances that they would help the creatures at Death in the Deep Seas, Phorcys' exhibit of captured sea creatures at the Atlanta Aquarium.

Appearance
From the waist up they are human, but with green or blue skin and lobster claws on thier head like horns. They have the forelegs of a horse, but their hind legs are actually a fishy tail with a V-shaped tail fin. Leo thinks of Bythos as the 'Lima Bean Man' and decides that none of the fish centairs that he meets, look much like Chiron. Although ironically, when Leo first meets him, after falling overboard, he sees a strange face that has the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes which he thinks looks like Chiron.

Notable Individuals

 * Bythos
 * Aphros