Walt Stone

Walt Stone is one of the new trainees that Sadie and Carter are training along with Jaz and originally comes from Seattle. He is known as a sau, a charm maker. He is one of Sadie's love interests and as of The Serpent's Shadow,Anubis' first human host.

Background
Walt comes from a family descended from Akhenaton. Due to Akhenaton's wish to destroy worship of the gods, priests cursed Akhenaton and his offspring, which is why Tut (his son), and descendants died at an early age. Practicing magic speeds up the curse, so Walt uses amulets, which store magic in advance. He lived in Seattle before and is a natural sau (charm maker). His dad had died from the curse (Akhenaton is from his dad's side) and his mother was freaking out about how Walt has until about age 16. No doctors could help, though, and it seemed Walt would die soon.

The Throne of Fire
Walt is seen in the beginning stealing the Khnum artifact from the Brooklyn Museum. He and Jaz were caught holding hands, and Sadie misinterprets this. Later, he is with Carter in his room after breakfast, and run off to save Sadie in London. He is then kicked out by Bes, who knows what Walt was dealing with. He comes in afterwards when Sadie and him look for the third scroll. In the end, Walt and Zia transported home while Sadie and Carter went through the Duat. The Kanes' original plan had been to interogate Menshikov (as he was descended from the priests who cursed Akhenaton) while he was trapped, but Vlad's price was to side with Chaos. The plan failed as Vlad died, and Sadie felt guilty, much to the dissapointment of Walt.

The Serpent's Shadow
Walt is first seen in the museum examining the jewlery in the display case. Later when they go to see the scroll he stops by King Tut's throne and becomes lost in a trance. He later is a major part of the cliffhanger at the end of the book. He also becomes the host of Anubis, as is hinted in Chapter 7. Thanks to the powers of Anubis, he survives his family curse.

Personality
Sadie notes that he seems to have a 'gravity' about him that allows him to command attention when required. He always thinks carefully before acting, and Carter describes his personality as "Sadie`s exact opposite". He also has a crush on Sadie. Although he is dying of a curse, he is sacrificial and does all he can to protect his friends. Walt seems to be a little shy and timid when he is near Sadie.

Appearance
Walt is described as having coffee bean-brown skin and a closely-shaven head and has a lean and muscular build. He wears self-made amulets on golden chains and his usual outfit includes a sleevless tee and running shorts. Sadie describes him as "hot".

As of "The Serpent's Shadow", when Walt begins to host Anubis, his outfit has changed into a mix of his fashion and Anubis'. He is described as wearing only the shen amulet,a black muscle shirt, black jeans a black leather jacket and combat boots.

Powers and Abilities
Walt is a sau, a charm maker. He tends to fight using his amulets and charms. Carter also said he is talented enough to choose 3 different paths (Isis, Osiris and Thoth). These are his powers:

Charms: Walt fights with whichever charm he has and each amulet has a different use. He has a wind amulet containing some power of Shu. Walt also has a camel charm, which he used in The Throne of Fire. What other charms and amulets he has is unknown, but he was a good number of them for combat. He chose fighting with charms so as to avoid using magic, and letting his curse consume his ka, or life force.

Eye of Anubis
Death Magic: In the Throne of Fire, Walt gained some powers over death and was capable of crumbling things, first with his hands and also light from his wand. He used this power against shabti, a three-headed snake, and also against some zombies. However, he didn't have a lot of control and this was later revealed to be divine magic. As his ka was being depleted, Walt realized he was going to die. So after getting the idea from Mad Claude in the Throne of Fire, Walt started following the Path of Anubis. After dying from his curse, he was revived as the host of Anubis.

Walt has this magic that he can't control. Whatever he touches turnes into dust. So lets say that he decides he needs to hold on for dear life, and that magic decides that time to act up. The thing he is holding on to desolves into dust.

Former Powers and Abilities
For the second book, Walt wasn't the Eye of Anubis and used the Path of Anubis to use death magic. Now that he hosts Anubis, so he doesn't need his path anymore. He also doesn't need to use:

Divine Magic
During the events of The Throne of Fire, Walt expressed being able to turn things into dust. At the time he didn't have any knowledge of why this was happening. Using this power intesified his curse and so he tried to use little of this power. It is between the Throne of Fire and the Serpent's Shadow, Walt figures out that he was unknowingly using Anubis' magic, via divine magic. In the Serpent's Shadow, he becomes the Eye of Anubis and doesn't need the Path of Anubis or divine magic to use death magic.

Magical Items
Because Walt is a sau, he has a variety of magical items in his possession at any given time. This includes a Camel summoning Amulet as well as a Shen amulet, and many others that he used in the battle in Hall of Ages.

Sadie Kane
Walt and Sadie had a close relationship since they worked together. Walt is in love with Sadie, and wants to spend as much time with her before he dies due to the curse his family passed on to him. When both of them were finding the third scroll, Walt said good job and kissed her (Sadie claims "probably out of happiness or excitement"). Walt went to protect Brooklyn house with Zia and it scared Sadie that she may never see Walt again. Throughout the third book their feelings for each other intensify. At the end of this book Walt/Anubis and Sadie begin a relationship.

Anubis
Despite the fact that both Walt and Anubis like Sadie, and the slight rivalry between the two, Anubis gives Walt advice on how to deal with his illness, and also tells him not to despair and he will ease his pain as much as he could, much to Sadie's surprise. Mad Claude also mentions that he could feel the presence of Anubis around him, thinking he may be one of Anubis' chosen. But Walt feels that Sadie will choose Anubis over him, due to the fact that he may not live more than a year. In the third book, Walt and Anubis begin to hang around each other and the others just thought Anubis was preparing Walt for death. However, it is revealed that Walt has been channeling Anubis' power and has chosen the Path of Anubis. When Walt dies, he is revived seconds later because he become Anubis' human host. At the end of the book when all the gods retreat to the heavens Walt/Anubis is allowed to stay on earth and begin a normal life (well as normal as life in the House of life can be).

Trivia

 * Walt comes from the line of King Akhenaten who for the entirety of his rein tried to destroy the worship of the gods and replace it with worshiping the one sun god Aten.
 * Walt was supposed to die when he reached sixteen, or sometime before, though he manages to live longer with the help of Anubis.
 * When Ra said, "Weasels" and "Weasels are sick" he refers to Walt. When Ra said "weasel cookies" he was asking for a cure for Walt from Apophis (Menshikov).
 * Walt, along with Anubis, both start dating Sadie, considering they are both the same person now.