Enceladus

Enceladus is one of the giants. He was an antagonist in The Lost Hero.

Appearance
Enceladus is 30-foot (plus) tall giant, the smallest and weakest of his kind, but he claims to be the smartest of his kind. From the top he is a humanoid with bronze armor decorated with a flame design. He has dreadlocks decorated with bones woven through them. His skin was bronze. and his eyes are marble white. From the bottom his dragon legs are green and and he has claws as feet. His weapon is a spear about the size of a flag pole.

Ancient Mythology
Enceladus joined the Giants in the attack on Mount Olympus. He was created to destroy Athena. He was slain by a spear thrown by Athena and an arrow from Hercules bow at the exact same time centuries ago. In The Lost Hero, he said that the gods threw a mountain on top of him (possibly after he is killed), and is said that he is the cause of volcanic eruptions caused by his pain.

Powers
Enceladus is capable of breathing fire, like a dragon. His armor and skin are regenerative, unless he is killed by a god and demigod working together, and standing on the earth appears to increase his fighting capabilities because he is a son of Gaea. That was the only reason he was regenerating. Being the bane of Athena, he has cleverness and cunning that helped him in the battle of Mount Diablo.

The Lost Hero
In The Lost Hero, Enceladus captures Tristan McLean, the father of Piper McLean, so that he could use his daughter to lure Leo and Jason to him. He had hoped that they would be killed along the way, but was still pleased to have Piper just lead them to him so he could kill them himself. He also appears to Piper in a dream while his flying head was seen over a purple fire over Detroit. He shows her the pain her father was in and threatens her not to betray him. When she wakes up, Festus is falling out of the sky and Piper thinks Enceladus somehow managed to attack them from so far away. When confronted at the top of Mount Diablo, he claims he was born to fight Athena; calling himself the "Anti-Athena." While Jason and Leo attack him, he calls upon the Earthborn to help him defeat the demigods, but most are destroyed when Leo uses the construction equipment in the area and Piper manages to take out one with her dagger. He was killed at Mt. Diablo by a combined attack from Jason Grace and a lighting bolt from Zeus as only a god and demigod working together can defeat the giants.

Trivia

 * His allies are the Earthborn and Gaea. In the series, he was banished to Tartarus. Jason and Zeus killed him the second time by summoning lightning.
 * In Piper's picture on her web-page, when you look at her dagger Katoptris, right above her face is a picture of the giant Enceladus, just like, in the book, when Piper first looks at her dagger she sees Enceladus.


 * He is (or so he claims) smarter then all the other giants due to the fact that he was created to kill Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
 * Several times, Enceladus mentions how his brothers, the other giants, are far stronger and taller than he his.
 * Enceladus, a moon of the planet, Saturn, is named after him.