Daedalus

''This page refers to the character. For information on the statue please see Daedalus Twenty-Three.''

Daedalus (Δαίδαλος in Ancient Greek) was a son of Athena, and the inventor of the Labyrinth, and was the genius of his time. He is also the oldest known demigod, and the only adult one seen that wasn't made immortal by the gods. Daedalus was an omnibus, able to succeed at nearly anything he turned his hand toward. A brilliant inventor, terrific swordsman, artist and architect together, and he said he played a good game of basketball for someone who was two thousand years old when he first learned.

History
After making his nephew Perdix lose his balance and fall off the roof of his house and losing his beloved son Icarus, he fled into the Labyrinth. After killing his nephew, he was branded with the mark of a partridge (which Perdix had been turned into) by Athena. While in the Labyrinth, he used a technique (suggested by Perdix) that allowed him to avoid dying by transferring his consciousness into a new body five times throughout history. The consciousness is referred as the 'animus,' the soul and center of a human being.

The Battle of the Labyrinth
In, The Battle of the Labyrinth, is disguised as Quintus, the swordsman trainer at Camp Half-Blood. He has a huge hellhound as a pet, named Mrs. O'Leary and is (at the beginning of the book) believed to be an adult half-blood, whose parentage is unconfirmed. Percy and Annabeth figure out that Quintus is really Daedalus in his fifth body. (Quintus really means the fifth in Latin.)

After much soul-searching, he asks to be killed by Nico di Angelo. Nico does this by releasing his spirit in order to destroy the labyrinth and halt Luke's invasion of Camp Half-Blood through Zeus' Fist. When Daedalus dies, the Labyrinth is destroyed because it is tied to his life force. It is said that he is now creating roads and overpasses in the Fields of Asphodel in the Underworld to help ease the traffic congestion and is allowed to visit his son, Icarus, and his nephew Perdix on weekends.and likes annabeth like me