Ghost

A ghost is a soul, spirit or deceased individual that resides in the land of the living, which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a incorporeal nebulous image.

Description

Ghosts are souls of deceased people who, either due to curses, unfinished business or by their own will, decide to stay in the land of the living. Physically they are identical to when they were alive but they are slightly paler and more translucent because they are made of a kind of mist. Some manifest themselves as their bodies were when they died, such as with an amputated limb, marks of wounds or illness.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Lightning Thief

In one of Percy Jackson's dreams, the ghosts of the Underworld tug him away from the entrance to Tartarus where Kronos is trying to entice the demigod into joining him. The ghosts urge Percy to wake up as Kronos speaks to him.

At DOA Recording Studios, Percy, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood see the ghosts of the recently deceased waiting for Charon to ferry them across the River Styx. They also see the various ghosts of the Underworld while traveling through it.

The Sea of Monsters

After Chiron is fired as the Camp Half-Blood Activities Director, the ghost of Tantalus is brought from the Underworld to act as his replacement. Once Chiron's name is cleared by Percy Jackson, Dionysus banishes Tantalus back to the Underworld where he belongs.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Nico di Angelo spends most of the book trying to bring his sister back from the dead. When he finally succeeds in summoning her ghost she does not wish to return to life. Later it is revealed that the son of Hades was being manipulated by Minos, who wants him to get revenge on Daedalus but when he realizes this, he exiles the king’s ghost to the Underworld.

The Demigod Files

The Sword of Hades

While searching for the missing Sword of Hades, Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo and Thalia Grace question the ghost of Sisyphus who reveals that he had directed Ethan Nakamura to Melinoe, the goddess of ghosts, for a way out of the Underworld. Meline is revealed to have turned to the Titans' side because her father Hades won't allow her to haunt the mortals of the human world every day.

During their time in the Underworld, Thalia is shown to be looking for one ghost in particular, presumably that of her long-missing little brother Jason Grace.

The Last Olympian

When Percy Jackson is about to swim in the River Styx, the ghost of Achilles appears to try to talk him out of it and to warn Percy of the dangers about trying to take on the Curse of Achilles.

When Nico is trying to find his mother's ghost, Bianca arrives to persuade her brother not to do so, but he ignores her warnings.

The Heroes of Olympus

The Son of Neptune

Hazel was formerly a ghost in the Fields of Asphodel until she was resurrected by her half-brother, Nico di Angelo. Marie Levesque also became a ghost after her death and was sent to Asphodel as well.

A number of lares, household ghosts, reside in Camp Jupiter and New Rome.

In Alaska, Michael Varus commands the ghostly legion who had followed him up to Alaska in the 1980s and then been killed by Alcyoneus. After Thanatos is freed by Frank Zhang, Percy Jackson dispatches all of the ghosts by dropping them into the sea and drowning them.

The House of Hades

Frank Zhang, after being promoted to praetor by Jason Grace, is able to command a ghostly Roman legion in the House of Hades after they are summoned by Nico di Angelo using Diocletian's Scepter. The ghost army helps the Seven to clear out the forces defending the House of Hades and the Doors of Death for Gaea.

The Blood of Olympus

Beryl Grace's ghost appears as a mania to try and convince Jason to join her and Gaea's forces, saying that Zeus neglected her and caused him a lot of misery. However, with the help of Piper's charmspeak, Jason refused, saying that it was her who dumped her and that he was fighting for the Olympians. Beryl Grace's mania is then banished by Jason.

While fighting with Bryce Lawrence, an enraged Nico di Angelo transforms him into a ghost and banishes Bryce to the Underworld. The effort involved nearly kills the already weakened demigod.

The Kane Chronicles

The Red Pyramid

While the Kanes are passing through the Duat, the ba of Iskandar briefly appears to Sadie Kane. After becoming the permanent host of Osiris, Julius Kane brings the ghost of his wife Ruby to stay at his side for all of eternity.

The Throne of Fire

Sadie Kane and Walt Stone encounter a number of hostile Roman ghosts in Bahariya led by Mad Claude who attempt to force the two magicians to set them free using the netjeri knife given to Sadie by Anubis. The Romans are dispatched when Ptah summons a horde of rats to devour their mummified bodies. Ptah tells Sadie and Walt that doing so released their ba to finally go to the Underworld where they belong.

The Serpent's Shadow

At the Brooklyn Academy of the Gifted's dance, Anubis enables a number of ghosts to join the party, although they are unseen by the mortals and even the demigods Drew Tanaka and Lacy. However, the ghosts are all sucked up by the sheut of Apophis who has been targeting ghosts in such a manner for additional power, including Ruby Kane.

During the Battle of the Hall of Ages, Walt/Anubis summons the spirits of the dead from a crack in the ground to wrap Sarah Jacobi in ghostly linen and drag her to the Underworld in retaliation for Jacobi's attempt on Sadie Kane's life.

Carter Kane enlists the help of Setne to find Apophis's shadow. Although Setne betrays the Kanes and he eventually escapes, they are able to get the shadow and use it to destroy the god in a shadow execration.

With the destruction of Apophis, all of the ghosts that he captured are released into their rightful place in the Duat, including Ruby.

Demigods & Magicians

The Crown of Ptolemy

Setne's reign of terror is finally brought to an end by the combined forces of Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Carter Kane and Sadie Kane who bind the ghost in a snow globe using a spell from the Book of Thoth.

The Senior Year Adventures

Wrath of the Triple Goddess

Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase use a pair of Hecate's Torches to summon an army of ghosts led by Peter Stuyvesant to magically fix the manse on Halloween. However, once they're done, the ghosts turn on the two demigods, Grover Underwood, Hecuba and Gale with Peter revealing himself to be a demigod son of Hecate who hates his mother and wants to purge New York City of her pagan influence. The timely arrival of the forces of Camp Half-Blood for a Halloween party that Percy and Annabeth had forgotten to cancel give the couple the chance to use the torches to banish the ghosts.

The Trials of Apollo

The Dark Prophecy

The ghost of Agamethus is revealed to have led Georgina to the Waystation and he uses a Magic 8 Ball to communicate.

The Dark Oracle proves to be the ghost of Trophonius, a demigod son of Apollo, who is located in Bluespring Caverns. At the request of Trophonius, Apollo allows the cavern and the Oracle to be destroyed after receiving a prophecy from his son's ghost through Meg McCaffrey. Trophonius suggests that the Oracle may reappear somewhere else more secure in a few centuries, or his spirit may be put to rest.

The Tower of Nero

The spirit of Jason Grace appears to Apollo in a dream to warn him about the creature guarding Nero's fasces.

The Nico di Angelo Adventures

The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure

In Tartarus, Nico di Angelo and Will Solace encounter the mania of Amphithemis. At Nico's request, Hades later promises to see to it that the centaur's spirit is laid to rest properly.

When Gorgyra's Canoe is passing through the Underworld on its way to Camp Half-Blood, Hades arranges a dream visit for Nico with the ghosts of his mother and sister.

The Court of the Dead

Nico and Will encounter the lares during their time at Camp Jupiter, particularly Vitellius and one named Marcus who helps Will to practice his archery.

Thousand Worlds series

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Dragon Pearl

After Kim Min is saved from pirates and brought on board the Pale Lightning, she meets Bae Jang, the ghost of a cadet who died saving her and, with his permission, takes his place.

Later on the Fourth Colony, the ghost of Kim Jun, Lieutenant Seo-Hyeon, and Eui are seen. Mim and her comrades use the Dragon Pearl to create a tomb for the restless ghosts of the Fourth Colony. Soon after the ghost of those Captain Hwan sent to their deaths, minus Jun, surround the captain and drag him into a nearby forest.

Tiger Honor

Jun appears as part of the team of Thousand Worlds Domestic Security agents tracking down Juhwang Hwan.

Pahua Moua series

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Pahua and the Soul Stealer

Pahua Moua is able to see ghosts.

Sikander Aziz series

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City of the Plague God

Sikander Aziz encounters a number of ghosts as he's drawn into Kurnugi. In the Mesopotamian afterlife, Sik encounters the ghost of his brother Mo who helps Sik to get the Flower of Immortality before he returns to the world of the living.

The Spirit Glass

Not Part of Riordanverse The following article/section is from the The Spirit Glass continuity under Rick Riordan Presents and not the Riordanverse canon.

Corazon Lopez is a babaylan with powerful necromancy abilities who accidentally wedged open a doorway into the Beyond in her grief over the deaths of Corazon's parents. During a visit to the Midnight Bridge, Corazon inadvertently draws the attention of the restless spirit Flordeliza de León who follows her home and steals Corazon's soul key so that she can roam the world searching for her son. With the help of Leo, Corazon embarks upon a quest to create a new soul key specific to Flordeliza so that she can be bound and forced into the Beyond. However, once the soul key is completed, the memories that it shows to Corazon causes her to realize that Leo is actually Flordeliza's son. After being reunited with her son, Flordeliza peacefully passes on to the Beyond with him.

Corazon's parents later reveal her role in wedging open the Beyond to her and that it is causing an imbalance in the world. After saying goodbye to her parents who pass into the Beyond, Corazon's soul key dissolves as the path that she had created into the spirit realm is closed.

Known Ghosts

• Minos
• Theseus
• Bianca di Angelo
• Setne
• Agamethus
• Kim Jun
• Bae Jang
• Lieutenant Seo-Hyeon
• Eui
• La Llorona
• Beryl Grace
• Hazel Levesque (formerly)
• Bryce Lawrence
• Mamurius Veturius
• Fezile
• Peter Stuyvesant
• Andiron

Abilities

• Cursing: Ghosts are capable of cursing places and people in order to cause them misfortune.
• Night Vision: Ghosts can see perfectly in the dark.
• Intangibility: As incorporeal beings, ghosts cannot touch solid objects, and they can pass through objects.
• Invisibility: Ghosts are naturally invisible to humans and even demigods, only divine and supernatural beings or demigods children of the underworld can see them clearly.
• Thermokinesis: Ghosts can lower the temperature, when they are close it begins to drop many degrees.
• Hydrokinesis: Some ghosts are able to create and manipulate water.
• Flight: Ghosts are able to fly and levitate in the air.
• Possession: Ghosts are capable of possessing human bodies.

Trivia

• According to Annabeth, most ghosts are never good advisors because they often resent the living. Minos is a prime example as he's been "guiding" Nico into summoning the dead in order to find out how to preform "a soul for a soul" that'll resurrect Nico's deceased sister, Bianca. In actuality, Minos was using the son of Hades to steal Daedalus' soul and bring himself back to life.

Gallery

Agamethus

Bianca di Angelo

La Llorona

King Minos

Setne

Mamurius Veturius

Kim Jun

Also See

• Lares

Pahua Moua series
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Main Characters:	Pahua Moua | Miv | Zhong Vang
Secondary Characters:	Lia Moua | Yeng | Bridge Spirit | Matt Moua
Minor Characters:	Hailey Jones | Jocelyn | June | Shao | Shee Yee | Mr. Taylor | Mr. Moua | Spike | Suad Nag | Cag | Hluas
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