It was first seen in the series in two pieces one with the upper bodies of a gray wolf and lion stuck to a hermit crab shell and piece looking like a black labrador retriever with its hind legs and tail replaced with a calcified tadpole tail.
Serapis's StaffSerapis's staff is exactly as the name would imply, it is Serapis's staff. This means a hat of invisibility worn by a magician can elude him, and a demigod casting Egyptian spells can harm him.
God King: Declared himself as one according to Carter.The Ghost: He's been dead since 283 B.C.A God Am I: Declared himself one, but the magic meant to make him immortal backfired on him.His work led to the rise of Serapis and paved the way for Setne, who perfected it. He tried to use a combination of Greek and Egyptian magic to try and make himself immortal, but failed. He declared himself a god-king, like the pharaohs. After Alexander died Ptolemy took over and tried to mix Greek and Egyptain religion.
įeatures the three short stories The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis and The Crown of Ptolemy, plus an exciting extract from The Hidden Oracle, the first book in Rick Riordan's latest series, The Trials of Apollo.PtolemyA general of Alexander the Great. With Setne determined to devour the gods themselves to obtain the gift of immortality, demigods and magicians must combine their powers to stop him, before it's too late. A crazed sorcerer, Setne, is stirring up double trouble, unleashing dangerous creatures from both Greek and Egyptian myth. When a mysterious magical disturbance draws magicians Carter and Sadie Kane to New York, they meet another pair of kids with abilities as incredible as their own: Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase!Īnd it's no coincidence that they've all been drawn to the Big Apple. Magic meets mythology in this explosive trilogy of short stories from Rick Riordan. Puffin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook addition of Demigods and Magicians, written and read by Rick Riordan.