She is left in the care of her non-magical grandparents in London after the death of their mother Ruby Kane. In various episodes, cousin Serena transforms Darren into a lamb, an ape and a statue. Abu is turned into an elephant and later a wind-up monkey toy. This page was last edited on 22 February 2021, at 08:01. After the death of his mother (when he was eight years old), he spent six years travelling the world with his Egyptologist father. After losing it in The House of Hades, she uses a drakon-bone sword given to her by the giant Damasen in Tartarus. In the comic book, the realm Prince Charming came from had its fair share of cursed folks being turned into all sorts of talking animals. In the musical, he is portrayed by James Hayden Rodriguez. She does so, and the frog, Subverted in "Husbandry". He becomes the host of Horus in the first novel, and often collaborates with and receives advice from the god. After his father is captured by the god Set during The Red Pyramid, Carter spends most of his time with his sister Sadie and uncle Amos Kane. This is Krudsky's major form of attack once he gains magical powers in, And once Peewit was transformed into a talking dog. This punishment is revealed in The Trials of Apollo. In The Hidden Oracle, Hedge, Mellie, Chuck, Piper, and Jason are spending the winter in Los Angeles. Sam's family already had a long history with the Vikings, even before her mother met Loki; Ahmad ibn Fadlan, an envoy of the Abbasid Caliph to the Kievan Rus', is one of Sam's ancestors, and the Varangians have since intermarried with Sam's family. Jason is described as having blond hair, blue eyes, and a scar above his upper lip (said to be a result of an attempt to eat a stapler at age two). Percy remarks on her ability to stand still for a long time at a charity event. Later, she changes him into a young woman and the (real) goat into a man as a subterfuge. During The Blood of Olympus, Nico,with the help of Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arelleno and Gleeson Hedge, transport the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood. Over the course of the series so far we have seen people turning into various substances including rock and crystal, vines, and smoke. Or that courage is more important than size. When Reyna was ten years old, he became a mania, or an evil insane ghost. He takes the death of Bianca very hard, becoming moody, secretive, and irritable. Their sister must make six other capes to break the curse, which the swans manage to put on when they come to rescue her and bring her kidnapped son back. Being sorted into a house is essentially being placed into a family while you are away from home learning about witchcraft and wizardry. (In either case, naturally, when they get turned back they're going to need those clothes back...). After Leo's encounter with Calypso, however, Leo becomes more relaxed around Hazel and their relationship becomes clearly platonic, much to Frank's relief. Her relationship with Nero is revealed at the climax, but her growing doubtfulness regarding Nero's ways, not to mention her already familiar friendship with Apollo, leads her to rob Nero of his chance of burning the Grove. He came to believe this was the fault of the gods and ended the House's policy of calling upon them; Ruby Kane's vision of Apophis rising changes his mind, but it is too late for him to make any real change. He is killed during The Burning Maze by the Roman Emperor Caligula after sacrificing himself to save Piper, Apollo, and Meg. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue YA adventure, own voices queer rep. Piper's main weapon is her dagger Katoptris, though she later acquires a magic cornucopia and uses it as a weapon. When Oleander's sisters track down Kavonn to ask for their little brother back they attack Kavonn as soon as Oleander is returned to his normal form resulting in him turning Oleander and Hydrangea into jackalopes. However, they can still cast a few spells as a lizard, and. Until meeting Cupid in The House of Hades, Nico also struggles to hide his homosexuality. Rachel is a mortal girl who can see through the Mist, the force that obscures gods and monsters from most mortals. In the novel, it's made clear that this isn't actually meant as a. Zia, who specializes in fire magic, later becomes the host of Ra and the two manage to destroy Apophis in The Serpent's Shadow. After being captured by pirates in The House of Hades, Piper asks Hazel to teach her sword fighting, using a jagged celestial bronze sword taken from the Boread Zethes. Dungeon Hearts come with a spell to turn people into chickens, which has been used multiple times. At the end of The Son of Neptune, Nico travels through Tartarus to find the monstrous side of the Doors of Death, an experience that leaves him haunted and weak. Her first act as the Oracle is to deliver the next Great Prophecy, setting the plot of the Heroes of Olympus series. A daughter of Ares and the former lead counselor of the Ares cabin at Camp Half-Blood, Clarisse is hot-tempered, courageous, strong, an incredible fighter, usually using an electric spear given to her by Ares, and a good military strategist. In The Blood of Olympus, it is revealed that Beryl Grace had become a mania, or spirit of madness. the protagonist's missing, presumed-dead childhood friend Lila. Also in The Lost Hero, he begins a romantic relationship with Piper McLean. She grew up in the 1940s in New Orleans, where her mother had a gris-gris shop. In the third book, Hearth decides to take othala, using it to summon Andiron's spirit to distract his father long enough for Magnus to pierce his heart. He is succeeded by Michel Desjardins as the House's leader. Her family is from Baghdad, Iraq, but has been raised by her grandparents in Dorchester since the death of her mother. "Sassette's Bewitching Friendship" sees a young witch transform Smurfette into a mermaid (for a good reason — she was trying to save Smurfette from drowning). we also get the annoying fellow with the long name getting turned into a sky blue, twelve-foot-tall donkey, floating above the ground and with giant wings. The movie features a slew of polymorphing potions going awry, and some of the results are much less than useful—becoming a turtle, a parrot, and a humpback whale are each pretty Baleful in their own right. When Hazel's mother changes her mind about helping Gaea, Hazel buries herself and her mother under the earth, delaying Alcyoneus's rebirth and killing them both. Frank then pursues a relationship with Hazel. He has curly reddish-brown hair and fur, acne, and a wispy goatee. Meg appears to Apollo in an alley of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan where she defeats two thugs, also sent by Nero to stage a robbery. Justified when it turns out to be the mother of a bear cub named Koda, the Stepmother steal the Fary Godmother's wand and ultimately turn Anastasia into a copy of Cinderella to steal the Prince away. Though now built like a professional football player, he is still as sensitive as before, and is embarrassed at his new appearance at first. her clothes don't come along for the ride, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, to have formerly been a freak show performer. Thus, it is a subtrope of curses. She is an accomplished horse-rider and skilled with a spatha. eventually turning into an eight-foot tall devil with glowing eyes and smoke coming from his nostrils, before turning back to normal, turning people into animals is the function of the secret weapon being developed by the Agincourt Project, they're all animals, turned human by a sorceress and forced to serve her. After she reverses the effects she still ends up. Many of the beings and creatures of Greco-Roman myths are humanoid—in other words, they possess both the intelligence and some of the physical features of humans. Percy asks the gods to release her at the end of The Last Olympian,[3] but she is still residing there when Leo becomes trapped on Ogygia in The House of Hades, having been released from the curse of being forced to fall in love with all those to fall upon the island rather than the island itself. Circe appears in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, turning men into guinea pigs. Born in the 1st century BCE, during the reign of Cleopatra VII, he witnessed the end of the Egyptian monarchy and the absorption of Egypt into the Roman Empire. Among the known members of Triumvirate Holdings are: Though not all the gods who appear in Rick Riordan's novels are truly Olympians (that is, gods who live on Mount Olympus), all Greek and Roman gods are generally considered to be a subset of the Twelve Olympians. Piper McLean is a daughter of Aphrodite and the famous actor, Tristan McLean. He was raised by the wolf goddess Lupa and her pack after his mother was compelled to give him up when he was two, then later lived at Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Half-Blood, where demigods born to the Olympians' Roman aspects receive their training. In truth, the imperious Jafar held passionate disdain for the Sultan. She is aggressive towards most demigods, including Percy, though she does respect and make friends with a few, including Percy, Annabeth, and Silena Beauregard. At the end of The Last Olympian, he is named a Lord of the Wild and given a seat on the satyrs' ruling council, the Council of Cloven Elders. The protagonist, Jasleth, is cursed to turn into a raven for one hour a day — and it's a different hour every day, at random, so he never knows when it's about to happen until it does. Lord Voldemort's pet snake, Nagini, is revealed. Percy is the first-person narrator in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Her main weapon is a short celestial bronze knife given to her by Luke Castellan. He suspected himself a son of Apollo, given his skill with a bow and arrow. Thalia has bright blue eyes and spiky black hair, and wears black eyeliner and punk style clothing. In the films, he is portrayed by Douglas Smith. Hearth is deaf and can only communicate with ASL (Alf Sign Language), though he is able to read lips. Nevertheless, she/he treasures her/his Fierro heritage, an ancient family who had lived near Mexico City as potters since before the time of the Aztecs. She is an Arab American who normally wears her Valkyrie armor and a green hijab, which doubles as a swan cloak (camouflage cloak). Between The Blood of Olympus and The Hidden Oracle, he begins a relationship with William Solace, a child of Apollo, after admitting to Percy that he had a crush on him and wanted to be lovers. She is also known for her liking of unicorns in the fourth book The Tyrant's Tomb. In season 2 episode 16, all the inhabitants of a village were turned into. Hazel Levesque is a fourteen-year-old demigod, a daughter of Pluto and Marie Levesque. The younger girl (now a giraffe) and Baby Smurf (now a tiny cheetah) promptly run off and get lost. Frank was described as 'cuddly' and 'fuzzy' and with a chubby, babyish face in The Mark of Athena, but in The House of Hades, after summoning the blessing of Mars to defeat a hoard of enemies, he transforms. Her father, Will Dare, is a rich businessman, a fact which she is rather adverse to. His mortal transformation makes him realize how miserable humans are in facing the gods. In The Blood of Olympus, he nearly dies several times while "shadow-traveling", which involves melting into shadows and teleporting himself to different places. Mortals are human characters who live outside of the world of magic and gods, though some may be aware of their supernatural surroundings. turns into a bear that immediately mauls her. A local farmer had been telling the rest of the town that a wicked sorcerer turned his wife into a goat, so when one day a disenchanter shows up who can lift the curse, he is forced to admit that he lied and is really just a, Vaarsuvius gets temporarily turned into a lizard by a greenhag. He is not fiery nor quick to anger. In the film adaptations, she is portrayed by Leven Rambin. Although they are able to speak and move on their own, their mental faculties have been altered so they can only think of doing the function of the tool they have become (Painter Smurf becomes a paintbrush and only wants to paint things, Tailor Smurf turns into a pair of scissors and only thinks of cutting things, etc.) Tyson also becomes an excellent smith with help from Charles Beckendorf. She is unusually knowledgeable about the Underworld because of her time there. As a result, the Delphic Oracle ceases to function, effectively halting demigod quests, and Zeus punishes Apollo. In battle Magnus can let the sword attack his enemies on its own or use his own strength and control the sword himself. Leo's remaining family blamed him for killing her and left him a foster child and runaway. She appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Lost Hero, the demigod diaries, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades and The Blood of Olympus. In the films, he is portrayed by Jake Abel. the Moon King is also subjected to this, having been turned into a normal human by Kubo, There's nothing you can do to restore the victims, but the villain gets. He is mentally about 8 years old, but very intelligent and compassionate. They force other people to worship them. In The Lost Hero, she embraces her brother Jason for the first time in years, only to learn that he had lost his memory. In an episode, Samantha turns a chimpanzee into a man, then back into a chimpanzee, then back into a man, and then finally back again into a chimpanzee. During the Roman War Games, after Percy impresses everyone with his battle skills and instincts, Mars appears, informing Frank that he is his son and is to lead a quest. Clarisse makes frequent appearances throughout the novels. She then joined the Hunters of Artemis and fell in love with fellow hunter Josephine, so sometime in the 1980s, Josephine and Emmie gave up their immortality in order to grow old together. Unlike most children of Aphrodite, Piper is not particularly concerned with beauty or fashion. This is a list of characters that appear in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles (which consists of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus series, and The Trials of Apollo series), The Kane Chronicles, and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. Instead, he usually thinks strategically to safely escape from danger. underlings who failed their boss one time too many). Though her curse was technically "undone," she still unwittingly turns into a crow whenever she feels embarrassed or scared. Inspired by a blueprint in Bunker 9, an abandoned bunker in the camp's woods, and a picture he drew in his kindergarten time, he also creates the Argo II, the flying ship the seven demigods of the Great Prophecy sail on to reach Greece. The prince's subjects in "The Iron Stove" were turned into mice by the Hot Witch. The episode "Field Of Screams" has a subplot involving this, Bud, Buck, and the new bug powder Kelly advertised called "Springtime in Baghdad". Instead of forging, Blitz excels in clothing design, making him a laughing stock among his fellow dwarfs, but after he wins a match against Eitri Junior, he becomes respected and eventually opens up a clothing shop. they've always been what they've just been turned into. Most of them fought against the Gods during the Titanomachy which ended with the Gods winning. Frogs, newts, and toads are so common that they have their own subtrope, Bewitched Amphibians. In The Hammer of Thor, Sam is unwillingly betrothed by Loki to Thrym in exchange for Mjolnir; in reality, Loki wants the Skofnung Sword, with which he can finally free himself. The trio have divided up North America into three major empires and are hunting for Oracles, which they plan to destroy. [20] Sam is then given a task by Odin to head towards Scandinavia and personally imprison Loki back before he is able to invade Midgard and eventually Asgard. He appears in The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena and The Blood of Olympus. Leo has the ability to create and manipulate fire, a skill that no child of Hephaestus has had for 400 years. turning animals into humans and vice versa. Stygian iron, unlike celestial bronze and Imperial gold, can harm both mortals and immortals. She has an extensive paternal family including Magnus Chase. A particularly nightmarish variant of this is a staple of the daemons and sorcerers of Tzeentch. Nico, despite being very powerful, is extremely lonely, much like his father. At some point before The Lost Hero, Nico finds Hazel in the Underworld while trying to visit Bianca di Angelo, only to find she has tried for rebirth. Jason Grace was a son of Jupiter and the mortal Beryl Grace, a TV star of the 1980s, and the younger brother of Thalia Grace (Hunter of Artemis). While shadow-travelling to New York, the trio stops in San Juan and visits Reyna's former house, haunted by the ghosts of her relatives. Until he falls in love with Calypso, a nymph third-generation titanness, in The House of Hades, Leo flirts with almost every girl he meets in order to cover up his insecurities about never finding love. Piper's relationship with her father is mutually affectionate but strained, in part because of the small amount of attention he spares for her. She comments on the similarities between Calypso and her half-sister Zoë Nightshade. There is also the Monkey King, an ancient mystical creature trapped as a puppet who turns people into puppets whenever someone pulls his leg. She does not worship the Norse gods as she is Muslim and believes in God. In The Sea of Monsters, Clarisse is given the quest to find the Golden Fleece. This becomes a story point in the first season, where Mirta is turned into a pumpkin halfway through by Icy. After Zeus killed their mother Maria, daughter of an Italian diplomat, whilst trying to kill the children, Hades wiped their memories and placed them in the Lotus Hotel, a place in Las Vegas where time stands still. Annabeth and Chiron remark that her personality and character traits (like her bravery and loyalty) are very similar to Percy's. In a moment of. Calvin is once turned into an owl by the Transmogrifier Gun, but accepts it when he realizes that he won't have to go to school. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. She has eaten the Hobby-Hobby fruit, which grants her the ability to turn people into toys and even, Ash Ketchum gets turned into a Pikachu at the end of an episode thanks to a rather careless magic spell coming from a. She is found and raised by Iskandar, the Chief Lector, after the destruction of her hometown by Apophis. Occasionally in fiction a character may manage to save the day while still under this effect, sometimes through use of the animal form's abilities. They may or may not lose their voice, or even their mental faculties (in which case someone else will have to seek the cure for them). He uses this to guide Percy to his rescue. Gleeson Hedge is a satyr first mentioned in The Last Olympian, as the author of a distress call sent to Grover Underwood. They can only be defeated by a god and a demigod working together. In The Hidden Oracle, Calypso comes to Camp Half-Blood with Leo and reveals that, due to her choice to leave Ogygia, she has become a mortal. Compare Taken for Granite (turning into a statue), Unwilling Roboticisation (turning from flesh into something mechanical). Of course, marriage to royalty would reverse the curse. Frank burns his stick for the final time in The Tyrant's Tomb in order to kill Caligula. At the end of the series, she and Percy plan to finish high school in New York and then attend college in New Rome. Later, in The House of Hades, Jason surrenders his praetorship to Frank, who uses its authority and Diocletian's Sceptre to lead an army of Roman skeleton soldiers against the monsters in the Necromanteion. It turns out that he has the rare power of transformation, which his crime family used for assassinations, messing with his head in the process so he wouldn't remember, and he turned her into a cat instead of killing her by turning her into an inanimate object. Wiseman tricks Esmeraude into putting a crown on herself that would boost her powers. He helps her escape to the world of the living and arranges for her to join Camp Jupiter. All are referred to generally as "Asgardians", but the Vanir inhabit Vanaheim as often as Asgard. She lives with her partner, Josephine, also an ex-Hunter, and their daughter Georgia at the Waystation in Indianapolis. In The Hidden Oracle, Nico mentions that Piper is currently attending school in Los Angeles, together with Jason. The protagonist's grandmother mentions a little girl that a witch transformed into a hen, which her parents kept. However, Leo and Piper have Mist-induced memories of meeting and becoming friends with Jason. During The House of Hades it is revealed that Jason has plans to return to Camp Jupiter to improve it with things he learned at Camp Half-Blood, such as giving the fauns (the Roman equivalent of a satyr) more rights and responsibilities. As he has been residing in Camp Jupiter for no more than a year, Frank is initially considered a probatio, or rookie, of the Fifth Cohort. Iskandar is the Chief Lector of the House of Life. By the end of the book, she/he assists Magnus in running the Chase Space, a shelter for the homeless youth. He used these cabbages to get revenge on an old witch and her daughter Lisbeth for treating him like crap, though later he uses another to return Lisbeth to her human form. In The Last Olympian, she and Percy start a romantic relationship. Polymorphing into a nonliving form is much less likely to be played for laughs and much more likely to be permanent. He is succeeded as leader of the House of Life by Amos Kane. ", the jealous Jeannie turns Tony's ex-girlfriend into a chimpanzee. Sadie Kane is one of two main protagonists and narrators; at 13 years old, she younger sister of Carter Kane. Triumvirate Holdings is a company that is led by three beings who are said to be the worst Roman Emperors in history. 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Due to her mother's abusive nature, Thalia had considered leaving home since she was little, but stayed to protect Jason. You retain some measure of sapience, except that due to character growth, they not only remained, the Wizard himself is able to use the word and turn it against them, then trick them into drinking the Water of Oblivion to make them forget the word and return them to a "blank slate". He's been turned into a frog, a beast, a dog, a bowling pin and much more, but thankfully since he's mortal he never remembers the magic he is under. It turns her into a mindless dragon instead. Nero taught her the arts of a demigod and gave her a pair of crescent rings which can transform into sickles made of imperial gold, before giving her a task to lure Apollo into the Grove of Dodona. Besides the ability to open locks with his mind, inherited from his father, he is first and foremost an excellent swordsman. Specifically, however, the gods tend to be distinguished by what side they fought on during the Aesir-vanir war, and not by their personal temperaments. After the Second Gigantomachy, Hazel is promoted to the rank of centurion of the Fifth Cohort, succeeding her boyfriend Frank Zhang. She is described by her teacher Chiron as "territorial about her friends", which is manifested in some moments of jealousy and distrust. Percy later fulfills his request. In. He can cast various runes, though doing such consumes his energy. The Norse gods fall into two general groups: the Aesir and the Vanir. Her father was murdered by "the Beast" (Emperor Nero) and she was subsequently adopted by Emperor Nero, considering them two separate people. He is of above-average height. Hearth is the first elf in a long time to focus on magic from runes, which he has studied extensively. Despite his often warlike and often overly aggressive attitude, Hedge is kind and understanding to campers in need. Her attempts to bring Luke back into the fold are an important theme in the books. office supplies. In The Ship of the Dead, Sam participates in the quest to stop the Naglfar from sailing in Niflheim and has sufficiently trained with Alex enough that she is immune to Loki's influence. He appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian. It is common for these "half-bloods," as they are known, to grow up unaware that they are not entirely human. Because the transformed smurfs have no interest in turning back into smurfs, Brainy Smurf must find a cure for the illness. Either way, it is Magnus who loses energy ultimately, though this loss is delayed until he next grips or sheathes Jack. Percy lives in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and is a New York Yankees fan, but found his life uprooted upon discovering his true paternity. Carter Kane is one of two main protagonists and narrators; a descendant of Narmer and of Ramses the Great. As Royal Vizier of Agrabah, he was presented as the Sultan's most trusted and loyal advisor. As a sorceress, Calypso can command wind spirits to do her bidding. Though he appears to be ten years old, he and his elder sister Bianca were born in the 1930s. In The Dark Prophecy, she saves Calypso, Leo and Apollo from the Blemmyae with crossbow turrets and lets the trio stay at the Waystation. Unlike the majority of Greek creatures, these beings are also unquestionably sentient and tend to have larger roles in the novel series. Also as of The Trials of Apollo The Tyrant's Tomb Hazel is now a praetor of the twelfth legion with her boyfriend Frank Zhang. It is their duty to prepare an army for the day of Ragnarök. In The Sea of Monsters, Tyson is introduced as Percy's bullied, childish friend. She also fears the Labyrinth because of what happened to her boyfriend Chris Rodriguez before she saved him. [19], Hearthstone (Hearth) is a light elf from Alfheim. Contrast with Hybrid Overkill Avoidance, where the subject is immune to further polymorphing because they're already supernatural. "All Work and No Smurf" is another notable episode involving transformations. He is skinny with pale skin and with short spiky blond hair, which, when combined with his black leather jacket, jeans, and a candy cane scarf, "makes him look like a character from a Japanese anime". The Sword of Summer (Jack) was Frey's weapon, currently wielded by Magnus Chase. He and Thalia are reunited in The Lost Hero, and Thalia later reveals that their mother told her that Jason was dead, and that this was what finally drove her to leave home. In "Fairy Tale", Iznogoud contracts apprentice fairy Blunderbell to turn him into the Caliph, but she gets it wrong and turns the Caliph into Iznogoud instead, then both Iznogouds into Caliphs, and finally she ends up turning Iznogoud and his (accidentally created) clone into clothes irons. When living with his father, Carter dressed "impeccably" like Julius even when relaxing, but adopts a much more casual style when he goes to live at Brooklyn House. In one particularly extreme case, she transforms a man into a bed warmer and forget to transform him back for hundreds of years, leading up to the bed warmer being put up as an antique in a museum. She can be stubborn and overconfident, much like her father. In the musical, he is portrayed by George Salazar. This can affect more than player characters. She is also occasionally able to see visions in her magic dagger Katoptris (Ancient Greek for "mirror"), which once belonged to Helen of Troy. Nico's suggestion that Percy takes on the curse of Achilles and his work to convince Hades to fight in The Last Olympian is crucial to the Olympians' success and earns him a short bout of fame. He turns her back after he figures out what's going on. In all his life, Frank has ignited the wood thrice, which he can do simply by thinking about it; the first time is while he is finding his way to Camp Jupiter, in bitter cold. Walt Stone is one of the twenty-first Nome's initiates, who arrives at Brooklyn House sometime in the second novel. In "Harris and the Mermaid", the mermaid Muriel uses a lock of his hair and a magic kiss to swap his legs and her tail, transforming him into a merman. As of current background material, this transformation was the retroactive effect of a curse Asmodeus placed on Baalzebul, which will change his form into a slug for a year if he lies to any devil. Enraged after the loss of her friend Silena, she later joins the battle with a fury reminiscent of her father's, slaying a drakon singlehandedly and receiving the blessing of Ares. Though she is much cooler than her boyfriend, she finds his inability to be cool endearing. She has caramel-colored hair and fair skin, some traits inherited from her mother Ruby. Annabeth also owns an invisibility Yankees cap, a gift from her mother. [17] He is often given leadership responsibilities and struggles to accept his role, until he willingly becomes pharaoh of the House of Life during The Serpent's Shadow.