![]() But most of the time he appears as an ugly old man, with a greasy beard and a cone-shaped hat. Charon is shown to have a British accent, but as if he learned English as a second language.Ĭharon is tall, elegant, and handsome, with chocolate-colored skin and bleached-blond hair, shaved military style. He mentions that he wants a raise because he would like to buy more Italian suits, which he loves. ![]() He meets Hazel Levesque after her sacrifice, stating that it "wouldn't be proper" to leave her at the river's edge since she is a daughter of the Lord of the Dead.Ĭharon was stylish and witty in his answers. When Percy does this, Hades claims Charon keeps asking for more money after discovering Italian suits.Īfter the War Games, when Gwen comes back from the dead, she says, "There was a river, and a man asking. However, he is successfully bribed into letting them board the ferry when Percy gives him two columns of golden Drachma coins (and warns that if this doesn't work then he'll give more).Ĭharon asks Percy to tell Hades he wants a pay raise. Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood ask Charon to allow them to enter the Underworld, but he refuses. Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief He takes her back over for a second drachma after she got a box of "beauty" from Persephone. When a pregnant Psyche wanders into the Underworld on a final quest for Aphrodite, Charon initially refuses to take her over the Styx but has a change of heart once she gives him a fresh golden drachma. He sometimes grudgingly allows the living to enter Underworld such as Hercules, Orpheus, Aeneas, and Psyche. ![]() A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or drachma, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. He carries the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, that divided the world of the living from the dead. Charon was born from the primordial goddess of night, Nyx, through parthenogenesis (by herself).Īt some point, Charon became the ferryman of Hades.
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