50 Fun Facts About The Kane Chronicles

In The Kane Chronicles, Sadie's pet cat Muffin is secretly the host of which Egyptian goddess?

Bast spent years guarding Sadie in cat form, a pact she made after Julius and Ruby Kane freed her from an age-old battle.

Julius Kane releases five gods in The Red Pyramid by using which famous British Museum artefact?

The Rosetta Stone was meant to release a single god, but Julius Kane accidentally frees five, and one of them promptly locks him in a sarcophagus.

Carter Kane was named after Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered which pharaoh's tomb?

Tutankhamun's tomb made Howard Carter world famous in 1922, a fitting namesake for a boy who spends six years travelling the world with his Egyptologist father.

Carter Kane first meets Percy Jackson while both hunt which giant magical animal on Long Island?

A crocodile brings the two heroes together in The Son of Sobek: an ordinary reptile grown to giant size by a magical charm, which they team up to remove.

Each Kane Chronicles novel is presented as a transcript of what, supposedly made by its two heroes?

Audio recordings explain the two voices: Carter and Sadie take turns narrating, and author's notes claim Rick Riordan merely received the recordings and wrote them down.

Which Egyptian god of funerals appears as a teenage boy and becomes Sadie Kane's love interest?

Anubis is more than 5,000 years old despite the teenage looks, and unlike the other gods he needs no host: he can appear in any place of death.

Brooklyn House trainee Felix, from The Kane Chronicles, has a strange obsession with which animals?

Penguins suit Felix's rare gift for ice magic, a talent nobody in the series has managed to link to any Egyptian god.

In The Red Pyramid, Carter Kane discovers he is hosting which Egyptian god of war?

Horus stays in Carter's head as an adviser, and the partnership pays off: by the end of the trilogy Carter takes the pharaoh's throne of the House of Life.

In The Throne of Fire, Carter Kane tames which mythical creature and nicknames it Freak?

A griffin obeys Carter because it is one of the sacred animals of the war god whose path he follows, which lets him steer Freak and partly understand him.

In The Red Pyramid, Sadie Kane becomes the host of which Egyptian goddess of magic?

Isis suits Sadie, whose own specialty is spells, potions and hieroglyphics, and Sadie keeps studying the goddess's path for the rest of the series.

Which giant serpent of chaos is the ultimate villain of The Kane Chronicles trilogy?

Apophis pulls the strings from inside his prison from the first book on, steering another god's scheme so that the chaos it creates will break him out.

Which god secretly possesses Amos Kane and builds the red pyramid of the first book's title?

Set turns out to be a necessary evil rather than the true enemy, so the Kanes end up striking a deal with him instead of banishing him.

Julius Kane, father of Carter and Sadie, becomes the host of which Egyptian god of the dead?

Osiris gains a permanent home in Julius, who dies of his own free will and stays in the underworld as the god's physical form, overseeing the Hall of Judgment.

Which relative takes in Carter and Sadie Kane after their father vanishes at the British Museum?

Their uncle Amos takes them to his Brooklyn mansion and reveals that the Kanes come from a long and proud line of magicians.

After her mother's death in The Kane Chronicles, Sadie Kane is raised in London by which relatives?

Her grandparents won custody of Sadie in court, which left Carter travelling with their father and seeing his sister only twice a year.

By following the path of the god of war, Carter Kane gains the power to turn into which bird?

A falcon is a sacred animal of the war god whose path Carter follows, and the same bond lets him command that god's other creatures.

Carter Kane's weapon of choice is a khopesh, which is what kind of ancient Egyptian weapon?

A sword is all a khopesh is, and Carter has trouble holding on to his: he loses one fighting a serpent monster and a later one to a giant hippo monster.

What do The Kane Chronicles call the enchanted clay or wax figures that can pass for real people?

Shabti can be very convincing: the young magician Carter falls for in the first book turns out to be a magical copy of the real girl.

Which dwarf god gives up his secret name to buy the Kanes extra time in The Throne of Fire?

Bes, a protector of the innocent, stakes his own name in a board game against the moon god and loses it, which wipes his memory until the Kanes restore him.

Which fire magician, Carter Kane's girlfriend by the end, becomes the host of the sun god Ra?

Zia Rashid spends the first book sealed in an underwater prison for her own protection while a magical double takes her place.

Which Brooklyn House trainee from Seattle carries a deadly curse passed down from Akhenaten?

Walt specialises in making charms because the curse advances faster whenever he casts magic himself, and it has already killed his father.

Iskandar and Michel Desjardins each lead the House of Life under which official title?

Chief Lector is a job for the long-lived: Iskandar was born in the reign of Cleopatra, and his successor counts as young at about 200 years old.

Carter and Sadie Kane descend from two pharaohs: Ramesses the Great and which early king of Egypt?

Narmer is the ancestor on their father's side and Ramesses on their mother's, and that double royal blood is what lets the siblings host gods as well as wield magic.

In The Red Pyramid, the villain raises his red pyramid in which American desert city?

Phoenix suits a god whose power comes from the desert, so Sadie wins the battle by opening a portal that moves the whole pyramid to Washington, D.C.

In The Throne of Fire, the Kanes find the second scroll of the Book of Ra in which Russian city?

St Petersburg is home to the Hermitage Museum, where the scroll is kept and where a villainous local magician wounds Carter with a snake.

Carter and Sadie Kane nickname the white-suited villain Vladimir Menshikov the evil what?

Ice cream man fits the look, with glasses over a heavily scarred face, but the Russian magician is deadly serious: he lets the chaos serpent possess him.

In The Crown of Ptolemy, the ghost magician Setne is finally trapped inside which everyday object?

A snow globe holds Setne after the Kanes and two demigod allies overpower him, and it ends up as a paperweight on Carter's desk.

Which Percy Jackson heroine teams up with Sadie Kane in the crossover story The Staff of Serapis?

Annabeth Chase meets Sadie after following a two-headed monster off the New York subway, and together they stop the god Serapis from being fully reborn.

Rick Riordan modelled Carter and Sadie Kane on two real siblings who had been his what?

Students he taught as a middle-school social studies teacher inspired the pair; the Egyptian theme came from noticing it was the one topic more popular than Greece.

Which streaming service spent years developing Kane Chronicles films before dropping the project?

Netflix was named as the home of a film trilogy in 2020, but after four years Rick Riordan revealed the project was in turnaround and would not go ahead there.

Jaz, a cheerleader from Nashville who trains at Brooklyn House, specialises in which kind of magic?

Healing magic means studying the lion goddess Sekhmet, as all Egyptian healers do, and Jaz pays a price for it: driving off creatures of sickness leaves her in a coma.

Which Egyptian god of knowledge is credited with founding the House of Life in The Kane Chronicles?

Thoth is the one god the House of Life still tolerates in the mortal world, and the Kanes track him down in Memphis for advice on two occasions.

In The Red Pyramid, Sadie Kane persuades the god of funerals to hand over which sacred object?

The Feather of Truth later proves its worth in the book's last battle, when Sadie uses it to reveal the real mastermind hidden in the sky.

When the Kanes finally wake the sun god Ra in The Throne of Fire, what is wrong with him?

He is senile, speaking only gibberish, and he recovers his mind in the final book only after merging with a young magician as his host.

Ruby Kane, mother of Carter and Sadie, died freeing a trapped goddess at which London landmark?

Cleopatra's Needle served as the portal to a cat goddess's prison, and Ruby gave her life to close it before the chaos serpent could follow the goddess out.

What name does the House of Life give its regional districts, such as the twenty-first in New York?

Nomes are numbered: Amos Kane leads the Twenty-first from Brooklyn, and after his possession he is sent to the First to heal.

What is the ultimate ambition of Setne, the scheming ghost magician of The Kane Chronicles?

To become a god, Setne steals the crown of Egypt and the power of two goddesses in The Crown of Ptolemy, a plan foiled by the Kanes and their demigod allies.

Which moon god wagers extra hours with the Kanes over a game of senet in The Throne of Fire?

Khonsu has form as a gambler: the sky goddess Nut once won enough moonlight from him to add five days to the year for the births of her children.

The five gods Julius Kane frees in The Red Pyramid were all born in which extra period of the year?

The Demon Days include December 29, the third of them and the birthday of the first book's villain, who times his great storm for sunrise that day.

In The Kane Chronicles, which hippo goddess is the only nurse at Sunny Acres, a home for old gods?

Tawaret nurses the dwarf god there after he loses his memory, and her patience pays off: he finally returns the love she has long felt for him.

In The Kane Chronicles, Michel Desjardins is the grandnephew of which decipherer of hieroglyphs?

Jean-François Champollion was a founding figure of Egyptology, yet his fictional grandnephew begins as the Kanes' enemy before dying to save them.

In The Crown of Ptolemy, which vulture goddess borrows Percy Jackson as her host in battle?

Nekhbet had earlier taken over Mrs Faust in London to test Sadie's strength, and in the crossover she urges her new host to destroy the villain, which he refuses to do.

The shadow in the title of The Serpent's Shadow is which part of the Egyptian soul?

The sheut is more than a backup copy of the soul in the trilogy: it is the mark a being leaves on the world, so casting out the serpent's shadow can destroy him for good.

In The Kane Chronicles, which kind of spell erases an enemy by destroying a small figure of it?

An execration costs Michel Desjardins his life in The Throne of Fire, and the Kanes later perform a stronger one using their enemy's own shadow.

In The Kane Chronicles, what is the Egyptian name for the cosmic order that opposes chaos?

Ma'at and its opposite Isfet are linked, so when the Kanes destroy the great serpent of chaos they push the gods of order out of the world as well.

Drew Tanaka and Lacy, who cross over into The Serpent's Shadow, are children of which Greek goddess?

Aphrodite's daughters are the only characters to cross between series in the three main novels; they turn up at a dance Sadie attends.

The Serpent's Shadow opens with a disastrous battle at an art museum in which Texas city?

Dallas hosts the House of Life's fifty-first district, where a museum holds a scroll the Kanes need; the attack destroys both the scroll and the district.

Besides being a powerful magician, Amos Kane of The Kane Chronicles is what kind of musician?

Jazz is Amos's other calling, but his magic carries a darker mark: after he hosts a god against his will, it leaves a red trace instead of blue.

In The Throne of Fire, Khepri, the sun god's morning aspect, takes the form of which golden animal?

A beetle is the last of the sun god's aspects the Kanes must recover, and taking it comes at a price: it frees the chaos serpent from his prison.

Brooklyn House trainee Cleo, of The Kane Chronicles, slips into which language when she is anxious?

Portuguese is Cleo's mother tongue, since she comes from Rio de Janeiro; an excellent researcher, she is tipped as the mansion's next librarian.