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RIORDAN WIKI

Camp Half-Blood

LOCATION Northeastern Long Island, New

York
[1] United States of America

POSITION Training Camp for Greek

Demigods

RULER Dionysus (camp director)

Chiron (activities director)

APPEARANCE The Lightning Thief

The Sea of Monsters
The Titan's Curse
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Demigod Files
The Last Olympian
The Lost Hero
The Son of Neptune
(mentioned/seen in dream)
The Demigod Diaries
The Blood of Olympus
The Serpent's Shadow
(mentioned)
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Keeping Young Heroes Safe from Harm (Mostly) For
Over Three Millennia!

Camp Half-Blood is a Greek demigod training facility

located on the north shore of Long Island. The camp is
directed by the god Dionysus, who the campers call "Mr.
D," and Chiron, a Centaur who is the activities director. It
is also the Greek counterpart of Camp Jupiter, a Roman
camp in San Francisco, California.

Chiron, the camp's activities director

The camp has magical borders which are enforced by

the Golden Fleece, retrieved by the satyr Grover
Underwood, the Cyclops Tyson, and demigods Percy
Jackson, Clarisse La Rue, and Annabeth Chase. Stolen
from Polyphemus' island, it was placed on Thalia's Pine
Tree, ensuring that no monster could get into camp.
The Fleece stays on the tree, guarded by the dragon
Peleus, its magical powers protecting the camp from
monsters and invaders.

The camp is described as being the only safe place for

half-bloods, although in The Heroes of Olympus series it
is revealed that there is a similar camp for Roman
demigods – Camp Jupiter, located in San Francisco.

The half-bloods live in cabins (one for each of the

twelve Olympians; later, many more cabins were added
for minor gods and goddesses after Percy's request in
The Last Olympian), and eat at the dining pavilion.
There is also an archery field, a sword fighting arena, a
climbing wall with lava for training, an amphitheater,
stables, an armory, and the Big House.

The camp's cover name is Delphi Strawberry Service, a

reference to the name of the Oracle of Delphi.

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Address

Camp Half-Blood, Half-Blood Hill, Farm Road 3.141

Long Island, New York 11954

The camp is in Montauk, at the end of Long Island.

Percy, his mother Sally Jackson, and Grover drive from
their cabin at the beach in Montauk. It does not take
them very long to get to camp. Besides, the two
Jacksons frequently go on vacation to Montauk, where
Sally and Poseidon met. However, the Camp is located
on the North Shore of Long Island, referenced many
times in the books, while Montauk is located on the
South Shore. This makes the camp's true location
uncertain. Percy says that the part of Long Island beach
connecting to the camp is invisible to mortals, except
for the ones who can see through the mist. Monsters
and mortals can't enter, unless permitted from the
inside. The address, 3.141, is believed to have originated
from the number pi, which is named after the Greek
letter.

A map of the camp

The main entrance of the camp is through Half-Blood

Hill, as mentioned in The Lightning Thief.

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History

The first six students were brought to Chiron to train by

Apollo back in Ancient Greece. Their names were
Aeneas, who fought for Troy in the Trojan War, the first
Jason, who captained the Argo, Achilles, who was
dipped in the Styx, Atalanta, who was a renowned
Huntress, Asclepius, Apollo's son, who went on to
become the immortal god of medicine, and the first
Perseus, who would kill Medusa.

According to various camp members, the camp has

trained some very famous figures since then, including
a few United States Presidents like George Washington,
son of Athena. Camp Half-Blood started out in Ancient
Greece at the foot of Mount Pelion, which was Chiron's
home. As it grew in size, he had to move to the base of
Mount Olympus, and one day Apollo showed up with a
horde of satyrs to help demigods find their way to the
training camp. Through the ages, Camp Half-Blood has
moved with the gods and the core of Western
Civilization.

It is a sanctuary for demigods, but before there were

magical borders, things were a lot more dangerous. One
night in Ancient Greece, a massive monster army
stormed the camp, which was almost wiped from
history that day. The next morning, the gods granted
Camp Half-Blood magical borders that have stayed
there ever since.

Five years before Percy arrived at the camp, Thalia

Grace, daughter of Zeus, came close to dying on the
border, willing to sacrifice herself to allow her friends,
Annabeth, Luke Castellan and Grover, to reach the
safety of the camp. In her dying moments, her father
Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a pine tree,
sustaining her life-force within it. Her tree's position on
the border enabled her spirit to strengthen the borders
of the camp. She later returned to human form and
joined the Hunters of Artemis. It is also mentioned in
The Demigod Files that before the camp had magical
borders, it was guarded by the Festus about 15 years
before it became defective and disappeared into the
woods. It is said that the bronze dragon was an o!ering
of the Hephaestus cabin to their father, and that it
protected the camp for approximately a decade before
getting lost.

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Percy Jackson and the

Olympians
The Lightning Thief

Percy, Annabeth and Grover set o! to the west coast to

recover Zeus' main weapon, the master bolt, before the
summer solstice, or else Zeus and Poseidon, Percy's
father, would go to war. In the end, however, Percy
manages to return the bolt to its owner, and returns to
camp as a hero, much to the delight of other campers.
However, after awarding Percy his first camper bead,
Luke betrays everyone by revealing himself to have
joined Kronos, the Titan Lord of Time and stolen the
bolt, and attempts to poison Percy with a pit scorpion.
Percy survives the encounter, collapsing after the
Arachnid manages to give him a sting on his hand
before he kills it, being saved by Annabeth and Chiron
and returning home for the rest of the year, but not
before Luke manages to escape and join his new
master's remains.

The Sea of Monsters

A quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece is given to

Clarisse after Thalia's tree had been poisoned by Luke
using elder python poison from the depths of Tartarus,
which weakens the camp borders allowing monsters to
have access to the camp putting all the demigods in
danger. Annabeth, Percy and his Cyclops brother Tyson,
not being invited, sneak o! to join the quest because
they fear that Clarisse would fail, teaming up with an
initially obstinate and reluctant Clarisse and rescue
both the fleece and Grover from Polyphemus,
completely blinding him but who however celebrates on
sinking their ship, and being rescued from Luke by
Chiron and his Centaur relatives. The Fleece, which can
make any land a paradise, heals Thalia's tree from near-
death within a few minutes and, by the end of the night,
separates Thalia's physical body from the tree.

Afterwards, it continues to maintain the borders at their

usual strength, even without Thalia's spirit.

The Titan's Curse

Grover finds a pair of powerful demigods, Nico and

Bianca di Angelo, whom are guarded by a fierce
monster called a manticore at Westover Hall. Percy,
Thalia, and Annabeth go to the demigods rescue. The
group meet the Hunters, immortal maidens under
Artemis's command, near the school. After a fight with
the monster, during which Annabeth is kidnapped, the
Hunters set up camp and Artemis asks for Bianca to
join the Hunters, and she accepts. Camp Half-Blood is
visited for a short time after Artemis has ordered her
hunters to return to camp while she went on looking for
a monster that the Titan army planned on using against
the Olympians. Being an old tradition, the campers face
the Hunters in a game of Capture the Flag, and are
defeated for the 56th straight time, much to their and
Chiron's dismay. While Percy and Thalia blame each
other for the loss and get into a small fight, their quick
fight ends when the Oracle appears and gives Zoë
Nightshade, the lieutenant of the Hunters, a quest. Zoë
begins to form a team for the quest, which excludes
Percy, as she does not want any males on the team.
That night, however, the Stoll brothers give one of the
hunters that was meant to go on the quest a poisoned
t-shirt as a prank, making her unable to join the quest.
Nico, worried for his sister, asks Percy to follow them
and make sure she stayed safe, which Percy promises
to do to the best of his ability.

Percy and the surviving quest members eventually

return to the camp, where Percy is left with the
unfortunate task of telling Nico that his sister had
passed away while saving the others during the quest.
However, Skeleton Warriors manage to sneak inside the
borders of the camp and attack the two. Nico then
opens up the earth, which swallows the warriors into
the Underworld, revealing himself and Bianca to be
children of Hades and then runs away from the camp
shouting that he hates Percy for lying to him and letting
his sister die despite her dying a heroic death and
saving the other members of the quest.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy arrives at camp to find out that it has hired a new

sword instructor named Quintus, who also has a pet
hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary. During a new game that
Quintus had invented, he sends several groups of two
demigods each into the camp's woods to find a gold
laurel, which is tied to one of six monsters in the woods.
During the game, Percy and Annabeth find an entrance
to the Labyrinth in between rocks in Zeus' Fist.
Annabeth realizes that this passage can be used by the
Titan Army to get past the camp's borders and attack
from within. Annabeth leads a quest from the camp the
next morning with Percy, Tyson, and Grover.

After Percy blows up Mount Saint Helens while running

an errand for Hephaestus, whose forge was captured
by telekhines, Annabeth eventually returns to camp to
break the bad news to everyone, and the camp holds a
funeral for Percy, who coincidentally arrives during the
ceremony. Percy and Annabeth return to the Labyrinth
with the aid of Rachel Elizabeth Dare, while Camp Half-
Blood prepares for the arrival of the Titan Army. Percy
and Annabeth return to camp after Quintus, showing
himself to actually be Daedalus refuses to help for a
little while after switching sides from the Titans and
they prepare for battle along with a reconciled Nico,
giving the news to the camp of the resurrection of
Kronos in Luke's body with Ethan Nakamura's allegiance
and that Pan has died, passing on his spirit to all
present at his deathbed and erging them to unite as
one and protect the world. Monsters begin to pour out
of the entrance, and with the arrival of Kampê on the
battlefield, the demigod forces begin to lose the battle.
The tide turns again, however, when Briares and
Daedalus return with Mrs. O'Leary and crush Kampê
with a pile of rocks,while Grover scares the army back
into the labyrinth. Daedalus then sacrifices his life to
destroy the entrance to the labyrinth at Camp Half-
Blood and the labyrinth itself, entrusting Mrs. O'Leary to
Percy and a laptop with details of all his inventions to
Annabeth.

The Last Olympian

Percy first arrives at camp after successfully destroying

Princess Andromeda, but at the cost of Charles
Beckendorf's death. Chiron welcomes Percy back, but
explains that the gods are currently away from
Olympus, as Typhon had managed to break free from
his prison after Percy exploded Mt. Saint Helens. Percy
realizes that the monster was a distraction to keep the
gods away from Olympus, and that Kronos' main army
would be attacking Olympus directly while the gods
were away destroying Olympus easily. Nico also appears
at camp to ask Percy if he had made a decision about
his plan to bathe in the River Styx. Percy agrees to do it,
and the two leave camp to go to the Underworld after
Percy receives a customary blessing from his mother.
Hades captures him however, but Nico frees him and
Percy bathes at the River Styx. With the help of the
blessing, Percy later defeats Hades and travels back too
Manhattan. Percy later informs the camp about his plan
and the attack on Manhattan, asking them all to come.

After the battle, with the demigods emerging victorious

due to Luke sacrificing himself to stop Kronos' rise,
everyone returns to camp in celebration. Percy and
Annabeth celebrate his birthday and o"cially become a
couple in the mess hall after sharing their first real kiss.
Several campers see this and immediately pick the two
up, and toss them in the lake. Percy, however, creates
an air bubble under the water, allowing the two to kiss
again. After the end of summer, Percy leaves camp with
his parents and runs down Half-Blood Hill with
Annabeth.

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The Heroes of Olympus

The Lost Hero

Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, and Piper McLean are taken

back to Camp Half-Blood by Annabeth and Butch after
they are attacked by Venti disguised as humans at
Grand Canyon and Leo gets claimed by Hephaestus
straight away. Annabeth gives Piper a tour of the camp
and finds her a weapon. That night at the campfire,
Piper is claimed by Aphrodite, while Jason shows o! his
abilities to control lightning showing that he has been
claimed by Zeus/Jupiter. The Oracle also shares a
prophecy with the rest of the camp, but it is specifically
directed at Jason. In order to be allowed to go on the
quest, Leo goes into the woods and finds the Festus,
which leads him back to Bunker 9, where Leo spends all
night adding wings to the dragon. The next morning,
Leo uses the dragon to take Piper and Jason on their
quest.

A pegasus, which is shown on Camp Half-Blood shirts.

After the quest, the trio returns to the camp. Leo and
Piper become the heads of their cabins, and Leo shows
everyone the existence Bunker 9. Chiron, once shown
to the bunker, tells the other campers that the bunker
was once used ages ago during the American Civil War
- which he states was just as disastrous for demigods
as it was for mortals - when the Greek and Roman
demigods fought one another.

The Son of Neptune

The camp is shown in dreams Percy had, showing the

campers working on the Argo II.

The Mark of Athena

While Camp Half-Blood is not shown, Leo Valdez is said

to have installed monitors on board the Argo II that
have real time video of the camp. Later, after Leo had
accidentally attacked Camp Jupiter and the seven of
the prophecy are on board the Argo II, he wonders if it
was a good idea to have installed the monitors. Leo
wonders if they made the Greek demigods homesick
after seeing Percy looking at one for a long time, gazing
at the sunset over Half-Blood Hill. He also wonders if
Camp Half-Blood seemed strange to the Roman
demigods, as it was very di!erent from Camp Jupiter.

As the Romans and the Greeks fight because of the

actions of the eidolons, Annabeth runs into Reyna, who
tells her that if she returned to Camp Jupiter and faced
trial, which would result in her execution, there could
possibly be some kind of peace. However, if she
continued to Rome, the Romans would find and wage
war against Camp Half-Blood. Annabeth goes o! to
Rome, asking Reyna to at least slow the Legion down.

Later, Piper McLean sees a vision of Octavian in

Katoptris, showing him planning invasion routes into
Camp Half-Blood.

The House of Hades

While traveling through Tartarus, Percy Jackson and

Annabeth Chase come across a shrine with food that
they realize is from Camp Half-Blood, having arrived
when campers sacrificed food to the gods. Using
Riptide as a pen, Annabeth writes a message to Connor
Stoll to give to Rachel Elizabeth Dare, instructing her to
contact the Romans and have Reyna transport the
Athena Parthenos from Greece to Camp Half-Blood as
a gesture of peace between both sides. Rachel,
accompanied by Grover Underwood, later meets with
the Romans and convinces Reyna to undertake the trip.
Although Reyna orders Octavian to leave the camp
alone until she returns, he immediately disregards her
orders and begins preparing an invasion of Camp Half-
Blood.

The Blood of Olympus

The Romans have set up base camp outside the camp

grounds and wait for the first of August to strike. Three
campers, Will Solace, Lou Ellen, and Cecil try to
sabotage the Roman's onagers but they are spotted
despite the fifth and fourth cohorts causing a disruption
throughout the rest of the ranks. The Greek camp and
its allies prepare for battle when Reyna returns the
Athena Parthenos, causing peace between the two
sides.

However, Gaea finally wakes and attacks the two sides.

They join forces to fight o! the monsters and rescue
the trapped cohorts. During the battle, the Seven finally
return on the Argo II with Leo Valdez, Festus, Jason
Grace and Piper McLean carrying the primordial
goddess into the sky and charmspeaking her to sleep
before Gaea is atomized by Leo's supernova explosion
of fire and an onager shot from Octavian who gets
caught up in it as well. In the aftermath, Gaea is
determined to have been scattered like Kronos, ending
the war.

In the aftermath, the two camps make peace and form

an alliance. Jason, having promised Kymopoleia to
honor all of the gods, remains at Camp Half-Blood with
the intention to travel between the two camps. Having
originally decided to leave both camps for good as he
didn't feel like he belongs, Nico di Angelo changes his
mind and moves into Camp Half-Blood full time.