A fourteen-year-old who discovers he is a host for the god Horus and a descendant of two pharaohs. Raised travelling the world with his father, he has no fixed home and no friends until the events of The Red Pyramid.

Carter's younger sister, raised in London with their grandparents. A host for the goddess Isis and one of the most naturally talented magicians of her generation. Funnier and more impulsive than Carter, she narrates half the trilogy.