Fablehaven Characters

Cautious But CuriousKendra is a bit of a rule-follower. When Seth wants to venture out into the forbidden forest, she tries to stop him, first by reminding him that it's tick season, and second by...

Stereotypical Younger (Annoying) SiblingIf you've got a younger sibling, you'll know what we mean when we say younger siblings can be pretty darn annoying. Seth is no exception to this—if anythin...

Awkward AncestorWhen the kids see Grandpa as they pull up at Fablehaven, he "wore a stubbly white beard. He was dressed in faded jeans, work boots, and a flannel shirt" (1.68). Grandpa is nice but...

Chicken LittleGrandma Sorenson has been mysteriously absent for some time now, and she wasn't even at the funeral where Seth and Kendra's mom pestered Grandpa Sorenson to watch the kids for a few w...

Wicked Old WitchWe first meet Muriel when Seth is exploring the forest and encounters her ivy shack, which is constructed around a large tree stump. Here's what Seth sees: Beside the stump, dressed...

Aging GracefullyWhen Kendra first sees Lena, she observes that: Despite her white hair streaked with a few black strands, her face had an ageless quality. Her almond eyes were black as coffee, and...

We first see Dale as "a tall, lanky man with large ears" (1.67) who follows Grandpa Sorenson out to greet Kendra and Seth when they arrive. He's a "second cousin" of Grandpa's according to Lena (6....

Hugo is a golem who stands nearly nine feet tall. According to Dale, he's made of "'Soil, clay, and stone […] Granted the semblance of life by a powerful enchanter'" (9.106). Dale compares him to...

Kendra and Seth's mom just lost her parents, Grandma and Grandpa Larsen, which means she's "on the verge of tears" (1.41) when she asks Grandpa Sorenson to take the kids while she and their father...

Kendra and Seth's dad seems like a steady, easygoing type of person. We learn on the car ride to Fablehaven that "Last Christmas he had decided that Almond Roca was his favorite candy and that he s...

Maddox is "taller than Grandpa and much broader, with curly brown hair. The layers of furry skins he wore made him look like a mountain man. He was missing the bottom of one earlobe" (6.96). Maddox...

When Kendra and Seth drink the milk, they're able to see that the butterflies and other insects that cluster in the gardens are actually fairies. And just like people, they're a pretty diverse bunc...

What, you may be asking yourself, is an imp? They're like the anti-fairy, which makes sense given where they come from. As Grandpa Sorenson explains it, an imp is: "A fallen fairy. Nasty little cre...

The fairy that Seth captures "had fiery red hair and iridescent dragonfly wings" (7.135). She's not happy about being stuck in a jar, but as nighttime approaches, she becomes frantic about trying t...

This mysterious figure has a shrine on an island in Fablehaven. All Kendra really knows about her is that she's immensely powerful, and the last time a human set foot on the island, he was turned i...

This little dude is a limberjack, which is sort of like a wooden puppet controlled with a rod and string that Muriel can play with and make move. Except when Muriel gets loose, she somehow transfor...

Kendra and Seth don't meet Warren in the book, so we don't either, but when Grandma is asking whether they've seen him, she describes him like this: "'Handsome and quiet? White hair and skin? Dale'...

Kendra and Seth first encounter Ephira on Midsummer Eve. She's "a coldly beautiful woman swathed in writhing black garments. The apparition's dark hair undulated like vapor in a breeze. Her pallid...

This dude sounds like the stuff nightmares are made of, and according to Grandma, Bahumat is "a powerful demon" who "terrorized the natives who dwelt in the region" (15.90). A bunch of Europeans ma...

According to Lena, satyrs are the original party animals—except she thinks that "they liven up a party too much" (7.42). She even goes so far as to assert that the satyrs would be a bad influence...

Though she apparently makes stew that's tasty enough for the satyrs to try to steal, there's not much else that's appealing about the ogress. Take her looks, for instance: She had a broad, flat fac...

On Midsummer Eve, this creature masquerades as a "tear-streaked toddler" (10.127) in order to trick Seth into opening the window—and once it gets inside, it transforms into "a leering gobbling wi...

Two other monsters get into the kids' room on Midsummer Eve, first masquerading as hungry wolves, and then transforming into "A twelve-foot centipede with three sets of wings and three pairs of tal...

Nope, not the Roman emperor—we mean the cliff troll who lives in Fablehaven. Not that a cliff troll is much better than a megalomaniacal ruler. According to Grandma, "'Cliff trolls are miserly cr...