The 39 characters

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The 39 Characters (English original title: The 39 Clues ) is a series of adventure books that began in 2008 by Rick Riordan and was completed by C. Alexander London in September 2016 with the 26th book.

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The series is about the two siblings Dan and Amy Cahill (11 and 14 years old), whose grandmother Grace Cahill dies one day and leaves a strange legacy. In a video, she offered all participants in the opening of the will a choice: either they should take a million dollars from their assets or embark on a kind of scavenger hunt. Although the siblings do not really understand the principle of the hunt, they decide against the million and go on the hunt for the signs that promise power over the world. In addition to them, six other teams go on the hunt.

From now on, the siblings will travel all over the world, supported by their au pair Nellie Gomez. They learn that many Cahills have helped hide the signs in the past and that they have been fighting over it for 500 years. But the hunt is not only difficult and mysterious, it is also very dangerous, because the other teams try to get each other out of the way again and again. Most teams try to get Amy and Dan out of the way because they consider them dangerous.

Characters

Surname Description / remark
Dan Cahill He is Amy's 11 year old brother, likes to collect all kinds of things, hates museums and libraries. He later finds out he is a madrigal.
Amy Cahill She is Dan's 14-year-old sister, likes books and museums, hates crowds, often moans at Dan's ignorance, was closer to Grace than Dan, and has feelings for Ian Kabra. She later finds out that she is a madrigal.
Nellie Gomez She is Dan and Amy's au pair because their aunt Beatrice did not take the children in. She became the first outsider to become a madrigal. She was hired by the madrigals to protect Dan and Amy and later becomes their guardian.
Mr. McIntyre He has been Grace's close confidante and gives the teams the first hint of one of the signs. He's allied with the Man in Black, he's a madrigal.
Alistair Oh He is the uncle of Dan and Amy, impoverished burrito entrepreneur, works alone on the hunt for the 39 characters, partly allies with Dan and Amy, is very opaque, is an Ekaterina.
Irina Spasky She is a former KGB agent, is a Lucian. She also works alone, but in Volume 6 it becomes clear that she has to partly obey Isabel Kabra, the unofficial boss of the Lucians. She has a lot of tricks up her sleeve, dies in a fire in Volume 6 after rescuing Allistair Oh and the two siblings Amy and Dan.
Ian Kabra He works with his younger sister Natalie as a team, is a Lucian. In Volume 3, he pretends to love Amy, but realizes that this is partly true.
Natalie Kabra She is the sister of Ian, is a Lucian.
Jonah Wizard He's also on the hunt with his father, he's cool and a world star. He does not appear that often, is a Janus, his mother is the leader of the Janus.
The Holt family There are five of them, also a team, are Tomas. In Volume 5 they ally themselves in part with Dan and Amy.
The Starlings (Ned, Ted and Sinead) There are three of them and they form a team, but they are eliminated in the first volume and are back in the tenth volume. You are Ekaterinas.
The man in black He chases Dan and Amy, but always stays in the background. He is an ally of William McIntrey, leader of the madrigals. His name is Fiske Cahill and is the brother of Grace Cahill and thus her great-uncle. He later becomes her guardian along with Nellie.
Saladin He is Dan and Amy's cat, only likes red snapper .
Isabel Kabra She is the mother of Ian and Natalie, the unofficial leader of the Lucians, extremely vicious.
Arthur and Hope Cahill You are Dan and Amy's parents, died in a fire started by Isabel Kabra. They too were on the hunt for the 39 characters. They were madrigals.
Grace Cahill She is Dan and Amy's grandmother. At her funeral, she gave the four branches of the family a choice: Either they get a million dollars in hand or they go in search of the 39 symbols. She was madrigal.

Seasons

The series consists of five seasons, only the first of which has been translated into German.

First season

Volumes

  1. The catacombs of Paris
  2. Mozart's secret
  3. The sword of the samurai
  4. Pharaoh's treasure
  5. The revenge of the Romanovs
  6. Danger at the end of the world
  7. The trail of the Zulu warrior
  8. Kidnapping in the Himalayas
  9. Call of the Caribbean
  10. The key to power

There is also an eleventh volume in the first season (English title: Vespers Rising ), which is the link to the second.

More seasons

The second season (English title: Cahill vs. Vespers ) contains six volumes and is about the united Cahill family who are now fighting against the Vespers.

The third season (English title: Unstoppable ) with four volumes is about the presidential candidate J. Rutherford, who stole the serum.

The fourth and penultimate season (English title: Doublecross ) also has four volumes.

The last season (English title: Superspecial ) contains only one volume, so it is the last book in the series. It was released in September 2016.

Authors

The book series was started by Rick Riordan ( Percy Jackson series ) and continued by other authors. Here is a brief overview:

  • Rick Riordan: Volume 1
  • Gordon Korman: Volume 2, Volume 8
  • Peter Lerangis : Volume 3, Volume 7
  • Jude Watson : Volume 4, Volume 6
  • Patrick Carman: Volume 5
  • Anne Emmert: Volume 8
  • Ursula Held: Volume 8, Volume 9, Volume 10
  • Linda Sue Park: Volume 9
  • Margaret Peterson Haddix : Volume 10

The five family branches

There are four different branches in the Cahill family: Janus, Ekaterina, Lucian, Tomas . William McIntrey warns Amy and Dan in Volume 1 about the mysterious fifth branch, the madrigals . All teams know which branch they belong to, just Dan and Amy don't. It is only in Volume 7 that they learn that they are madrigals.

Gideon and Olivia Cahill had four children: Katherine, Luke, Thomas and Jane. Gideon sacrificed his life and property to find a cure for the plague. The serum he developed also really protected against the plague, but had unexpected side effects. In the people who took the serum, it changed the DNA and developed unusual abilities. Each of the four Cahill children received a part of the formula for making it. Gideon was killed in a fire that destroyed his laboratory. His leftover children suspected each other of sabotage, and in the end the family broke up. They all went away and started their own Cahill clan branch: Katherine - Ekaterina, Luke - Lucian, Thomas - Tomas, Jane - Janus. The branches of the family have been fighting each other for centuries to find the next ingredient to make the serum with. Everyone wants to have the main resource in which all the forces of the four branches are united, not just that of their own branch. When a branch of the family comes close to the solution, the madrigals stop them. Therefore they are hated by everyone else.

Each branch of the family has special abilities: The Ekaterina are particularly intelligent, the Lucians are particularly cunning, the Tomas are particularly strong and the Janus are very talented.

The history of the madrigals

When the fire broke out, no one knew that Gideon's wife Olivia was pregnant with the fifth child: Madeleine Cahill, founder of the Madrigals branch. Olivia initially supported her husband. Later, however, she was appalled by what greed had done in her family. Her children were scattered everywhere and had their own agenda, she was alone with the baby. Olivia watched with horror as the serum drove the family apart. She raised Madeleine to believe that bringing the family back together was more important than anything. Madeleine Cahill swore an oath on her mother's deathbed that she would do everything in her power for it.

Rules of the madrigals
  • Madrigals take their mother's name.
  • MC knew the madrigals had to be the best of the best. These included Amelia Earhart , Anne Bonny , Mary Read , Nanny Sharpe , Mother Teresa , Frederick Douglass , Roberto Clemente .
  • The madrigals are the only branch in which active status must be acquired. To be born madrigals is not enough. You have to go through rigorous tests without even knowing it. The secret of the MA remains untouched. A couple of these trials arise from disputes with other branches or from character hunting.

The characters

  • Iron solution
  • tungsten
  • gold
  • myrrh
  • Amber
  • water
  • aloe
  • Liquid silk
  • rosemary
  • bone
  • Wormwood
  • zinc
  • Mother of pearl
  • honey
  • sulfur
  • Mazis
  • lily
  • copper
  • silver
  • phosphorus

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Each branch of the family had different characters. The Lucians symbols were already mixed together, but the bottle with these was drunk by Isabel Kabra and her husband.

Others

Mr. McIntyre mentions in Volume 1 that many well-known people are Cahills, such as B. Benjamin Franklin or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .