Carter suffers at least one broken rib and loses his sword, but he also manages to escape through the portal, inadvertently pulling two of the criosphinxes along with him. However, Bast appears to help and quickly destroys both of the creatures. Egyptian Demons — The minions of Chaos who serve a variety of masters, in particular Apophis and Set. Their homeland is the Land of Demons which is located deep within the Duat. Bloodstained Blade — A demon who is bound to serve the Kane family, which he deeply resents and who acts the captain of the Egyptian Queen. In The Red Pyramid, Bloodstained Blade takes the Kanes into the Duat to meet with Anubis. He is disappointed when the Kanes refuse to release him from their service. In The Serpent's Shadow, Carter summons the Egyptian Queen to carry himself, Zia Rashid and Setne on their quest to get the Book of Thoth and Apophis' shadow. However, Carter makes the mistake of giving Setne permission to give orders to Bloodstained Blade and he orders the demon to take them to the Land of Demons and to kill Carter, an order that he happily complies with. After a battle, Bloodstained Blade is incinerated by Zia while Setne claims that he knew that Carter could take the demon and that giving him the order to kill Carter is the only way that Bloodstained Blade would have taken them to the Land of Demons. Death-to-Corks - A corkscrew-headed demon that had served Vladimir Menshikov for over fifty years. In The Throne of Fire, Carter and Sadie witness Menshikov dispassionately destroy Death-to-Corks with an execration, a powerful spell that uses a smaller representation of a target - in this case an ordinary corkscrew - to utterly erase a being from existence. Menshikov then uses the power generated by Death-to-Corks' destruction to summon Set. Face of Horror — Set's demon lieutenant in The Red Pyramid who pushes him to create a cataclysmic storm that will destroy North America, ostensibly to increase Set's own power. During the final battle, its revealed that Face of Horror actually serves Apophis who is possessing the demon with a fragment of his soul. Enraged over the defeat of his plan, the Apophis-possessed demon attacks Sadie Kane, but Carter is able to kill him by throwing his khopesh into Face of Horror's side. Before the demon dies, Apophis taunts the Kanes