Leontocephaline - A creation of Mithras that resembles a lion-headed humanoid entwined with a snake that has no head and no tail. In The Tower of Nero, he planned to give the fasces to Luguselwa to grant her immortality. Lotus-eaters – A group of humans who were previously encountered by Odysseus. A number of them run the Lotus Hotel and Casino in The Lightning Thief. The hotel is filled with arcade games that makes visitors not want to leave alongside the lotus cookies they serve. It's later revealed that Bianca and Nico were hidden in their casino for decades by Hades to protect them and keep them from aging. Lycanthropes - Humans that were turned into werewolves and who can only be killed by silver. They were created by Zeus after the first Lycanthrope, Lycaon, tried to feed him human flesh and then hired assassins to target Zeus in his sleep to test his immortality. They appear as the servants of Gaea and her giant son Orion in The Lost Hero and The Blood of Olympus. King Lycaon - The first werewolf who appears with his pack in The Lost Hero trying to kidnap Jason Grace and kill Leo Valdez and Piper McLean. However, they are thwarted when the Hunters of Artemis arrive and drive off the werewolves. Lycaon is injured by Thalia Grace and so he does not take part in the final battle at the Wolf House alongside the other werewolves. In The Blood of Olympus, Lycaon and his pack serve the giant Orion, hunting Reyna, Nico and Coach Hedge for him. The werewolves corner the three in Portugal, but Nico manages to kill Lycaon by stabbing him in the heart with Reyna's silver pocketknife. Lycaon melts into a pool of darkness which Nico then uses to shadow travel himself, his companions and the Athena Parthenos away from the remaining werewolves and Orion. Maenad – A bunch of Maenads appeared in The Demigod Diaries story "Leo Valdez and the Quest for Buford". They were seen skipping in a mall-shaped clearing in the Camp Half-Blood Forest where a Drakon appeared, and they easily killed it. Manticore – A monster with the face of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion. In Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, a Manticore (played by Daniel Cudmore) appeared as a top henchman of Luke Castellan. After killing Annabeth