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Hephaestus Cabin: Cabin 9 at Camp Half-Blood
The Hephaestus cabin is Cabin 9 at Camp Half-Blood. Hephaestus’s domain is smithing, craftsmen, fire, metalwork. This page sets out what the sources say about the god and the cabin, and which answers in the cabin quiz lead here.
Hephaestus, the god behind the cabin
The cabin is named for the god, so the god comes first. Here is what two separate sources say about Hephaestus.
- Domain
- smithing, craftsmen, fire, metalwork
- Roman name
- Vulcan
- Symbols
- hammer, anvil, tongs
Sources: Wikipedia: Hephaestus, Theoi: Hephaistos
The Hephaestus cabin in the books
Here is what the books and the author’s camp guide say about the Hephaestus cabin. Details that only one source gives, or that sources disagree on, are left out.
- The cabin
- Factory-like, with a second floor, a hidden basement and scrap metal.
- Campers
- Inventors and builders; forge weapons and armor; Keep working and tinkering all day
- Cabin-mates
- Nyssa Barrera
- Leo Valdez
- Charles Beckendorf
Sources: Riordan Wiki: Cabins, Read Riordan: cabin post of 2026-07-17, Rick Riordan: Camp Half-Blood cabins
Hephaestus in the cabin quiz
5 of the 90 answers in the cabin quiz give Hephaestus the top 3 points. Those answers are mostly about building and fixing things and loyalty and family.
Hephaestus can earn up to 19 points over the 15 questions and has points to win in 8 of them. Every match percentage is a cabin’s points as a share of the first-place cabin’s maximum score.
The two cabins whose points line up most closely with Hephaestus are Athena and Nemesis. If your Hephaestus result is close, read those two pages as well.
Examples of answers that give Hephaestus 3 points:
- Question 2: “Rig traps and trip wires before the horn blows.”
- Question 3: “In the workshop, taking something apart to see how it works.”
- Question 5: “Fix it myself, because everyone is counting on me.”
- Question 9: “Build something that works around it.”
- Question 11: “My tool roll, plus a few spare parts.”
Open the pages of the two closest cabins: Athena cabin and Nemesis cabin.How the score is worked out.
Questions and answers
What is the Hephaestus cabin in Percy Jackson?
The Hephaestus cabin is the cabin named for Hephaestus at Camp Half-Blood. It is Cabin 9. Hephaestus’s domain is smithing, craftsmen, fire, metalwork. Factory-like, with a second floor, a hidden basement and scrap metal.
Who is in cabin 9 in Percy Jackson?
In the books, Nyssa Barrera, Leo Valdez and Charles Beckendorf belong to the Hephaestus cabin.
Why did I get the Hephaestus cabin on the cabin quiz?
Because your answers earned more points for Hephaestus than for any other cabin. The answers that lead here are mostly about building and fixing things and loyalty and family. Hephaestus can score on 8 of the 15 questions, up to 19 points in all. The same answers always give the same cabin, so a different result means a different answer somewhere.