Searchers are satyrs who have earned their searcher’s license. This allows them to dedicate their lives to searching for the god Pan, who disappeared several thousand years ago.
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Searcher Term Timeline in The Lightning Thief
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Chapter 12
...Grover grumbles that he won’t find Pan at this rate—this is why he wants his searcher’s license. Percy asks about searchers. Grover explains that the god Pan disappeared 2,000 years ago,...
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Chapter 22
...made for them. At the campfire that night, Percy watches Grover’s satyr friends admire Grover’s searcher’s license. Nothing can dampen Percy’s spirits; his cabin doesn’t feel lonely anymore. He has friends...
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...the shoulder, and heads off. Percy decides to believe that Grover will be the first searcher to return. The summer passes. Percy gets better at the climbing wall and at plotting...
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