List of The Edge Chronicles characters

This is a list of characters who appear in Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles series of books.

A

• Abe Quarter was Nate Quarter's father who lived during the Third Age of Flight; he was killed by Grint Grayle, who took his job as Mine Sergeant.
• Alquix Venvax was an elderly Librarian professor who befriended Rook. He was eventually shot by shryke arrows, after the evacuation of the Great Storm Chamber Library. Alquix appears in The Last of the Sky Pirates.
• Amberfuce was an amoral ghostwaif, a small frail creature with the ability to read, and empty, minds who lived during the Second Age of Flight. After working for several Sanctaphrax academics, the ambitious waif signed on with rising cloudwatcher Vox Verlix, who he saw had a brilliant mind. Amberfuce helped his new master him usurp the position of Most High Academe from Cowlquape Pentephraxis. In return, Amberfuce was made High Chancellor of Undertown and Sanctaphrax. Although he always took fees and taxes for his work, which nearly bankrupted the Undertowners until they were enslaved, he was eventually trapped with his master Vox Verlix in the Palace of Statues. After Vox set off the dark maelstrom, Amberfuce managed to trick himself out of Vox's palace along with his nurse, Flambusia Flodfox, ultimately leading to Vox's demise as they stole his only means of escape. Amberfuce soon decided to travel to the Foundry Glade. When he arrived, Hemuel Spume, the Foundry Master, bought plans from Amberfuce, designed by Vox, for huge machines that would tear the Free Glades apart that were called glade-eaters. He hoped that the plans would allow them to enslave the Freegladers, and make Spume and himself even richer through their alliance with the Goblin Nations. Amberfuce lived a life of total luxury in the Foundry Glade, cared for by a team of gabtrolls. Flambusia, also forgotten, found Amberfuce and, resentful because of her poor treatment, boiled the helpless waif alive.
• Ambris Ambrix was a student of the Fountain House school in Sanctaphrax in the First Age of Flight, and was in a class with Quint and Maris.
• Ambris Hentadile, or the Professor, was a fourthling who descended below the edge in order to continue his brother Ifflix's work in the Third Age of Flight.
• Ambris Loppix was a fourthling assistant lectern-turner during the Second Age of Flight.
• The anonymous banderbear that Twig met in Beyond the Deepwoods is never specifically named. Twig comes across this creature in the Deepwoods and, noticing that the bear has a rotten tooth, pulled the tooth out. The two of them start an idyllic life together, with the banderbear selecting which fruits would be good for Twig to eat, and destroying the poisonous fruits. This period of Twig's life, the happiest so far, was soon cut short, as the banderbear was attacked by its mortal enemies, the Wig-wigs. Twig survived, but the banderbear was killed. Twig wore the tooth he pulled from the banderbear's mouth around his neck.
• Arboretum Sicklebough was an ill-tempered tree goblin who served as the Hall Master of Storm Cloud in the First Age of Flight. Because of his debts in gambling on fromp fights, he was fired by Hax Vostillix, the Hall Master of High Cloud.
• Archemax was a Most High Academe famous for studying light.
• Argil was the founding Cavern-Mother of Maugin's termagent trog colony.
• Artillus was a librarian during the Second Age of Flight.
• Aurelius Ventilix was a Professor of Wind in ancient Sanctaphrax who covered the Academy of Wind in cliff-marble.

B

• Bagswill was a flat-head guard of Sanctaphrax in the First Age of Flight. He and Seftus Leprix plot to overthrow and murder Most High Academe Linius Pallitax, but are unsuccessful in their endeavors and end up accidentally poisoning themselves.
• Banjax was a Guardian of Night.
• Barnum Trapcott was a professor from the Fountain House in Sanctaphrax.
• Beggutt was a goblin who deserted General Tytugg's armies, and was a regular at the New Bloodoak Tavern in the Freeglades.
• Belphinius Mendellix, or Phin to his friends, was an academic-at-arms who befriended Quint after they met at the Knights' Academy in Sanctaphrax. Phin lived during the First Age of Flight.
• Beltix was an Upper Halls Squire at the Knights' Academy who died in the Battle of the Knights' Academy.
• Bikkle was Mother Bluegizzard's shryke-mate who helped her at the New Bloodoak Tavern.
• Blad was slaughterer who was part of the Ghosts of Screetown.
• Blatch Helmstoft was a mobgnome caverneer in The Farrow Ridges.
• Blink was Maugin's pet prowlgrin when she still lived with the termagent trogs. He was killed by an arrow when he escaped into the Deepwoods.
• Bogwitt was a member of the treasury guard in Sanctaphrax during the First Age of Flight. He later joined Twig's crew, and sailed aboard The Edgedancer. On a stormchasing expedition, Twig's ship exploded in open sky, and he fell to Undertown and lost his memory. He and Wingnut Sleet lived in the sewers underneath the boom docks in Undertown, until Twig found them. He then stayed in the school of Light and Darkness in Sanctaphrax, until Twig returned from Riverrise. He accompanied Twig aboard The Skyraider, but died of blackwater fever some years later.
• Bolnix was the Sepia Knight's prowlgrin.
• Bragknot was a Guardian of Night killed during the attack on the Tower of Night.
• Branxford Drew, the spoilt son of Friston Drew, killed Friston Drew because of jealousy that Nate was Friston's heir. Branxford was shot down over the Deepwoods when he tried to escape Great Glade to hide from the Great Glade militia. Branxford lived during the Third Age of Flight.
• Brazerigg was a sky pirate who was killed by a logworm on his journey to the Freeglades.
• Brisket Tatum was a slaughterer who was Keris Barkwater's cousin.
• Brove Gloamcheek was a lugtroll part of the Ghosts of Screetown.
• Brummel was a hat-tipper for Imbix Hoth.
• Bungus Septrill was an old earth-scholar who lived in Sanctaphrax during the First Age of Flight who tended to the almost-ignored Great Library of Sanctaphrax. He was a good friend of Most High Academe Linius Pallitax, and often ventured into the stonecomb. Bungus met Quintinius Verginix and Maris Pallitax when they also ventured into the stonecomb, trying to follow Maris' father Linius, who was making visits to the stonecomb (and the Ancient Laboratory). They were set upon by a rogue glister, a huge monster inhabiting the rock. Quint and Maris were almost killed by the glister, but Bungus rescued them, using a substance called chine to drive the glister off. Bungus brought Quint and Maris back up to the city of Sanctaphrax, but Quint managed to slip off with Bungus' cloak, wanting to find out what was in the Ancient Laboratory that Linius had reopened. Bungus arrived at Linius' Palace of Shadows and forces him to explain why he has been visiting the Ancient Laboratory. Linius revealed that he created a Gloamglozer, an old demon who had become extinct. Bungus, realizing that Quint was about to face the demon, hurried into the stonecomb, but is accosted by the rogue glister. Since Quint was wearing Bungus' cloak, Bungus could not access his supply of chine, and battled the glister futilely, but trapped the glister in its lair in the process.
• Burdle was Mother Muleclaw II's shryke-mate.

C

• Cade Quarter was the main character of the Cade saga in the Third Age of Flight. His uncle was Nate Quarter, who was the infamous descender of the edge cliff. However, Nate returned and Cade was wanted because of his uncle's infamous journey. He escaped to the Deepwoods so Cade to start a new life.
• Cal Barkwater was the brother of Tem Barkwater and grandfather of Rook. He apparently died before Tem, because Tem saw his image in the Twilight Woods and ran off to be with him.
• Cancaresse was a female waif who lived in Waif Glen in the Freeglades, and, during Xanth Filatine's Reckoning, judged Xanth's heart to be good.
• Captain Welt was a gnokgoblin officer in the Freeglade Lancers who allowed Rook to join the Freeglade Lancers.
• Carrafuce was a ghostwaif who lived in Riverrise and worked as a merchant in the Market Ledges.
• Cassix Lodestone was the dean of the School of Edge Cliff Studies in the Third Age of Flight.
• The caterbird was a bird who hatch from cocoons made by glisters. Caterbirds were highly intellectual, and could converse with other creatures of the Edge. Twig saw a caterbird hatch, and, as a result, the caterbird watched over Twig for the rest of his life, saving his life on multiple occasions.
• Cedifice was a waif who was part of the Freeglade Lancers in The Blooding of Rufus Filatine.
• Centius Thalladix was a Knight Academic of Santaphrax whose ship was lost in the Twilight Woods. He was captured by a shryke and was forced to guard the Phrax Glade.
• Centix Thripp was a descender part of Ifflix Hentadile's group that was driven mad by the effects of the cliff rock, and cut himself loose.
• Centix Verginix was the second son of Wind Jackal who died in the fire in the Western Quays.
• Chinquix was Rook Barkwater's prowlgrin when he served as a Freeglade Lancer.
• Chitling Tatum was a slaughterer who was the mother of Silver, Brisket, and Scrag Tatum and the wife of Gristle Tatum.
• Chopley Polestick was a woodtroll Timber Master of his village that helped Wind Jackal cut down a bloodoak.
• Cirrus Gladehawk was the captain of the Archemax, and was the last person to see Ifflix Hentadile alive, before he descended over the Edge cliff.
• Clodwit was a flat-head goblin who tried to assassinate Vox Verlix, but was instead sent back to General Tytugg with false memories implanted in his head by Amberfuce.
• Clud Mudskut was a mottled goblin who was bribed by Philius Embertine to steal stormphrax from the Treasury Chamber of Sanctaphrax.
• Codsap was a waterwaif who committed suicide after purposely falling off his tower ledge in the Tower of Night when Rook opened his cell door.
• Corporal Degg Fledder was a Freeglade Lancer in The Blooding of Rufus Filatine.
• Cousin Snetterbark was a woodtroll who Twig was traveling to when instead, he strayed from the woodtroll path.
• Cowlquape Pentephraxis (from the First Age of Flight) was the son of a brutal Leaguesman named Ulbus Pentephraxis and grandson of the old High Leaguesmaster, Ruptus Pentephraxis. In his youth, Cowlquape was often shy and retiring, and he felt he lacked a head for heights or a heart for danger. However, whatever skills he lacked in, Cowlquape made up for it with his constant thirst for knowledge. Cowlquape's wisdom was enhanced further during his latter days, and he became a much respected leader of his people when Twig granted Cowlquape the position of Most High Academe after the death of Vilnix Pompolnius.

D

• Dacia Vespius was the wife of Heft Vespius and was the guardian of Maris Pallitax after Maris' father, the Most High Academe, died.
• Daxiel Xaxis was the captain of the Gatekeepers at the Knights' Academy. He tried to take over the Knights' Academy unsuccessfully, as his army was defeated by the knights, and he died in the battle when Sigbord stabbed him in the heart.
• Deadbolt Vulpoon was a sky pirate, leader of the Armada of the Dead, and the son of Thunderbolt Vulpoon. He lived during the time in which the Edge was stricken by stone-sickness in the Second Age of Flight, and his piracy was limited to the occasional raid on the Great Mire Road against the shrykes. Deadbolt was captured by the shrykes during such a raid, but was freed by Rook Barkwater. Deadbolt managed to escape. Later, Rook and Felix Lodd convinced Deadbolt to abandon his headquarters, the Armada, and accompany the fleeing Undertowners to the Free Glades and away from the dark maelstrom which was destroying Undertown. Deadbolt, remembering his debt to Rook, complied and was one of the chief marshals, directing the huge crowd of Undertowners across the Edge. Deadbolt also took a major part in the Battle of the Lufwood Mount, commanding all the sky pirates. Deadbolt was a far more honourable sky pirate than his slave-trading father, partly because he lived his life believing that Thunderbolt Vulpoon had nobly sacrificed himself in order to save the life of Captain Twig.
• The Dean of Mist, an academic who was in charge of the School of Mist, was murdered by Seftus Leprix.
• Deg was a goblin who deserted General Tytugg's armies, and became a regular at the New Bloodoak Tavern in the Freeglades.
• Degg Fledder was a gnokgoblin Lance-Corporal who served in the 5th Splinter, 4th High Branch Troop, Scartree Company of the Freeglade Lancers late in the Second Age of Flight. He participated in a reconnaissance mission to the Foundry Glades that uncovered the threat posed by Lentil Spume but was killed in a Death-Cheater ambush during the retreat to the Free Glades.
• Dendrix was a prowlgrin who was owned by the Freeglade Lancers.
• Dengreeve Yellowtusk was a tufted goblin who was the leader of the Academics-at-Arms in the Knights' Academy of Sanctaphrax, and was falsely accused of murdering Hax Vostillix.
• Dex was a prowlgrin who was owned by the Freeglade Lancers.
• Digit was Maris' pet lemkin who died during the Endless Winter.
• Dilnix was a scholar of ancient Sanctaphrax.
• Duggin was a gnokgoblin sky ferry pilot who was invited to become part of Wind Jackal's crew after saving Wind Jackal and Quint.
• Dunkrigg was a hammerhead goblin under the command of General Tytugg.

E

• Eldrick Swill was a prisoner of the Guardians of Night who was kept prisoner in the Tower of Night.
• Ellerex Earthclay was the leaguesman in charge of the Melders and Moulders League in Undertown.
• Eudoxia Prade was the daughter of Galston Prade, a prominent phraxminer in Great Glade, who defended Nate from Branxford Drew. After an incident in a thousandsticks game in the Great Glade, Nate is seen as an outcast and helps Eudoxia rescue Galston Prade from a Gyle Palace. However, the pair are caught in a goblin army marching for the Midwood Decks, and A battle occurs and Eudoxia is shot almost fatally behind the ear. Clinging on to life, her friend Nate gets her aboard a friend of theirs skycraft and fly to Riverrise, the only place on the Edge that offers a hope to Eudoxia. Eudoxia lives, and her and Nate fall in love, but Nate then descended over the cliff edge, never heard from again, until the events of the Cade Saga occur.

F

• Fabius Dydex was a high professor in the Knights' Academy in The Winter Knights who died in attempt to save Squeak, one of his two quarms that he kept as pets.
• Felderforth was a waif-guide operating between Thorn Harbour and Riverrise during the Third Age of Flight. He helped guide Nate Quarter with his badly wounded friend Eudoxia through the thorn forest and was their guide again on the return journey in The Immortals (The Edge Chronicles).
• Felftis Brack was a fourthling with a strong strain of webfoot goblin blood who worked as Galston Prade's secretary during the Third Age of Flight in The Immortals (The Edge Chronicles). Thoroughly corrupt, he organised the takeover of the Prade Phraxmine by Grint Grayle, who was responsible for the death of the former mine sergeant Abe Quarter and began stealing from the mine's profits for his and Brack's gain. When Galston Prade refused to pay his neighbour's son Branxford Drew for a future share in Glemlop & Drew's phraxchamber works, Brack organised for Prade to travel to Hive, ostensibly to recruit players for the New Lake District thousandsticks team, only to discover that Brack had already organised this and be imprisoned by Hive Council. Brack then accepted the deal that his employer had turned down, before arranging with Branxford to have the phraxchamber works blown up, killing Branxford's father Friston Drew so he could inherit his money while Brack became the owner of the rebuilt workshop. Brack met his downfall when companions of Nate Quarter, a former employee at Glemlop & Drew's and Abe Quarter's son, alerted the Great Glade authorities of Brack's corruption after rescuing Galston Prade from Hive. Attempting to escape arrest Brack was caught by the New Lake thousandsticks team, who threw him into the lake for not paying them.
• Felix Lodd was a fourthling born during the Second Age of Flight. The son of High Librarian Fenbrus Lodd and younger brother of prodigal Librarian Knight Varis Lodd, great things were expected of Felix and his selection as a librarian knight-elect was taken for granted by his best friend Rook Barkwater, who would help him with the academic aspects of his studies while Felix in turn protected Rook from bullies. However, Felix's lack of academic aptitude counted against him, and Rook was chosen as a librarian knight-elect instead in The Last of the Sky Pirates. Devastated, Felix left the librarians' sewers without saying goodbye to anyone, leaving Rook his sword as a parting gift. Felix then began a new life in the rubble-strewn wastes of Screetown, learning how to survive on his own in the harsh environment and finding a new home in the buried remains of Orlis Verginix's Western Quays mansion, which he named the Sunken Palace. Over time other cast-outs and runaways who chose the same life banded together and formed the Ghosts of Screetown, whom Felix led in occasional raids against the Guardians of Night to free slaves. When Rook Barkwater was shot down over Screetown in Vox (The Edge Chronicles), Felix was able to rescue him and give his old friend shelter in the Sunken Palace before parting ways again the next morning. Later, during the destruction of Old Undertown by the Dark Maelstrom, Felix and the Ghosts played a crucial role in evacuating the city, helping the citizens reach safety at the Mire Gates in Freeglader. Felix was reunited with his father and sister after the evacuation, but was terribly hurt by his father's lack of pride in what he had made of himself. During the mass exodus to the Free Glades Felix and Fenbrus quarreled fiercely over differing priorities, but eventually reconciled when they partnered each other for the trek through the Edgelands. Felix and the Ghosts fought as the first line of defense against the shrykes in the Battle of the Lufwood Mount, using their grappling hooks to fight the shrykes in the treetops as well as on the ground. Felix spoke out against Xanth Filatine during the Reckoning after the arrival in the Free Glades, but was ashamed when he realized he had misjudged him. The Ghosts of Screetown disbanded after arriving in the Free Glades, only to rename themselves the Ghosts of New Undertown and fight in that town's defense during the War of the Free Glades, laying traps to stall the goblins' advance and sabotaging the Glade Eaters. After Felix's sister Varis was killed, Felix restored his father's hope by promising to become a librarian knight after the war. He led the defiant remnants of the Free Glades' defenders in the final confrontation with the massed goblin army in the barley fields, only for the goblin rank-and-file to kill their own leaders and throw down their weapons, declaring themselves 'friends of the harvest.'
• Fenbrus Lodd was the earth-studies High Librarian during the Second Age of Flight. As a young librarian he wrote his first treatise on prowlgrin husbandry, which he would later pass on to Rook Barkwater when he left the Librarians to join the Freeglade Lancers. A gruff, unsentimental man, he was nevertheless passionate about learning and the preservation of knowledge and was an effective leader of the Librarians, heading the Council of Five in their home in the sewers. He was proud of his daughter Varis, a prodigal Librarian-Knight, but had a stormy relationship with his son Felix, who chose a life of survival in Screetown rather than that of a Librarian. He oversaw the transferral of the Great Library from the Storm Chamber to a fleet of barges during the evacuation of the sewers and led the Librarians in their journey upriver to escape the Dark Maelstrom. He was one of the leaders of the mass exodus to the Free Glades, during which he constantly worried over the fate of the library scrolls and even prioritized them over living Undertowners. After the arrival in the Free Glades he became part of the Council of Eight and joyously oversaw the construction of the New Great Library on the edge of the Great Lake, outside which Oakley Gruffbark carved an enormous statue of him. However, the destruction of the library and all the knowledge it contained by the goblin armies during the War of the Free Glades paled in comparison to the loss of Varis, who was killed defending it. Everything he lived for destroyed in one night, Fenbrus had his spirit restored when Felix promised to honour his sister's memory by becoming a Librarian Knight as she had been and rebuild the library at his father's side. This they presumably did, as both survived the rest of the War and the New New Great Library became a prominent feature of the Free Glades throughout the following centuries. Fenbrus appears in The Last of the Sky Pirates, Vox (The Edge Chronicles), and Freeglader.
• Fenviel Vendix was the fourthling Hall Master of Grey Cloud at the Knight's Academy during the First Age of Flight in The Winter Knights. A strict, severe man in charge of the academy's prowlgrins, he struck apprentice Vilnix Pompolnius across the face with a riding crop for mistreating his prowlgrin. This act saw him ousted from the Knight's Academy when Hall Master of High Cloud Hax Vostilix became paranoid about earth-studies sympathizers and saw Vendix's punishment as indication of such, damaging a sky-studies apprentice for mistreatment of a creature of the earth. Increasingly bitter over the mistreatment of the academy's prowlgrins by Hax's crony Daxiel Xaxis Vendix lead the Treasury Guard and two giant fromps to the rescue of the Knights-Academic-at-Arms and Upper Halls Squires during Daxiel's attempted coup, ending the Battle of the Knight's Academy.
• Ferule Gleet was a scholar of the School of Colour and Light Studies. He painted Quint's sword miniature, and also forged letters for Vilnix Pompolnius in The Winter Knights.
• Ferumix was an ancient Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax who developed a formula involving stormphrax.
• Filbus Queep was a fourthling sky-pirate who crewed the Galerider under Captain Wind Jackal during the First Age of Flight. Once a Sanctaphrax academic, he was rescued from some murderous Raintasters by Wind Jackal and joined his crew as quartermaster, presumably replacing Turbot Smeal. When Wind Jackal's behavior became dangerous and erratic during the pursuit of said individual Queep was the first to postulate removing him from captaincy, but was ashamed into backing down when the captain himself overheard and reminded the crew of his loyalty to them. Queep shared an unlikely friendship with flathead goblin Sagbutt and often cooked with him in the ship's galley. When the Galerider became wedged in a lufwood tree and Sagbutt slew many of the attacking grey goblins only to be killed by an arrow, Queep rushed to the side of his dying friend and thus was oblivious to the final grey goblin, who stabbed him in the neck before jumping overboard. Queep and Sagbutt were given a joint funeral by the rest of the ship's crew in The Clash of the Sky Galleons.
• Finius Flabtrix was a professor of Sanctaphrax imprisoned in the Tower of Night in The Last of the Sky Pirates.
• Firemane Clawhand was the longhair-goblin second-in-command to High Clan-Chief Kulltuft Warhammer of Hive during the Third Age of Flight in The Immortals (The Edge Chronicles). Head of the brutal 'Bloody Blades' battalion, Firemane was Kulltuft's staunchest supporter, enforcing his will throughout the city. However, after the Hive Militia's disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Midwood Marshes, Firemane fell victim to a group of angry soldiers who shaved his head completely bald in an act of revenge. Now turned against Kulltuft whose short-sighted and bloodthirsty leadership had led Hive to ruin and caused his personal humiliation, Firemane murdered Kulltuft and presented his severed head to the uprising populace, expecting to be hailed as a hero. However, the new city leaders chided him for not having learnt his lesson, and sentenced him to death for murder. Firemane was the last being in Hive to be executed via 'barreling', being suspended in a barrel from a crane over a waterfall and being dropped in before being shot.
• Flabsweat was the overweight owner of an exotic pet shop in Old Undertown that imprisoned and sold sentient creatures as well as animals during the First Age of Flight in Stormchaser (novel). At some point he captured the caterbird, a noble if somewhat deceptive creature who watched over Twig Verginix since the day he was present at its hatching. Angered by this, Twig himself freed the caterbird, earning Flabsweat's ire. When Twig returned to Undertown Flabsweat angrily confronted him, but Twig threatened him into backing off at swordpoint. Feeling guilty for his thuggish act, Twig gave Flabsweat a gauntlet coated in water-purifying phraxdust, earning Flabsweat's gratitude and a promise of free merchandise. Twig later took him up on this, sourcing three of his new crew-members from Flabsweat's shop.
• Flambusia Flodfox was the nurse to ghostwaif Amberfuce during the Second Age of Flight in Vox (The Edge Chronicles). Variously described as having cloddertrog blood or being an actual female cloddertrog, she was large and fleshy and often carried Amberfuce in a basket on her back. Despite caring for her charge she grew to resent his high-handed, demanding attitude and intrusions into her mind, and secretly conspired with Hestera Spikesap to keep him weakened through use of Hestera's various concoctions. When Amberfuce double-crossed his master Vox Verlix he and Flambusia took Vox's place in the bower meant to carry him out of Undertown before the Dark Maelstrom struck, leaving Vox to die in the destruction of the city. Found out at the beginning of the mass exodus to the Free Glades the two struck out separately with the crew of the sky-pirate ship Fogscythe and journeyed through the Deepwoods to the Foundry Glades, where Amberfuce promised the sky-pirates positions as foundry masters only to betray them to Hemuel Spume, his business partner, who set them to work in the furnaces. Once in the Foundry Glades Flambusia was relegated to the position of a servant cleaner, disregarded and denied access to Amberfuce. Resentful of this treatment she tracked down Amberfuce once the Glades were abandoned in the aftermath of the War of the Free Glades and found him in a cauldron bath. Instead of helping him out she took revenge for the years of mistreatment and increased the water temperature, boiling him alive. Amberfuce's skeleton was discovered years later, but Flambusia's own fate is unknown.
• Forficule was a nightwaif who worked for Mother Horsefeather in the Bloodoak Tavern of Old Undertown, listening in on the thoughts of the patrons to detect trouble and alert Mother Horsefeather to those who needed more food and drink, as well as providing her an advantage in meetings with her clients in Stormchaser (novel). When Mother Horsefeather became involved in a scheme to convince sky-pirate Captain Cloud Wolf to acquire a cargo of stormphrax Forficule was sent to Sanctaphrax to tell Most High Academe Vilnix Pompolnius that the Professor of Light had died in a tragic accident, to cover up his travelling with Cloud Wolf. Unfortunately for Forficule Pompolnius did not believe him and tortured the truth out of him before cutting off his ears, leaving him deaf and destitute. As a consequence of this Forficule fell easy prey to the scammer Slitch, who took people's money in return for a fake method of safely converting stormphrax to phraxdust. Unfortunately for Slitch, deaf Forficule was unable to hear his instructions and detonated the stormphrax too early, killing them both in the explosion.
• Friston Drew was a fourthling phraxchamber-works owner who lived in the New Lake district of Great Glade during the Third Age of Flight (in The Immortals (The Edge Chronicles) and inherited sole control of the business after his partner Glemlop died. Friston's son Branxford grew up spoiled thanks to the affluence brought in by the business and frequently stole from his father, which lost him the affections of Eudoxia Prade. Hateful of Friston's young employee Nate Quarter since he first saw him, Branxford plotted with Felftis Brack to murder his father to collect his inheritance and frame Nate. Friston was killed when a phraxlamp Branxford sabotaged caused an explosion that destroyed the phraxchamber works.

G

• Gabmora was a gabtroll apothecaress who wandered the Deepwoods selling small cures and telling fortunes to the various forest inhabitants she came across. She met Twig Verginix as a lost youth and guided his use of the heartstick to help him discover in which direction his destiny lay but believed the charm to be broken when the stick did not fall and remained pointing straight up, not realizing that this signified Twig's destiny was to take to the sky.
• Gaddius Feludine was a solidly-built fourthling who served in the fifth splinter, fourth high branch troop, Scartree Company of the Freeglade Lancers late in the Second Age of Flight. Having led a violent past he found solace and a new beginning in the Free Glades, spending time in Waif Glen. He participated in a reconnaissance mission to the Foundry Glade and was killed during the return journey in a flathead-goblin ambush, taking ten of his assailants with him.
• Gala was a banderbear that participated in the Great Convocation of Banderbears when Rook was discovered in the branches above the valley.
• Galston Prade was the affluent fourthling owner of the Prade phraxmine at which Nate Quarter worked during the Third Age of Flight. Once a phraxminer himself, Galston suffered from 'phraxlung', a chronic disease that turned the air in his lungs to water vapour due to breathing in airborne phraxdust for much of his life. Rising to the top with sometimes unscrupulous methods, Galston became mine owner. Leaving much of his business's administration to his assistant, Feltis Brack, Galston was unaware of the corrupt goings-on at his mine and was easily fooled by Brack into making an unnecessary trip to Hive to recruit players for the New Lake district thousandsticks team. Captured by the Hive authorities, Prade was made a prisoner in the Palace of the Grossmothers where he awaited his eventual execution. He was rescued, however, by his daughter Eudoxia and some of her companions, who had fled Great Glade with her after being framed for the murder of phraxchamber works owner and Galston's neighbour Friston Drew. Though free, Galston was still near-death from phraxlung, but was healed by water from the Riverrise spring after Nate Quarter and the Immortals took a hand in liberating the city from the tyrannical rule of Golderayce One-eye. After ensuring Felftis Brack's arrest Prade dedicated himself to a new course in life and became one of the founders of the Archemax Yard, a philanthropic skyship yard that aimed to make the skies free for all to travel.
• Garlinius Gernix was a Knight Academic from the First Age of Flight who was sent stormchasing. Like many before and a few after him, Garlinius was unsuccessful, and became trapped in the harness used to descend into the Twilight Woods a few feet from the ground. Unable to get free, Garlinius succumbed to the living death of the Twilight Woods, robbed of his mind with no hope of rescue. Twig Verginix encountered his dangling body, still muttering encouragement to his similarly undead prowlgrin, decades after the Knight first descended into the woods.
• Garlus Lexis was an under librarian in Freeglader.
• Garum Gall was a cloddertrog sky-pirate who served as captain Wind Jackal's second-in-command aboard the Galerider during the First Age of Flight. He fought in and survived the battle of the Great Sky Whale but was later killed in a skirmish with slavers over the Deepwoods, hit by a crossbow bolt. His place as Wind Jackal's second was filled by the captain's son, Quint.
• Gilda was a young female gnokgoblin who lived in Undertown during the Second Age of Flight. While out on an errand for her elderly grandmother a group of goblin guards set their woodwolves on her just for fun, forcing her to 'escape' down a trapped drain that contained a misery hole. Later, Rook Barkwater would fall down the same hole, and comforted her before they were both lifted to the surface by slavers Mindip and Krote. Though he remained captive himself Rook managed to create enough of a distraction so Gilda could escape, carrying with her Rook's ceremonial sword. Later, Gilda took part in the mass exodus from Undertown, and during the journey through the Deepwoods attempted to return Rook's sword by leaving it outside the banderbear nest in which he was sheltering. Unfortunately the sword went unnoticed until found by Xanth Filatine, who used it to kill Mother Muleclaw III in the Battle of the Lufwood Mount but was later accused of stealing it. Gilda was not reunited with Rook until Xanth's Reckoning, where she helped reveal the truth about the sword. She then began a better life in the Free Glades.
• Gilmora and Gomber were a married gabtroll couple who worked as personal servants to Golderayce One-eye in Riverrise during the Third Age of Flight. They took Nate Quarter and his injured friend Eudoxia in after travelling with them through the Thorn Forest and helped pay for Eudoxia's medical bills. When the attentions of Healer Barkscale proved insufficient to save her, they plotted to help Nate slip past Golderayce's keep to access the Riverrise spring. Though Golderayce discovered their plan he was killed attempting to murder Nate, Eudoxia was healed and the city freed from his oppressive rule.
• Gizzlewit was a former slave of Hestera Spikesap in the Second Age of Flight who was killed by a cooling jar of powdered bloodoak acorns and phraxdust.
• The Gloamglozer was a shape-shifting demon created by Linius Pallitax in the Ancient Laboratory built inside the heart of the Sanctaphrax Rock during the First Age of Flight. Though originally a small, humanoid figure with large pitiful eyes it discovered how to feed on emotions and became particularly drawn to fear and pain, leaving traps for Linius to injure himself on. When Linius showed it its 'true' form as drawn in an ancient barkscroll it assumed the appearance of a floating, horned demon and became the mythological creature that had only existed as a superstition prior to Linius's act. Fearing its power Linius trapped the creature in the Ancient Laboratory, but the chamber was unsealed by his apprentice Quintinius Verginix. The gloamglozer gained Quint's sympathy in its original form before knocking him out and assuming Quint's appearance, tormenting Linius with false tales of his daughter's death before leaving him to his death when the Palace of Shadows caught ablaze. Assuming Linius's form it lured Quint onto the burning palace rooftop, but was injured when Quint threw chine sand into its face, leaving it badly scarred and prompting it to curse Quint with and his descendants with its vengeance. It later tried to prey on Quint's long-lost son Twig, helping him escape from various dangers in the Deepwoods in various different guises before luring over the Edge cliff and dropping him. Twig was saved by the caterbird, who dropped him on the deck of Quint's skyship where was reunited with his father. When the city of Sanctaphrax was lost to Open Sky the gloamglozer took up residence there, reopening the Ancient Laboratory and creating more of its kind over hundreds of years as the floating rock drifted through the air. When the rock returned to the Edge in the Third Age of Flight the many gloamglozers began luring whole tribes and clans of Deepwoods inhabitants to the city before chasing them off its edge to their deaths, gorging on their terror. They were ultimately stopped when the three Immortals, Twig, Rook, and Quint, arrived in the city from a supernatural storm and destroyed the gathered gloamglozers with lightning before Quint's essence stepped forwards and pulled the glister from the original gloamglozer's heart and crushing it in his gauntlet, destroying the demon completely.
• Gobrat was a low-ranking Guardian of Knight from the Second Age of Flight whom Rook Barkwater captured in order to access his keys and free Cowlquape Pentephraxis, who was a prisoner in the Tower of Night.
• Golderayce One-eye was an ambitious, tyrannical copperwaif who took control of the Riverrise spring in the Second Age of Flight, murdering Maugin the Stone Pilot to do so, and became dictator ruling over the city of Riverrise that sprung up below the Riverrise mount. As a ruler Golderayce suppressed all dissent, forcing all citizens of Riverrise to 'underthink' lest they be killed by Golderayce's assassin guards for thinking ill of their leader. He achieved this by controlling the flow of water from the Riverrise spring, limiting the amount made available to the sick and needy who had traveled long distances to reach his city but drinking regularly from the purest waters himself to lengthen his life. He was somewhat troubled by the presence of Twig Verginix, who had been carried to the Riverrise spring by the caterbird the very day he murdered Maugin, but was able to keep him prisoner in the Garden of Life. The same was true of Rook Barkwater, who arrived bearing the body of Cancaresse and shot Golderayce in the eye with a crossbow when he tried to capture him by force. Both fourthlings were forced to live forever in the Garden of Life, the water there prolonging their lifespan but unable to escape. Golderayce survived at least two assassination attempts during his three-centuries as tyrant and maintained iron control over the city until the arrival of Nate Quarter, who snuck past his keep to take water from the spring so he could save the life of his friend Eudoxia Prade. Golderyace gave chase and attempted to kill Nate, but the poisonous dart he fired was diverted mid-air by the caterbird, who sent it back at Golderayce. Golderayce was killed by his own poison and his body crumbled to dust. After his death, Nate released the water from the Riverrise spring so it would be available to all, and the Immortals became one with the sky in a supernatural storm.
• Goom was an adolescent banderbear who was caught in a spiked trap early in life and at some point captured by exotic-pet retailer Flabsweat. He was freed by Twig Verginix as part of a deal he struck with Flabsweat, however, and signed onto the crew of the Edgedancer. Sailing into Open Sky beyond the Edge, Goom was affected by the mind-storm like all the rest of the crew, and was thrown overboard by the following massive explosion. Landing in the Deepwoods, Goom was captured by shrykes, and his fate would have been to be thrown to wig-wigs for the Great Shryke Slave Market visitors' entertainment if not for Twig's timely intervention, holding Mother Muleclaw hostage so he could escape through the tree canopy. Goom traveled with Twig, Cowlquape and later Woodfish to Riverrise, where he, Woodfish and Maugin remained behind whilst Twig and Cowlquape were sky-fired back to Old Undertown to release the Anchor Chain of Sanctaphrax and therefore save the Edge by allowing the Mother Storm safe passage to Riverise so she could rejuvenate the waters there. Twig embarked on an epic voyage to return to Riverrise for Goom, Woodfish and Maugin, but was unsuccessful, and by the time he finally arrived there, borne by the caterbird with a crossbow bolt in his back, Goom had already departed to return to the Deepwoods life natural for a banderbear.
• Gorlan was a grey-trog citizen of Hive conscripted into the Second Lowtown Division during the conflict with Great Glade in the Third Age of Flight. A vineyard owner by trade he produced large quantities of sapwine and was trying for children with his partner. His vineyard and sapwine stores were confiscated by the Bloody Blades just prior to the war, and he was killed in the Battle of the Midwood Marshes.
• Graydle Flax was a high professor of the Knights' Academy in The Winter Knights.
• Grailsooth was an Oakelf that helped Rook restore his memory after he was caught in a sepia storm in Freeglader. Grailsooth helped Rook restore his memory by letting him sleep in a Caterbird cocoon. He then could dream the dreams of Caterbirds.
• Grim and Grem were twin cloddertrog sky-pirates who served as fighters in the crew of the Galerider under captain Wind Jackal during the First Age of Flight. They were killed in a fierce battle with hammerhead goblins on the deck of the Leagues' ship Great Sky Whale.
• Grimlock was a powerful but dim-witted brogtroll who served under Thunderbolt Vulpoon on the slave-ship Skyraider during the First Age of Flight in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax. As one of Thunderbolt's crew he was tasked with keeping the slaves quiet and obedient, but was not vicious by nature. When Twig Verginix boarded the ship on his quest to find his missing crew, he as was able to secure Grimlock's undying loyalty simply by giving him an ornamental coat owned by the Captain. After Twig overthrew Vulpoon, Grimlock became part of Twig's crew and joined his quest to Riverrise. Unfortunately Grimlock's lack of intelligence led to disaster, as he brought back stagnant water that the crew all drank. As a result, he, Bogwitt and Tarp Hammelherd died of blackwater fever.

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• Hax Vostillix was the Hall Master of High Cloud at the Knight's Academy during the First Age of Flight in The Winter Knights. Although well respected throughout Sanctaphrax, the winter that threatened to destroy the city caused him to send countless Knights-Academic to their deaths in pursuit of what he believed were Great Storms. However, his desperation blinded his rational mind, and even Quintinius Veginix, gifted but nothing more than a squire at the time, could see that the storms were only winter flurries. Screedius Tollinix was the first of many Knights Academic sent in vain, and the only one to survive, while the other stormchaser ships turned turvey in the cold as they disembarked, killing their pilots. Hax's gradual descent into insanity led to a fanatical purge of suspected earth-scholars, giving Hax the pretexts he needed to dismiss the other three Hall Masters, Arboretum Sicklebough for his gambling debts, Philius Embertine for having his underlings bribe Sigbord into stealing stormphrax from the Treasury, and Fenviel Vendix for striking Vilnix Pompolnius with his crop over mistreatment of his prowlgrin. This, along with his favouring of the Daxiel Xaxis's brutal Gatekeepers over the academic-at-arms, caused deep unpopularity in Sanctaphrax, and many vowed revenge for the injustices that occurred in his name. However, his death came from one of his former allies. Vilnix Pompolnius, who Hax had taken into confidence to root out earth scholar sympathies, was thus promised to be made an apprentice High Professor. After Vilnix learnt that, due to the desperate need for stormphrax, no such position was on offer and he was to be given a death sentence as a Knight-Academic, he disguised woodwasp eggs as delberry bonbons and left them for Hax, supposedly as a gift. Hax died in agony when the wasps hatched in his stomach and stung their way to freedom.
• Hebb Lub-drub was the lowbelly-goblin mayor of New Undertown in the Free Glades during the Second Age of Flight in Freeglader. He was seemingly fond of sapwine and formed part of the Council of Eight.
• Heg-tugg was the flathead-goblin High Commander of the Freeglade Lancers late in the Second Age of Flight. He was known as 'old wooden-leg' for his age and wooden leg replacement.
• Hekkle was a male shryke-mate and earth-studies guide who assisted Rook, Stob and Magda on their journey to the Free Glades in The Last of the Sky Pirates. He first met them in the Eastern Roost, where he introduced himself and provided them with disguises as shryke sooth-sisters so they could escape the city. After a tense journey through the Upper Roosts he got the four apprentices to freedom and led them through the Deepwoods, foraging for them and teaching them how to survive on the long, exhausting journey. When the group were scattered by a skulltrog attack he went back for Rook and led him to the Silver Pastures where Magda and Stob were waiting. When a logworm attacked the group, Hekkle saved Stob and Magda's lives by distracting it away from them. He then led all three apprentices to Lake Landing in the Free Glades, where he bade them farewell before returning to the Eastern Roost.
• Hemtuft Battleaxe was the clan-chief of the longhair and tufted goblins and High Clan-Chief of the Goblin Nations during the Second Age of Flight. A fierce and warlike leader he wore a cloak of shryke feathers each said to be picked from a different shryke-sister he had killed and led the Goblin Nations into war against the Free Glades in alliance with Hemuel Spume in Freeglader. He oversaw the enslavement of hundreds of his own subjects and his bloodthirsty leadership led to the deaths of many, either killed in battle or worked to death in Hemuel Spume's forges building the Glade Eaters. His invasion of the Free Glades was largely successful despite the destruction of several Glade Eaters and the death of Hemuel Spume, and he would have been victorious had thousands of his own infantry not been part of an informal alliance, the 'Friends of the Harvest', who rose up and killed their leaders, Hemtuft included, and presented their severed heads to the Freeglades defenders. Hemtuft's skull was preserved in longhair-goblin tradition and kept as part of the pile that supported the longhair clan-chief's throne through the centuries, and provided a source of inspiration for High Clan-Chief Kulltuft Warhammer hundreds of years later when he led the city of Hive into war with Great Glade. After Kulltuft's war effort failed Hemtuft's skull fell from the pile and cracked in two, shortly before Kulltuft was murdered.
• Hemuel Spume was a former leaguesman who moved to the Deepwoods and established a small forge. From humble beginnings selling tools and weapons to passing goblin bands, Spume's enterprise grew and grew, eating away at the Deepwoods to feed the increasing number of furnaces and poisoning the soil and air with the noxious fumes they produced. Relying on slave labour to keep the furnaces operating, Hemuel Spume's Foundry Glade stood in stark opposition to the pure air and shimmering lakes of the Free Glades, were all citizens were free. Highly ambitious and greedy, Spume entered into business partnership with Amberfuce, High Chancellor to Most High Academe Vox Verlix, and supplied the wood for the Great Mire Road and Sanctaphrax Forest. He also put Amberfuce in contact with General Tytugg of the Goblin Nations, whose army rounded up and enslaved the Undertowners to work on the latter project. Librarian-Knights occasionally raided the Foundry Glade to free slaves, and during one such raid to free captive banderbears Rook Barkwater deliberately took a poisoned arrow fired by a goblin guard to save one of the creatures. Spume's partnership with the Goblin Nations continued, providing them with weapons in return for slaves to work the furnaces, and Spume allied with the goblin High Council to build the Glade Eater machines that spearheaded the invasion of the Free Glades. Spume personally took part in the invasion, calling out orders from the platform of a Glade Eater, but his machine was sabotaged in New Undertown and sped out of control into New Lake where its boiler exploded, destroying the machine and killing Spume. After his death and the surrender of the goblin army the Foundry Glade was abandoned and remained so for many years until Hemuel's son Lentil attempted to re-create his father's success. He was thwarted by the Freeglade Lancers and took his own life in a vain attempt to preserve the secret of phraxfire.
• Hestera Spikesap was an individual that captured Rook in the third age of flight, and after his mind was wiped by Amberfuce the waif, he forced to put logs into the furnace to treat Hestera's "poor cold bones." The real reason was because Vox Verlix had a plan to destroy undertown with a dark maelstrom and give the guardians of night the power to cure new santaphrax.
• Hubble was an albino banderbear and sky pirate who served on the Galerider and Stormchaser under captains Wind Jackal and Cloud Wolf. He was recruited by Thaw Daggerslash when he was only slightly older than a cub to work on board his sky-barge Mireraider, but was treated poorly by the ruthless sky-pirate, poisoned by him to keep him from being a threat and then sold into slavery at the Great Shryke Slave Market. The timely arrival of Wind Jackal and the crew of the Galerider saved him, as Wind Jackal flew into a rage at seeing a sky-pirate enslaved, and Thaw arrived to convince Wind Jackal to buy Hubble back. He blamed Hubble's mistreatment and enslaving on a treacherous third crewmember, not revealing until later this man was Turbot Smeal, Wind Jackal's erstwhile quartermaster who set fire to the Western Quays to kill the captain's family. Hubble and Thaw both joined the crew of the Galerider where Thaw could not mistreat him openly, but Hubble was still cowed in Thaw's presence and was easily threatened into giving Thaw his vote in the shryke smile after Thaw secretly murdered Wind Jackal. Hubble was injured by a sumpwood grenade in a sky battle between the Leagues and the sky pirates in which the Leagues deployed the enormous sky-ship Bringer of Doom, but this turned out to be for the best as Hubble was unable to abandon the Galerider with the rest of the crew and was able to save new captain Quint's life when Thaw Daggerslash boarded dressed as Turbot Smeal and attempted to kill him. Hubble survived his injuries and went on to work alongside Stope in the Knight's Academy forge for several years, before rejoining Captain Cloud Wolf's crew years later as personal bodyguard on board the Stormchaser when he was ousted from the Knight's Academy by Vilnix Pompolnius. When Twig, Cloud Wolf's long-lost son, met the shipwrecked Stormchaser crew in the Deepwoods, Hubble recognised the boy as a friend of banderbears, and struck up a lasting friendship with him. During Cloud Wolf's quest for stormphrax at the behest of the Professors of Light and Darkness Hubble manned the helm of the ship to keep it on course while Cloud Wolf fought to defend himself in a mutiny by Slyvo Spleethe and Mugbutt. Hubble saved Cloud Wolf's life by swiping at Mugbutt at a critical moment, allowing Cloud Wolf to kill the goblin, and then furiously attacked Slyvo Spleethe when he held Twig hostage at knife-point, throwing the quartermaster overboard. However, he left the helm to do this, and the skyship spun out of control. He and the other crewmembers abandoned ship and landed in the Twilight Woods, where they regrouped and swore themselves to Twig as their new captain after he revealed he was Cloud Wolf's son. Unfortunately Hubble was badly injured in the fall and was only kept alive by the effects of the Twilight Woods. When the crew crossed into the Mire he began to suffer from his internal injuries and died not long after. The crew's treacherous guide Screed Toe-taker took advantage of this, cutting off Hubble's toes for the tiny crystals of stormphrax caught beneath them.
• Hudflux and Holt were twin gnokgoblins who served in the fifth splinter, fourth high branch troop, Scartree Company of the Freeglade Lancers late in the Second Age of Flight. They participated in a reconnaissance mission to the Foundry Glade and were injured in a flathead-goblin ambush, but survived the mission and continued to serve in the splinter.
• Hummer was a grey goblin who was Thelvis Hollrig's assistant in the sky shipyards during the First Age of Flight.

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• Ilmus Pentephraxis was a leaguesman, possibly the brother of Ruptus or Ulbus Pentephraxis. He bought Maugin as a slave; however she was saved by Quint. Ilmus gave chase to Quint, but his ship was destroyed by the Galerider's keel blades, and he fell to his death.

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• Jaspel was another one of Hestera Spikesap's slaves in the Second Age of Flight who met his demise because an exploding jar of bloodoak acorns and phraxdust.
• Jervis was a long-lived gnokgoblin who appears in various positions throughout the Edge Chronicles. In The Curse of the Gloamglozer he is a servant in the School of Mist in Old Sanctaphrax who abandons his job at the end of the novel after witnessing his master Seftus Leprix and Seftus's crony Bagswill floating past the window having drunk hoverworm venom. He is mentioned in Stormchaser as a servant to Most High Academe Vilnix Pompolnius who was dismissed for humming happily after becoming a great-grandfather. He reappears in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax as a crewmember on the Skyraider under Thunderbolt Vulpoon and at the end of that novel he and three other crewmembers transfer their allegiance to Twig and join his quest to recover his lost crewmembers from Riverrise. In The Last of the Sky Pirates Twig recalls to Rook that Jervis died on the journey, crushed by a section of fallen rigging.

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• Keris was the daughter of Twig, and mother of Rook. In The Lost Barkscrolls, she was one of the first people to travel to the Freeglades.
• Kobold the Wise was the leader of the thousand tribes in The Deepwoods. He lived some five to six thousand years before the books take place, known as the time of enlightenment. He united the tribes under the banner of the snake and trident, and resided at Riverrise. When the mother storm returned to the edge, the thousand tribes split up due to the mind storms and the location of Riverrise was lost, until Twig and his crew re-discovered it.

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• Ledmus Squinx was a Librarian under-professor who disliked Rook, and appeared The Last of the Sky Pirates.
• Lemuella Vandavancx was a professor of an unspecified subject in the Fountain House of Sanctaphrax in The Winter Knights.
• Lidius Pherix was one of many Knight Academics who were stranded in the Twilight Woods.
• Linius Pallitax was the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, and dreamt of reviving the Great Library by restoring Earth-scholarship to Sanctaphrax. He unlocked the ancient laboratory, and accidentally created a Gloamglozer during the events of The Curse of the Gloamglozer. Linius died in The Winter Knights from the burns he received when his home, the palace of shadows, was set on fire by the Gloamglozer.
• Loom was the twin of Meeru who lived through the First and Second Ages of Flight. He jumped after his twin when Meeru was shot and killed by a harpoon during the attack on the Tower of Night.
• Lud Sqeamix was the dean of the Department of Psycho-Climatic Studies in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax.

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• Magda Burlix was a Librarian Knight elect who went to the Free Glades to become a Librarian Knight. She befriended Rook Barkwater and Stob Lummus, who were also elected as the same time as her.
• Marborinus Quelt was a Most High Academe of ancient Sanctaphrax.
• Maris Pallitax was the daughter of Linius Pallitax, the most High Academe of Sanctaphrax. He soon died from burns after their home, the palace of shadows was burnt down by the Gloamglozer in The Curse of the Gloamglozer. Maris later married Quint Verginix, and had Twig, the main character of the Twig Saga. Twig discovers his parents in Beyond the Deepwoods.
• Maugin, also known as the Stone Pilot, was a trog who failed to turn termagant. She was captured by the slaver Zelt Pink-Eye, and sold to Ilmus Pentephraxis in the Shryke slave market. She was rescued by Quint, and joined his crew as a stone pilot when Ramrock was killed. She crewed aboard The Galerider, Stormchaser, and Edgedancer under Twig. The Stone Pilot was the only crewmember (aside from Twig) to survive the journey back from the catastrophic stormchasing mission. She was left by Twig at Riverrise, having been told to wait for his return. She waited for approximately fifty years, and was killed by a waif in The Immortals (The Edge Chronicles) just as Twig was returning after being shot in The Last of the Sky Pirates.
• Meeru was Loom's twin who lived through the First and Second Ages of Flight, and was killed by a harpoon shot by the Guardians of Night.
• Millwist was an under-librarian in The Last of the Sky Pirates.
• Minulis was Vilnix Pompolnius's servant in Stormchaser.
• Mim was a gnokgoblin traveling with her family who was led across the Mire by Screed Toe-taker (see Screedius Tollinix); Screed eventually killed them in the night.
• 'Molleen was a banderbear with only one tusk who rescued Cowlquape from the Guardians of Night in the Second Age of Flight. She was later lost to the pull of the Twilight Woods during the journey from Undertown to the Free Glades.
• Mother Horsefeather was a shryke living in Undertown. She owned The Bloodoak Tavern, and dealt in loans on sky pirate ships. She originally suggested the stormchasing voyage to Cloud Wolf in Stormchaser, and struck a deal with Twig (character), when he revealed to her the secret of safe phraxdust production. She would have been considerably rich, had Twig not revealed the secret to the entire population of Undertown by dropping shards of Stormphrax with instructions for the safe production of phraxdust over the entire town from his sky ship.
• Mothers Muleclaw I, II and III were shrykes, and all the leaders of the Eastern Roost. Mother Muleclaw the III was killed in the battle of the Lufwood Mount by Xanth Filatine.
• Mugbutt was an evil flathead goblin who was part of Cloud Wolf's crew. He and Slyvo Spleethe wanted to dispose of Twig in order to take control of the Stormchaser.

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• Nate Quarter was the protagonist of the Immortals saga, descendant of Quint and humble lamplighter of the third age of flight. In the book, "the Immortals", amongst other things, he and his band of loyal friends help to free the great cities of Hive and Riverrise from tyrannical rule. Nate also witnesses the destruction of the Gloamglozer at the hands of the Immortals, his ancestors, Quint, Twig and Rook. In "The Nameless One", he is said to have been punished for his crimes as a descender of the Edge. Nate is also the uncle of Cade Quarter, the main character of the Cade Saga.

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• Old Torp was a gnokgoblin travelling across the Mire with his family. They followed Screed Toe-Taker as a guide, but Screed killed them all in their sleep.
• Orbix Xaxis was the head of The Guardians of Night, and ruled New Sanctaphrax. He always wore a Phraxdust gas-mask, as he believed the air was contaminated. He died when he was struck by lightning in an attempt to heal the floating rock.
• Orlis Verginix, better known as Wind Jackal, was Quint's father. After the battle with the league ships, Wind Jackal returned home just to find his family's house set on fire by the evil quartermaster Turbot Smeal. Being the smallest in the family, his youngest son Quint managed to escape on to a neighboring roof top and was the only one to survive. Orlis was killed by Turbot Smeal in a sky wreck.

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• Palvius Quale was an under-professor of the Institute of Ice and Snow of Sanctaphrax who appeared in The Winter Knights.
• Petris Fillit was a Librarian Knight who wrote a treatise on oozefish.
• Petronius Metrax was a stranded Knight Academic roaming the Twilight Woods.
• Philbus Xant was an early Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax.
• Philius Embertine was the Hall Master of White Cloud at the Knights' Academy in The Winter Knights. He discovered a solution to the Endless Winter, but was caught and kept prisoner by Hax Vostillix after Philius bribed the Treasury Guard to procure stormphrax, and died within his confinement soon after.
• The Professor of Cloud or the Professor of Cloudwatchers was the dean of the College of Cloud in Sanctaphrax in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax who was lost in open sky when he remained on Sanctaphrax after the anchor chain was severed.
• The Professor of Ice and Snow was the dean of the Institute of Ice and Snow in Sanctaphrax.
• The Professor of Rain was the dean of the College of Rain in Sanctaphrax.
• The Professor of Wind or the Professor of Raintouchers was the dean of the Academy of Wind in Sanctaphrax. Along with the Professor of Cloud, he was lost in open sky when the anchor chain was severed.

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• Queltus Petrix was an under-librarian who traveled across the Edge to the Free Glades in Freeglader.
• Quelve Fundinix was a Most High Academe of early Sanctaphrax.
• Quiltis Wistelweb was a fellow squire of Quint at the Knights' Academy that was killed after being hurtled to Open Sky after an accident with a malfunctioning catapult in The Winter Knights.
• Quintinius Verginix was the main character of the Quint Saga, and son of Orlis Verginix, also known as Wind Jackal. Later, when Quint became a sky pirate captain, he was known as Cloud Wolf.
• Quode Quanx-Querix was the founder of the Knights' Academy, located in Sanctaphrax.
• Quove Lentis was the uncle of Nate Quarter, and was a powerful fourthling academic in Great Glade who was a direct descendant of Vox Verlix. When Nate came to Great Glade for help, Quove denied and refused Nate's request.

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• Raffix Emilius was an Upper Halls scholar, and later a knight academic-in-waiting, in Sanctaphrax. He was a friend of Quint, and journeyed with him to uncover the reason behind the cold weather that Sanctaphrax had been having.
• Rummel was a humongous banderbear in the Second Age of Flight who was killed by a crossbow bolt on Rook's mission to rescue Cowlquape from the Guardians of Night.
• Runnet was an apprentice in the School of Mist in The Curse of the Gloamglozer.

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• Sagbutt was a flathead-goblin sky pirate who crewed the Galerider under captain Wind Jackal during the First Age of Flight. A fierce fighter who was primarily on board for his usefulness in combat, he replaced the cloddertrog twins Grim and Grem who were killed in the battle of the Great Sky Whale. As part of the crew he formed an unlikely friendship with quartermaster Filbus Queep, sometimes helping the fussy fourthling prepare the crew's meals. When the Galerider was forced down by a storm on a voyage to the Great Shryke Slave Market and became stuck in a lufwood tree Sagbutt defended the deck against an attacking swarm of feral grey goblins, killing many of them before being himself killed by an arrow.
• Screedius Tollinix was a Knight-Academic from the First Age of Flight whose stormchasing voyage failed when he crashed into the Mire. As a Knight-Academic-in-Waiting, Screedius was a close friend to Knight's Academy Hall Master Philius Embertine. When freezing winter descended on Sanctaphrax and Philius discovered a way to end it by purifying Open Sky with stormphrax, Screedius agreed to carry out the mission for him, but before this could happen Philius was discovered with the stolen stormphrax and disgraced, and Screedius's loyalty to the Knight's Academy and his dedication to his calling won out over his loyalty to his friend. The first Knight-Academic sent to chase the winter storms by Hax Vostilix, Screedius vowed to return with stormphrax. However, the freezing winds caused his sky-vessel Windcutter to turn turvey and he crashed into the Mire. Screedius remained stranded for the rest of his life, his vow to return to Sanctaphrax with stormphrax warping his mind and morals and becoming a driving obsession. Going by the name Screed he acted as a guide across the Mire for desperate travellers, luring them to the wreck of his sky-ship and murdering them for their toes, from under the nails of which he could scrape tiny stormphrax crystals collected as his victims travelled through the Twilight Woods. He eventually met his end when he acted a guide for the wrecked crew of the Stormchaser, led by young Captain Twig. He was able to collect the toes of Hubble, who died of internal injuries sustained in their crash, and murdered Spiker for his toes, but was discovered by Twig whom he fought in a vicious duel. Just as Screed got the upper hand he was distracted by the Professor of Light, who recognized him and called him by his real name, which allowed Twig to stab him through the chest. In his final moments the evil fell away from his face to reveal the nobility beneath, and his final word was 'Sanctaphrax.' After his death the wreck of his ship provided Twig and Maugin a way back to Sanctaphrax, and his murderously collected chest of stormphrax crystals was used to save the city from disaster.
• Seftus Leprix was a fourthling sub-Dean of the School of Mist in Old Sanctaphrax during the First Age of Flight in The Curse of the Gloamglozer. A sly and conniving individual, he conspired with flathead goblin guard Bagswill in two attempts to assassinate the Most High Academe, Linius Pallitax. In the first attempt he had Bagswill cut the chain to the low-sky cage Linius used to reach the stonecomb, however it was not Linius but his apprentice Quint and daughter Maris who were in the cage at the time, and they both survived. Confounded by Linius' continued existence, Seftus and Bagswill attempted another scheme, this time sending poisonous hoverworm venom disguised as wine to the High Academe when he was recovering in bed from his ordeals in the Ancient Laboratory. Tweezel, getting wind of this, arrived at the School of Mist to thank the pair for their gift and sorrowfully inform them that Linius had died of his injuries (when he was in fact alive), and gave the poisoned wine to one of their servants. Seftus and Bagswill drunk their own poison in a toast celebrating Linius's death and swelled up with buoyant gas, floating out the window into Open Sky.
• Shem Barkwater was a fourthling who lived late in the First and early in the Second Ages of Flight. The son of escaped slave Cal Barkwater and nephew of sky-pirate Tem Barkwater, he grew up in the Free Glades and there met Keris Verginix, daughter of the sky-pirate Twig, when she came following the advice of the Great Blueshell Clam. The pair fell in love, married, and had a son, Rook Barkwater. When Rook was four years old the young family decided to visit Keris's slaughterer relatives in their village, despite the pleading of Shem's uncle Tem not to go for slavers were active. During the journey they were ambushed by slavers and both Shem and Keris were killed, though Rook escaped and was rescued by Librarian Varis Lodd.
• Sigbord was the flathead-goblin head of the Sanctaphrax Treasury Guard during the First Age of Flight. A fierce and intimidating figure, he loyally served the city and kept the sacred stormphrax that weighed it down safe. During the winter crisis he was captured and tortured by the Gatekeepers of Daxiel Xaxis into confessing that he had been bribed by Hall Master Philius Embertine through his corrupt forge masters into supplying him with stormphrax from the Treasury. Sigbord later got his revenge on Xaxis, arriving at the Knight's Academy with the rest of the Treasury Guard in time to save the Knights-Academic-at-Arms and Upper Halls Squires from Xaxis's attempted coup and killing the fallen Gatekeeper commander with a single downwards stab.
• Skillix was a fourthling apprentice of the School of Mist during the events of The Curse of the Gloamglozer.
• Sinew Tatum was a slaughterer who lived at the end of the First Age of Flight and married Twig Verginix, the sky-pirate who had once saved her brother Gristle's life when he was a youth lost in the Deepwoods. When Twig became ill on his journey to find the missing crew-members he had left at Riverise, his concerned crew left him at the slaughterer's village and Sinew nursed him back to health. The pair fell in love and Sinew gave birth to their daughter, Keris, but died when Keris was very young, leaving her to be raised by her Uncle Gristle and his family.
• Slip was a grey-goblin scuttler from the Prade phraxmine in the Eastern Woods during the Third Age of Flight. Kind-hearted but simple-minded from the effects of living beneath the Twilight Woods during his time in the phraxmine, Slip escaped the mine along with Nate Quarter when they both earned the ire of corrupt mine-sergeant Grint Grayle and accompanied Nate to Great Glade, where he became Nate's apprentice in a phraxchamber works and lived with him on their allotment, spending his free time cultivating a large and prosperous garden. When Nate was framed for the murder of the phraxchamber works owner Friston Drew, Slip was forced on the run with him and a group of others dubbed 'The Copperwood Gang' by the Great Glade authorities. While the group laid low as Nate recovered from a fall Slip risked capture to venture out every night and steal garments for the group's disguises. Escaping Great Glade on Squall Razortooth's phraxship Gladedancer Slip trekked with the others through the Deepwoods after the ship crashed, becoming an expert food forager and skilled shot with a blackwood bow. When the group arrived in Hive after passing through the Midwood Decks Slip once again made himself useful by helping steal disguises that enabled the rescue of Galston Prade from the gyle goblin palace. He also provided the two phraxcrystals from Nate's belongings that allowed the wrecked Archemax to fly again.
• Slitch was a gnokgoblin scam-artist operating in Old Undertown during the First Age of Flight. He would promise his victims a sure-fire method for safely crushing stolen stormphrax crystals into water-purifying phraxdust and let them kill themselves trying as a way to search for the true method. He was responsible for several deaths, but finally met his end when he targeted deaf nightwaif Forficule, who, unable to hear his instructions, crushed the stormphrax shard too soon, killing them both in the explosion.
• Slyvo Spleethe was a treacherous sky-pirate quartermaster from the First Age of Flight who served under Captain Cloud Wolf on the Stormchaser. Regarded as untrustworthy by the rest of the crew, his presence was the reason Cloud Wolf never acknowledged young Twig as his son. When he discovered the relationship between the two Spleethe was quick to take advantage, betraying Cloud Wolf to the Leagues in return for a large sum of money. Convincing Twig to stow away with his crony Mugbutt when the crew went stormchasing, Spleethe used Twig as a hostage during his and Mugbutt's mutiny. Though Mugbutt was killed Cloud Wolf was forced to surrender his ship as it entered the Great Storm, until Twig managed to escape and Hubble hurled Spleethe overboard to his death. Despite costing both their lives Spleethe and Mugbutt's mutiny was disastrous, as it disabled the Stormchaser at a critical moment and forced all the crew but Cloud Wolf to abandon the ship.
• Speegspeel was the elderly goblin butler to Vox Verlix in the Palace of Statues during the Second Age of Flight. A paranoid individual, he believed the statues in the palace were alive and trying to kill him. Though loyal to Vox he believed himself badly treated and was brow-beaten by Hestera Spikesap, who would slip non-fatal poisons into his food whenever he displeased her. When Vox planned to trigger the Dark Maelstrom he entrusted Speegspeel with the launching of his 'Baby' which would initiate the correct weather conditions with a huge explosion. Rook Barkwater managed to prevent Speegspeel from triggering the apocalyptic storm by hurling the head of Vox's own statue at him, hitting in the head and fatally wounding him. His last words were 'The statues got old Speegspeel at last.'
• Spelda Snatchwood was the female woodtroll who took in Twig Verginix as a baby when he was left in her village by his parents, Cloud Wolf and Maris in the First Age of Flight. A mother to several normal woodtroll children, Spelda loved Twig dearly, but the woodtroll upbringing she provided was never enough to disguise Twig's abnormalities as a fourthling. Eventually, after it became clear that Twig could not function in woodtroll society, Spelda tearfully bid him farewell and sent him to stay with cousins in another village. Twig did not return to his village until years later, arriving on the night of Spelda's husband and his adoptive father Tuntum's funeral. At Spelda's bidding Twig performed Tuntum's last rites, before farewelling her again for the final time.
• Spiker was an oakelf sky-pirate who crewed the Stormchaser under Captain Cloud Wolf during the First Age of Flight, serving as the ship's lookout. He was forced to abandon the ship along with the rest of the crew when it entered the Great Storm at the climax of its stormchasing mission and landed in the Twilight Woods, where he regrouped with the rest of the crew and accepted Cloud Wolf's son Twig as the new captain. He survived the journey through the Twilight Woods but was murdered in the Mire by Screed Toe-Taker, who cut off his toes for the stormphrax crystals caught under the nails.
• Spillins was an oakelf sky-pirate who crewed the Galerider under a total of four captains during the First Age of Flight. A wise and thoughtful figure, he served as the ship's lookout and was able to read auras, gaining insight into the moods of other living beings. After the death of Captain Wind Jackal he cast his vote for Wind Jackal's son Quint as the next captain, saying that he could see sorrow but also greatness in Quint's aura. He later survived the sky-battle against the Leagues' fleet spearheaded by the Bringer of Doom and escaped to safety when the ship hurtled.
• Spleenewash was a professor from the Fountain House in the First Age of Flight.
• Spooler was an oakelf sky-pirate who crewed the Edgedancer under Captain Twig during the First Age of Flight and served as the ship's lookout. Found by Twig as an exotic 'pet' in an Undertown shop run by Flabsweat, Twig freed Spooler when he was looking for a crew and took him aboard the newly built Edgedancer. Spooler sailed with the rest of the crew beyond the Edge into Open Sky, following the caterbird in search of Twig's father, and was thrown overboard in a tumultuous explosion. Landing in an Undertown fish-market unharmed but with a damaged memory he was captured by slavers and taken aboard the Skyraider captained by Thunderbolt Vulpoon. He was discovered in the hold by Twig and Cowlquape Pentephraxis, who freed him, and then persuaded the pair to use him a guide while they explored the Great Shryke Slave Market. There he aided in the rescue of Goom from the Wig-Wig Arena and escaped with the others into the Deepwoods, but was killed in the forest by a thicket of blood-sucking reed-eels.
• Squall Razortooth was a sky-pirate from the Third Age of Flight who lived in a pit-house in the Northern Outer City district of Great Glade. Thrown out of the city's flight academy after a drunken brawl, he became a factory worker while he saved and pilfered enough supplies to construct his own phraxlighter, the Gladedancer. He then made a living as a sky-pirate, running contraband and ferrying passengers, until he had enough money to visit his home settlement. Finding the settlement deserted he returned to Great Glade on the skytavern Deadbolt Vulpoon where he lost all his money at the gaming tables, but was saved by the pity of Ambris Hentadile, who gave him enough money to survive until he reached home. Ten years later he was able to repay the debt, helping Hentadile and several others escape from Great Glade in the Gladedancer after they were falsely implicated in the death of phraxchamber works owner Friston Drew.
• Steg Jambles was a sky-pirate who crewed the Galerider under captain Wind Jackal during the First Age of Flight. As the ship's harpooner he was responsible for many vital duties such as lowering Wind Jackal and Quint in rope harnesses so they could reach the Edge Cliff Quarries. During the events of Cloud Wolf it was he who trained the ship's ratbirds to track the Leagues' ship Great Sky Whale by scent. When Quint rescued young slave Tem Barkwater from a flogging and took him on board the Galerider, Steg took Tem on as his apprentice and trained him as a harpooner, showing compassion towards the traumatised youth. When the crew of the Galerider participated in a bloodoak tree-felling Steg helped Tem get over his fear of the carnivorous tree but was killed during the felling, ingested by the tree and hauled out by Tem who cut it down but too late to save him.
• Stile was a sky-pirate of unspecified race who crewed the Skyraider under Captains Thunderbolt Vulpoon and Twig during the First Age of Flight. A cook with twisted spine and an ungainly walk, he transferred his allegiance from Thunderbolt Vulpoon to Twig after Thunderbolt was killed in the Wig-Wig Arena of the Great Shryke Slave Market and joined Twig's crew on his quest to find his lost crew-members at Riverise but did not survive the journey, dying of a broken heart after several other crew members were killed.
• Stob Lummus was a fourthling Librarian born in the sewers of Undertown during the Second Age of Flight. Despite being the son of a sewer guard Stob displayed a great aptitude for academic learning and was chosen as a Librarian Knight-elect along with Magda Burlix and Rook Barkwater. Stob was not a pleasant travelling companion during the dangerous journey to the Free Glades, his arrogance and condescension directed towards Rook in particular as a former under-librarian, but despite this both Rook and Magda came to see him as an older brother after surviving many perils with him and he began to look out for both of them. In the Free Glades he trained as a Librarian Knight alongside Rook, Magda and newcomer Xanth Filatine, but did not trust or like Xanth very much. He carved his sky-craft in the shape of a hammelhorn and named it the same, but crashed it into a tree during the group's disastrous first flight which he had suggested. He and Magda visited Rook to say goodbye before they departed for their treatise-voyages after Rook was shot with a poisoned arrow. For his treatise-voyage Stob studied the growth of coppertrees. He and Rook reunited a few years later after the destruction of Old Undertown and the exodus to the Free Glades, by which time Stob had given up Librarian-Knightship and become an assistant teacher at the Lake Landing Academy. He had also mellowed significantly and found content in his new life. Stob was with Rook when he experienced the moment of inspiration that led him to join the Freeglade Lancers and later survived the War of the Free Glades, escaping Lake Landing with his apprentice students under the guidance of Magda and Xanth.
• Stope Boltjaw was a grey goblin forge-hand and sky-pirate from the First Age of Flight. He began life as an indentured servant in the forge of the Knight's Academy, where he sought sanctuary as an impoverished youth. Worked hard by the pitiless forge masters, he made his first ever friend in life when Academy apprentice Quintinius Verginix gave his some balm to heal his burned hand and saved him from a beating after a refectory mishap. A clever metalworker, Stope was the first to design 'fire-floats', special cages that could contain burning fuel while still allowing heat to escape. He and his friends Quint, Phin and Raff used these floats to keep their commandeered sky-vessel Cloudslayer stable when they ventured into Open Sky to end the winter crisis that was threatening Sanctaphrax. After they returned Stope went back to his life in the forge, but was promoted because of his invention. Later he briefly crewed the sky-pirate ship Galerider during the battle with the Leagues' fleet spearheaded by the Bringer of Doom, serving under Quint when he needed to replace lost crew members. Years later when Quint was ousted from Sanctaphrax by his old enemy Vilnix Pompolnius, Stope joined the crew of his ship Stormchaser and served under him as a sky-pirate. At some point during his sky-pirate career he was struck in the jaw with an axe wielded by Leagues' captain Ulbus Pentephraxis and replaced the flesh and blood appendage with a wooden version, earning him the moniker 'Boltjaw'. After the Stormchasers failed stormchasing mission Stope abandoned the ship with the rest of the crew and landed in the Twilight Woods, regrouping with the others and accepting Twig as the new captain but losing his false jaw in the process. During the crew's journey through the Twilight Woods he was overwhelmed by its affects and ran off to seek his lost jaw, becoming lost to the woods.

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• Tallus Penitax was the Professor of Darkness during the Second Age of Flight. Originally a sky-scholar, he opposed the rising Guardians of Night faction and, along with his counterpart the Professor of Light, defected to join the Librarians. A highly skilled Librarian Knight, he held a place on the Librarian's ruling Council in the sewers of Old Undertown, and was responsible for the selection of Rook Barkwater as a Librarian Knight-elect. As Rook's mentor he visited him while he was sick with fever after taking a poisoned arrow in a raid on the Foundry Glade and brought the news of Xanth Filatine's treachery to him. He later took a leading role in the mass exodus from Undertown, leading a flight of Librarian Knights from the Ironwood Stands to scout the Twilight Woods section of the Great Mire Road. He fought in the Battle of the Lufwood Mount and again in the War of the Free Glades, leading a flight of Librarian Knights to cover the civilian retreat from the slaughterer and woodtroll villages in which a third of their number were lost. As a Freeglader he was one of the Council of Eight.
• Tam Whytewinter was a mobgnome Freeglade Lancer who served in the 5th Splinter, 4th High Branch Troop, Scartree Company late in the Second Age of Flight. He was 'blooded' in a skirmish against skulltrogs at Wooded Crag and received a leg wound, but was also haunted by the death he caused. He befriended young cadet Rufus Filatine when he joined the splinter and the pair of them were crucial in bringing warning to the Free Glades of Lentil Spume's plans. Tam later recovered from his injury as continued to serve as a lancer.
• Tarp Hammelherd was a slaughter sky-pirate who crewed the Edgedancer under Captain Twig in the First Age of Flight. Discovered by Twig during his search for crew in an Undertown tavern, drinking to drown his sorrow over the death of his brother Tendon, Twig offered Tarp a new life as a sky-pirate, which he accepted. He flew with the crew into Open Sky in search of Twig's father Cloud Wolf and was scattered by the explosion of the mind storm, losing his memory and landing in Undertown. He was the first of Twig's lost crew members the captain found and they discovered that their conspicuous glow returned when they were close to one another. Tarp accompanied Twig as he relocated Bogwitt and Wingnut Sleet, but was left behind along with them in the School of Light and Darkness while Twig carried his search into the Deepwoods. Later he, Bogwitt and Sleet joined the crew of the Skyraider in forming Twig's new crew when he went in search of those he had left behind at Riverise, but that journey slowly failed and Tarp was among the last three crew members who died of blackwater fever from drinking poisoned water.
• Teasel was a mobgnome sky-pirate from the First Age of Flight who crewed the Skyraider under captains Thunderbolt Vulpoon and Twig. He lost his mind on the long journey to locate Twig's lost crew-members and jumped from the ship's rigging to his death.
• Tegan was a female gnokgoblin from the Second Age of Flight who was allied to the earth-scholars. She served as a guide for Librarian Knights-elect travelling from the sewers to the Free Glades, helping them through the toll-gates at the Undertown end of the Great Mire Road.
• Tem Barkwater was a fourthling sky-pirate rescued from slavery as a youth by Quintinius Verginix, who saw him being flogged for creating a diversion that allowed his brother Cal to escape. After his rescue he joined the crew of the Galerider captained by Quint's father Wind Jackal and became apprentice to the ship's harpooner Steg Jambles. As a junior member of the crew he was left behind along with Maris when Wind Jackal went to a trapped meeting in the Undertown Sluice-Gate Tower but he and Maris disobeyed orders and brought the sky-ferry pilot Duggin and his vessel to the rescue when Quint and Wind Jackal were washed over the Edge. He later overcame his fear of the carnivorous bloodoak tree which he had been forced to act as bait for when he was a slave to participate in a felling, but was devastated when his mentor Steg was killed by the tree and hacked it down in an enraged frenzy. After the death of captain Wind Jackal he cast his vote for Quint as the new captain, citing the cruel insensitivity of the other candidate Thaw Daggerslash. He continued to serve as part of the Galerider crew under Quint, acting as the sole harpooner, and fought in the sky-battle against the Leagues-fleet spearheaded by the Bringer of Doom. He escaped along with the rest of the crew when the Galerider was destroyed. Years later when Quint was ousted from the Knight's Academy by his old enemy Vilnix Pompolnius and returned to his life of sky-piracy Tem joined the crew of his ship Stormchaser and participated in the failed mission to collect stormphrax from the Great Storm. Surviving the abandonment of the Stormchaser he accepted young crew-member Twig as the new captain when it was revealed that Twig was Quint's son, but during the crew's journey through the Twilight Woods he was seduced by a vision of his brother Cal and broke away from the others. Unbeknownst to any of his old friends Tem survived the Twilight Woods as he was captured by shrykes and sold as a slave, eventually escaping and finding his way to the Free Glades where he found his brother's son, Shem, and Shem's wife Keris, who was Twig's daughter. On the day Shem and Keris left to visit Keris's slaughterer family Tem begged them not to leave for the journey would be dangerous, but they did not listen and were killed by slavers, though their four-year-old son Rook was rescued. In the following years Tem took to sitting in the corner of the Bloodoak Tavern in New Undertown, never speaking and staring at nothing, and his appearance earned him the nickname 'the Mire Pirate'. He did not come out of his reverie for years until he met his great-nephew Rook, and in the aftermath of the War of the Free Glades was able to tell Rook about his family history and pass on a portrait-miniature of Quint painted the day he joined the Knight's Academy and passed down through Twig to Keris which he had found on her body. Tem was one of only a few characters to live through the Quint, Twig, and Rook Sagas.
• Thaw Daggerslash was a highly ambitious fourthling sky-pirate from the First Age of Flight who aspired to captaincy of his own sky-ship. Covetous of the Galerider since he first saw it, Thaw sent its captain Wind Jackal false messages regarding the whereabouts of Turbot Smeal, the treacherous quartermaster who murdered all of Wind Jackal's family save Quint, in the hopes of getting Wind Jackal killed so he could take over as the ship's captain. These messages lured Wind Jackal and the crew of the Galerider first to a Deepwoods slave market, where Quint rescued Maugin from Ilmus Pentephraxis and both Ramrock and Garum Gall were killed in the ensuing skirmish with slavers, and then to the Edge Cliff quarries where an offal-filled dummy of Smeal attracted Edge Wraiths that almost killed Wind Jackal and Quint. After both of these attempts failed Thaw tried to secure a loan to buy his own ship and crew, but was only offered an insufficient sum. After meeting Wind Jackal and his crew in person, Thaw used Quint's pet ratbird Nibblick to deliver a third message arranging a meeting in the Undertown Sluice-Gate Tower, poisoning the ratbird in the process. By this time believing the messages to come from Smeal himself, all of the Galeriders crew bar Maris and Tem entered the sluice pipe, where a waif-assassin hired by Thaw to kill Wind Jackal was itself killed by a second waif assassin hired by the captain. Thaw then opened the water pipes to wash Wind Jackal and Quint over the Edge, but they were saved by Maris and Tem. Knowing that the Galerider was headed for the Great Shryke Slave market, Thaw then changed his mind and accepted the offered loan, purchasing a sky-barge Mireraider and a single crew member, albino banderbear Hubble, to go hunting for Mire pearls. Reaching the slave market before the Galerider he sold Hubble into slavery, only to convince Wind Jackal to buy him back after the captain discovered this and pretend that an old quartermaster 'Turbot Smeal' who'd joined them in the Mire was responsible. Now part of the Galeriders crew thanks to his fictional stake in hunting down Smeal, Thaw brought the crew to a sky-wreck using a ratbird as a tracker and pretended that Smeal was hiding there. He and Wind Jackal boarded the wreck and there Thaw murdered the captain while disguised in a heavy cloak and skullpelt-skull mask. Meeting Quint who had followed them on board he pretended to have arrived too late to save Wind Jackal and to have tripped Smeal overboard after being injured by him, when in fact his wound was caused by Wind Jackal. The crew of the Galerider held a funeral for Wind Jackal and then cast votes for the new captain, with Thaw and Quint as the contenders. Thaw attempted to rig the vote, bullying Hubble into giving up his shryke-tooth token, stealing and throwing away the Stone Pilot's, and bribing Duggin into supporting him. Despite this he was foiled as Quint received support from Spillins and Tem Barkwater, and Maris cast the deciding vote in his favour despite Thaw's attempt to talk her out of doing so. Devastated and enraged, Thaw left the ship on the Mireraider and went to the home of Leaguesmaster Ruptus Pentephraxis in his disguise, pretending to be Turbot Smeal, and offered to sell out the sky-pirates in the approaching clash with the Leagues in return for captaincy of the Galerider. Ruptus accepted. In the aftermath of the sky-battle in which the Leagues' fleet was ultimately scattered, Thaw boarded the Galerider in his disguise and attacked Quint, gaining the upper hand before being struck down by Hubble who had remained on board after the rest of the crew left due to being injured in the battle. Quint then removed Thaw's mask and discovered his identity, and as he died Thaw confessed to his deception, that Turbot Smeal had been dead for years, and that he had done it all for the Galerider. His body was lost to the Deepwoods when the damaged sky-ship hurtled.
• Thunderbolt Vulpoon was a foppish, villainous sky-pirate captain from the First Age of Flight who dealt in slaves. Living in opulence in his grand captain's chambers while his crew were kept in spartan conditions, Thunderbolt frequently traded in slaves, ferrying them from Undertown to the Great Shryke Slave Market on his sky-ship Skyraider. He was also not above forcibly enslaving free travellers who booked passage on his ship, attempting to have Twig Verginix and Cowlquape Pentephraxis drugged and enslaved while they were on his ship during Twig's search for his missing crew. Thunderbolt met his end when Twig turned the tables on him, escaping the attempted drugging and turning his crew against him, earning the loyalty of Thunderbolt's fiercest enforcer, simple-minded brogtroll Grimlock, by giving him one of Thunderbolt's lavish coats. Twig and Cowlquape then freed every slave on the ship, discovering Spooler in the process, and sold Thunderbolt himself as a slave. As a slave the shrykes used Thunderbolt as entertainment for the crowds, pitting him against a swarm of Wig-Wigs in the Wig-Wig Arena. Thunderbolt was eaten alive by the creatures. Many years later a warped version of legacy survived through his son Deadbolt, who believed that Thunderbolt had deliberately sacrificed himself in the arena to save Twig's life. Ironically it was this gross fabrication that led Deadbolt to be an honourable man, following his father's fake example.
• Togtuft Hegg was a longhair-goblin archivist from the Sumpwood Bridge Academy in Hive during the Third Age of Flight. Along with his colleague Klug Junkers he studied samples of Edge Cliff rock brought back by the Society of Descenders in an attempt to determine the origins of life in the Edgeworld. After the Society was shut down and Great Gladers began to be persecuted in Hive Togtuft and Klug gave shelter to the phraxship captain Cirrus Gladehawk who had ferried the last expedition of Descenders to the Edge Cliff. When Ambris Hentadile and his companions arrived in Hive Togtuft and Klug took them in as well, providing them with a base from which they planned and carried out the rescue of Galston Prade from the gyle palace and the restoration of the Archemax.
• Tonsor Wexis was a friend of Quint's at the Knights' Academy in the First Age of Flight who was killed by a malfunctioning catapult during the Endless Winter.
• Tuntum Snatchwood was a male woodtroll from the First Age of Flight who as a youth joined the other males of his village in travelling on the sky-pirate ship Galerider to aid the crew in a bloodoak-hunt. Years later, he and his wife Spelda adopted infant Twig Verginix, grandson of the Galeriders captain Wind Jackal, when he was left beneath their tree cabin by his parents. Never able to bond with his adopted, non-woodtroll son, Tuntum had a distant relationship with Twig and was frustrated by his inability to stand up to his bullies. He died of natural causes some years after Twig left the village, Twig returning on the night of his funeral and performing his funeral rites.
• Turbot Smeal was a treacherous, evil sky-pirate quartermaster from the First Age of Flight who served under Captain Wind Jackal on the Galerider. Greedy and untrustworthy, he often chafed at Wind Jackal's honourable principles, pointing out the greater profit of trading in slaves. The situation came to a head when Wind Jackal struck a deal with a Leagues' captain, agreeing to raid one of the captain's competitors who traded in slaves on the strict condition that the slaves were to be set free. Smeal then made a deal with the Leagues' captain behind Wind Jackal's back, agreeing to have the slaves transferred over to him in return for a larger payment. Wind Jackal carried out the raid successfully but was outraged when Smeal began supervising the transfer of slaves from one ship to the other rather than setting them free. Utilising a clever trick Wind Jackal was able to rescue the slaves and return them home to their village, but in the meantime Smeal returned to Undertown and planned to torch Wind Jackal's opulent Western Quays mansion in revenge. Wind Jackal's wife, family nanny and five of his six sons were killed in the blaze, but the fire spread out of control, engulfing much of the Western Quays and killing Smeal himself. Years later the similarly unscrupulous sky-pirate Thaw Daggerslash used Wind Jackal's hatred of Smeal in an elaborate plot to gain possession of the Galerider, pretending that Smeal was still alive in order to lure Wind Jackal into a series of traps, ultimately causing his death.
• Turgik was clan-chief of the Hammerhead and Flathead goblins of Hive during the Third Age of Flight. Newly become clan chief when Kulltuft Warhammer began to advocate war against Great Glade, Turgik was swept up by the High Chief's words and supported his warmongering. He was overthrown by the Hive populace along with the other clan chiefs after the city's disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Midwood Marshes and became a common plantation labourer to atone for the harm he had caused.
• Tweezel was a kindly spindlebug who lived for 350 years and witnessed first hand many of the most dramatic events and radical changes that occurred across the Edge during the First, Second and Third Ages of Flight. Escaping a slaver-raid on his colony in the Deepwoods as a young bug he made his way to Undertown, where he was discovered and taken in as a curiosity by an earth-scholar High Librarian of Sanctaphrax. He lived in the floating city for many years and eventually wound up as butler to Most High Academe Linius Pallitax and caretaker of the Palace of Shadows. When the palace was destroyed in a fire Tweezel carried the unconscious High Academe to safety but became dispossessed when Linius died shortly afterwards and moved to Undertown to keep an eye on Linius's daughter Maris, who had been adopted by distant relatives. He lived through the freezing winter that threatened to destroy Sanctaphrax and became close friend to Maris and the youth who would later become her husband, Quintinius Verginix. Tweezel remained at Maris's side in the following years when Quint's future as a Knight-Academic was destroyed by his old rival Vilnix Pompolnius and he returned to his life of sky-piracy, and tended to her in her depression after she and Quint were forced to abandon their infant son in a woodtroll village. When Maris began to collect orphaned and stray children Tweezel helped her, and together with their band they set off to find a new life in the Deepwoods. Tweezel's woodlore helped the group many times as they journeyed through the dangerous Deepwoods, gathering more and more children as they went, until they chanced upon the idyllic glades that were to become the Free Glades. Tweezel joined the spindlebug colony they found beneath the ironwood stands and he and Maris presided over the founding of New Undertown. Tweezel went on to outlive Maris, conducting the first experiments with buoyant sumpwood after stone-sickness struck the Edge and developing the varnish that made the Second Age of Flight possible. He ministered to Keris Verginix, Maris's granddaughter, when she arrived in the Free Glades with a fever and witnessed her seeding of Great Lake with clamdust. Later in the Second Age he became a tutor for young librarian knights, teaching them how to concoct the varnish that would allow their sumpwood skycraft to fly. Among his pupils were Rook Barkwater, Keris's son, and Xanth Filatine, with whom he formed a close bond. When Xanth returned to Free Glades after the destruction of Old Undertown and was confined in the Gardens of Light while awaiting his Reckoning, Tweezel consoled him and shared with him the story of how he and Maris founded the Free Glades. He survived the War of the Free Glades and lived to see Xanth become Master of the Lake Landing Academy and invent the first phraxchamber, ushering in the Third Age of Flight. After his death a statue of him was made out of glass to honour his memory and contributions to the Free Glades.
• Twill was a tree-goblin citizen of Hive who was conscripted into the Second Low Town Division of the city militia during the Third Age of Flight. He survived Hive's bloody defeat in the Battle of the Midwood Marshes and returned to his home city where he was among the many who formed mobs to overthrow the clan council and usher in change.
• Tytugg was a hammerhead goblin mercenary and general from the Second Age of Flight who enslaved the populace of Undertown and became its ruler in all but name. Originally invited into the city by Amberfuce, ghostwaif chancellor to Most High Academe Vox Verlix whom he was introduced to through Foundry Master Hemuel Spume, Tytugg struck a deal with Amberfuce to round up and enslave the Undertown populace for construction work on the Sanctaphrax Forest, the cradle of wood which Vox had agreed to construct for the Guardians of Night to prevent the New Sanctaphrax Rock touching the earth. Sneaking his army down the Great Mire Road in twos and threes, Tytugg then moved into the open and rounded up all the Undertowners, killing all those too old or unfit for work in what became known as the 'Week of Blood.' He then began work on the Sanctaphrax Forest, but betrayed Vox and Amberfuce, cutting them out of the loop and maintaining the operation himself while ruling Undertown with an iron fist. Over the following years he sent many assassins into the Palace of Statues to kill Vox, but he was kept safe by the palace's many traps. Tytugg eventually met his end as part of Vox's grand, malicious scheme to get revenge on all those who had wronged him, having Amberfuce erase the memory of a goblin assassin knocked unconscious by Rook Barkwater who was a slave in the palace at the time and send him to Tytugg with a false report of Vox's death and news that the Librarians' sewers would be vulnerable to invasion at a certain time. Taking the bait, Tytugg led his armies into the sewers at the appointed hour, only to be ambushed in the storm chamber by the shrykes, who had also been lured there as part of Vox's plan. The two sides fought a bloody battle which ended when rock demons lured into the sewers as part of a scheme by the Guardians of Night descended on both sides, before all three groups were washed away when the Dark Maelstrom destroyed Undertown and flooded the sewers.

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• Ulbus Pentephraxis was a brutal leagesman that lived in the first age of flight. His son was Cowlquape Pentephraxis, and he became the high academe of Sanctaphrax.
• Ulbus Vespius was the Professor of Light in the Second Age of Flight who distrusted the Guardians of Night and became allied with the Librarians.

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• Vilnix Pompolnius, previously named Vil Spatweed, was a knife grinder in Undertown until he found The Professor of Darkness's telescope on the streets of Undertown. He was entered into the Knights' Academy, until he was found entering the School of Potions and Poisons, and was expelled. Vilnix was then given a position in the Faculty of Raintasters, and discovered phraxdust, a powder that instantly purifies water, when he crushed a crystal of stormphrax. Vilnix then turned the crowd against the Professors of Light and Darkness when Quintinius Verginix prepared to embark on a journey to find stormphrax, and overthrew the Professors of Light and Darkness and became the new Most High Academe. In turn, Vilnix was eventually turned on by the academics of Sanctaphrax and was killed by a faulty hanging-basket after trying to escape Sanctaphrax. Vilnix appeared in The Winter Knights and Stormchaser (novel).
• Vox Verlix was an individual that stole the position of the High Academe of Sanctaphrax and Undertown. He had slaves build the Great Mire Road, and the Sanctaphrax Forest. He later got overthrown by Cowlquape, who was the true most High Academe of Sanctaphrax and Undertown. Cowlquape also happened to be Twig's apprentice from the Twig Saga. In Vox, part of the Rook Saga, Vox Verlix had an evil scheme to create a Dark Maelstrom, using Phraxdust and Bloodoak dust from Bloodaok acorns. he then fed the concoction into a machine that he called The Baby.
• Varis Lodd was a Librarian Knight instructor that taught other Librarian Knights how to fly their skycrafts. She died in the battle of the Free Glades.

W

• Weeg was a male banderbear with a great scar across his shoulder who lived through the first two Ages of Flight. He helped rescue Cowlquape, and fought in the battle for the Free Glades.
• Weelum was a banderbear who was friends with Nate Quarter in the Third Age of Flight.
• Wilken Wordspool was a professor in the First Age of Flight who was disliked by many of his students at the Fountain House.
• Wingnut Sleet was the quartermaster of the Edgedancer, which was captained by Twig in the First Age of Flight.
• Wumeru was a female banderbear that befriended Rook when he was in the Deepwoods writing a scroll about banderbears in the Second Age of Flight. With Wumeru, he learnt the language of the banderbears. After a few days, Rook came across the council of the banderbears, and met Twig.
• Wuralo was a female banderbear that Rook rescued from the Foundry Glade in the Second Age of Flight. She has a black marking around one of her eyes. When Rook found her in the Foundry Glade, she was half starved and almost worked to death. Wuralo was on Captain Twig's sky ship when he flew it for the last time.

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• Xanth Filatine was a Guardian of the Night, one of the Librarian Knight's enemies. He was sent to the Free Glades, where the Librarian Knights trained. At the Free Glades, he befriended Rook Barkwater, even though Xanth was a Guardian of the Night. They soon became good friends, and in Freeglader, Rook, Magda and Tweezel the Spindelbug were Xanth's only friends.

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• Zaphix Nemulis was a scholar from the Academy of Wind during the First Age of Flight who made a technique to maximize the growth of flight-rocks.
• Zelphyius Dax was an earth-scholar librarian from the Third Age of Flight who eschewed phrax-powered flight in favour of his traditional varnished sumpwood craft, the Varis Lodd. He met Nate Quarter and Eudoxia Prade in the Midwood Decks, where he informed them of the sumpwood-harvesting process and the feud between the woodtroll Free-timbersmiths and the Hive-backed goblin lumberjacks. He later found them both after the battle of the Midwood Marshes and rescued them from the battlefield, carrying Eudoxia to the city of Riverise where she may be healed of her mortal injury while Nate helped him on board the skycraft. He set them down in Thorn Harbour and is prepared to travel to the city with them, but Nate instead asked him to bring news of Eudoxia to her father Galston in Hive.
• Zelt Pink-eye was a goblin slaver of indeterminate species who captured Maugin after she leaves her underground colony in pursuit of her pet prowlgrin pup, Blink. After she was rescued from her buyer Ilmus Pentephraxis by Quint Verginix, Zelt and his fellow slavers joined Ilmus on his sky-ship Scourge of the Weak to attack Quint's father's ship Galerider. Zelt shot and mortally wounded the Galerider's stone-pilot Ramrock, but was killed when Maugin put on Ramrock's garb and regained control of the sky-ship, allowing it to slice the Scourge of the Weak in half with its prow-blade. Zelt fell to his death with the rest of the slavers and ship's crew.