Pallitax family

"Linius Pallitax, the youngest Most High Academe anyone could remember — and his young wife... Big with child, and so pretty and full of life."
—Tweezel, remembering his first time seeing the young Pallitax family[1]

Pallitax was the surname of an affluent fourthling family in the First Age of Flight.

Family History

Linius

Linius Pallitax was born into the academic Pallitax family, where he grew up attending the Fountain House school. He developed interests for earth-studies and mistsifting. A keen academic, he was quickly climbed the ranks of the School of Mist, eventually becoming Dean of Mist. He was later elected as Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, one of the youngest on record.[1]

Before his inauguration as Most High Academe, he married Yena Vespius. She became pregnant, and she gave birth to a girl, Maris, soon after Linius was elected. She died during childbirth in the birthing room of the Palace of Shadows in the year 1 ᴇ.ʏ.[1]

After many years as Most High Academe, public opinion began to turn against Linius. In 15 ᴇ.ʏ., during the events of The Curse of the Gloamglozer, he accidentally created the Gloamglozer using the Ancient Laboratory;[2] the creature brought stone-sickness to the Edgeworld upon its escape. He was badly wounded when the Palace of Shadows burned down and moved back to his old apartments with his family and servants at the School of Mist.[3] In 16 ᴇ.ʏ., Linius died, leaving Maris as the sole surviving member of the Pallitax family.[4][5]

Maris

Maris Pallitax was born in 1 ᴇ.ʏ., losing her mother in childbirth.[1] She grew up in the luxurious but mostly deserted Palace of Shadows, attended to by her woodtroll nurse and a spindlebug butler. As a child, she went to school at the Fountain House.[6]

In 15 ᴇ.ʏ., Maris met her future husband, Quint,[1][7] and accompanied him on his adventures in Sanctaphrax. When her father died,[4][5] Heft and Dacia Vespius assumed her guardianship and took control over her inheritance.[8] Maris was evicted from the Palace of Shadows and had to move to Undertown. In 17 ᴇ.ʏ., Maris joined the crew of the Galerider as their medic.[9][10] Soon after the events of Clash of the Sky Galleons, she married Quint.

In 20 ᴇ.ʏ., she gave birth to a son, Twig, but was forced to leave him in a woodtroll village in the Deepwoods.[11] She never spoke again and was bedridden for many months afterwards. Soon after Quint disappeared, Maris wandered the Deepwoods with Tweezel. She encountered many orphaned children on her voyage, who she treated as if they were her own, and brought them to a beautiful clearing filled with three lakes. It was there that she founded the Free Glades,[12][13] living out most of her final days in a caterbird cocoon located on Lullabee Island in the center of the North Lake. She was never reunited with Quint or Twig; however, in 60 ᴇ.ʏ., she was given the chance to meet her granddaughter, Keris, before she died.[14][15]

Known Family Members

Family Members

Close Relatives

Family Tree

 
 
 
Pallitax Family
 
 
 
Vespius Family
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
unknown relation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Linius Pallitax
 
Yena Vespius
 
Dacia Vespius
 
Heft Vespius
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Quintinius Verginix
 
Maris Pallitax
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Twig Verginix
 

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Chapter 6: The Palace of Shadows
  2. ↑ The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Chapter 20: Linius's Story
  3. ↑ The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Chapter 23: The Curse of the Gloamglozer
  4. 1 2 The Winter Knights, Chapter 1: The School of Colour and Light Studies
  5. 1 2 The Winter Knights, Chapter 2: The Chorus of the Dead
  6. ↑ The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Chapter 12: The Fountain House
  7. ↑ The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Chapter 7: Quint
  8. ↑ The Winter Knights, Chapter 4: The Gates of Humility
  9. ↑ The Winter Knights, Chapter 22: The Ratbird
  10. ↑ Clash of the Sky Galleons, Chapter 8: Galerider
  11. ↑ Beyond the Deepwoods, Chapter 12: The Sky Pirates
  12. ↑ Freeglader, Chapter 13: Tea with a Spindlebug
  13. ↑ The Immortals, Chapter 28
  14. ↑ The Slaughterer's Quest, Chapter 6: The Lullabee Grove
  15. ↑ The Immortals, Chapter 63
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