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Giant Telemanus patriarch who, half-paralyzed by gas, kills a kidnapper bare-handed and fights on for Pax even as plasma melts his arm.
Kavax au Telemanus, aboard the family shuttle downed over Hyperion, is the last to fall to the anacene gas—smashing walls in a frenzy to destroy the kidnappers' drone before it takes him. When Ephraim's crew breaches the wreck to steal Pax and Electra, the giant Gold hauls himself up on gas-slack legs and, though shot twice in the chest, caves in the kidnapper Dano's skull with a single casual punch and staves in Ephraim's ribs. Volga melts his arm to the bone with plasma fire, hurling him into the hull, yet he keeps struggling to his knees—flesh sloughing off, anacene in his blood—roaring his godson's name, 'Pax,' as the abductors flee with the children.
His beloved fox Sophocles, whom the kidnappers lock in the cockpit, survives the wreck; Kavax does not stop fighting until he can no longer move.
An enormous bald Gold with a heavy red beard, a flat smashed nose, small eyes and a slim right-cheek scar, in a formal tuxedo with a razor at his hip; his right side and arm melted to the bone by plasma fire, anacene coursing through him.
Telemanus patriarch and Pax's godfather; the giant who fights the kidnappers to ruin trying to save the stolen children.