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Pax Au Telemanus

Pax

The loyal titan of Telemanus who threw himself over Darrow to take the Jackal's ten stabs, dying with a quiet smile to save his friend.

Story so far

Pax roots out the Jackal's fifty hidden soldiers from Jupiter's wells and enslaves them, then lingers in the warroom to mock the pinned, hand-cutting Jackal — a good-natured giant to the last. When the Jackal frees himself with a stolen ionBlade, triggers a sonic detonator, and buries the blade in Pax's throat before lunging to kill the downed Darrow, Pax makes his choice: he throws his massive body not at the Jackal but over Darrow, shielding his friend as the Jackal stabs him ten times trying to dig through him to the Reaper. The titan bleeds out on the stone with a quiet smile and no last words, dead in the act of saving the one he loved.

Darrow clutches his huge head and sobs for the soft heart in the hard form — the friend who would never laugh again, never stand on a destroyer's bridge or wear a knight's cape. His death turns the Howlers into a silent hunting pack.

Appearance

An enormous young Gold over seven feet tall, monstrously muscled with boulder-like arms, hair shorn short, small eyes, a dented chin; an ever-present exuberant grin, here stilled into a quiet smile in death.

Role

The titan of Telemanus, Darrow's mightiest and most loyal ally, who dies shielding him.

Relationships

Darrow — The friend he dies protecting, taking the Jackal's blade through his own body.
the-jackal — The monster who stabs him in the throat and butchers him to reach Darrow.
Sevro — His fellow Howler, whose pack his death sends silently hunting.
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 27
  • The titanic Minervan boy, bred to lead Obsidian boarding parties, who captures Darrow with a bear-hug before being felled below the belt.
Chapter 31
  • House Minerva's titan champion, over seven feet of Medusa-shielded muscle, blinded by mud and beaten with his own axe in a duel with the Reaper.
Chapter 36
  • The titan of Minerva, enslaved to Mars and legendary for throwing a horse, freed by Darrow to roar with joy and join his army.
Chapter 42
  • The loyal titan of Telemanus who threw himself over Darrow to take the Jackal's ten stabs, dying with a quiet smile to save his friend.
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