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Quintinius Verginix is a fictional character from Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart (writer)

Paul Stewart is a writer of children's books, best known for the bestselling The Edge Chronicles, the Free Lance novels and the Far Flung Adventures series which are written in collaboration with the illustrator Chris Riddell...

's The Edge Chronicles

The Edge Chronicles

The Edge Chronicles is a young-adult fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. It consists of three trilogies, plus three additional books, and others . Originally published in the United Kingdom, this series has since been published in the United States, Canada and Australia. To...

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Usually referred to as Quint or, later, Cloud Wolf, Quint was a Knight Academic and a Sky Pirate Captain. He was the main character of three Edge Chronicles books (books 4, 8 and 9; the first three books chronologically), collectively known as the Quint Sequence.

Early life

Quint was the son of Wind Jackal

Wind Jackal

Wind Jackal is a fictional character of Paul Stewart's The Edge Chronicles.-Character biography:The origins of Wind Jackal are unknown, but he was captain of a Sky Pirate ship, "The Galerider" for at least two years...

, a successful Sky Pirate captain. He lived with his parents and his five brothers in a large palace in the western quays of Undertown

Undertown

Undertown is a fictional city-state in Paul Stewart's series of books, The Edge Chronicles. It was founded when the many different species throughout the Edge migrated to form a town underneath the great floating city of Sanctaphrax. The central ethos of the city was that every undertowner was...

. One day, his father's treacherous quartermaster, Turbot Smeal started a fire in their home, out of the want to be captain of The Galerider

The Galerider

The Galerider is a Fictional Sky Ship from Paul Stewart's The Edge Chronicles.Featuring in The Quint Saga, The Galerider is a Sky Pirate ship that saw at least four captains before its destruction in Clash of the Sky Galleons. It was present in the important battles of the time, including the...

. Wind Jackal was on board his Sky Pirate ship, The Galerider

The Galerider

at the time. As he flew home, he discovered Undertown ablaze. The entire family had perished, apart from Quint who had escaped across the nearby roofs. This event left Quint with a terrible fear of fire for years to come. After this, he and his father sailed together, and worked and lived aboard their sky ship, The Galerider

The Galerider

Cloud Wolf

A novella written for World Book Day, Cloud Wolf recounts a battle between a Sky Pirate armada and the Great Sky Whale. Quint took part in the fight, boarding with the second wave and stealing the evil Leaguemaster's precious black diamond cargo. He and his father caused the terrible league ship to hurtle, after freeing the captive slaves and escaping on board their own ship. in the closing chapter, Wind Jackal gives Quint his Sky Pirate name, Cloud Wolf, a name he keeps secret until he becomes a captain himself.

The Curse of the Gloamglozer

Shortly after the events of Cloud Wolf, Quint and Wind Jackal

Wind Jackal

arrive in Sanctaphrax

Sanctaphrax

Sanctaphrax is a fictional city-state from Paul Stewart's & Chris Riddell's The Edge Chronicles.-Early history:Sanctaphrax was founded centuries ago when a flight rock growing in The Stone Gardens became far larger than any before...

. Quint becomes the apprentice of the "Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax", Linius Pallitax

Linius Pallitax

Linius Pallitax is a fictional character from The Edge Chronicles fantasy novel series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.In the first book of the series , The Curse of the Gloamglozer, Linius the is the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax and father of one of the stories protagonists, Maris and a...

, who is also an old friend of Quint's father. He helps unknowingly in the creation of a gloamglozer. Quint ventures into the stonecomb, an ever changing series of tunnels inside the Sanctaphrax rock, alongside Linius' daughter, Maris Pallitax. They are attacked by a rogue glister, a creature that was created hundreds of years ago, in a method similar to the creation of the gloamglozer. They are saved by Bungus Septrill, an old earth scholar who sacrifices himself to hold off the creature. Quint enters the ancient laboratory where the gloamglozer was created, but his curiosity leads to the release of the creature. After trapping Linius in a fire, the gloamglozer assumes the Most High Academe's form and lures Quint to the burning building. He repels the creature using chine, but not before the gloamglozer curses Quint and all of Sanctaphrax. It then flees.

The Winter Knights

After the fire, Linius Pallitax dies of his injuries. This leaves Maris fostered by Heft and Dacia, two greedy undertowners. Quint enters the Knights Academy, as the Protégé of the Professor of Light. During his studies he becomes friend with a forge-hand by the name of Stope, who later joins the crew of his sky pirate ship. He also becomes the rival of Vilnix Pompolnius, future Most High Academe. During his time there, an unseasonal series of Blizzards leaves the Sanctaphrax rock straining at its chain, and Hax Vostillix, master of High Cloud, sends many brave knight academics to their deaths in search of Stormphrax, a magical substance which could weigh down the buoyant rock. Quint and his friends discover the cause in an old barkscroll and fly the battered sky ship The Cloudslayer into open sky. There they heal a stricken Cloudeater which was causing the winter. They return to a battle between the Gatekeepers and The Academics-at-arms, who are fighting for control of Sanctaphrax. In the closing chapters, Vilnix is expelled from the knights academy, and Quint and Maris fly away with Wind Jackal, in search of Turbot Smeal.

The Stone Pilot

Another World Book Day novella featuring Quint. Quint rescues his future stone pilot, Maugin

The Stone Pilot (character)

The Stone Pilot, Maugin, is a fictional termagant trog from The Edge Chronicles books by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.- Character :Maugin is a reserved character; throughout the books she speaks very little, and has a shy personality. She is fiercely loyal to her captains and her crew...

, from a slave market in The Deepwoods. He also aids in the destruction of Scourge of the Weak, a League ship captained by Ilmus Pentephraxis.

Clash of the Sky Galleons

This book begins with a desperate man-hunt for Turbot Smeal, who had murdered Quint's entire family years ago. He was presumed dead, until a series of messages from him prove otherwise. He leads them into secluded locations, each of which are traps that are narrowly missed. Afterwards, maintenance on The Galerider

The Galerider

leads Wind Jackal

Wind Jackal

into a contract to retrieve valuable Bloodoak wood from the Deepwoods. During the terrible journey, four of the crewmembers are killed, and are gradually replaced by Quints future crewmembers. Eventually they receive another message from Smeal, and travel to an abandoned sky-wreck in search of him. There, Smeal kills Wind Jackal and is supposedly killed by Thaw Daggerslash

Thaw Daggerslash

In the fiction of Paul Stewart, Thaw Daggerslash is a young forthling Sky Pirate. Charismatic and handsome, he is popular with many that he meets...

, an ambitious young sky pirate. With Wind Jackal dead, Quint becomes the new captain, and a devastated Thaw Daggerslash leaves on returning to Undertown. There they learn of a sky pirate purge, and they and around 240 Sky Pirate ships flee to their haven of Wilderness Lair. They fly out to meet the attacking fleet, and would have won easily if not for a colossal League Ship, The Bringer of Doom. The Galerider was destroyed and Quint, after sharing a brief kiss with Maris, opts to stay. However the Bringer of Doom crashed due to a design flaw. The battered league ships scuttle back to their nest in undertown. After a brief duel with Turbot Smeal, who was discovered to be Thaw Daggerslash in disguise, The Galerider

The Galerider

is lost as it hurtles upwards. Quint and the crew escaped, and he and Maris fell in love.
From this point onwards, Quint is almost exclusively referred to as Cloud Wolf.

Return to Sanctaphrax

After the events of Clash of the Sky Galleons
Clash of the Sky Galleons
Clash of the Sky Galleons is a children's fantasy novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, first published in 2006. It is the ninth volume of The Edge Chronicles and the third of the Quint Saga trilogy; within the stories' own chronology it is the third novel, preceding the Twig Saga and Rook Saga...

, Quint returned to his studies in the Knight's Academy in Sanctaphrax

Sanctaphrax

, and became a knight-in-waiting. For nearly nine years he stayed in Sanctaphrax, awaiting the arrival of a great storm. When the time came, however, his knighting was interrupted by Vilnix Pompolnius, and his newly discovered Phraxdust. Vilnix overthrew the two Most High Academes, and Quint left to become a Sky Pirate.

Beyond The Deepwoods

To raise enough money for his own ship, Quint crewed on board a leagues vessel, captained by the ruthless Multinus Gobtrax. Maris followed him, and was soon pregnant with their son, Twig. Quint knew that he could not follow his dream of becoming a sky pirate with a son dragging him down, so he and Maris arranged for the owner of The Bloodoak Tavern, Mother Horsefeather, to "take the child off their hands". However, a terrible storm grounded them in The Deepwoods shortly after Maris gave birth. Quint knew that Twig would not survive the journey back to Undertown, and was forced to leave him in a village of woodtrolls. Quint left, and eventually became captain of his own ship, Stormchaser. He assembled a crew, made from the surviving crewmembers of The Galerider
The Galerider
The Galerider is a Fictional Sky Ship from Paul Stewart's The Edge Chronicles.Featuring in The Quint Saga, The Galerider is a Sky Pirate ship that saw at least four captains before its destruction in Clash of the Sky Galleons. It was present in the important battles of the time, including the...

, and several new characters. At some point during his time as captain, Quint lost an eye. Years later, Stormchaser crash landed in the Deepwoods. Twig saw the crash, and helped his crew repair the ship. Quint discovered his son was present, and he flew away in the night. Later, a caterbird dropped Twig onto the ship, and Quint decided to let him stay as a crewmember.

Stormchaser

Approximately two years after being reunited with his son, The professor of Light sends Quint and his crew on a Stormchasing voyage, in search of Stormphrax. He accepts the quest, but on the way a combination of weather and mutiny forces the crew to abandon ship. Quint stayed at the helm, and dissolved into the mother storm.

Midnight Over Sanctaphrax

His son, Twig flew his own ship, The Edgedancer in search of Quint. He flew far out into open sky, into the Mother Storm itself. There he finds Quint, and Quint tells him that the mother storm is returning to the Edge. The storm usually replenishes the Edgewater River at its source in Riverrise

Riverrise

Riverrise is a fictional spring from Paul Stewart's The Edge Chronicles.Riverrise is the legendary source of the Edgewater River. The spring is located on a sharp summit of rock at "The black heart of the Deepwoods", and has a sacred garden at the very top. The garden was once home to Kobold the...

. However, this time the floating city of Sanctaphrax

Sanctaphrax

is in the way. Quint tells Twig to destroy Sanctaphrax to save the Edge from a neverending drought. After his message is passed on, Quint "becomes one with the Mother Storm", fading into it.

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