List of deaths in the Edge Chronicles

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This is a list of every death in The Edge Chronicles. It records who died, who/what killed them, the time and place of their death, and their last words.

Trapper Sluice being eaten by an edge wraith

Fabius Dydex is shot by the Gatekeepers

Vilnix Pompolnius falls to his death

Squive is speared by Rufus Filatine's lance

Orbix Xaxis is struck by lightning on top of Midnight's Spike

A waif guide is killed by the Custodians

Hench is shot by Forden Drew

Sadderix and his rider are obliterated by the Freeglade Lancers

Deaths in the Edge Chronicles

First Age of Flight

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Last words	Place of death	Book/ time of death
Yena Pallitax	Maris Pallitax (indirectly)	Childbirth	Unknown	The birthing-chamber of the Palace of Shadows	1 ᴇ.ʏ.
Hirmina, Lucius, Centix, Murix, Pellius and Martilius Verginix	Turbot Smeal	Fire		Palace in the Western Quays	3 ᴇ.ʏ.
Turbot Smeal	Himself (indirectly)		Unknown	Western Quays
Grim and Grem	Hammerhead Goblins	Unknown	Unknown	The Great Sky Whale above the Deepwoods	14 ᴇ.ʏ.
Various Sky Pirates		Battle wounds/ varies	Varies/Unknown
Various hammerhead goblins	Sky Pirates
Marl Mankroyd	N/A	Hurtling	"Come here, the three of you. Explain yourselves."
Marl Mankroyd's hammerhead guard			Varies/Unknown
Bruto the Brave	Magno the Claw	Slit throat	Wailing, screeching and howling	18th east staircase of the Viaduct Steps on Sanctaphrax	15 ᴇ.ʏ.
Magno the Claw	Wilbus the Sly
Smarg the Mighty		Various wounds	A howl of pain
Bungus Septrill	Rogue Glister	Glister attack	"Where is the chine?"	The Stonecomb of the Sanctaphrax rock
Seftus Leprix	Tweezel	Hover-worm venom	"You imbe... blmfff"	Above the School of Mist
Bagswill			"Your face! It’s beginning to swell up!"
Linius Pallitax	Gloamglozer	Illness	Unknown	The School of Mist
Hemphix Root , Hophix, Dantius, Queritis, Phlax, Willandis, Xallix Flint, and at least 5 other Knights Academic	Hax Vostillix (indirectly)	Hurtling into Open Sky	Varies/Unknown	Above the Knights Academy	16 ᴇ.ʏ.
Tonsor Wexis and Quiltis Wistelweb	Themselves	Thrown into Open Sky by a broken catapult		The Swivel-Catapults
Hax Vostillix	Vilnix Pompolnius	Woodwasp stings	"Must be something... I... ate..."	The Hall of High Cloud
Various Gatekeepers	Various Academics-at-Arms	Battle wounds/ varies	Varies/Unknown	The Inner Courtyard and Central Staircase of the Knights Academy
Various Academics-at-Arms	Various Gatekeepers
Squeak	A Gatekeeper	A crossbow bolt	A cry of pain	The Inner Courtyard
Fabius Dydex	Various Gatekeepers	Crossbow bolts	"Squeak! Don‘t worry boy..."
Daxiel Xaxis	Sigbord	Stabbing	"Never!"	The Knights Academy
Philius Embertine	N/A	Illness	"Now I can begin my voyage to Open Sky..."
Digit	N/A	Cold/Illness	N/A	Heft Vespius' house in the Western Quays
Blink	Zelt Pink-Eye	Arrow	"Yeeaaoowaargh!"	The Deepwoods
Garum Gall	Slavers	Crossbow bolts	A gurgling scream	On the Galerider above the Deepwoods
Ramrock	Zelt Pink-Eye	Arrow	"Annghh!"
Zelt Pink-Eye, Ilmus Pentephraxis, among other slavers	The crew of the Galerider	Crashed skyship	Varies/Unknown	The Deepwoods
Nibblick	Thaw Daggerslash	Slow-acting poison	N/A	Thelvis Hollrig's Sky Shipyard	17 ᴇ.ʏ.
Waif Assassin	Menisculis	Stabbing	“Aaaiiii!”	Sluice Tower of Undertown
Menisculis	Thaw Daggerslash	Falling from The Edge	“Help me! Help me. Help...”
A mobgnome	Imbix Hoth's Shryke Guards	Eaten alive	A blood-curdling shriek	The Stone Gardens
Ratbit	A storm	Falling from the Galerider	Unknown	The Deepwoods
Sagbutt	Grey Goblins	Arrow	”We cook great feast together...”	On the Galerider in the Deepwoods
Filbus Queep		Stabbing	“Yes, Sagbutt, old friend, we’ll cook great feasts together...”
Steg Jambles	Bloodoak	Eaten alive	“Told you I’d look after you.”	The Deepwoods
Jaggs	Imbix Hoth’s shryke guards	Stabbed	Unknown	The Tarry Vine tavern
Imbix Hoth’s shryke guards	Patricule	Drowning	Varies/Unknown
Wind Jackal	Thaw Daggerslash	Stabbing	“Turbot...Smeal....is....not”	Aboard the sky wreck
Imbix Hoth and Ruptus Pentephraxis among others	Zaphix Nemulis (indirectly)	Skyship crash	Varies/Unknown	The Deepwoods
A battle-flock of pedigree black shrykes			Screeching
Thaw Daggerslash	Hubble	Mauling	“Greatest Sky pirate captain... that ever lived...”	The Galerider
Raintasters	Themselves	Stormphrax explosion	Varies/Unknown	TheRaintasters' Tower in the College of Rain	18 ᴇ.ʏ.
Unidentified banderbear	Wig-wigs	Eaten alive	"Fr-uh-nz."	Deepwoods	33 ᴇ.ʏ.
Tendon Hammelherd	Himself	Stormphrax explosion	"You're sure about that?"	Backstreets of Undertown	35 ᴇ.ʏ.
Mim and her family	Screedius Tollinix	Cut throat	Wishing Screed a good night	The Mire
Mugbutt	Hubble	Mauling	Roar	Above the Twilight Woods
Slyvo Spleethe		Broken Spine	"I am captain now!"
Forficule	Himself	Stormphrax explosion	"Here we go."	Undertown
Slitch	Forficule		"What are you doing? NO!"
Hubble	N/A	Injuries from falling	"T-wuh-g. Wuh-wuh. Fr-uh-nz..."	The Mire
Spiker	Screedius Tollinix	Cut throat	Gurgling
Screedius Tollinix	Twig	Stabbing	"Sanctaphrax."
The Professor of Light	N/A	Injuries from falling	"Tell... Professor of Darkness... You can... trust... him..."
Vilnix Pompolnius	Gnokgoblin basket-puller	Falling	"AAAAaaarggh!"	Undertown
Simenon Xintax, Farquhar Armwright and Ulbus Pentephraxis	The Mother Storm	Crushed by the rudder wheel of the Edgedancer	Varies/Unknown	The Palace of Statues	36 ᴇ.ʏ.
A waterwaif	A leagesman	Stabbing	"The Wig-Wig... Arena..."	The Great Shryke Slave Market
Thunderbolt Vulpoon	Wig-wigs	Eaten alive	"Why? For the love of Sky, why are you doing this?"	Wig-Wig Arena in the Great Shryke Slave Market
Mother Muleclaw I			"No, have pity..."
Spooler	Reed-eels	Poison	"Aaargh! Aaaargh! AAAAARGH!"	The Deepwoods
Tuntum Snatchwood	N/A	Illness	Unknown	The Woodtroll Village
Professor of Darkness		Carried out to Open Sky	"No! It cannot be! No!"	Open Sky
The Professors of Windtouching, Coudwatching, Fogprobing, Phsycho-Climatic Studies, among other academics			Varies/Unknown
Sinew Verginix		Illness	Unkown	Slaughterer Village	47 ᴇ.ʏ.
Wingnut Sleet	A Storm	Falling	Scream	Above the Thorn Forests	36-52 ᴇ.ʏ.
Jervis		Crushed by rigging	Gasps
Teasel	Madness	Falling	Incoherent babble
Stile	N/A	Broken heart	Unknown	Unknown
Grimlock, Bogwitt, Tarp Hammelherd	Grimlock (indirectly)	Blackwater Fever	Varies/Unknown	Above the Edgelands	52 ᴇ.ʏ.
Glade Harrier	N/A	Skyship crash	"The age of flight has ended."	The valley of the ironwood stands	60 ᴇ.ʏ.

Second Age of Flight

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Last words	Place of death	Book/ time of death
Keris and Shem Barkwater	Slavers	Unknown	Varies/Unknown	The Deepwoods	76 ᴇ.ʏ.
A small goblin	A shryke guard	Crushed skull	"I didn't mean to... I beg you. I—"	The Great Mire Road	84 ᴇ.ʏ.
Sister Hinnytalon	Deadbolt Vulpoon	Beheading	"There is only one thing standing between me and my goal, you."
Three groups of librarian knights elect	Shrykes	Unknown	Varies/Unknown	Eastern Roost
Codsap	Rook	Falling	"Thank you, thank you, friend, for releasing me when I lacked the courage to jump..."	The dungeons of the Tower of Night	86 ᴇ.ʏ.
Rummel	Slab	Crossbow bolt	Anguished yodelling cry	On the Skyraider near the Tower of Night
Meeru	Guardians of Night	A harpoon	Unknown
Loom	Himself	Leaping from the Skyraider
Slab	The crew of the Skyraider	Heavy weaponry	"Got you!"	The Tower of Night
Many other Guardians of Night			Varies/Unknown
Maugin	Golderayce One-Eye	Poison dart	Unknown	The Garden of Life
Birdwhistle , Jaspel and Gizzlewit	Themselves	Explosions	Varies/Unknown	Palace of Statues	c. 86 ᴇ.ʏ.
Artillus and many librarian knights	Rock Demons	Eaten alive	Piercing screams	Screetown	87 ᴇ.ʏ.
Glitch	Vox Verlix	Pendulum booby trap	Unknown	Palace of Statues
A gyle-goblin slave, along with many others	A hammerhead slave-master	Snapped neck	A muffled cry	The Sanctaphrax Forest
Speegspeel	Rook Barkwater	Crushed by a stone head	"The statues got old Speegspeel. They got old Speegspeel in the end."	Palace of Statues
Mollus Leddix	Orbix Xaxis	Thrown from the Tower of Night	"C... c... can't. The... the... deadbolt... G... g... gone!"	Midnight's Spike
Orbix Xaxis	The Dark Maelstrom	Lightning bolt	"Hail, the Great Storm!"
Alquix Venvax	Shrykes	Arrows	"The library has been saved! Long live the Great Library..."	The Blackwood Bridge in the Undertown Sewers
Dunkrigg	Shryke	Mauling	Groans
Slad	Sister Slashtalon		"WHOOOAAAAA!"
Sister Slashtalon	Slad	Stabbing	"More! More!"
The goblin army and the shryke battle-flock	Rock Demons	Eaten alive	Varies/Unknown
Vox Verlix	The Dark Maelstrom	Buried by the collapsing Palace of Statues	"Ooowww!"	Palace of Statues
Hestera Spikesap			"You, my sweetness, all to myself."
Six librarian knights	Shrykes	Fire catapults	Varies/Unknown	Above the Eastern Roost	88 ᴇ.ʏ.
A librarian knight	Sister Drab	Heart torn from chest	Begging for mercy	The Eastern Roost
Mother Muleclaw III	Xanth Filatine	Decapitation	"KAAAAR-KAA... K... urrgh!"	On the Lufwood Mount
Captain Henkel	Shrykes	Mauling	"They're gorging on the dead, and when they're finished... then they'll come for us."
Shryke battle-flock	Freeglade Lancers/ Themselves	Varies	"Kiii-kiii-kiii."
Rumpel, Rudder and Reel Grope, and many others	Hemuel Spume (indirectly)	Foundry-Croup and exhaustion	Varies/Unknown	The Foundry Glades
Varis Lodd and her squadron	Goblins/ Glade-Eaters	Varies		Above the new Great Library
Hemuel Spume	Ghosts of Screetown/ Librarian Knights	Boiled alive	"I... SAID, TO... THE... TOWER!"	North Lake
Furnace Masters		Boiled alive	Varies/Unknown
Hemtuft Battleaxe, Rootrott Underbiter, Meegmewl the Grey, Grossmother Meadowdew, Lytugg	Friends of the Harvest	Decapitation		The Barley fields
Amberfuce	Flambusia Flodfox	Boiled alive	"No... no... no... No, please, Flambusia! Noooo!"	The Palace of the Furnace Masters
A nameless one	Sergeant Logglimb	Speared	Furious howling	The Deepwoods south of the Freeglades	102 ᴇ.ʏ.
The Gyles and 5 prowlgrin mounts	Sister Blackbeak	Phraxfire globe	Varies/Unknown	The Foundry Glades
Gaddius Felludine, Holt, Hudflux and Degg Fledder	Hammerhead goblins	Unknown		The Deepwoods
Sister Blackbeak	Rook Barkwater	Decapitation	“Fire!”	The Phrax Glade
Squive	Rufus Filatine	Stabbing	Unknown
Lentil Spume	Himself	Fire	“Nobody shall learn the secrets of phraxfire!”

Third Age of Flight

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Last words	Place of death	Book/ time of death
Tweezel	N/A	Natural causes	Unknown	Free Glades	185 ᴇ.ʏ.
Hermia Lentis		Fever		Great Glade	c. 587
Phasia Hexatine	Unknown	Unknown		Unknown, most likely Great Glade	Between c. 587 and c. 597
Abe Quarter	Grint Grayle	Unknown		Prade Phraxmine	c. 597 ᴇ.ʏ.
Lendil Spix	N/A	Falling from the Edge		Edge Cliff	c. 599 ᴇ.ʏ.
Trapper Sluice	Edge wraith	Eaten alive
Centix Thripp	Himself	Jumping from the Edge	”It’s been an honour knowing you, Hentadile”
Rudd	Grint Grayle	Bullet	“No!”	The Hulks	c. 600 ᴇ.ʏ.
A black-eared goblin	Ambris Hentadile	Stabbed by a throwing knife	“Whatever you say, Professor."	The Deadbolt Vulpoon above the Deepwoods
Leegwelt the Mottled	Kulltuft Warhammer	Crushed skull	“I am speaking, I have the Mace of Hive.”	The Clan Hall of Hive
Friston Drew	Branxford Drew	Stormphrax explosion	Unknown	Gremlop and Drew stiltshop in Copperwood
Oakshank	N/A	Broken neck		The Deepwoods
Gorlan and many other Hive soldiers	The Great Glade Militia	Varying battle wounds	Varies/Unknown	The Midwood marshes
Many Great Glade soldiers	The Hive Militia
A waif guide	Custodians of Riverrise	Wounds caused by thorns	Loud cries	The Waif Trail in the Thorn Forests
Kulltuft Warhammer	Firemane Clawhand	Decapitation	“What - what are you doing Firemane?”	The Clan Hall of Hive
Ragg Yellowtooth, Turgik and Grossmother Meadowdew	The Hive Militia	Barrelling	Varies/Unknown	Hive Waterfall
Firemane Clawhand			Pleading cries
Branxford Drew	A phraxmarine patrol ship	Shot out of the sky	Unknown	Above the Deepwoods outside Great Glade
A blackwaif	A waif assassin	Blowpipe dart	"If we stand together, we have nothing to fear but—"	The Amphitheatre in Riverrise
Golderayce’s flitterwaif	Nate Quarter	Fire	“An intruder!”	Kobold’s steps
Golderayce One-Eye	Caterbird	Poison dart	“He ... e... elp me... I ...”	The Garden of Life
Ifflix Hentadile	The Gloamglozer	Stabbed by falling glass	”Finish this, for ever!”	The Ancient Laboratory
The Gloamglozer	The Immortals	Removal of its glister	"Your friends are dead! Why not join them?"	Sanctaphrax
Other gloamglozers		Speared by The Immortals' lightning	Wails of terror
Quintinius Verginix	N/A	Returning to Open Sky as glisters	"While the story of your life, Nate Quarter, is just beginning."	Open Sky
Twig Verginix			"And I once voyaged aboard a sky pirate ship into Open Sky..."
Rook Barkwater			"While I once fought the goblin armies at the Battle of the Barley Fields..."
The Caterbird			"Farewell!"
Various descenders	The Professor (indirectly)	Falling/Crushed against the Edge Cliff	Long, desperate screams	The High Cliff	c. 601 ᴇ.ʏ.
Perch		Falling	Screams
Two descenders	Ravine demon	Unknown	Unknown	The Fluted Decline	c. 602 ᴇ.ʏ.
Fourthling descender	N/A	Head struck by rock
Fenebrule and Teep	Glisters	Glister attack	Screams/Unknown	The Great Overhang
Hitch and Hackbane	Edge Wraiths	Eaten alive	Unknown
Sensa Quarter	N/A	'Wasters' fever		Great Glade	c. 608 ᴇ.ʏ.
Celestia Helmstoft's mother		Infection from breaking her leg		The Farrow Ridges	Unknown dates between c. 601 ᴇ.ʏ. and c. 617 ᴇ.ʏ.
Tug's mother	Red dwarf slavers	Various wounds	N/A	The Nightwoods
Many webfoot goblins	Mire Pearlers	Varies	Varies/Unknown	Four Lakes
The Great Blueshell Clam		Phrax explosions	N/A	Mirror of the Sky
Admiral Lode Threwlin	Brocktinius Rolnix	Bullet	Unknown	Aboard the Herald of Wealth above the Mire	Between c. 617 and c. 620
Thadeus Quarter	Quove Lentis	Pushed from a tower		Central Tower of the School of Flight	c. 617 ᴇ.ʏ.
A lop-eared goblin, a pair of pink-eyed goblin twins, a mobgnome and a flat-head goblin	N/A	Falling	Screams	Highest gantry in The Ledges
A cloddertrog	Teggtut or Mank		"Room for one more, I reckon."
A tufted goblin	A Skymarshal	Sky-Firing	Appeals for mercy	The Xanth Filatine
A skymarshal	Drax Adereth	Blowpipe dart	"Oh, but I can."
Lemtrius Korn and Hengruel Paxis			"How dare you?"
Goom	N/A	Natural causes	Yodelling	The Farrow Ridges
A fourthling and a flat-head mire-pearler	Cade	Falling	"What in Sky's name is a release val—"	Gart Ironside's platform	c. 619 ᴇ.ʏ.
Ten of Phineal's brother clam-tenders	Mire Pearlers	Varies	Unknown	The Farrow Ridges
Hundreds of hammerhead goblins of the Hammerhead Nations
Crote	White Trog Queen	Speared in the neck	"Say goodbye to Farrow Lake, boy. It belongs to us now..."	First cave of the Five Falls
Mire-pearlers	Logworms	Eaten alive	Screaming	The Farrow Ridges
Merton Hoist	Tug	Crushed	"This is the Third Age, and you and your friends are history..."	Aboard the Doombringer
Lemulis Lope	Drax Adereth	Falling	”That’s all I know. Believe me.”	Gorgetown	c. 620 ᴇ.ʏ.
A fourthling and two cloddertrog tallow-hats	The snaggletooth in Freeglade Lake	Eaten alive	Unknown	Freeglade Lake
Lennius Grex	Felicia Adereth	Falling	“Now, if you’ll step aside, Captain...?”	The Palace of Phrax
A scuttlebrig rider	Great Glade phraxfrigate gunner	Bullets	Unknown	The Mire
Splinters	Thane Two-Blades	Stabbing	“I . . . I . . .”	Danton Clore’s light tower
Mistsifters	The Great Glade phraxfleet	Bullets	Unknown	The East Landing of New Sanctaphrax
Grent One-Tusk	Themselves	Falling	“But there’s still something I want to show you”	The scree fields
Fenda Fulefane			“There’s something I want to show you, Grent”
Thane Two-Blades and other tallow-hats	Danton Clore (indirectly)		“Sky curse you, Clore ...”	The Edge Cliff
Six Knights of the Tallow	Brocktinius Rolnix	Bullets	Varies/unknown	The tallow-hat prison
Brocktinius Rolnix	Danton Clore		“NO!”	The West Landing of New Sanctaphrax
Danton Clore	Ambris Hentadile	Crushed by a storm stone	“So be it”	Above New Sanctaphrax
Ambris Hentadile	N/A	Dissipation into glisters	Unknown
Felicia Adereth	Quove Lentis	Throwing knife	“I, As new leader of Great Glade, shall discover what they are”	The Palace of Phrax
Quove Lentis	Felicia Adereth	Poison	“You’re of no further use to me-“
Rumblix	Drax Adereth	Bullet	N/A	Cade’s cabin
Drax Adereth	Cade Quarter	Bullets	“Drop the pistol”

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Deaths in Weird New Worlds (no longer canon)

Character	Killed by	Cause of death	Last words	Place of death	Time of death
Woodfish	N/A	Natural causes	"...And the most excellent woodgrog."	The Deepwoods	c. 612 ᴇ.ʏ.
Roughly twenty mire-pearlers	Farrow Lake Calvalry	Varies	Varies/Unknown
Luggins	Waif Assassin	Poison dart	Load roaring	School of Earth Studies
A waif assassin	Threnodesse	Stabbing	Wailing shrieking
Roughly twenty hammerhead goblins of the Farrow Lake Infantry	Mire Pearlers	Varies	Varies/Unknown	The Farrow Ridges
Mire-pearlers	Farrow Lake Calvalry	Bullets	Varies/Unknown
Members of the Farrow Lake Calvalry	Mire Pearlers		Varies/Unknown
Mire-pearlers	Freeglade Lancers	Varies	Bloodcurdling cries
Felvis Yellowmane	Hedgethorne Lammergyre	Stab in the heart	Throaty gurgling
Alcestia Helmstoft	Mire Pearlers	Various wounds	Unknown	The Water Caverns
Defenders of the First Age	Hedgethorne Lammergyre, Bragsworn, or Laria Chillax	Bullets		The Farrow Ridges	c. 613 ᴇ.ʏ.
Hench	Forden Drew	Bullet	"Keep resisting, and you’ll be destroyed along with it! All of you! Even that young whelp I heard scream…"

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