Orbix Xaxis
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Orbix Xaxisis a fictional character in the Edge Chronicles series of fantasy novels, created by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. He appears in the "Rook" sequence, a sub-series in the canon.
Orbix is known as the Most High Guardian of Night. He is a hypochondriac, and wears thick smoked glasses and a muzzle with an air filter to protect him from the impurities of the world. He overthrew Vox Verlix, and commands the fortess school, the Tower of Night, on New Sanctaphrax. As a sky-scholar, he believes that the lightning bolt of a Great Storm would heal the new Sanctaphrax rock, which was crumbling from stone-sickness. When a storm did arrive, however, he was not ready. His ex-assistant, Xanth Filatine, had stolen the deadbolt that would hold the lightning conductor Midnight's Spike in place. Instead, he used himself to attract the sacred lightning bolt. The result was that the Tower of Night burst into flame, he and his Guardians were annihilated, and the rock melted.
In Freeglader, he and a legion fo Guardians appear in spirit form when Rook searches for Xanth in the Twilight Woods, although it is unclear whether it was really him.
