Alexander
Names: AlexanderHis Nibs
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 40 (Chapter Forty: Going In)
Appearances
What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 40Alexander's army has been seen within fifty miles of the Hunter, which is on guard against his scouts.
- Ch 42Alexander's conquest keeps growing, and he calls it a nation.
- Ch 47Alexander copies or takes all written records of Atlantis into a library staffed by scribes, some with clipped wings.
- Ch 47Alexander is old, hard and scarred, and believes Bridget has cause and effect reversed on falling fish stocks.
- Ch 50Alexander's official story says he came from Lemuria on a canoe made from metal given by the mythical Ancients.
- Ch 50Alexander aims to carry many dragons to Lemuria using captured floaters, since dragons cannot fly that far.
- Ch 50Alexander comes from a family of scribes whose records span millennia, and he spotted the recurring famine cycles.
- Ch 53After volcanic eruptions kill fish and destroy two floaters, dragons finally believe Alexander's warnings and nearly every nearby floater joins him.
- Ch 53Alexander orders floaters heated with hot rocks to fill up at a lake, then their tendrils cut so they cannot taste seawater.
- Ch 55Alexander suspects Howard and Bridget have impossible knowledge and hints at torture, but relents and accepts their good fortune.
- Ch 55Alexander brokers a food-sharing agreement among villages after uneven fish stocks nearly spark civil war.
- Ch 55Alexander estimates a dragon in free flight would need only a couple of hours' rest to continue across the sea.
- Ch 55After consulting a trusted general, Alexander approves Howard's raft plan.
- Ch 57Alexander's army organizes the dragon exodus to Lemuria, mostly filled by volunteers fearing starvation.
- Ch 59Alexander ordered Howard killed and wants Bridget as a permanent member of his records team.
- Ch 59Alexander's soldiers clipped Bridget's primary feathers with machetes to ground her until she agreed to stay.
- Ch 62Alexander cut all the floaters loose after the migration.
- Ch 62Alexander told Bridget he had no romantic interest in her, valuing her only for her usefulness.
Connections
- member ofDragons
- leadsAlexandrians
- has memberMajordomoserves Alexander
- ally ofDr. Sheehy
- ally ofHoward
- related toHowardrivals over Bridget
- leadsAlexandrian flotilla
- enemy ofHoward
- has memberGerrardsoldier following Alexander's orders
- leadsDragonsrules an empire
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 40News of Alexander's army
The squad leader tells them Alexander's army is within fifty miles and his scouts are intercepted daily; the pair take a hotel pod in the village.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Bridget conscripted as a scribe
After questioning a guard, Bridget is taken to Alexander's library, impresses the majordomo with fish-egg ecology, and wins an audience with Alexander.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Mysterious canoe and wreckage
Howard spots a canoe of alien hull plates and advanced SCUT wreckage in Alexander's throne room; Mario confirms neither is human or Bob-made.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Alexander reveals the famine cycle
Alexander explains his family's millennia of records show recurring, worsening famines, justifying his plan to move dragons to Lemuria.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Bridget and Howard join Alexander's planning
Bridget offers maps and route advice for crossing to Lemuria and proposes net fishing from floaters, effectively joining Alexander's leadership.
- Book 5 · Ch 53The flotilla sets out north
With eruptions confirming Alexander's warnings, floaters join his flotilla and head north early while Howard's crew builds a fishing winch.
- Book 5 · Ch 53Floaters refuse salt water
Turning out to sea, the floaters recoil from salt water and head back to shore; Alexander plans to heat them, fill them at a lake and cut their tendrils.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Secret fish restocking and food crisis
Mario's drones secretly restock floater reservoirs until it is noticed, nearly causing civil war; with food short, Howard proposes flying the dragons ahead.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Alexander adopts the raft plan
Howard proposes a chain of rafts and signal fires so most dragons can fly ahead to the mainland; Alexander approves it.
- Book 5 · Ch 57The dragon exodus begins
With rafts and signal fires in place, Alexander launches the staggered mass flight of dragons toward Lemuria.
- Book 5 · Ch 57Howard's dranny is assassinated
A dragon spears Howard's dranny in flight; Mario's drone recovers and repairs the body while Howard and Bridget suspect Alexander.
- Book 5 · Ch 59Alexander grounds Bridget
Alexander surrounds Bridget, tells her Howard is dead, and has her primaries cut so she can't leave until she agrees to join his records team.
- Book 5 · Ch 59Howard rescues Bridget
Howard flies a cargo drone to the flotilla, confronts Alexander, drops the drone on his soldiers, and escapes with Bridget aboard it.