The Stone Pilot (character)

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The Stone Pilot, Maugin, is a termagant trog from The Edge Chronicles books by Paul Stewart illistrated by Chris Riddell.

[edit] History

Maugin started her life living in the underground trog caverns beneath the Deepwoods with the civilitations of termagant trogs. In their species the females keep the appearance of young children until they reach of age and shower themselves in the blood from the roots of the infamous Edge tree the Bloodoak. When doing this they change into the adult female form of termagant trogs. This is a celebrated day for termagant trogs. While still young Maugin had been brought a baby Prowlgrin, whom she named Blink, by her mother, Loess.

As Maugin approached her blooding ceremony day her mother told her that she must release Blink back into the world above. Maugin chose to do it herself and bid her final heart felt goodbyes to her beloved pet. However she misses her coming of age and fails to turn into the adult version of the terminant trog. Ashamed, she runs away. As a result of her missing her coming of age, she is 'cursed' to live out her child form forever, a fact that she bitterly resents.

Later, she is rescued from a slave market by Captain Wind Jackal, who takes her under his wing, and gives her the post of Stone Pilot abord his ship, the 'Galerider'. She accepts this post, and for she serves under the Captain's Wind Jackal, Cloud Wolf and Twig.

She is a reserved character; throughout the books she speaks very little, and has a shy personality. She is fiercly loyal to her captains, and her crew. She has showed herself to be an incredibally skilled Stone Pilot, saving the crew from danger with her knowledge many times.

Maugin is first revealed in Stormchaser, in which she reveals to Twig who she really is underneath her Stone Pilot hood. They form a romantic interest, although they are separated for many years at the end of Midnight over Sanctaphrax.