Overview
Amos is an atraxi scientist, engineer, fire mage, and void traveler. Under Jorhan after the fall of Atraxis Prime Alpha, he and Jareth build gates, activators, essence towers, spell containers, and survival systems that keep the atraxi alive. After leaving before the battle between Jorhan and Arcanis, he crosses the void, reaches Atraxis Prime Omega, and becomes a high-ranking brain scientist in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
Appearance
Amos is a large atraxi man with intensely dark hair and intensely dark eyes. His atraxi body has enough density and strength to survive void exposure that would kill most people. In the intergalactic empire, his attire and equipment include white scientist clothing, wrist projections, scanners, holograms, and research equipment.
Abilities and Knowledge
Amos is a master of fire magic. He fights with purple flames, cosmic glyphs, cosmic projectiles, iridescent barriers, and fire-driven movement, and he duels Eira during her time in Atraxis Prime. His magic fades almost entirely after years in the essence-poor intergalactic empire, but his technical knowledge remains intact.
His strongest expertise is gate and void science. Amos understands atraxi gate construction, gate activators, essence towers, spell containers, void navigation, and the interaction between essence, machinery, nanites, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence. In the intergalactic empire, he studies exceptional minds and human-influenced AI systems, then applies that knowledge to the Zarephon breach, the imperial core, and the problem of recovering essence-bound people from the void.
History
Amos is part of the atraxi refugee group that flees the collapse of Atraxis Prime Alpha. On the escape vessel, he and Jareth calibrate the gate that sends the survivors toward an expedition gate. After the refugees arrive in Xalmyrra, Amos studies the new world's essence conditions, travels in search of better settlement options, and joins Jareth and Belanor in adapting gate technology to essence-based systems.
As atraxi essence sickness and overuse worsen, Amos develops the essence towers, spell containers, and gate activators that keep their people alive. After Jorhan takes the spiral shard, Amos and Jareth build Atraxis Prime, including gates, essence towers, and systems that drain essence through the void. Amos continues searching for lost atraxi expeditions and possible routes beyond Xalmyrra, hoping for survivors from the original expeditions.
During Eira's captivity in Atraxis Prime, Amos trains and spars with her, studies how her unusual power interacts with the shard, and is unexpectedly kind to her despite his place in Jorhan's faction. He and Jareth later pursue Eira's protectors and fight Deylin and Silas, using firestorms, cosmic projectiles, barriers, and gate devices before retreating through the void.
Amos flees before the final battle between Jorhan and Arcanis and prioritizes the atraxi as a race. Amos drifts through the void with gate activators until one opens near Atraxis Prime Omega in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. Atraxi expedition survivors or descendants became part of the empire, and Amos fabricates enough of a local background to become a famous brain scientist with high clearance.
Amos meets Thalena after she arrives in the intergalactic empire through a Chronasis gate. They make a bargain: Thalena sends microscopic gate-schematic fragments back to Atraxis Prime Alpha, and Amos agrees to return her home. They travel to the ruined old Atraxis system and Zarephon, where the breach links the empire to the other Valrindor.
After Thalena's essence-made body is shot in Maraveth, Amos tracks the pull toward Zarephon while Mike and Rafe contain her disintegrating particles in specialized capsules. He performs repeated void dives from the Maraveth core chamber, recovers essence traces in capsules, studies the void entity later named Oktlix, and compares the entity's composition with the imperial core. When Eira, Kaelion, and Xarion arrive through the Zarephon breach, Amos already knows Eira from Atraxis Prime and orders the newcomers brought to Maraveth for the attempt to restore Thalena's stored essence and the additional essence recovered with hers.
Relationships
- Jareth is Amos's closest scientific counterpart among the atraxi. They build gates, essence towers, activators, and Atraxis Prime together, then search for lost expeditions.
- Jorhan leads the atraxi faction Amos serves for much of his life. Amos prioritizes the atraxi people and the search for surviving expeditions.
- Eira begins as a captive and training subject in Atraxis Prime, then becomes someone Amos calls a friend after recognizing her in the intergalactic empire.
- Thalena becomes Amos's partner in the empire's gate-schematic project, and her shooting draws him into the Maraveth containment work and the Zarephon breach.
- Isandro, Rafe, Eamon, Mike, Luke, and Elias become Amos's main imperial collaborators while preserving Thalena's remaining essence, investigating the Zarephon breach, comparing Oktlix with the imperial core, and testing void travel.
Significant Events
Amos survives the fall of Jorhan's faction by crossing the void with gate activators. In the intergalactic empire, he uses Thalena's temporal magic to send gate-schematic fragments, responds when Thalena's shot body proves to be an essence-made copy, recovers Thalena's essence and additional essence traces from the void in capsules, studies Oktlix, and already knows Eira from Atraxis Prime before her group comes to Maraveth through the breach.