Trovancio Alexib

Trovancio Alexib is the internal author of the epic saga, '''Den and the Wolves'. ''The narrator dissects his story as a work of fiction, instead of history, due to its absurdity. Therefore, Alexib is given the title of 'poet' instead of 'historian' by the narrator and similar literary scholars.

The narrator refers to Alexib directly within the episodes of ' Den and the Wolves ' in small segments that gradually define his character; a worldly traveler who spoke multiple languages, and had a wild imagination. For instance, in the first episode, 'Dragonshard ', the narrator recounts one of Alexib's quotes about the people of Temparis:

' If I had been an Empiric man, I'd surely be a Temparishan.'

These snippets imply that Alexib existed in an unknown post-Empiric era of human civilization, and thus the narrator exists even further ahead in time than the poet whose work he is discussing with the audience.

While the true identity of Alexib is never revealed, the narrator concludes in the final episode of the story that such accurate telling of these people's trials must have come from very close encounters, perhaps even an eye-witness account. This subtly hints that Alexib's former identity was the immortal Den himself.