Gaius Kitai



Gaius Kitai, referred to as Kitai in the novels, appears in the first book of the series, Furies of Calderon, as a Marat child of the same age as Tavi. She faces him in a trial that involves finding a mushroom in the Wax Forest, and when he gives her the mushroom to cure her from poison she gives him hers, in order to let him live and protect the valley with the aid of Doroga, Kitai's father. As she looks into his eyes, her eyes, previously of an undetermined colour, turn into the same green as Tavi's, a symbol of her bond to him, her ''chala. In Academ's Fury ''she appears again in the city of Alera Imperia, this time playing the role of a thief, the Cat, as she Watches the alerans in their daily lives. In the following novel, Cursor's Fury, she is briefly separated from him due to Tavi's duties as Cursor of the Realm, but they reunite when the main character joins the First Aleran Legion, and aids him when she scouts the land the Canim invaded. At the beginning of Captain's Fury she assumes the role of commander of the Auxiliary Cavalry, a force of scouts from the Horse Clan of the Marat. She follows and aids Tavi, who is beginning together with her to develop furycrafting, in his assault on the Grey Tower, Alera's most fortified prison; having succeded in freeing Ambassador Varg of the Canim, she aids Tavi by freeing his mother, Gaius Isana, and his mentor, Araris Valerian. She follows Tavi all the way to the lands of the Canim in order to fight the Vord horde that has conquered their continent, but are soon forced to flee back to Alera. In the last novel, First Lord's Fury, she discovers she is pregnant with Tavi's son, to be named Desiderius, and fights with the Vord Queen at Octavian's side. At the end of the series she is married to Octavian while carrying their son with them during the ceremony