Tipp Peridon

## Biography

### The Prison Healer

Tipp's mother Inake was sentenced to Zalindov and 7-year-old Tipp refused to let go of her skirts, so he got put in with her. Inake fell ill soon after her arrival and Kiva promised her she would look after Tipp as his mother passed into the everworld. (He was eleven years old at the start of the first prison healer novel, and it was mentioned in The Blood Traitor that he would be turning twelve soon.) Tipp was Kiva's assistant in the Zalindov infirmary and helped with other odd jobs around the prison. He was also great friends with the apothecary keeper Mott in the prison as well. Tipp was gravely wounded during the prison riot that took place in the first book, having protected Tilda Corentine with his life, but she was killed anyway. Kiva saved him with her magic, but he was unconscious during the healing, so he had no idea she was a Corentine. He escaped the prison with Kiva, Jaren and Naari at the end of the novel and continued on to Vallenia with them.

### The Gilded Cage

Tipp makes less of an appearance in this novel, but he makes some important appearances nonetheless. Apon arriving at the River Palace, Tipp makes fast friends with young Prince Oriel Vallentis, an earth elemental with a silverbear called Flox. The two run amok around the palace together, escaping their tutor and playing pranks on palace staff. Tipp creates a painting of what he calls their future, which depicts Kiva and Jaren, both wearing crowns and holding hands, with the rest of the Vallentis family in the background. Kiva tears up seeing it, as at that stage she is still working with Zuleeka to bring down the Vallentis family. After Kiva told Zuleeka about the Royal Ternary, the villian sent one of her rebel spies in the palace, Perdita Brown, to retrieve the book of law. Perdita can't enter the library, so she tricks Tipp into thinking that she was sent to get the book by the Vallentis family so they could have a look at it, and gets Tipp to go in and get it for her. He confesses to this later, and gives a description of the spy, but it's a little too late for the rulers to do much. Near the end of the book, Tipp wittnesses Kiva healing her brother Torrell after Zuleeka stabs him, and is overcome with shock and betrayal that she was a Corentine. Kiva tried to apologise, but before she could Zuleeka hit him over the head with the hilt of her dagger and tells Kiva that he would have talked, and it was safer for them all this way, but she isn't really convinced. Rhessinda promises to take care of him and Torrell while Kiva goes to the masquerade party, and when Rhess discovers Zuleeka's betrayal she moves both of them to her secret apartment in the city for safety.

### The Blood Traitor

In the third book of the Prison Healer series we don't encounter Tipp for numerous chapters. Torrell explains that he went back to Zalindov to free Kiva and Tipp was talked into coming along with him, because he really didn't have anywhere else he could go. They only found Cresta in the cell though, and she tricked them into freeing her. With no leads left, they wandered until they heard that Jaren and Caldon had fled to Stoneforge to stay with the military that was loyal to them there. Torrell announced who he was and got them let in, promising not to do anything if they just help him find Kiva. She shows up there with Ashlyn later, but Tipp had taken a moradine tonic to get to sleep and did not know she was there until morning. She slept on the floor in his room that night, wanting to talk to him in the morning, but he woke up before her and avoided her for the rest of the day, even relocating to Jaren's room because that was the one place he knew she would not want to go. He left with everyone else on his pony to get the four rings, but whenever Kiva tried to steer her horse close to him, he moved away.

When they were in Jirva though, and Kiva almost died in the arena, Tipp rushed to apologize to Kiva and he gave her the encouragement she needed to heal Naari for the second time, and everyone else in the room along with them. Tipp ran off into the markets, but was found at the Mysticans stall in the Midnight Markets, and saw Kiva on angeldust for about five seconds before Naari took him to the kitchens for a midnight snack, but he promised not to tell the others about what happened to Kiva. When they reached Lyras, Tipp fell head over heels in love with Queen Issa, a girl around 9 or 10 years old. As they got close to Vallenia, Tipp was fatigued from the long ride and stayed back with Galdric and Caldon. When the former stabbed the latter, Tipp realised what the Mystican's warning meant ( when the snake bites - the necros venom that was laced into the dagger ) and he tried to shove as much of the antidote down Caldon's throat as possible before Galdric dragged him away to be a hostage to make Kiva wield the Hand of the Gods. Once the battle in the Queen's sitting room commenced, Tipp hid behind the grand piano with Oriel, who promised to look out for him. At the end of the novel, Tipp makes his final appearance declaring Warden Rook sentenced to the Trial by Ordeal.