Pantin

****P******antin** is a young boy in Nagspeake tales who goes on many adventures, usually accompanied by his friend Troublewit.

## Biography

### *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*

On request, Phineas Amalgam agreed to tell the story of the house in the pines. He told how a peddler came to Nagspeake in search of an adit-gate, and went to find a child, since children are better at finding them. After saving Pantin from bullies, he convinced the boy to stay a night in Fellwool House, and look for an adit-gate, which he would pay Pantin for. Pantin entered the house, and found that every door went somewhere different than it ought. Pantin explored for a while and became proficient at predicting what was behind each door, but soon saw the alluring light of the map room, which, though he did not know, was vicious, but Pantin wanted to go in anyway. The house would not let him, but he kept on trying, and eventually found his way into a room with suits of armor that moved to kill him whenever he stopped looking at them. Pantin survived the suits of armor and was then let into the map room. Each map tried to suck him into an area with a monster, but Pantin evaded them and realized that the maps were adit-gates. He took one, left the house, presented it to the peddler, and fainted.

Madame Grisaille shared another story about Pantin. One day, a peddler called Trigemine had come to Pantin's red stone house (incidentally, the same one he'd met before) and asked to look around. He had not found what he sought, but noticed the nettles out Pantin's window and realized that there was a grave out there, one that perhaps contained what he needed. Trigemine came back in the night, and when Pantin woke and noticed him digging, he found that his parents and everyone else in the red stone house had been drugged to sleep by the gift the peddler had left. It was all up to him, and he turned to his friend the gargoyle Troublewit, who was made of wild iron and could thus move. He and Troublewit conferred and came up with a plan. The old iron took the box that the peddler sought away, then raised the bones of the hero and confronted the peddler. He broke free of the iron's control, it seemed that his ghost had taken possession of his body, and after the thief had been scared off, Pantin and Troublewit went down to talk to him. He was allowed to keep his iron body and gave them the box as payment.

## Trivia

* Pantin is known to have been helped by bonelights and fallen into a Belowground tunnel.
* In Nagspeake, there is a popular book titled "The Tales of Troublewit and Pantin", but the author is unknown. Some of City University's scholars believe that Phineas Amalgam is the author, since in *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book* he told a Pantin story (in fact, the only Pantin tale without Troublewit), but others strongly disagree.
* The prefix "pan" means "all". This could represent Pantin having had many adventures, or being a stand-in for other children that the storytellers did not want to name.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*
2. ↑ https://www.leveluprn.com/blogs/nursing-tips/pan