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His signature on the hard cover edition of Hollow City

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

–Perplexus Anomalous

Perplexus Anomalous is an Italian peculiar with an unknown peculiarity. He is a cartographer who is best known for creating the Map of Days, a collection of maps that show the location of every loop throughout the Peculiardom. Not only was he a cartographer, but also a philosopher, and great thinker, as Millard admires him greatly. Perplexus Anomalous's name is on the hardcover edition of Hollow City.

Biography[]

It is said that Perplexus committed years to the hunt for the lost loop of Abaton, which is how he began discovering so many other loops.

He also spent years on a secret project on loop regrowth, which was complete by the end of The Desolations of Devil's Acre and presumably used to restore several collapsed loops, including Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Library of Souls[]

You are an ignorant pig!

–Perplex Anomalous, Library of Souls

The Italian peculiar, after much speculation over his location, had actually been imprisoned by Caul. While in Caul's clutches, Perplexus was tortured for the location of Abaton or the Library of Souls. Perplexus did successfully find the location of Abaton. According to Millard, Perplexus had been living in a 14th-century loop in Venice that no one had known existed before Caul had captured him. In the book, Perplexus aged while he was in Devil's Acre, his hair and beard turning white. Later, when Millard was trying to return him home, his hair and beard returned to their previous color over the course of a few days, and that is how Millard realized that the loop collapsing had reset their ages.

The Conference of the Birds[]

Millard sneaks out one night to meet with Perplexus. When asked about bothering him at midnight, Millard states that people as old as Perplexus don't sleep much. Millard tells Perplexus about the puzzle of the location of V's loop, and Perplexus points out that it would make sense to search the midwestern United States.

The Desolations of Devil's Acre[]

Description[]

Physical Appearance[]

Perplexus is a small statured, bearded man wearing dark glasses. Behind them, he has crossed eyes.

Personality[]

As a cartographer and philosopher, Perplexus has an interest in geography and differential equations and has a brilliant mind. Though Millard thinks that Perplexus doesn't have any interest in mechanical things, Klaus claims otherwise, saying that Perplexus has sticky fingers and resentful of him for apparently having taken a femur bone from Klaus's bone clock.

He also tends to mutter curses in Italian when angry.

Trivia[]

  • He is not an ymbryne; Ransom Riggs said it in the live video of Facebook of June 22, 2017.
  • His name, Perplexus, is most likely an alias, as the name is derived from the word "perplex", which is defined as 'To make complicated or confused as a matter or question'.
  • His name, Anomalous, is probably derived from anomaly, which means something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
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