(a.k.a. Grandpa)
Ghet is a prominent member of Illy's raiding party. Physically weaker than the other raiders, but he has a cool head with a wit sharper than his knife. Having helped Ilgor more than once practice standing up to the other raiders in her early days before becoming a Raid Leader. He taught Ilgor knife fighting as well, though he would never admit it, she quickly became better than him at it.
He learned common after she had been with him in the City of Glaion as she, Hob and him scouted the city for information Chapter 16: Wandering Sins in The Great Tree: Soft and Subtle Wind
, Making sure he understood the language more than the others. Preferring a more diplomatic approach in his old age, he likes talking more than fighting, it was more comfortable for him. While not shy, he wasn't particularly confrontational with anyone.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Lithe and agile, quick with a knife and strike. He is a small male for the village in terms of mass. He Keeps is hair in a loose bundle down his back in a contradiction to their traditions.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
He had spent his early years being a raider to the clan, and still does. Though he was far more proficient in abilities in his youth, earning himself the nickname Zephyr for a while. No one having matched his speed in a fight, his knives slick with the blood of those he raided. Locally he became known as the Night Stalker as his preferred method had been to hit targets in the dead of night while they slept. Quick hit and run tactics were his forte while he was a Raid Leader in his late Twenties.
After Kari had lost her child, then her husband. With Yorm becoming the new chief. Kari's teaching's became much more somber, gentler, and kinder. Only then did Ghet, after seeing the pain in the clan Mother's voice, did a seed of doubt sprout in his mind about his faith. He grew close to her, hating to see her in pain, he tried his best to help her move on. Though it was somewhat complicated by Kari growing a bit too attached, he refused to reciprocate. Not seeing this as the type of relationship he wanted to pursue.
While she was hurt by the rejection, she understood. They remained close friends afterward, still attempting to help her grow past the trauma she endured. As they both watched Yorm rise in his power with the clan, at the price of her husband's life. This again planted the seeds of doubt in his mind, why do this if they were supposed to be family? Why did the Father need to die for a new to rise? In his mind, they were so few, to pay the price of their own lives, for such a mundane transfer of power.
The next decade soldiered on without much event as the new generation of children were born in the clan. He still remembered the ceremonies, the love and joy, the hope filled voices as the children first opened their eyes under the magnificent night skies. But, for Ghet and the rest of the clan, this would be short lived as a problem arose.
Hob's Father, Talik, had picked a fight with the City Guard. Ghet, in his anger, followed suit with Talik wanting revenge for the death of one of their raiders. Ghet had ordered his Raiders to attack the sleeping encampment of guards, unbeknownst to them, the guards were on full alert before they arrived. When the raiders met their force, they were slaughtered. Ilgor, Yvet, Hob, Ghord, and Isry's parents were all killed in the incident. Ghet being the only one to return alive, cut, broken, and bloodied.
The next day, when Yorm had heard of what happened, he rushed to the cavern where all their bodies were. Picking Ghet up by the throat, slamming him against the wall screaming why. Kari, and the other raiders trying to pry Yorm away from Ghet.
In an act that many of the clan would see as controversial, Ghet stepped down from the Raid Leader title, seeing himself unworthy of it any longer. With tears in his eyes, he begged Yorm and the rest of the clan to forgive him. He spent the next few months away from the clan in the Ancient forest after Kari had healed him. He wanted to be away from them, shame heavy in his heart for his action to let Talik do something so foolish.
When he returned to the family, he was expecting animosity, anger, hate even. What he returned to, was the clan's Mother welcoming their Brother back with open arms. The rest of the family followed suit, Yorm even offering him the Raid Leader status once more. Though he refused, he became vocal about rash action. So for his tired eyes to see Ilgor become a Raid Leader, with tactics that kept the family safe from harm, he would follow her till the end.
Accomplishments & Achievements
While he doesn't hold many claims to fame in the clan, he is well known to be a valuable advisor to all in the clan. He has a penchant for helping the girls of the clan through their problems, always having been a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. He has somehow managed to avoid being a womanizer in the clan, he doesn't try. He is fond of helping his family become better and more comfortable with itself and has earned the reputation of being the kind grandpa in the family after the passing of the old Chief.
Proud of the children as well as the rest of the family, having grown under his advice. He will always maintain that the calm mind of the clan will always be his greatest feat to date. So many years spent, assisting the clan, so many sleepless nights spent working out issues, all to grow and bloom beyond what they thought they were capable of.
"Ghet watching me. His eyes reflecting the light in a way that they seemed to glow. They were all I noticed as he approached the pool in the stream. He noticed the wet clothes on the bank, noticed my bloody skin. He walked into the water and sat next to me... "The regret" He finally said, "No, it doesn't get any easier. It never does. You will remember. You won't forget." Chapter 4, The Writing on the Walls in The Great Tree: Soft and Subtle Wind
Failures & Embarrassments
He has never really forgiven himself for not being able to help Kari after her child had passed. While it wasn't his fault, he feels uneasy about how she never truly recovered from it. Despite how much he tried to console, help ease her mind, or talk her through it. He still sees it in her eyes when she looks at the children of the clan. That distant look when she looks at her orphans.
He has also never forgiven himself for not being able to save his friends and family from a disastrous raid he saw coming. He wasn't able to slow them down, he wasn't able to get to them in time. He was the only one who survived, but only barely. He was the only one to return home, three fourths the way dead. It has haunted him for his failure to protect them. Still occasionally waking in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, then getting up to drink with Knoll in the tavern just to fall back asleep.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
He doesn't want to fight anymore. His bones are old, his hands hurt, he's not as quick as he used to be. He wants to help Ilgor change the raiders, wanting to help her make the clan fight less. He wants to see the family safe, thinking Ilgor has a plan for the best. He wants to see the family become a proper settlement on human terms, he sees the benefit of trade and diplomacy. In the end he thinks he'd best be off the field of battle and would be better at Ilgor's side as she begins to lead the clan into a new era.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
A mind uniquely suited for diplomacy. After having spent most of his life working through the problems brought to him by the family, he has become extremely talented with deescalation. Soothing the nerves and anger of the children, the wrath of the Chief's, the lamentations of the Mother. Once he has learned common to it's full degree, well... who's to say his talents stop here?
Social
Religious Views
He has become increasingly distrustful of his family's god Bhal. Over the years he has begun seeing that maybe the way they live is the main cause of their suffering. The demand to raid, the glory of battle, the spoils of war, he never saw the point in it. He questions the teachings that they are given that Bhal is a kind Father, that he is pleased when they are bloodied. He questions whether the teachings of Priestess is a benefit to the clan, after all, to teach the children to steal from the wealth of the City for the benefit of the clan seems to him, questionable. To teach them to hide in the shadows and to teach them to go down fighting seems odd to him. He would rather live another day.
"Why ask us to live as he needs us in the Shores Beyond, then in the same instance says he loves us and wants to see us grow! You Preach to us the Glory of the Great Father and his benevolent loving embrace, then turn to us with the other corner of your mouth. Spit out this notion of raids and how he is pleased when we emerge victorious from some failed raid that leave us with nothing more than Orphans and broken dreams! Damnit Kari, ANSWER ME!" -One of the most infamous arguments the clan has heard in the last four generations.
Current Status
Elevate the Priestess
Current Location
Ethnicity
Other Ethnicities/Cultures
Age
58
Children
Sex
Male
Eyes
Rich Purple with greying iris's
Hair
Pale bronze with streaks of light grey
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Deep sea green skin with brown speckling on the shoulders and chest
Height
4'1"
Belief/Deity
Cult of Bhal
Other Affiliations
Fluent in Elder Fae as like all the goblins. Their dead languge being mistaken for birdsong many times over. Currently he is learning to read and write common with Illy's help. This old dog never having stopped learning new tricks.
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