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Grimfleur

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Grimfleur

He had fifteen hands hung in his cloak, old hands and young, masculine and feminine, and half again as many noses. He had donned them all as disguises in one age or another. There were ribbons and circlets, matches and bangtubes, coppers and iron. And owing to the powers that he had wove into its fabric, it was no burden at all. It sat lightly on the shoulders of Grimfleur as he watched the stranger easing down the road. Grimfleur smiled as the man approached, a sight that had only once ever greeted a good deed, and he smirked with a sound that would have set the unusually perceptive dead on edge.

-- The Rubion Sword, Chapter XIV, opening lines

 

 

 

It is unknown why such a skilled Elemenstor would insist upon making his living as a petty criminal. A fan-favorite of many, Grimfleur was a recurring minor villain through many of the saga's incarnations. He is known to have held two of the Four Underdogs captive in ElamenSTAR episode 405, "Danwan Had Nothing To Do With This." It was he who lured Gavment Rayling off the Longest Shortcut with promises of the Infinite Ruby Generator in Book 3. In Book 6, it was he who claimed to be selling one of the Seven Lost Emotions until it was revealed that it was rather a new emotion of his own invention, "rapidance." It was he who gave the protagonists of Book 7 the constantly changing map to Elddim's Peak. He takes no less than eight different forms in the Wizbits Elemenstor Battle CCG, and appeared in over twelve episodes of animation (though not always as the villain).

 

It is widely speculated that the heckler in the crowd scene in Book 2 was Grimfleur in disguise, but there is only circumstancial evidence to support this in the text. Those who contend that this is true hail the introduction, in secret, of Grimfleur at that point would not only be a literary masterstroke, but the question is far from settled among ELotH:TES fans.

 

It is later revealed that Grimfleur, already known to be old by his appearance in both the Wizbits and the Elemenstor Cycle, was in fact one of the Second Students of Harbinger Portent. The evolution from a somewhat disenfranchised young man to the crooked but rather petty (unambitious) figure is both believable and expertly nuanced.

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