Sir Gilbert

Sir Gilbert is a major character in Animal Jam and one of the seven main Alphas that protect Jamaa. He is the Alpha of the tigers works the most directly in the fight against the Phantoms, battling them directly alongside his fellow tiger warriors as well as strategizing battle plans. Though he is stern and intimidating, he's also very thoughtful, caring and honorable, and yearns for the day Jamaa will at last be at peace.
==Biography==
When the Phantoms had first invaded Jamaa long ago, Mira and Zios sought out the leaders of the six remaining animal species that had not yet been imprisoned in a Heartstone. The leader of the tigers, Sir Gilbert, was granted magical powers and the status of Alpha along with the other five leaders, and with the help of the Alphas, the Phantom Queen was defeated. However the Alphas were then left to rebuild Jamaa themselves without Zios or Mira at their side, as the former had been captured by the fleeing Phantoms into the portal and the latter had flown in after him.
Sir Gilbert first appears in the adventure The Hidden Falls. The player gives him a letter written for him by Graham about an oncoming Phantom invasion. Sir Gilbert thanks the player, complimenting their efforts and adding that they're needed to help the front lines with the invasion.
In The Front Lines, the player visits Sir Gilbert in his palace, where he tells them that they need to be tested to see if they're capable enough to join his soldier's ranks. In the camp, the tiger Alpha has the player undergo three trials for speed, reflex and bravery, letting them become one of his warriors when they pass. He then tasks them with getting past the Phantom's defenses, meeting back up with them at the end. He tells the player of the Phantom Fortress, and of a way to undo the damage it's caused by getting one of Mira's feathers.
Graham and Sir Gilbert greet the player at the start of The Phantom Badlands, who instruct them to find a special shrine of Mira somewhere in the badlands. After finding the shrine, he shows back up and helps the player search for Mira's feather. Once it's found, Sir Gilbert uses the feather's purifying magic to restore the polluted land, trapping the Phantom Fortress in place in the process.
Partway into The Phantom Fortress, the tiger Alpha meets with the player and requests that they rally the tiger troops by raising the banners so that they may scare off the Phantom scouts. At the end of the adventure, Sir Gilbert reappears and states that now is the time to finish off the Phantoms, but Cosmo interrupts and asks him to escort the previously captured sheep back home instead.
He appears again at the very end of Storming The Fortress, where he along with Liza, Cosmo and Graham congratulate the player and Greely for destroying the fortress and finding Peck.
When finding a large, mysterious pink stone, he and the other Alphas decide to take it back to their headquarters to study. Greely however feels that it's wrong to have taken in and steals it, intending to return it to the place where it was found. Once the stone is returned, the other Alphas appear and give Greely a talking to for taking it without telling them. 
==Appearance==
Sir Gilbert is a large orange tiger with dark purple stripes. His underbelly, muzzle, toes, eyebrows and the sides of his face are all cream colored, and he has green eyes. His large nose is dark red, and he has three purple rectangles on either side of his face, as well as purple markings under his eyes and three small purple dots under those. he has bushy eyebrows, angular purple markings on his thighs, and a cream colored beard tied into three braids at the bottom. He wears broad silver braces on his legs and matching silver shoulder pads connected to a large red cape, as well as a dark blue cape. He has two silver rings on each of his front paws, with the one on the left having a red gemstone imbedded in it.
==Trivia==
*Sir Gilbert was named after Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, the creator of the National Geographic Kids magazine.
*His profile page during beta testing revealed that his favorite color is red.
*His trading card hints that his guardian area is Crystal Sands. This could be in reference to the fact that Crystal Sands' cave entrance originally looked like a tiger's face and/or the Animal Jam: Play Wild version of the location having a "tigers-only" area. 
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