Edmund Philips

* Basic Info
* Occupations

Translator for Theodore Thompson:

M1-07 400 ASB - M8-02 402 ASB

Flagmaster/Lookout of the Swaggerino:

M10-02 402 ASB - M1-07 409 ASB

## Biography

### Early life (371 ASB - 401 ASB)

Edmund Philips was born on M6-15 371 ASB in the city of Highdrop within the Kingdom of Highdrop, one of the many semi-independent nations within the Independent Nation of Silver (INS). On M6-21 393 ASB Philips was hired by the Highdrop Chronical as an editor.

On M1-07 400 ASB Edmund Philips was hired to translate books by Theodore Thompson, who was a man that claimed to be from a place called the "Soil Texture Continent". He took the job because Thompson paid more than the Highdrop Chronical did.

### Adventures around the Precious Metals Continent (401 ASB - 408 ASB)

Edmund Philips worked for Thompson aboard his ship named the Swaggerino, Philips was later joined on the ship by Alta Mullacor, Shawna Marcums and Ryan Boarchuck. On M8-02 402 ASB the Kingdom of Highdrop joined a coalition against the Neort Collective, as the a crewmember of a moderately sized sea vessel Philips along with the of the Swaggerino's crew and the ship itself were drafted into the coalition's navel force.

After Thompson had had the Swaggerino upgraded for combat Philips was given the role of the ship's flagmaster/lookout. The war against the Neort Collective was very similar to most conflicts in the INS that Philips had read about, starting off with a phase of nondescript looting followed by an organized phase once the various ship's captains had learned how combat works. On M4-13 403 ASB Thompson along with a large assortment of other ship captains met with the head of the offensive against the Neort Collective, High Commander Seamus Andult on the island fortress of Sycant, Philips along with the rest of the crew remained with the Swaggerino, when Thompson returned he informed the crew of the plan to take Fort Hendstrath. On M4-17 403 ASB, when the fleet of ships entered into cannon range of Fort Hendstrath two fleets of ships each outnumbering the coalition fleet four to one emerged from the sheltered bays on either side of the fort, the fort itself fired a great volley of cannon fire from each of it's hundred or so windows which destroyed much of the coalition fleet, it was at this moment that Philips realized that they had been sent on a suicide mission. The coalition fleet continued to move onwards towards Fort Hendstrath, on occasion a ship would veer off but would be swiftly destroyed by it's own fleet this continued until they collided with the Neort Fleet's at which point the Hyperdurian one of the second largest ship present in the fleet veered off ramming through other ships that got in it's way, Thompson quickly had Philips start sending flag signals to the other ships informing them that he was giving chase to the Hyperdurian, the Hyperdurian managed to force it's way out of the battle despite taking heavy damage and the Swaggerino followed. Thompson had the Swaggerino follow the Hyperdurian for three days before the Hyperdurian stopped moving due to the heavy damage that it had sustained, Thompson had Philips send a flag signal to the Hyperdurian indicating friendship and was allowed to board. Thompson met with Captain Swanley Hardman who allowed the Swaggerino to tug his ship to land for repairs, Hardman and Thompson came to the conclusion that they would no longer be welcome in lands the Kingdom of Highdrop or their coalition allies. After eighteen days of towing the two ships arrived on the coast of Electrum Island. The Swaggerino left Electrum Island two days later after using the Swaggerino's engine to hoist the Hyperdurian onto land.

The day after they departed Electrum Island the crew of the Swaggerino were told by Thompson of his plan to travel to the Gold State to spread the word of Dao Go, at the time none save for Thompson were especially familiar with the writings of Dao Go, during the trip to the Gold State the entire crew read Go's three books and Philips was thoroughly unimpressed by what he had read, however both Marcums and Boarchuck were. The Swaggerino arrived at the Gold State city of Zoloto on M8-06 403 ASB where Philips was tasked with selling Dao Go's books which Thomson had bound together as one book called "The Way of Dao Go" not many copies were sold and Thompson payed Philips and Mullacor via selling his various treasures. The Swaggerino left Zoloto on M12-23 407 ASB.

On M1-08 408 ASB the Swaggerino docked at the port of Auro. Whilst at the port Philips along with Thomson and Boarchuck went to the local market to purchase supplies. Philips was browsing through several samples of canvas when he noticed Thompson and Boarchuck in a struggle with a group of soldiers, Philips began loading his revolver and shot one of the soldiers in the head, the other soldiers then departed. Philips Thompson and Boarchuck made their way to just outside of the Swaggerino where they were confronted by a Gold officer and twenty four Yellow soldiers, each with rifles pointed at the trio, the Swaggerino then fired two of it's cannon's at the dock causing the soldier's along with it's crew to fall into the water below. Ropes were thrown into the water by the crewmembers who were onboard the Swaggerino, both Philips and Boarchuck climbed the ropes onto the ship easily, Thompson took significantly more time as he was attempting to drag the Gold officer onto the ship with him, his crew helped by shooting soldiers who attempted to climb aboard with him, eventually Thompson and the Gold officer were aboard the ship. The Gold officer said that his name was Finch Autumns, he revealed that he was ordered to arrest Thompson due to his connections to Lutein Biloba, Thompson demanded to know what had happened to Biloba and Autumns reveled that he was being executed via starvation at the former site of Zoloto. Boarchuck explained to Philips that back in Zoloto Thompson had aided a revolution against the Gold State. The Swaggerino arrived at where Zoloto used to be on M1-16 408 ASB Philips along with the rest of the crew were shocked to see that all that was left of the city was charred ruins, they discovered Biloba tied to a post shortly after, Thomson had him untied and brought aboard the ship to nurse him back to health, they left Autumns at the Zoloto ruins. The Swaggerino drifted for five days after the rescue of Biloba, and on the fifth day Thompson called a meeting with the six people aboard the ship as to their next coarse of action, Biloba told the group that it was no longer safe to remain in the Gold State, or anywhere else on the Precious Metals Continent, he then mentioned that their was another nation that existed outside the Precious Metals Continent that the Gold State had occasionally sent trade convoys to, they departed for the Lava Empire the next day.

### Time in the Eastern Ocean (408 ASB - 409 ASB)

Philips spent most of his time in during the journey to the Lava Empire conversing with Alta Mullacor who revealed to Philips his intent to leave the crew once they docked at the Lava Empire, Philips also agreed to leave the crew once there. The Swaggerino entered into the waters of the Lava Empire on M6-15 408 ASB and was escorted to the Lava Empire's capital Chamberton the day after. Once in Chamberton they were given seven days to sell their goods and buy the goods of the Lava Empire before they would be forced to leave, they were also told that they could apply for Lava citizenship which would allow them to stay indefinitely at the price of eighty percent of each person's belongings, they were advised against trying to cheat the system after learning of this Philips told Mullacor that he no longer wished to leave the crew and would leave at the next friendly port that they visit. On his third day in the Lava Empire Philips along with the rest of the crew saw the Ichthor Grand, the personal ship of the Lava Emperor depart from the city. Thompson held a meeting with his crew on their fourth day at Chamberton to decide where they would leave to in three days time, Thompson had two ideas the first was to land on the eastern coast of the Soil Texture Continent had hope that the Soil Union's influence had declined, the second idea was to travel to one of the islands of legend recorded on the map that he had purchased, before a decision was made Alta Mullacor revealed to the rest of the group of his intention to become a citizen of the Lava Empire and remain in Chamberton, the remaining group decided that the best course of action was to go to one of the islands of legend.

The Swaggerino left Chamberton on the night of M6-22 408 ASB which was a stormy night, the Swaggerino left the Lava Empire's sea quite easily but was then whisked off eastward by strong winds, as they went further east the rain turned to hail which began to shred the sails, Thompson ordered the sails to be taken down but by the time that they were they had been shredded to the point of uselessness. On M9-23 408 ASB whilst still traveling through the storm land was sighted by Philips, Thompson angled the ship towards the land and asked Philips if said land was on the map, Philips informed him that the map had been worse than useless ever since they were whisked eastward. As the Swaggerino was approaching the unknown land a chuck of what Philips assumed to be hail about the size of a man's head tore it's way though the floor of the ship, as Phillips was peering into the hole he noticed a second piece of 'hail' land near Thompson which the captain picked up to examine, at a glance Philips could tell it was not hail but a rock, Philips then looked up in search of the source of the rock and saw that the land that they were heading towards was not land but rather a floating landmass in the sky and it's reflection on the water which unknown to him was the flying country of Regolithia. Philips watched Thompson desperately try to have the Swaggerino turn itself around but the wind was too strong and the ship went under the floating landmass. Philips went below deck almost immediately after going under the landmass it was only a few moments after that Thompson gave the order for the entire crew to go below deck. The crew spent their time below making sure that the ship remained floating and tending to any injuries that they sustained from rocks falling through the vessel's floor. On M11-18 408 ASB the noise of rocks stopped, Thompson was the first one to surface where he discovered the ship covered in dust and rubble from the landmass, Philips was the second and was among those ordered to sweep away the rubble. On M1-02 409 ASB a proper grounded landmass was discovered and Thompson ordered the ship to dock on it's coast.

As the Swaggerino approached the landmass it struck and became wedged on a coral formation off the coast of the landmass, the supplies which were already dwindling after the incident with the floating landmass were deemed insufficient to repair the ship. Early in the morning of M1-03 409 ASB Philips along with Biloba, Marcums and Thompson boarded the Swaggerino's motorized life vessel to travel to the landmass and gather enough lumber to repair the ship, Boarchuck stayed behind to keep the ship from floating away if it were to become dislodged. The group initially harvested three trees by the shore had their timber tied to the life vessel, Philips was instructed to remain at the lifeboat and to begin turning the timber into lumber whilst the others moved inland in search of more trees whilst the others went further inland for more timber. It took some time for Philips to prepare his tools to process the timber and just as he was about to begin he heard a gunshot coming from inland, he loaded his revolver and began walking with haste in the direction of Thompson and the others. Just as Philips saw Thompson and Biloba he heard a noise and turned to his side to see a creature that had skinny legs and no visible arms and it's body was covered in thick oily fur aside from that it was completely hairless it also possessed a tiny head perched atop a long neck. The creature began running at Philips and he shot at it though his shots were seemingly absorbed by the beast and before long the creature was upon him and kicked him full force in the stomach area, the yelling of and shooting of his two companions managed to scare the beast away and allowed Philips to be dragged back to the life vessel that departed back to the ship. Philips succumbed to his wounds four days later, he died in agony.