Wulfert Glenn

## Biographical information

### Parents

Baron Edrick Glenn and Mansell Shore (adoptive), Tunuva Melim and Meren (birthparents)

### Siblings

Roland Glenn and Mara Glenn (adoptive), Siyu du Tunuva uq-Nāra (sister)

### Relatives

Liru Melim (maternal grandmother)Lukiri du Siyu uq-Nāra (niece)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Dark brown

**WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR *A DAY OF FALLEN NIGHT* IN THE BIOGRAPHY SECTION.**

Wulfert Glenn was an housecarl in the service of King Bardholt of Hróth, then, King Einlek of Hróth. As an housecarl, he is trained, and good with, all or most weapons of the West. His weapon of choice is the sword but prefers the spear for killing wyrms. He was found in the Haithwood at two years old and was adopted by Edrick Glenn, baron of Langarth, and his husband Mansell Shore. Wulf made the Knight of Generosity his patron, to repay the generosity his father had showed him by taking him in. Due to the legend of the Lady of the Woods, a cruel witch residing in the wild forest, many thought him to be the witch's offspring, or at least marked by her. For this, he was harassed most of his life.

## Physical description

Wulf was a tall man, with warm golden brown skin and large, dark brown eyes. He had thick, curly hair, dark enough to be perceived as black, and wore it as long as to his nape. He had a muscular build, forged from his housecarl training.

## Biography

### Early life

Wulf was born in the Priory of the Orange Tree to Tunuva Melim and Meren and was named Armul Melim. At nine months old, Meren took him out in the Lasian basin to collect honey, whereafter Meren was killed and Wulf gone. Due to this, he continuously had nightmares about bees. The cause of their suppoused deaths was believed to be a wildcat attack, until Tunuva found out that a woman named Canthe was responsible, twenty years later. She had stolen Wulf and taken him to Inys, her homecountry. Canthe then turned out to be Kalyba, the Witch of Inysca, which is the reason he turned up in the Haithwood. When Wulf two years old, Lord Edrick Glenn, and his daughter, Mara Glenn, were lured into the woods by strange lights (likely caused by Kalyba's sterren) and the sound of a crying child. They found the young Wulf, alone with, or guarded by, a wolf. He was adopted by the Glenn's and grew up together with their other adopted children, Mara and Roland Glenn. His family was a loving one. Being part of a noble family, he often attended the royal court as a child, and was childhood friend of Queen Glorian III.

At the age of nine, he was sent away to train for the role of housecarl to King Bardholt, partly to protect him from the rumours of his origin. He later became part of a *lith* led by Regny of Askrdal and consisting of Thrit of Isborg, Eydag of Geldruth, Vell of Mágruth, Karlsten of Vargoy and Sauma of Vakróss. He shared a close relationship with all of them, except Karlsten, who distrusted and harassed him for "not being a true follower of the Saint" due to his past with the Haithwood and accused him of being a heathen, a serious crime in Virtudom at the time.

### CE 509-510

At the beginning of *A Day of Fallen Night,* when Wulf was 17, he was particulary close to Regny, whom he was romantically and sexually involved with. They were reprimanded by King Bardholt, since intercourse was forbidden outside of wedlock, but Wulf faced no other consequenses. The same year, he reconnected with Glorian during a visit to Inys. The year after, CE 510, he and his *lith* were tasked with investigating strange happenings in a rural Hróthi village called Ófandauth. They found the place abandoned, except for the Issýn, the most important person in old religion of Hróth. They took her with them to to the King's ship. There, she developed a strange sickness, later called the Draconic Plague or the Red Sickness. In her frenzy, she touched both Eydag, Wulf and Vell, as well as some other people, putting them all in isolation from the rest of the ship. Eydag caught the sickness and asked Wulf to kill her, sparing her the agony of the sickness' later stages. He hesitated, making Vell do it instead. Before her death, she told him that he were loved and gave him her sunstone (a stone tradionally showing travellers the position of the sun on cloudy days) to encourage him to find out the truth about himself. Wulf mourned her greatly.

### CE 511

In CE 511, he set apart on a journey by ship together with Vell, Regny, Sabran VI and Bardholt. When they were attacked by Fýredel, the royal couple, along with Vell, were almost immediatly burned to death. Regny burned more slowly, being stuck in tar. Wulf couldn't save her, but was with with her during her final moments. Since death seemed certain, he chose to die by water since "only witches die by fire". He took Regny's body with him, trying to give her a proper burial. The winter-cold sea had him in it's grip for a long time, though he washed up and was found on a Hróthi shore. His survival was thanks to his mother's siden running in his blood, keeping his body from freezing to death. He was the only survivor of the attack. Wulf was taken care, though the damage the sea had done to his body remained for a long time. The encounter with Fýredel traumatised him greatly and he was long plagued by flashbacks and nightmares. He couldn't look at fire for too long and developed an aversion for boats and the sea. Wulf delivered the news about the attack to the Hraustr heir, Einlek Ólrunsbarn, and pledged him his alligience. Einlek asked of him to travel to Inys, to protect the now orphaned Glorian and deliver the news to the Inysh. Braving his aversion, Wulf, Thrit and Sauma travelled there by boat.

About the same time, Glorian wed an old Yscali prince for the sake of her queendom. SInce they were close friends, Wulf offered to secretly be the one to get her with child, to spare her from laying with the old man, which she agreed to. Around the same time, romance began to bud between Wulf and Thrit, though Wulf's tried to lock down his feelings due to him swearing to keeping his heart shut after his and Regny's relationship was found out.

Not long after, Einlek sent Wulf and Thrit to the northernmost outpost of Hróth, Járthfall, to bring home its warriors. On the glacier in front of the outpost, they encountered Karlsten. He was the sole survivor, the other had fallen to the Draconic Plague, their lithmate Sauma among them. He was fighting a woman, Dumai, accusing her of being a wyrm-loving witch, as he had seen her riding with Furtia Stormcaller, an Eastern dragon. As Wulf hadn't seen any dragon, he thought the woman not to be a threat. He asked Karlsten to not kill innocent people, defending Dumai by challenging him instead. Though, before they had time to take up arms against each other, Furtia appeared. Karlsten attacked her instead, losing his life by being crushed by the Furtia's foot. About the same time, Tunuva and Canthe found them. Due to their nature of their different types of magic, Tunuva and Furtia started fighting. Soon, Furtia fled with her two riders. As the glacier split in two from the dragon's assault, Wulf had fallen down. He was saved by Tunuva, who uttered to him his birthname, Armul, for the first time.

With Canthe helping to overcame the language barrier, Tunuva told him about his origin, parentage and the reason he survived the Ashen sea. She asked him to follow her home to Lasia. Wulf was bitter with her at first, but he soon warmed up to her as she explained their situation. Wulf found the idea of learning about his past, and the woman whose motherly love he remembered, very enticing. He agreed to follow her, to get to know the life he could have had, with the benefit of learning the Priory's fighting techniques, to better be able to defend his countries from the wyrms. It hurt him to part with Thrit, and leave Hróth in its time of need, but in the end, he chose to do it for the sake of himself. As he and Thrit said their goodbyes, he kissed Wulf, saying that he had tried to hint it and that he would never had forgiven himself if Wulf got himself killed in Lasia without the kiss happening.

### CE 512

Wulf remained in the Priory for about half a year, where he learned about the life he could have had. He met Siyu uq-Nāra, his half sister, and became close to her, as well as with Tunuva. Thereafter, he returned to Inys to fight in the Battle of Cenning Moore, where he was reunited with Thrit. They fought back to back and when Glorian came to fight on the battlefield, bearing their newborn daughter Sabran VII, Wulf brought Sabran to safety, hiding in an old burrow. He loved the daughter he knew he never would get to be a real father to and savoured their last moments together. The battle took place during the early spring, and by the time for the Feast of High Summer, he finally accepted his feelings for Thrit and decided that he deserved to love and be loved. Wulf then brought Thrit to the place where they met for the first time, which was suppoused to be a beautiful place when the weather was good, and kissed him. After, they were lovers and partners.

In the autumn, Prioress Esbar uq-Nāra ordered Siyu to the Inysh court to hide the Waning Jewel and protect Wulf's daughter. She met Wuld in his childhood home, Langarth. Together with Thrit, they travelled to Ascalon for Wulf's knighting. After the knighting, they hid the jewel in the false tomb of Cleolind Onjenyu in the Sanctuary of the Sacred Damsel. After he found out the truth about his former faith in the Priory, he found out that couldn't accept a rank based on the lie of Six Virtues and rejected the the symbols of his newly aqquired knighthood and left on the floor of the sanctuary. Thereafter, he left Inys to travel the world with Thrit.

## Trivia

* The name "Wulfert" originates from Old English, *wolf* (‘wolf’) + *heort* (‘heart’) and his surname, Glenn, from Proto-Celtic, \**glendos* (‘glen, valley’).
* Wulf was gifted a white Inysh warhorse with a grey mane, named Prúth, by King Einlek. It was one of Bardholt's favourite steeds.
* Wulf fathering Sabran VII is the reason the Inysh queen is protected by a sister of the Priory during *The Priory of the Orange Tree,* as he brought Melim, siden-infused blood into the House of Berethnet.

## References[1]

1. ↑ A Day of Fallen Night, page 99.
2. ↑ https://sshannonauthor.tumblr.com/page/20
3. ↑ A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, page 634.