Gondial

Gondial in his starter outfit

**Gondial** is a realm hopper and is Miran's initial adversary, but will eventually become an ally.

## Background

Gondial was born in the Light Realm as a female named Linda Gold.

Linda wished to become a scholar, but she was denied that educational path because she was a girl, so she decided to study nature and history on her own.

At the age of nineteen, she went exploring some ancient ruins near to her home that were the subject of many sinister legends. She didn't know what exactly happened, but suddenly the stone floor gave away underneath her and she was knocked out.

Linda was dumped into Lake Hubris in the form of a man and nearly drowned before regaining consciousness. Some farmers saw the body in the lake and pulled him to shore where one of the farmer's wives nursed him back to health.

The farmers eventually sent the strange man to Lord Konar's wizard, Kertich, to solve the riddle of what transported him into the lake and made him into a man.

Linda refused to accept his new body or change his name and was horrified that his once long hair had also disappeared during the transformation. Kertich was unable to reverse the transformation and was able to help him accept his new body over time. He then renamed himself to Gondial, as an anagram of Linda Gold with the duplicate letters dropped.

Gondial had actually developed romantic feelings for Kertich while they were together, but Kertich was not attracted to Gondial in the form of a man. This unrequited love greatly embarrassed Gondial, and when he finally accepted himself as a man, he fled from the land of Civelkar and anyone who had known of this period of his history, to Spandarram.

Gondial began developing his powers as a realm hopper and was employed by Lord Savosen as his court wizard. However, Gondial's power continued to increase and he realized he had become the most powerful wizard in the world. Gondial didn't need Savosen anymore and founded his own land and built his own army.

However, Gondial became bored with his unrivaled power and agreed to assist Savosen in a war against Lord Harmeed. It seemed hopeless for Harmeed to defend against such power and tasked his wizard, Jude-Tae, with acquiring their own realm hopper to counter Gondial. Luckily for Harmeed, Gondial quickly became bored with the war and abandoned Savosen to fight it on his own.

Gondial soon learned that Jude-Tae had managed to successfully pull another realm hopper into the Shadow Realm and was very eager to meet someone who might finally be able to rival his power.

## Personality

Gondial has a superiority complex from becoming so powerful and has no respect for anyone other than Miran, who he is very interested in as a rival and cure for his boredom and loneliness.

He desires to see Miran face any challenge with courage and intentionally teases her to provoke her. He will approve of Miran refusing to back down from the trials he puts her through or letting his teasing get to her.

Gondial doesn't care one way or another for any of the side projects Miran can involve herself with. Gondial's approval of Miran will always slowly increase over time as long as he is in the party.

## Gameplay

Gondial is a wizard specializing in Intelligence.

He will only use swords in melee and only very strong ones. He is more versatile in ranged weapons, but still will only accept the most powerful among them.

Gondial will only wear the strongest armor suits, though will accept most any shield, headgear, and necklace.

Gondial's skill points are replenished on their own over time.

### Perks

 Bonus Intelligence | +Intelligence | +1