Fallmug Sarta

**Fallmug** **Sarta** was Zinya Yehval's abusive ex-husband and merchant from the City of Xylita.

## Personality

Fallmug was a vile, despicable man who liked to take advantage of Zinya's helplessness in the bedchamber and treated her like an object. He forbade her any social relationship without his supervision and considered her a clumsy, useless thing. He was a proud man who couldn't bear the thought of his wife bringing him shame with her disability, or even worse, pity. He was a lustful, petty man who once fancied Kamila, openly cheated even while in the same house as his wife and children, and abusive to both his wife and house staff.

## Background

Before the Warp Gate in Xylita opened, Fallmug was the young master of a powerful and rich household of merchants that had been on the rise during the past decade. To merge the Sarta and Retta households together, Kamila's parents had offered him the choice between Kamila and Zinya for marriage at a young age. Despite lusting after Kamila, Fallmug had picked Zinya over her because she was too young at the time.

He inherited the family business and made it thrive thanks to his charismatic personality and the network of connections that his predecessors had established. With time, his pride turned into arrogance and his self-confidence into conceit. The construction of the Gate made his everyday life a tiring battle with his competitors. He had never been a very kind man, so being forced to be nice and patient during work always caused a great deal of stress on him. He had managed to hold his rage in until the money flowed into his pockets and the community respected him for it.

Every single time he was defeated despite putting so much effort into the negotiations, despite the many personal sacrifices he endured, his pride was wounded and something inside him became more twisted. He began beating his servants lightly, eventually just to relieve his stress. It bettered his business and he cleared his conscience by giving them gifts every time he closed a good deal. However, he devolved further after giving into his darkest impulses and soon started to beat Zinya whenever she pestered him about him being too hard with the house staff or the kids' schooling. In turn he beat his children for disrespecting his hard work. He couldn't stand them being so happy at his expenses, even less to spend his hard earned money just for being subject to their terrified expression whenever they met.

Ever since Kamila disowned her family, Fallmug had forbidden her from setting foot in his home. The two sisters could only meet during Zinya's birthday. On every other day, Kamila needed to bribe the house staff or wait for a letter from her sister to casually mention an event she would attend so that they could casually meet.

Learning about Kamila's second visit, Fallmug beats Vylna for not preventing it. He confronts Zinya intent on beating her with a horsewhip, when she summons Lith using the array he set up. Lith shatters his hands and brings him away to Solus' tower using dimensional magic. Lith, seeing his former father Ezio in Fallmug's character, viciously tears the merchant's body apart while Solus reconstructs his body painfully repeatedly to let him feel the same hopelessness and isolation Zinya felt. He finally releases Fallmug back to the mansion after promising to beat him an inch from death every single day and to send him home unscathed.

Lith keeps his promise, kidnapping, blinding, and beating him until he collapses before healing his wounds. Fallmug attempts to report Lith to the city clerk to no avail, realizing that he is in the same helpless position that Zinya had been in, and is arrested after Lith, Vastor, and Quylla report him for abuse. Fallmug stages an attack on Kamila several months later while Lith is away on the Kulah expedition, demanding his wife's whereabouts. However, Jirni, having followed Kamila, intervenes. Kamila decides to spare Fallmug and instead turn him in to serve the maximum sentence. He was executed after being tortured for several days with proper intervals to heal him, feed him, and start over.

Zinya receives all of Fallmug's possessions as compensation and sells the house before moving to Lutia next to the Verhens.

## Quotes

* *"Enough of your excuses! With all the money I waste on you, is it too much to ask for a bit of loyalty? Was he scarier than me? What about now? Are you still scared of him?"* (Fallmug while beating Vylna, Chapter 602)
* *"A married woman learns about obedience and discipline, whereas a spinster doesn't realize that each action has consequences."* (Fallmug to Zinya, Chapter 602)
* *"By the time he gets here, there will be nothing to find. A healer friend of mine will make sure of it. He may be a mage, but in this house I'm your god!"* (Fallmug to Zinya, Chapter 602)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 550
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 551
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 602
4. ↑ Chapter 612
5. ↑ Chapter 674
6. ↑ Legion on Discord
7. ↑ Chapter 730