Jour Thames

Jour Thames was *Cale Henituse*'s birth mother and Deruth Henituse's first wife who died prior to the beginning of [*The Birth of a Hero*].

**Jour** is the French word for *day or daylight*, while ***Thames*** is derived from Old English/Welsh as *darkness*. This means Jour Thames could mean ‘**Day of Darkness**’ or the ‘**Daylight to Darkness.**’

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Jour Thames was from a fallen noble baron family called the Thames family, and was said to be the only direct descendant. Deruth married Jour after falling in love with her when he met her at the academy.

There is currently no family with the Thames surname on the list of nobles in the *Roan Kingdom*. This is because the successor and only direct descendant, Jour Thames, gave up on inheriting it, so their family name was erased from the list and was eventually forgotten.

Cale himself, however, has questions about the nature of the family's erasure from the kingdom records, pointing out that despite it's sudden disappearance, nobody seemed to have cared about it at all. Zed Crossman is implied to have something to do with the lack of information on what happened to the Thames family, with Cale remarking that *"if the Thames household had some connections to Zed Crossman, or if there were some hidden conversations between them, (...) then [Cale] could understand to a degree why there [was] no information about them. Furthermore, Duke Deruth, who had been a student when he met [Jour], had said that he knew nothing about how the family had perished. This would make it understandable why he would only know that the Thames family perished. It was not information that someone at Duke Deruth's level would be able to know."*

## **Jour Thames' Diary**

*Cale* visited his mother’s grave after waking up from talking to the original Cale Henituse to find her diary buried under the tombstone. Before visiting, Deruth mentioned Jour had said only Cale could see that diary. She even put magic in the box to ensure no one could open it. He also said that Cale’s mom was a mysterious person, but she was someone who loved Cale very much.

In her diary, she had known someone else was in her son’s body and explained that the Thames family had studied about ‘Time and Life’ for generations in secret and also explained the concept of reincarnators, transmigrators and regressors.

Her family seemed to have never revealed what they had been studying to others, given that Jour Thames had never told Deruth about it.

Her ancient power was called the **‘*Annual Rings of Life*.’**

One half of that power, the core part, was in Harris Village. The other half was in her grave, which was mainly the power she used when she was young.
Both halves have the same essence as her ancient power, so one could see the passage of time in the past of a being as rings.

The *White Star* had invaded *Harris Village* at the very beginning of [*The Birth of a Hero*] to take one half of her ancient power, but without the information Jour had left in her diary, he could only see a twist of time when looking at the rings. However, Cale could figure out what the rings mean when acquiring the remaining half of the ancient power which focus was on the ‘present and natural fate/destiny.’

Since the White Star was a reincarnator, to kill him permanently, they had to destroy his large ring (the rings of a reincarnator who has repeated life for a thousand years are often stronger than a dragon who has lived a thousand years) by attacking it with the power of those whose rings are longer (someone who has lived longer than the reincarnator). From this, Cale deduced it had to be the World Tree, the one who gave him a sword from one of its branches.

## **Gaining one half of Annual Rings of Life**

Once Cale closed Jour Thames' diary, the ground began to shake and a huge tree with red leaves grew in the place where the tomb was. The tree wrapped around him as it grew and he heard the voice of a young woman in her mid to late teens.

The test was affected by her youth because the power left at Jour Thames' grave was the one she used when she was young, and so she did not recognize Cale. However, the young Jour Thames immediately took a strong liking to the dumbfounded Cale and mentioned his stupid expression looked like Deruth, but that he was also handsome like her eldest brother.

After a few more times of her calling Cale "so cute" and the flustered Cale responding with "Yes?", she said he passed the test.

After passing the test, due to his plate, he was unable to absorb the half ancient power so he used the Embrace ability (Given to him by Lee Soo Hyuk) to trap the power in Jour's diary.

This allows him to talk to young Jour Thames.

## Trivia

* Jour shares several similarities with her son, *Cale*.
	+ *Their red hair.*
	+ *Upon seeing him injured, the fake Hilsman remarks that he was as clumsy as his mother.*
	+ *Cale and a younger Jour both have vicious smiles that seem to foreshadow the coming of great disasters.*

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 556
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 663
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 688
4. ↑ Chapter 662
5. ↑ Chapter 664