Nermal Anthelm "Phlegm" Feldg-Blumg VI

### Relatives

Nermal Anthelm "Snotty" Feldg-Blumg V (Father), Greassie Anthelm Feldg-Blumg (Mother), Granite Anthelm Feldg-Blumg (Grandmother), Pirmple Anthelm Grungletin Feldg-Blumg (Wife), Luitwin (Brother), Tilman (Brother), Jaochim (Brother), Bernger (Brother), Walpurga (Sister), Ludgera (Sister), Liebgard (Sister), Nermal Anthelm "Gurgle" Feldg-Blumg VII (Son), Ottfried (Son), Engelbert (Son), Bodobert (Son), Grime (Son), Hermine (Daughter), Gertrud (Daughter), Hiltrud (Daughter), Radegundis (Daughter), Griselda (Daughter), Belinda (Daughter)

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> - Nermal Anthelm "Phlegm" Feldg-Blumg VI sneezing on a crowd gathered in Aedwin

## Early Life

Nermal was born to Nermal Anthelm "Snotty" Feldg-Blumg V (His father) and Greasy Anthelm Feldg-Blumg (His mother). He was born in the city of Anthelmburg, the capital city of the Anthelm Empire. Both of his parents operated in the city's council and were well loved by the community. Nermal's father was a well respected architect who had worked on majority of Anthelmburg's greatest buildings, and his mother ran a popular bakery near the center of Anthelmburg.

Nermal's father often brought him to help on construction sites. Nermal's exposure to construction led him to develop a love for creation. As soon as he could, he enrolled in a trade school to become a carpenter. While attending trade school he would put his newfound skills to use by assisting his family and friends with small household repairs. Slowly his skills developed, and by the age of 13 he had been receiving enough requests for repairs that he had begun earning a steady flow of gold.

When Nermal was 14, his mother tragically fell sick to a fatal disease. His father paid all the gold he amassed from years of hard work in seek of treatment, but no medicines they bought helped her situation. Weeks before Nermal turned 15, his mother passed away. His father fell into a great depression and slowly his quality of work lessened, he no longer seeked to make grand structures, instead opting to drink all day. Nermal wrote to his grandmother, Granite Anthelm "Granny" Feldg-Blumg, alerting her of his family's situation. Shortly after receiving the letter she boarded the earliest passage to Anthelmburg and assisted in raising Nermal's younger siblings. Nermal took it upon himself to provide for his family, and opened his carpentry business with the funds he had built over the years. His reputation as a skilled carpenter grew, and word of his business spread throughout Anthelmburg. By now he was earning enough to support his siblings, but he knew he couldn't be with them forever.

During this time, Nermal would take long walks through Anthelmburg to clear his mind. Commonly on his walks he stopped at a small bakery near the port. The bakery was ran by a widowed woman and her daughter, Pirmple Anthelm Grungletin. Pirmple and Nermal would begin to notice each other, and the two began to talk every time Nermal visited the Bakery. Nermal began to visit the bakery daily, just to talk to Pirmple. They started to form a close relationship and decided to join each other in marriage. As time passed the two had eventually had 10 children with each other. They had four sons and six daughters who they loved dearly.

## Arrival to the Hales

Nermal recieved word from his siblings that his grandmother was deathly ill, and did not have much time to live. Upon receiving this news he decided to go visit his grandmother before she passed. Nermal wished his family goodbye and departed. He boarded the large vessel, *Allswell*, and sailed towards Latora.

A week into the trip, tragedy struck. A disease outbreak onboard the ship resulted in many of the passengers falling ill. The captain of the ship and many of the crewmates succumbed to the disease. Nobody aboard the ship knew how to navigate the sea, so the remaining passengers struggled to survive off of the ship's final rations as the ship slowly drifted into the vast unknown.

Nermal was awoken abruptly one foggy morning by the yelling of another passenger. He wearily climbed from the hull of the ship to the deck until he could clearly hear the passenger yelling. The passenger was yelling, "LAND AHEAD! THERE'S LAND!" Nermal's eyes widened as he stumbled to the bow of the ship, he leaned over the banister and spotted a beach covered with sharp rocks. Nermal got down and braced himself for the crash. The sick passengers were thrown around violently as the ship's hull was ripped apart by the rocks. The ship eased to a halt as it dug into the beach, and the passengers began to slowly stand up and look around. They crawled down the ship and found themselves on a beach barren of any signs of civilization. They had arrived in the Hales.

## Life in the Hales

An extremely sick Nermal wandered from the ship's crash site and eventually found himself in the kingdom of Aedwin. He staggered into the city, coughing and sneezing on anybody who crossed his path. Nermal came across a large gathering of people in the center of Aedwin and began introducing himself, all while sneezing and coughing on the people around him. Members of the crowd stepped away from him in disgust, People began to run away from him, fearing they would contract his disease. The Aedwin Guard surrounded Nermal and forced him out of the kingdom, pointing their weapons at him and bashing him with their shields.

Nermal travelled towards Hallengard in hopes for medical treatment. Nermal was immediately kicked out for sneezing on a guard.

Nermal slowly trudged back towards Aedwin. His condition had only worsened from the hike through Hallengard's blistering cold mountains. Nermal entered Aedwin yet again, this time trying to mask his illness. He decided the only way he could return home is if he could manage to earn enough gold to pay for the fare back to Anthelmburg. Nermal approached King Geoffery de Castellane and asked to join the guard. King Geoffrey reluctantly hired Nermal, asking him to stop sneezing on his citizens. Nermal assured King Geoffrey that he was no longer sick, and formally joined the Aedwin Guard.

News spread throughout the city of Aedwin that there was to be a theatre show held in the fields outside the kingdom. Citizens from all over the Hales, as well as Nermal, attended the show. The theatre show consisted of comedy, dances, and a play.

Shortly after the play, Nermal was killed for sneezing on a man.

Nermal's family does not know of his fate, his wife and 10 children still eagerly await his return.