Gurt

## **Summary**

Gurt is a demigod level spirit of knowledge and tutorage. He is a Green spirit, representing Health, Creation, Life, and Youth. Gurt is known by 1 title, as “The Tutor”, due to his extensive teachings of the youth and inhabitance of teachers. On a totem poll or charm belt, he is shown to be the lowest of all green spirits, embodying both the beginning of those totems or charm belt both literally and physically. It is said in some stories that Gurt taught all other Green Spirits how to use their powers, and how to become and embodiment of their domains.

## **Description**

Gurt is depicted as an old green scaled lizardfolk. He is one of few that is represented with full body coverings, being the first that taught the lizardfolk to weave clothes for colder areas, he wears a long sheep-wool parka, dyed with many different greens and cyans, his favorite color. Gurt is also shown with either glasses or a monocle, being told as the first one who allowed the blind to see.

Gurt is represented with many swamp fish, salmon or bog-fish. It is said that due to his love of fish, Gurt did not eat any salmon caught by his tribe, instead opting to go on long famines and eating nothing but foraged berries or roots. In addition to fish, it is often remembered and written an uncountable amount of times in all of his journals that Heartleaf philodendron is his favorite plant, saying that the color matched his scales perfectly. Whenever those who only worship Gurt are making their charm belts, they use it’s leaves to decorate the charms.

His holy symbol is that of a bass with a leafed plant in it’s mouth, angling it's body as if it was swimming towards the viewer.

## **Personality**

It is said that Gurt was a very humble and kind tutor. Being called by many as the most patient being in all of the realms, teaching all of children and adults new things he figured out. While perfectly open to the idea that he was wrong, of which he was several times, many Lizardfolk in his tribe and tribes around him believed every word that slipped from his tongue.

It is not very well known how he was in his youth, but in his elder state he was seen as being extremely energetic, excited, and happy to share about the things he learned. He is a kind spirit, often represented in schools or tutor houses in many lizardfolk communities. Often even in schoolhouses or tutor houses outside of lizardfolk communities, as his knowledge was taught to many human cultures, specifically of weaving and lenses.

## **Powers**

The spirit of Gurt is said to exist in all places of teaching, his presence and charms allow for others around to remember open-mindedness, and sometimes those who are born with a green spirit are guided by Gurt to the right path, saving several thousands of hours of student struggle with trying to figure out topics that are alien to others.

## **Realm**

As a green spirit, Gurt resides everywhere within Green-Spirited individuals, around his charms, and in his place of birth on the Material Plane.

## **Relationships**

Having tutored all other spirits in the lizardfolk pantheon, Gurt is seen as the eldest and most respected of all of the spirits. All other spirits have some form of respect for Gurt, either from a teacher-student relationship or to an all out friendship. Followers of Gurt are treated with the same respect that the spirits treat Gurt.