Whit Gammerbund

**Saint Whittacre Gammerbund**, or **Whit**, was an escaped slave and a smuggler who sought asylum in the Liberty. Both the Liberty of Gammerbund and the Chapel of St. Whit are named for him.

## Biography

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

Milo asked to hear about the Liberty of Gammerbund, and Mr. Hakelbarend noted that the Liberty of Gammerbund and the Chapel of St. Whit were both named for Whit, then volunteered to tell a story. In it, he said that Whit Gammerbund had come to the Liberty seeking asylum when he was still only a boy. Whit avoided the road, but was still chased the whole way, because he was wanted in Nagspeake because he was a smuggler and wanted in the United States for being a fugitive slave. One of Morvengarde's ruthless bounty hunters was after Whit, and arrived to the Liberty only minutes after Whit.

Whit begged the warder not to open the door, but the warder assured Whit that Whit was safe now, and it was the warder's job to greet anyone who came. Whit insisted that the bounty hunter did not care about the sanctuary, and the warder inquired why Whit had come for it. The warder sent Whit further into the Liberty.

Whit watched as the bounty hunter insisted on passing, drew a knife, and killed the warder. The hunter stepped over the warder and followed Whit into the Liberty. Whit ran through the hallways until a stranger peered out of a door and asked to see his passport. She marked the passport with a stamp, took Whit into the room, and instructed him to follow the hallway with the lights. The bounty hunter pushed his way into the room and took out his knife. Whit cried out, sure that the woman too would die, but instead she, unexpectedly, opened her huge beetle wings. She screamed at the hunter and told Whit again to follow the hallway with the lights.

Whit ran along, but he could see the hunter in a parallel hallway, who continued to follow him. Whit eventually came upon a man who asked to see his passport. While he examined Whit's passport, the hunter arrived, but the man simply lowered his spectacles and told the hunter to wait his turn. The hunter stopped, and Whit wondered about the man's eyes. The man stamped Whit's passport and instructed him to follow the hallway with the vined carpet. Whit watched as the hunter drew his knife and tried to kill the man, but the man looked at him over his spectacles again and the bounty hunter was frozen. The man sprouted goose wings, told the hunter he was not granted asylum, and caused the bounty hunter to fly over the courtyard wall. The man told Whit again to follow the hallway with the vined carpet.

Whit did, and through the windows he could see the hunter following in a hallway parallel. The hunter punched the glass, but his fist bounced off. Whit did not wait to see what the hunter would do next, however, and kept on running. He arrived at a courtyard, which looked mythical and odd. The bounty hunter climbed over the wall, and Whit noticed how battered and old the hunter looked. The bounty hunter hesitated, to Whit's surprise. A woman arrived and Whit showed his passport, and she stamped it. The bounty hunter attempted to leave, saying he'd followed his orders of following Whit to the ends of the earth, and wished Whit joy of his freedom. However, the woman with lizard's wings told the hunter that passports in her courtyard were not for entry, but exit. She told Whit to follow the sunlit passage. Whit, confused, could see no door. She told him to go up, and said that of course he had to fly. Whit all of a sudden noticed a bat's wing made from copper, silver, and gold. Whit stretched out his new wings and flew freely.

## Physical appearance

Whit was black. After receiving asylum in the Liberty, it is said that Whit received bats' wings made of copper, silver, and gold.

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