Bellory

Bellamy is the owner of a tavern in Yaresh, where she employs her cousin Kellance as head chef.

Bellamy had been married, but her husband ran off, leaving her ownership of the pub and his debts. Since then, she has only taken an interest in men she knows won't be staying around.

## Appearances

### Chapter 637: A Man of Many Talents

Early in the day Jason enters Yaresh, Bellory is clearing off the menu board outside her small pub. Most of her kitchen crew had gotten into a brawl playing tri-ball, and the city militia had detained them. Her chef, Kellance was in, but without four extra hands, she wasn't going to be able to do food service for the night. She is approached by Jason Asano, disguised as John Miller. He offers to help with that night's food service. She had been skeptical that a strange human would be able to perform the work of three kitchen hands, but Jason easily performs the day's duties.

After her pub closes for the night, Bellory joins Jason on the roof. They finish the bottle of liquor Jason had started with Kellance and then another two. They have a conversation about elves' liquor tolerance, adventuring, cooking for adventuring. Jason tells her about providing amenities and makes the quip, “I’m a man of many talents. I cook, I dance, I provide amenities and I… I’m a man of three talents."

Bellory asks if he's gong to return to his amenities now that the night is over, and Jason fibs and tells her he doesn't "strictly speaking, know where they are" at that time but that his "friend Hump said something about a camping ground."

Bellory and Jason quip some more, and she invites Jason to stay the night. Jason verifies that she was, in fact, asking him to stay the night. He takes off his suppression collar. Jason reminds her that he told her he had poison resistance and asked if the look she was giving him meant she was no longer inviting him to stay the night.

She indicates she hasn't changed her mind and climbs on top of him and says, “It means you better remember what that fourth talent is.”

### Chapter 638: The Same Thing as Telling the Truth

Bellory comes down the stairs into the pub's kitchen, where Jason and Kellance had been having a conversation about her until Emresh Vohl and two other thugs came in to demand loan repayment of Bellory. Emresh makes it clear that the Vohls had something to do with her cooks being detained the previous day.

Bellory goes to collect spirit coins for Emresh, and she returns to seeing Emresh and his thugs beating up Jason. Emresh warns her off finding a way to keep her kitchen open when his father decides the kitchen is closed. It is clear Emresh doesn't want Bellamy repaying her debt. She wants to stop Emresh from beating Jason, but she knows trying to stop Emresh would be significantly dangerous for her.

When Jason gets back up from the beating no worse for wear, they have a conversation about debts and magic blood and killing lesser monsters. She intuits that Jason is more than he appears and asks him if she would be able to find out who he actually was if she looked into the tattoo on his back. She and Jason have a conversation about secrets and lies.

When Jason leaves, it is implicit that this is the last time they will meet.

### Chapter 736: What's Wrong With Simple

During the messenger siege on Yaresh, Bellory had been in the entertainment district bunker Jason and Tera Jun Casta had broken into. She had seen this exchange.

Her pub had been destroyed in the siege. The chapter opens on her observing an essence user restore the tree that had once housed her tavern. She reflects that she could rebuild but the tavern would not be the same, especially given the city officials wanted her pub converted into something much larger for morale. She watches Valk Vohl laboring and muses on him and her past debt to his family.

As she's musing, Jason Asano approaches behind her. Valk Vohl stumbles at the sight of Jason, which causes Bellory to face Jason. He tells her how much danger she had been in when Tera Jun Casta had broken into the bunker. When Jason tells her he was lucky to be able to get the messenger to stop, Bellory questions the assertion. She tells him that she did not just hear him tell the messenger to stop; she felt it. His words wad been a decree, "like the words of a god."

She asks him if he is a priest, and they have a discussion about what he is. She asks what she was to him, implying that she was just a diversion and that her existence could not be of any meaning to him, which hurts him. They talk. He answers some questions for her but admits that he can't ask them all. They have a conversation highlighting how insane his life and the scope of what he deals with is in comparison to what a normal person can even fathom.

Their conversation is interrupted by Valk wherein Jason instructs Valk that his father will forgive all the debts he is owed or face Jason's wrath. Bellory and Jason discuss debts and control. Jason does more to emphasize his separation from normal but that he cares about Bellory anyway.

Their conversation ends with Bellory asking if she'll see Jason again. Jason asks her if she would like to. She thinks but ultimately decides that she doesn't because she could too easily be collateral in Jason's complications without anyone noticing. Jason accepts this and acknowledges that they will not meet again.

## Role

Bellory ultimately serves as a tool by which to explore Jason's character. She represents normal to him, and that is something he wants even as he becomes more and more a great, untouchable being. Bellory's chapters emphasize that Jason can not go back to being normal and simple because that which is normal and simple are nothing against the things that have become Jason's normal.