Jim

Jim is an NPC that is introduced as Bombyx Mori's fertilizer guy in Arc 3. He is mentioned throughout the Arc and later appears as an NPC. He also appears in the Annie and Charles' Day of Fun oneshot and is mentioned in Arc 8.

## Description

Jim is described as tall, but not as tall as Bombyx, with very short, dark hair and glasses. Usually, he seems to be wearing simple work clothes.

While he is Bombyx's fertilizer guy, he also does other jobs for them, and seems to be their only employee / helper in her silk business. He is very close with Bombyx, one of the most important people for her, and absolutely used to her behaviour, that sometimes seems weird or unusual to other people. In fact, her behaviour rubs off of him, and sometimes, talking to him can be very similar as talking to them.

Generally, Jim is a very stressed young man, no matter the situation. He cares a lot about the silk business that he helps Bombyx run. He also usually is the one to do the cooking and cleaning around there.

## Background

He grew up in a town, although it is not known which one, and has not spent a lot of his time in the wilderness in his childhood or youth, which were relatively normal. His parents were good parents, but died in his late teenage years.

After the first adventure of the Arc 3 party, Bombyx met Jim at a tavern and practically adopted him. She gave him a job as her fertilizer guy in her silkworm business, even though he had basically no experience, and pays him a huge amount of money for it. Whenever Bombyx couldn't make it to one of Fey Moss's performances, she sent Jim in her stead, and he made some awkward smalltalk with people there, including Annie Wintersummer. He is kind of her right-hand man and left in charge while she is away during Arc 3.

## Character Development

### Arc 3

Jim is kidnapped by the devils and is supposed to be a witness to the opening of the portal to Hell together with five other innocent NPCs. When Tybyrone sees that the ritual has been disrupted and cannot be finished, he instead decides to kill the innocents, and with exception of Ialius, all of them die from a single Fireball spell. Diarmad only carries one diamond with him, which he uses to cast Revivify on Fey's mother. Bombyx then gives him the Infinite Garnet so that he can revivify Jim, too.

While the Infinite Garnet is not a diamond, which the spell description technically demands, the magic cast by Diarmad decided that it, being an incredibly powerful magical item, would be an acceptable surrogate, and as it burns and flakes away, Jim opens his eyes again. It is yet unclear what the implications of him being brought back to live in exchange for a component that powerful are, but Bombyx wants to help him on his journey.

### After Arc 3, in Annie and Charles' Day of Fun

It turns out that Jim has indeed developed some magic powers, and become a Divine Soul Sorcerer. Bombyx has been teaching him, mostly by dropping him off somewhere in the wilderness, from which he then has to find his way back, in order for him to develop survival skills. This was a thing that Bombyx mentioned in Arc 3 she would teach him, so that he wouldn't be kidnapped that easily again.

### Between Annie and Charles Day of Fun and Arc 8

Jim and Sybilla Eirik are set up by Bombyx, fall in love, and ultimately marry, making him the First Husband and member of the Royal Family. Jim decides to go by James Eirik after that, and is known as Jim only to his close friends. They have two daughters, Constance Clover, born around 151 AE, and Jane Joanne, born around 155 AE. Marrying Sybilla hurts his previously good relationship to Bombyx's adoptive daughter Nephila, who is actively against the monarchy, even though she adores his daughters and gets along very well with them. He is aware that Queen Lilliana does not like him that much, either, because she did not chose him as a husband for her daughter herself, but hopes that she can accept him in the family nonetheless.

Generally, his attitude towards Bombyx changes as well. While he appreciates them and truly loves them, he knows that they were not a very good boss to him, and that they should not have used him for their experiments with his magic. This attitude towards Bombyx, especially when it comes to Jim no longer following all advice she gives, is another cause of tension between him and Nephila.

He does not continue developing his magic powers, but instead ignores them.

### Arc 8

Jim tries his best to be a good husband to Sybilla, and regularly reminds her to calm down and take everything one step at a time by giving her a safe space to be, being by her side, and slowly talking her through her thoughts when she gets upset. While for her, most of her life revolves around her position as first princess, he tries to make sure that she knows that that is not everything in her life, and that he loves her no matter what. He is more than willing to defend her with everything he has, and in turn trusts her without any doubt and tells her everything.

Additionally, he tries his best to save the already estranging relationship between Sybilla and their daughters by regularly asking Sybilla whether she wants to see them, although that is not very successful for the most part.

When it becomes apparent that the voting is not likely to go peacefully, Sybilla sends Jim and the children away to Diarmad's enclave, where she knows them to be safe. Sybilla is voted to become the next Queen, and decides that in case of her death, Jim would become the interim monarch. Before Jim and the children are informed about Sybilla's success, she is assassinated directly after her coronation by Orious Loroy.

## Trivia

* Bombyx planned on setting him up with Princess Sybilla. During the Annie and Charles' Day of Fun oneshot, this gets hinted at multiple times: Jim asks Fey specifically about how the royal family is doing, and after the day of fun, Bombyx and Jim go to Tyle together.
* At one point, Bombyx put Jim at the bottom of a ravine, from which he had to find his way back, and at one point bears were involved in his wilderness training. The ravine was worse, in his opinion, and he specifically mentions that they got behind on many orders during that time.
* Him becoming a Divine Soul Sorcerer was inspired by a talk Amelia had with Haley after the Arc 3 Episode 7 Verbal Component.
* As of Annie and Charles' Day of Fun, Jim's alignment is Neutral Good.
* Bombyx only learnt Jim's surname at his wedding.
* He is a good administrator.
* Ameila rolled stats for Jim: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/63006152/Y0qwu0

## Fan Additions

* Level 20 Sorcerer/Warlock Jim (from before we knew his class) made by rileynicol3 https://www.dndbeyond.com/profile/rileynicol3/characters/56059176