Garth

### Relatives

Viera Sant'ana (father)Garrett Sant'ana (brother)Chagas Sant'ana (great grandfather)Joga Guomundsson (adoptive mother)Ruel Guomundsson (adoptive brother)Stenra Guomundsson (adoptive sister)Jaggar Guomundsson (adoptive brother)Airiah Guomundsson (adoptive sister)Nicolav Guomundsson, (adoptive brother)Zane Beckford (adoptive brother)Loryn Denali (adoptive sister)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Orange

Garth (born Garth Sant'ana, turned Garth Guomundsson and currently known as Garth Denali), was the last Prime Scallibra of Sunscale. Disowned by his father Viera Sant'ana, he was raised by his also disowned brother Garrett in the Apollo household. During the Grey Revolution, Garth was one of the people who got stuck inside the burning Apollo-Garrett Theater, being saved by Ruel and taken by him to become part of the Opera Family. Once again discriminated against for his lack of artistic powers, Garth ran away at 13 years old, following Ruel's death in the 809 massacre, leading him to hide in Hugo Alnico's underground tunnels where he began to technologically enhance his own body, gaining steam powers despite his artistic inability. After returning to the Opera Family and finally being respected, Garth was given the mission to infiltrate the RETICULA Forces, which he did in 811, eventually raising to the rank of Fivestar General of the Garter Division. For the following 9 years, Garth served the regime as its protector alongside Cyra Oraculo, until, during the Second Sunseeker Revolution of 820, he betrayed them and sided with Jeni Apollo to defeat Python. In the Sunscale regime that formed after, Garth was elected to be the Prime Scallibra, adopting the surname Denali as a sign of him taking in Loryn Denali as his adoptive sister, before completely dissolving the Scallibra system in favor of a direct democracy.

## Early life

Garth was born to Viera Sant'ana in 796. A mute since birth, Garth never developed any sort of artistic powers, which was considered a source of dishonor amongst the prestigious Sant'ana family. When Garth was still months old, he was disowned by his father, making Garrett, Garth's brother, furious with the family and giving him the last push he needed to disown them himself and join Ellion Apollo in the Apollo-Garrett Theater project. As Garrett and Ellion entered a romantic relationship and moved in together, Garth was raised by the two, along with Ellion's sister Delphi, who also moved in in 798. In 799, Delphi's child Cyra was born, shortly taking the role of Garth's younger sister.

## Grey Revolution

On the day of the Grey Revolution, in 800, a then four year old Garth sneaked out at night while Ellion and Garrett were out and Delphi and Cyra were asleep, heading to the Apollo-Garrett Theater to watch the performances that were happening there. When Garth was in the theater audience, Loryn Denali went on stage to play guitar, before a fire set by members of the rival Alcastilho Theater started spreading throughout the entire building. Unable to escape, Garth was caught in the burning rubble and was about to die until fellow audience member Ruel, a 8 year old orphan who was also about to perform, saved him and took him to the rest of the surviving group, which, besides them, consisted of four orphan children, Stenra, Jaggar, Airiah and Nicolav, as well as the up until then Scallibra of Trade, Joga Guomundsson.

## Time with the Opera Family

With Joga as the adoptive mother, the survivors of the Apollo-Garrett Theater fire formed the Opera Family and all took the surname Guomundsson. Their goal was to infiltrate both the rebels and the regime, causing the two opposing factions to clash and eliminate each other. Due to, once again, his lack of artistic ability, Joga didn't want to welcome Garth, since he wouldn't be of use when the group made its move. However, since Ruel, the strongest of the group, insisted that he was taken in, Joga reluctantly accepted him. Still, despite being part of the family, Garth was discriminated against and treated as an inferior by everyone except Ruel, leading Garth to look up to him like a big brother in a similar way to how he viewed Garrett. Around the time Ruel was 15 years old, he began rallying up rebels and, in 807, he started a circus themed protest group. Two years later, in 809, Ruel and his group organized a protest in Dentropoli, leading to the incident known as the Massacre of 809, in which everyone in the event except for Nina Soleil, including Ruel, was killed by the RETICULA Forces. After receiving news of Ruel's death, Garth became furious and stormed out the group's hideout, not to be seen for months. During this period, however, Garth would stumble upon one of Hugo Alnico's abandoned underground tunnels and the loose pieces of technology that he left behind. For the following months, Garth would make technological enhancements on his own body based on Alnico's machinery, arriving at a semi-robotic body with steam powers similar to those that an artist would have. With his newfound strength, Garth returned to the Opera Family and challenged Joga to a battle as a way to prove himself and demand respect from the group. After winning, Garth was branded the strongest in the family and tasked with the mission of infiltrating the RETICULA Forces, leading him to enlist the same year, 809, when he was 13 years old.

## Time in the RETICULA Forces

Shortly after joining the RETICULA, Garth proved himself to be one of the strongest people in the organization, even at 13 years old. At the same time, Garth's personality and steam based robotic build reminded Hugo Alnico of Python, so Alnico decided to keep an eye on Garth and try to groom him into another potential leader for Greyscale. These factors allowed him to quickly move up the ranks and, by 811, Garth was appointed Fivestar General of the Garter Division, as the former holder of said rank, Ernando Elrei, was promoted to Sevenstar Marshall. For the following 7 years, as no significant major conflict arose, Garth mostly stayed in Daemonslace and kept the Parliament of Scales as well as its members under surveillance, while secretly relaying inside information to the Opera Family. In 818, the First Sunseekers unexpectedly attacked, in an event that would be known as the First Sunseeker Revolution, leaving no time to mobilize the Fivestar Generals. In Garth's stead, Jeni, a then Onestar Officer in Dentropoli, defended the Python Tower and fought against the invaders, an action that would have her promoted to Fourstar Lieutenant General of the Garter Division, becoming Garth's second in command. The next year and a half was relatively peaceful for the regime, leaving Garth and Jeni a lot of time to get to know each other. During this time, the two would bond over their loss of a fiery older sibling and their distrust of both factions, the rebels and the regime. With this experience, Garth started to put his goals into perspective and question the Opera Family's approach, a dilemma that would prove crucial in the following rebellion.

## Second Sunseeker Revolution

In 820, the Second Sunseekers, the Auroras and all of their allies came together to overthrow the Greyscale regime. This time, however, thanks to inside information from Cindy Beckford, the regime had time to prepare, bringing together the Scallibra and mobilizing the Fivestar Generals along with their respective divisions. As the leader of the Garter Division, Garth was tasked, alongside Cyra Oraculo, with the protection of the Python Tower , which would be invaded by Jeni and Lizah Addid. As the two pairs were about to engage in battle, Garrett arrived and engaged Garth, allowing Jeni to move along and fight Python. Garrett and Garth's battle would quickly fade as the two recognized each other and Garth decided to side with the rebels. The two then proceeded to the top of the tower where Jeni and Python were fighting, followed by Cyra, who got past Lizah, and finally Lizah himself. Barging in through the thick smoke, Garth interrupted Jeni's fight to attack Python, since, unlike everyone else there, Garth had no artistic powers and was therefore immune to Python's smoke. Garrett would join next, while Lizah and Cyra continued fighting. However, soon, as Jeni, Garth and Garrett were busy fighting Python, Lizah finally beat Cyra, leaving her hanging off the edge of the tower. Lizah offered to save Cyra and have her join the rebellion but, as Cyra was about to accept, Python used his smoke to take control of Cyra and force her to assimilate into the tower, then took advantage of Garrett's distraction with the situation to kill him. Seeing Garrett die, Garth was absolutely enraged and, leaving Lizah to defend everyone from the flying metal snake that Cyra assimilated, teamed up with Jeni to fight Python, using his immunity to smoke and Jeni's artistic powers to bypass Python's hack and finally defeat him once and for all, leaving him to fall down from the tower as he died.

## Aftermath

The aftermath of the Second Sunseeker Revolution saw many participants dead on both sides. Amongst them were Ludwig, Zane and Cindy Beckford, Joga Guomundsson and all her adoptive children and Garrett Sant'ana. Left completely alone with no family left, Garth and Loryn Denali came together to support each other and ended up finding in one another the family they were looking for. As a way to solidify Loryn as his adoptive sister, Garth took on her surname and the role of big brother that he had always been looking for in others. Politically, with the triumph of the rebels in the Second Sunseeker Revolution, the country was officially renamed to Sunscale once again and a new election was had to choose the next government. Enjoying huge popular acclaim as part of the pair who defeated Python, while also being recommended by all the rebel forces, Garth was voted by a vast majority of the people to become the new Prime Scallibra of Sunscale. Once in office, however, Garth, renounced his position and completely dissolved the Scallibra system, in favor of a direct democracy based system where every citizen in the country has the right to vote on every political decision and there is no superior collective working as a representative of the people. Having been relieved from his functions as a politician, Garth moved in with Loryn to live as a family.