Glorihan Phirel

Illustrated by Avery Weckman (@avweckman)

Glorihan Phirel is a NPC created and portrayed by Justin Green. She plays an integral, yet currently unknown role in the time loop.

**General Spoiler Warning:** This page has been updated with information as of Ep 43 - What's your Rabual score?. Anything after that, if any, is not on this page.

## Description

Glorihan is no more and no less, goth. She has straight dark hair and dresses in all black. She wears a silver pendant which is her arcane bond.

## Backstory

Glorihan Phirel grew up in Faenalin alongside her brother Ansel. The two were raised by their abusive father, Pahpa Phirel.

After Pahpa Phirel lost his magic and shadow in an encounter with Abraxibulbula in the Whispering Woods, he became a recluse and did very little in the way of raising his children. Because of his own lack of magical ability, he pushed his children to become better casters but his resentment grew towards them. Glorihan felt intense pressure to make sure Ansel didn't do something terrible to himself or others.

Glorihan graduated from Faenalin Academy at the top of her class while studying shadow magic.

## Current Events

Glorihan is invited to join Shadowend to be on Adrienne Mistmourn's squad, along with Caeda Shol, Abraham, and Nieven. She is interested in Astra Blep because she is also from Faenalin, and pays close attention to Astra's spiral rapier as it matches the description of the weapon used by the fey that took her father's magic and shadow.

Glorihan's squad wins first place at the Arrowpeak competition, thanks to the secret assistance by her brother Ansel Phirel. As a reward for winning the bet she made with Astra, her squad is invited to a disastrous dinner party in which Astra freaks out at Glorihan and tells her not to die.

Sometime around this period, she asks Caeda to divine the future. Caeda sees that Glorihan dies in every path, and so Glorihan uses a spell from Rabual the Generous that allows her spirit to reside in someone else after her death.

Glorihan's squad is sent into Newhaven to extract Pearl and Elm from the Winterguard. Her boyfriend Harvel joins her, disguised as Baby Angel. The extraction goes awry and the remaining members of the squad flee to the Newhaven docks.

Glorihan and Caeda hide in a garage casting shadow magic to open a portal, while Harvel and Pearl watch over Abraham. Glorihan runs out to tell Janni Squad that the portal is ready, but is killed by the giant mech at the harbor. When Janni attempts to heal her, her memories enter his mind.

At the Climaxtic Blitz Ball Battle, Ansel's saphscryer reveals that Glorihan does not register as dead because her essence is still inside Janni.

Harvel takes Glorihan's body after she dies and attempts to revive her via necromancy. He doesn't succeed, and dies in Faenalin near the Church of Salenas. The clerics recover their bodies and bring Janni Squad and Ansel to them. Ansel stays behind in Faenalin to protect Glorihan's body.

At the Marth by Marth dinner party, it's revealed that Glorihan still has some sort of control and presence within Janni. Glorihan takes over Janni's body when she hears a man cry out in pain. She manipulates the shadows to get to the body of Duke Marth and causes the essence of Paris France to also enter Janni's body.

Rabual the Generous is able to remove the spirits of Glorihan and Paris from Janni's body, but Janni Innaj sets the soul jars and contracts in Rabual's palace on fire so Glorihan is likely lost in this time loop.

## Time Loops

Glorihan is unique in that she is the only person to die in every loop that Bovil Flaskforge recorded in his journal. She always dies at the invasion of Newhaven.

### First loop

Glorihan, along with Pearl Pervalur and someone else, casts the ritual on Bovil's journal to put it outside of time. She also casts the ritual on her bedroom in Faenalin, which causes the Abraham Nieven split in subsequent loops.

### Current loop

There is an Errosian bounty out for Glorihan and Pearl, and they are known as "anomalies." Bovil thinks it's because they cast the original ritual, and someone else managed to get their hands on the journal in one of the time loops and wants to get rid of them early.

Glorihan is killed during the fight with the giant mech at Newhaven's docks. When Janni attempts to heal her, her memories and soul enter his mind. This is caused by a spell she got from Rabual the Generous, who specializes in putting someone's essence inside someone else.

## Random Facts

* Glorihan is dating Harvel Glasscannon. They seem to have met at Shadowend and gotten together very quickly.
* She does not believe in fate.
* She is a pretty good poet, but only writes poetry for herself in her diary.

## Character Info

### Feats, Spells, and Abilities

* Shadowy haven
* Gloomblind bolt

## Appears In

### In person

* Ep 1 - Welcome to Shadowend
* Ep 2 - Janni Squad
* Ep 3 - Bread Map
* Ep 4 - Cartoon Ankle Noose
* Ep 6 - Who knows who's coming back
* Ep 7 - The Dinner Party
* Ep 13 - Walk with purpose
* Ep 14 - Sunk cost fallacy
* Ep 15 - Like a drowned rat (as a body)
* Ep 27 - Snoodeling (as a body)
* Ep 31 - Janni-shaped container (as a body)
* Ep 41 - Janni confuses the crostinis (as a spirit)
* Ep 43 - What's your Rabual score? (as a spirit)

### Mentioned

* Ep 8 - Baby Angel
* Ep 9 - Responsibly sourced Eleflute
* Ep 10 - Fire sale at the cursed item shop
* Ep 12 - Grapes for an Eleflute
* Ep 16 - The Great Mealnor Bake Off
* Ep 17 - That's not being a bro
* Ep 18 - Reverse gore
* Ep 19 - Group snoop
* Ep 20 - I will join a sorority tomorrow
* Ep 21 - Found family plots
* Ep 22 - BCBPvP
* Ep 23 - Infernal mouths make strange bedfellows
* Ep 24 - Haunted Mutton
* Ep 26 - Accidental Pervert Territory
* Ep 32 - Licking the lollipop of crime
* Ep 35 - Unusual Body Stuff
* Ep 42 - Backhand of Good Luck
* Ep 44 - Janni innaJ
* Ep 48 - Statistically horny for battle

## References

1. ↑ Ep. 7
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ep. 43
3. ↑ The timing for when Glorihan meets with Rabual is an educated guess.

In Ep. 43, Rabual says that Glorihan had a friend who saw her death in every future.

In Ep. 7, Glorihan asks Caeda to divine the intentions of Janni Squad, so that may be when Glorihan learns of her death. However, the day after the dinner party, Glorihan's squad also leaves immediately for Newhaven and they seem to go straight into Shadowend business. It's possible Glorihan 1) went to Mealnor sometime before the dinner party, 2) went to Mealnor sometime during Newhaven, or 3) met Rabual the Generous without going to Mealnor.
4. ↑ Ep. 14
5. ↑ Ep. 27
6. ↑ Ep. 31
7. ↑ Ep. 41
8. ↑ Ep 20: 00:42:50