Gaeleath

"Hi I'm Gae, I can't read"

**Children**

* Ember

**Parents**

* Teleriea †
* Yurdortr
* Nyilmith †
* Adelaide †
* Reluraun †
* Williamm †
* Rasgrael
* Dhannhey

**Siblings**

* Pannthea (+Bresbear, Ezekiele)
* Arowanna
* Lesibeth (+Annalena)
* Hetherna (+Mackelle)
* Daesatra
* Ararieia
* Harmonna

**Niblings**

* Hortense
* Napoleon
* Waldemar
* Calliope
* Laureigh

## History

### Backstory

As the firstborn, a lot of pressure was put on Gae to conform to what his father wanted in later years by his siblings. He was an only child for years, being allowed to play any instruments he wanted and perform multiple acts out of the live shows. In the live shows, he mastered his late grandfather’s shawm and illusionary acrobatics, which were taught by his mother Teleriea.

During a freak accident at the Circus, eight tents set alight whilst Gaeleath and his mother were practising illusionary magic and whilst saving her son, Teleria was caught in the fire. In her dying breath she begged Gaeleath to never stop dreaming and to shoot for the stars, to keep the crowd smiling no matter where he went and to keep learning all he can. He put his heart and soul into carrying out her wishes, much to his younger siblings dismay as this went against Reluraun’s idealistic views after her passing. From this, Gaeleath has many burn scars and hides them with illusionary magic as he can't stand to see his resemblance to his mum whilst covered in such scars.

When Teleriea passed, Reluraun was struck with grief and what some may call insanity. He began focusing on the number eight and the need for eight children in total. This was when Gae got a little sister, in the form of Pannthea. She grew up focusing on her father’s fixations herself, growing tired of Gae doing what he wanted, against the family traditions.

As more siblings arrived, Pannthea became more aggressive towards Gae breaking tradition and grew upset with him as he would have to, one day, take over the Circus as Ringleader. Gaeleath explained he doesn't even want that responsibility and would much rather she took on the Circus in his name, in a bid to follow his mother's wishes. Pannthea grew so enraged that she cast Gaeleath out, calling him a disgrace to the family. To which he gladly left and made it on his own without having to disappoint his family further. Unknowingly, he left more pain in his father’s heart than when his mother passed.

To get by he performed at any towns he came across and quite enjoyed the change in pace. After a few months on the road, Gae eventually joined an adventuring agency, hoping to save some gold for the future. He started out completing neighbourhood tasks which slowly turned into full time work dungeon crawling and retrieving lost relics.

After growing tired of constant battling, he decided to eventually leave and adventure on his own. It was on this journey that he met fellow bard, Black Jack, at a tavern in X. After trying to assert dominance on each other by having a bard-off, they ended up realising their music worked well together and decided to travel as a duo.

When travelling Atha, Gaeleath and Black Jack joined the X Decadal Bard Contest, competing as a duo. After a gruelling week of battling out with other bards they became the final victors and were crowned the winners. A large celebration was held to commence the end of the contest and they finally realised they might be more than just friends.

To celebrate, Gaeleath finally took Black Jack to meet his family, forgetting to mention how large and intense his family was. Pannthea, Gae's sister, seemed unamused with this impromptu visit after many years of him being gone, however his father Reluraun insisted they stay. After staying a few months travelling and performing with the Charmore Family Circus, Gaeleath and Black Jack ended up married.

For their honeymoon they decided to return to the tavern they first met in. Whilst drinking and chatting with the customers of the bar they heard a commotion outside. There was a giant demon in the middle of the road. One of the locals pointed out that Gae and BJ had won the X Decadal Bard Contest and insists they will be the ones to save them. After a valiant battle they defeated the demon and it disappeared into a cloud of billowing smoke. When all was said and done they heard a baby crying where the demon once was. After the closer look the baby looked like a tiefling mixed with a dragon-born, red and scaly. They take him into the tavern and everyone claims that they had never seen a child like that in this village. After looking around for potential parents they eventually take the baby in as their own, naming him Ember. Gaeleath and Black Jack return to the Circus, hoping to provide the child with a relatively stable upbringing.

### After Braving the Unknown

After leaving the Snapped Quill Archive, Gaeleath and Black Jack see off the rest of the party on the way back to the Human Isles where the Circus is still located. Their first port of call is to get magic compasses that are attuned to Ember’s location, just in case someone threatens to abduct him in future.

When they return they find that Ember has started his first proper growth spurt, looking a bit older than when they left him. He’s also gotten into magic from a book Dannet left him. Whilst Gae and BJ are very supportive of this, they send Dannet a very strongly worded letter about leaving him with spell books to practise while they weren’t around to supervise. They also teach him lower level spells due to him still being young and fairly inexperienced, though he does pick it up suspiciously quickly compared to other magically endowed children. They also find that Ember has made his own family tree and added the adventuring team under ‘aunties and uncles’ on Black Jack’s side of the tree. He also made Circus names for them.

Gae’s dad sadly passed away just after their return, leaving the whole circus in his name, his last words to Gae being ‘you know what to do, you always have’. Gaeleath shares the eight tents between him and his siblings. After sharing his younger years with Pannthea, something he was not allowed to do while their father was still alive, she apologised about being so hard on him but jokes that she still won’t let him off lightly. They all agree that if there were eight kids, then it makes sense that the eight tents were destined to go to each of them respectively, even if their dad didn’t explicitly tell them to.

Gaeleath’s tent is first used to host their actual government official wedding, all of their adventuring party are invited and it turns into a week long celebration (Vinnis better RSVP). After this they run the first production of the ‘Goblin Wars’, which turns into a nine part series, with the prequels coming out after the first instalment and sequels added after this. As the tent now focuses on plays and musicals they train up young performers and create quite the acting troupe. GobboPlays also became a subsidiary of The Charmore Family Circus, with Gobbo being allowed to travel with them when needed. A showing of ‘Braving the Unknown’ is also put on now and again, along with Gae and BJ’s duo act ‘Stalwart P’ featuring from time to time.

Even though both Gaeleath and Black Jack swore off adventuring for a while, Ember eventually plucks up the courage to ask if they will take him on his first one. Black Jack, longing to find his sister after all these years suggests to Gae that maybe travelling to find her might be a good ‘first quest’ for Ember. Gae agrees and his sisters are more than happy to manage their tent for them while they are away.