Grant

**Grant** is an important character from the **Record of Tavern** verse. He was once a human who gained immortality from the Eye of Bermuda, a rare and powerful gemstone that powers the Fountain of Youth. He is also referred to as the Ruler of the Seven Seas.

He takes part in the tournament between Aegis and Pagun, as a fighter for Aegis. He is confronted with Gilgamesh during the 10th round.

## Appearance

Grant is a tall and muscular man with tanned skin and a trimmed beard. As his signature assets, Grant dons a beat up straw hat along with blue sunglasses that cover his deep blue eyes. Notably on his right side of his face, a long scar runs down from his temple to his jawline. Before his canonical reveal, the straw hat covers his face, leaving it ambiguous to the audience. For apparel, this seemingly immortal man wears a long blue overcoat with a blue tank top underneath. As for the rest of Grant's attire, he wears tan shorts, brown sandals, and a small golden anchor on his necklace.

## Personality

Grant is a stoic yet carefree man who prefers to fight with a calm and collected manner and trains to not let emotions overtake his composure. Despite his humbling beginning as an apprentice colonist in his early years, Grant continues to look ahead with a determined optimism. Despite his seemingly imposing facade, Grant has a soft spot for those he holds dear like his wife, Calypso, and his adopted seal pup, Haiiro. Grant prefers the peaceful atmosphere of his island home at the center of the Bermuda Triangle where he enjoys fresh coconuts and margaritas on his beach chair.

## Background

In the 16th century, Grant's journey began as a child, with a voyage to the New world (the Americas region) with another adventurer named Walter Raleigh. Grant was extremely intrigued with the aquatic wildlife and grew in curioisity upon their existence. Upon landing on the Roanoke Island, Grant acted as an ambassador between the native tribe (Croatan) and the colonists, however this was a temporary relationship. The unprepared Colonists started succumbing to the harsh colds, and in their attempts to survive by tresprassing sacred grounds, they enraged the Croatans. To deal with their lack of resources, Walter Rayleigh left the island to get crew and resources, and return back to the Island, however upon his returnal, the voyager saw no remnants of the previous colonists due to the increasing attacks being performed by the Croatans. Knowing this Grant suggested to use the flora and fauna for survival, and head southwards towards warmer ground. But in their route downwards to south, Grants crewmates and resources were wiped off by hurricanes and shark attacks. In retaliation, Grant, to deal with survival used harpoons given by the Croatans to survive. He was able to escape the island through a raft, and ended up drifting onto another deserted island, where he entered a mysterious cave to find a blue shining gemstone atop a pedestal. Near this intriguing gemstone was a waterbed, from which Grant drank some water to deal with his dehydration, only to later find that the waterbed was instead the mythical fountain of youth, which granted Grant immortality. He then grabbed the shining gemstone and attached it onto the harpoon, creating the staff of the Seven Seas.

## Powers and Abilities

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* **Superhuman Strength and Durability:** Due to his powers imbued by the Fountain of Youth, Grant is more than capable of sparring with the toughest brawlers in Valhalla. His grip strength is strong enough to crush a coconut shell with a single hand. Despite his status as seemingly immortal with the nullification of his aging, Grant is still vulnerable to attacks and weapons.
* **Superhuman Speed:** The Ruler of the Seven Seas is known to move fast enough to create afterimages when performing certain attacks however he does not solely rely on his heightened speed.
* **Ability to Walk on Water:** As one who rules over the ocean, Grant is more than capable to walking on water. However, he can only perform this feat when only holding the Staff of the Seven Seas. If Grant loses contact with the staff, he will no longer be able to walk on water.
* **Enhanced Swimming/Diving:** Practically being one with the oceans, he naturally excels in swimming and diving underwater. This allows for Grant to submerge himself underwater for 30 minutes (a feat not even attained by the most talented of divers) and quickly manuever underwater with ease.
* **Staff of the Seven Seas:** Grant’s preferred weapon to fight with. Originally, the Staff of the Seven Seas was once a handcrafted harpoon that Grant received from a Croaton native in his past. However, Grant discovered the Eye of Bermuda, a rare and powerful conduit containing arcane ocean magic, and melded it into his harpoon, forming the staff. As the name infers, this staff can change into seven different forms that all represent different marine species.
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## Relationships

* **Calypso:** The wife of Grant and daughter of the titan, Atlas.
* **Haiiro:** The last surviving pup of the Caribbean monk seal populations that was rescued by Grant and brought to his island home for recovery

## Trivia

* Grant was initially supposed to fight Novissime in round 10, but swapped opponents with Journal before the project began.
* Grant's current opponent, Gilgamesh, has resulted in comparisons being made between the round and the rivalry between Groudon and Kyogre from Pokemon.

## See also

* Gilgamesh
* Round 13