Irma and Jad Galmore
Parentage
Son and daughter of Ernewein Galmore, a Companion of the Ardent Eye born in the late Autumn Age. Ernewein was a non-inheriting daughter of Oranelle Jadis Galmore, and she apparently chose the path of a paladin of Eldath shortly after the latter’s ascension on Salvation Day. She volunteered for duty in The "Lighthouse": a magically maintained biosphere under the present-day Corran town of Bridlip. The purpose of the Lighthouse was to protect the Lantern – an artifact serving the dual purpose of sealing a tear between this world and the Green Dream and locking away a relic of the Archlich Naraoch – from external interference by her cultists or other parties that supported the Omnicide. According to the records of Bishop Olwyn Graye, the administrator of the Lighthouse, over the course of more than a dozen centuries in which the Order of the Ardent Eye were stationed below ground to guard the Lantern, Ernewein fell in love with one of the other Companions and conceived a pair of children. Since the records also show that they were imprisoned for their indiscretion and the violation of their vows, one might assume that the two were fraternal twins.Imbalance in the Lighthouse Ecosystem
The records kept in various places throughout the Lighthouse support the hypothesis that either the sin of the lovers or (perhaps more likely) the demands on the ecosystem generated by the addition of two new Yishanim caused the ancient magicks maintaining equilibrium in the Lighthouse to fall out of balance. Supplies very gradually began to dwindle and the population began to shrink as the biosphere lost moisture and crops began to die. To their credit, the quartermaster’s records and the kitchen storehouse records both confirm that the paladins chose to starve to death rather than take any action against the innocent children. The stores appear to have been preserved for them to the maximum extent possible. The last decade of the Order’s lives must have been truly miserable, starving at a snail’s pace due to the residual life-preserving magic of the Lighthouse and with their meagre diet restricted to the foods that required significant preparation so as to leave shelf-ready food for the children.Inheritance Status
Bishop Olwyn left a dictate in the library of the Lighthouse, creating Jad and Irma a knight and lady of the realm posthumously in the event they finally came of age after his death. Because they did not, the dictate is a nullity and the Order is extinct. Because Ernewein was not an inheriting child of Oranelle Jadis, neither Jad nor Irma appear to have been entitled to any noble title, depending on the presently unknown identity of their father.State of Decrepitude
The Lighthouse’s magicks, presumably never intended to support children, had an unusual effect on their development. Jad grew to almost four feet in height, where Irma never quite reached three. As the adults died off, there seems to have been adequate enchantment left in the walls not to maintain the vegetation or livestock but just enough to prevent the two tiny lives from being snuffed out. In the absence of food, their bodies gradually withered away to the point that they were both little more than animated skeletons. When they encountered The Ladies' Hiking Club, they were indistinguishable from undead Hobbits.Encounter with the Ladies’ Hiking Club
During the Siege of Bridlip, numerous goblinoid mercenaries charged through to the Lantern chamber and several encountered Jad and Irma. Forensic evidence suggests that Jad managed to eliminate quite a few with fire magic before encountering the Ladies’ Hiking Club (as they would later be known) outside their parents’ cells. Instinctively, Jad opened fire on the group, injuring Vega Spritzer. He clutched Irma close as she wriggled to flee, which was indistinguishable from appearing to restrain her against her will. On that evidence, Clytemnestra "Fanny" Glitters returned fire, shattering Jad into fragments with a well-placed arrow. Irma was devastated. After assisting her with her grieving, the ladies travelled with Irma through the lower levels of the Lighthouse. They discovered more documentation explaining who she was, and who Jad had been, and with the exception of Clytemnestra who maintained that she was justified in taking the shot, they felt terrible at having deprived her of her sole companion over the past millennium or so. Cherry Merrybottom discovered a recipe left for them for their birthday, and threw an impromptu cookie birthday party for Irma before the group carried on. Irma later fell in action against a Hobgoblin commander, but was healed just in the nick of time and with great difficulty by Vega Spritzer. After that battle, she declined to follow the adventurers into the lowest level of the Lighthouse.Resurrection of Jad
In the course of defeating The Silent Man and allowing General Kuzoh and Decima Overmere to escape, a mass heal spell cast by Vega Spritzer caused some unanticipated side effects. An aurora of healing energy resulted from the interaction of the healing spell with the light of the Green Dream escaping from the Lantern and flowed along the ceiling and up the stairs like steam. On their way out of the Lighthouse, the group re-encountered Jad’s body and Vega decided to make a last-ditch appeal to Eldath at her temple for assistance in restoring Irma’s sibling to whatever he had resembling life. At the conclusion of her prayer, Clytemnestra remarked that Vega’s eyes had turned solid green. When Vega made to return to the others and Jad, she found that she was not touching the ground and had entered some form of avatar state. Channelling the aurora into a windstorm, Vega gradually fused Jad’s bones back together as Beulah Garland and Clytemnestra completed a desperate relay to return his skull from its burial-place to the healing hurricane. The attempt was successful and the pair were reunited.Death
Jad and Irma hesitantly agreed to follow the adventurers out of the Lighthouse as the roof seemed to begin to crack and crumble. They made their way to the hill overlooking Hundred House – the inspiration for the relief sculpture in the Lighthouse chapel – and marveled at the sunshine. They seemed to realize before long that their bodies were disintegrating, having been removed from the preserving enchantments of the Lighthouse. Irma broke off a pinkie finger and gifted it to Beulah as a token of their friendship, peeving Cherry not a little after the party she’d thrown her, and the two skeletons held hands, looking out over creation as they faded from this world to whatever lies beyond.Post-Death Brunch
Irma Galmore was identified as one of the shades around the table in the Hall of Events Non-Canonical during The Assault on Anthur-Ro. She was overwhelmed with joy to say hello to her friends again and indicated without any apparent negative emotion that Jad was not also there. The mechanism by which she was returned to yet another silent form of unlife is still unclear; and it is additionally concerning that this event is appearing in the canonical wiki. It shouldn't be here.
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