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Unsurprisingly for a wizard, Glendalf was reclusive and eccentric, and much concerned with the “proper way” for a wizard to behave, which included being mysterious, and dropping in on people unannounced to drag them into quests. Enamoured with the idea of an adventure rather than the particular, he would insist his traveling companions stop in dangerous places simply because it was proper for an adventure to include digressions. He was also protective of the good names of magic and alchemy. | Unsurprisingly for a wizard, Glendalf was reclusive and eccentric, and much concerned with the “proper way” for a wizard to behave, which included being mysterious, and dropping in on people unannounced to drag them into quests. Enamoured with the idea of an adventure rather than the particular, he would insist his traveling companions stop in dangerous places simply because it was proper for an adventure to include digressions. He was also protective of the good names of magic and alchemy. | ||
Although he strongly condemned one [[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|billionaire]] for her transphobic bigotry, Glendalf generally had little patience for “queer discourse” and sat out most debates of that nature, refusing to let any of their conclusions affect his lifestyle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | Although he strongly condemned one [[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|billionaire]] for her transphobic bigotry, Glendalf generally had little patience for “queer discourse” and sat out most debates of that nature, refusing to let any of their conclusions affect his lifestyle. | ||
He claimed that he “had a way of cropping up where [he was] never expected”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
=== Powers & abilities === | === Powers & abilities === | ||
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Glendalf once dated another wizard, the headmaster [[Mumblecore]], but they broke up due to Mumblecore choosing the path of assimilationism while Glendalf preferred to remain an eccentric outcast. Glendalf was “condemned and then rehabilitated by successive waves of queer discourse, blissfully oblivious to all of it, keeping to himself and smoking various substances in his pipe”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | Glendalf once dated another wizard, the headmaster [[Mumblecore]], but they broke up due to Mumblecore choosing the path of assimilationism while Glendalf preferred to remain an eccentric outcast. Glendalf was “condemned and then rehabilitated by successive waves of queer discourse, blissfully oblivious to all of it, keeping to himself and smoking various substances in his pipe”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | ||
=== Adventures with Jenny === | === Adventures with Jenny === | ||
In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], upon meeting Glendalf, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|the “collapsed” Jenny]] remembered him as a “veteran partner in adventuring” of hers. They reminisced about a number of adventures they'd shared in the good old days, including “battling [[Lord Grallyx]] on the astral plane”, “besieging the [[Tower of Zirma]] with [[Octobriana#With Glendalf and Jenny|Octobriana]]”, and “getting high with [[Magician from Mars|the Magician of Mars]] in [[Washington]] to levitate the [[Pentagon]]”. He also once helped her deal with recurring memories of “shifting through the [[Overvoid]]”. Given the nature of the Collapsed Cosmos, was somewhat unclear if all of these memories featured the same incarnation of Jenny, or indeed the same version of Glendalf, but Glendalf was at any rate familiar with the existence of other incarnations of Jenny, including several who were wizards themselves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | In the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], upon meeting Glendalf, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|the “collapsed” Jenny]] remembered him as a “veteran partner in adventuring” of hers. They reminisced about a number of adventures they'd shared in the good old days, including “battling [[Lord Grallyx]] on the astral plane”, “besieging the [[Tower of Zirma]] with [[Octobriana#With Glendalf and Jenny|Octobriana]]”, and “getting high with [[Magician from Mars|the Magician of Mars]] in [[Washington]] to levitate the [[Pentagon]]”. He also once helped her deal with recurring memories of “shifting through the [[Overvoid]]”. Given the nature of the Collapsed Cosmos, was somewhat unclear if all of these memories featured the same incarnation of Jenny, or indeed the same version of Glendalf, but Glendalf was at any rate familiar with the existence of other incarnations of Jenny, including several who were wizards themselves. | ||
At some point, in what may or may not have been the same continuity as the above adventures, Glendalf was part of the [[League of Liberation]] in the 1960s, together with Jenny, Octobriana, the Magician from Mars, [[Ace Harlem]], [[Butterfly]], [[Trashman]] and [[Madam Fatal]]. The League was part of a wider secret organisation known as the [[Sixth International]] and opposed the [[Sixth Column]], a villainous cult worshipping [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
=== In the Collapsed Cosmos === | === In the Collapsed Cosmos === | ||
After the [[Multiverse]] broke down into a single [[Collapsed Cosmos]], Glendalf seemed at first to have ceased to exist. However, after [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] was caught in a small accident in a library while reality was particularly unstable, she found herself in an adventure that mingled her daily life in the Collapsed Cosmos with elements from several books. This resulted in Glendalf knocking at her door with a group of twelve [[Orc]]s, including [[Jegrekk Gnashtooth]], [[Absoldar]], [[J. Barrington Boartusk]] and [[Agrzaan Lurgpin]], intent on having an adventure with Jenny. He remembered his old adventures with Jenny and, more generally, the old order of things; her sheer encounter with him, even before he began reminiscing, helped Jenny recover more of her past identity (or, as the case may be, identities) than she'd had access to before. | After the [[Multiverse]] broke down into a single [[Collapsed Cosmos]], Glendalf seemed at first to have ceased to exist. However, after [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] was caught in a small accident in a library while reality was particularly unstable, she found herself in an adventure that mingled her daily life in the Collapsed Cosmos with elements from several books. This resulted in Glendalf knocking at her door with a group of twelve [[Orc]]s, including [[Jegrekk Gnashtooth]], [[Absoldar]], [[J. Barrington Boartusk]] and [[Agrzaan Lurgpin]], intent on having an adventure with Jenny. He remembered his old adventures with Jenny and, more generally, the old order of things; her sheer encounter with him, even before he began reminiscing, helped Jenny recover more of her past identity (or, as the case may be, identities) than she'd had access to before. | ||
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After drawing plans for the rest of the evening, Glendalf, Jenny and the Orcs went to sleep, intent on leaving the next morning In the night, Glendalf had an acid flashback, dreaming that there were spiders all over his body; due to his magic, such spiders indeed materialised, and Jenny helped him deal with them. The following morning, they left for Scotland aboard Glendalf's magically-enlarged airship; on the way, Glendalf wanted the crew to stop for a “digression” in the [[woods of Faerie]]”, but the Orcs talked him down. Once they arrived at the mansion, Glendalf took down the magical defences, leaving Jenny and the Orcs to carry off the actual heist. After most of the plan went off smoothly, Jenny was confronted with [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]; their duel had a destabilising effect on reality, causing the part-fictional narrative to crumble. Jenny woke up from it on a prehistoric beach with Glendalf nowhere in sight, with a dim awareness that she had “fallen into a book” prior to losing consciousness. | After drawing plans for the rest of the evening, Glendalf, Jenny and the Orcs went to sleep, intent on leaving the next morning In the night, Glendalf had an acid flashback, dreaming that there were spiders all over his body; due to his magic, such spiders indeed materialised, and Jenny helped him deal with them. The following morning, they left for Scotland aboard Glendalf's magically-enlarged airship; on the way, Glendalf wanted the crew to stop for a “digression” in the [[woods of Faerie]]”, but the Orcs talked him down. Once they arrived at the mansion, Glendalf took down the magical defences, leaving Jenny and the Orcs to carry off the actual heist. After most of the plan went off smoothly, Jenny was confronted with [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]; their duel had a destabilising effect on reality, causing the part-fictional narrative to crumble. Jenny woke up from it on a prehistoric beach with Glendalf nowhere in sight, with a dim awareness that she had “fallen into a book” prior to losing consciousness. | ||
Later managing to shift herself back to the same frame of reference, however, Jenny discovered that after making it out of the mansion, Glendalf and the Orcs had indeed headed back to [[Faerie]], where they came under threat from the [[Queen of Faerie]] herself. Glendalf was able to get the Orcs to safety through a portal, but the Queen “got her” and turned him into, or fused him with, a gnarled, barren tree in a clearing, using him as bait for Jenny. Jenny freed him using her [[Jenny Everywhere's staff|hard-light staff]], as given to her by [[the Illumination]]. However, the two, finding themselves in a different aspect of Faerie, which resembled overrun ruins, found themselves chased by the [[Wild Hunt]] as the Queen has warned. | Later managing to shift herself back to the same frame of reference, however, Jenny discovered that after making it out of the mansion, Glendalf and the Orcs had indeed headed back to [[Faerie]], where they came under threat from the [[Queen of Faerie]] herself. Glendalf was able to get the Orcs to safety through a portal, but the Queen “got her” and turned him into, or fused him with, a gnarled, barren tree in a clearing, using him as bait for Jenny. Jenny freed him using her [[Jenny Everywhere's staff|hard-light staff]], as given to her by [[the Illumination]]. However, the two, finding themselves in a different aspect of Faerie, which resembled overrun ruins, found themselves chased by the [[Wild Hunt]] as the Queen has warned. | ||
After Jenny managed to deal some damage to the Wild Hunt, they managed to make their way to the [[Red Lion Inn]], where Glendalf restored some of his strength with a mimosa-based drink. Jenny had met up with [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] and Glendalf joined the conversation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
Glendalf is a transparent parody of {{w|Gandalf|Gandalf}}, the wizard from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Hobbit'' and ''Lord of the Rings''; the setup of him appearing at the protagonist's door with a number of representatives of a nonhuman species mirrors the opening scene of ''The Hobbit'', where Gandalf arrives at Bilbo Baggins's door with a troop of [[Dwarf|Dwarves]]. | Glendalf is a transparent parody of {{w|Gandalf|Gandalf}}, the wizard from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''Hobbit'' and ''Lord of the Rings''; the setup of him appearing at the protagonist's door with a number of representatives of a nonhuman species mirrors the opening scene of ''The Hobbit'', where Gandalf arrives at Bilbo Baggins's door with a troop of [[Dwarf|Dwarves]]. | ||