Gideon Godfrey
Ser Gideon Godfrey | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1276 Navarine |
| Disappeared | 1312 Battle of the Anvil |
| Status | reappeared |
| Other names | Gideon the Grey, The Hellwalker, The Broken Tree |
| Occupation | Military Officer |
| Years active | 1295-1308 (Praetorians) |
| Era | Age of Arcana |
| Organization | The Imperium |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) |
| Predecessor | Ser Rykard Darwil |
| Partner(s) | Shiro Shiniami |
| Children | Andol the Magnificent |
You told me,
Sleep, I’ll wake you in the morning.
I asked,
What is morning?
and you said,
When everyone who fucked with me is dead.
When everyone we loved has gone or fled,
That’s morning. Empty’s just another word for clean.
Let’s put this first-draft dream of mine to bed.
In the appointed hour
I’ll pull up your sheets. I’ll kill the light,
Lie down beside you; die; and sleep the night.
This time will be the time we get it right:
Forgiveness not so hard, nor anger long;
Our graves will be less deep, our lies less true.
You held aloft the sword.
I still love.
-A passage from The Mad Descent of one Gideon the Grey
Appearance
Gideon is depicted as a medium-height, light-skinned humanoid with beautiful amber eyes and long, reddish-orange hair. In later illustrations he is shown with shorter hair and an eye patch over his left eye.
The Mad Descent
Ser Gideon Godfrey is the titular main character of the Parlusian classic epic, ‘The Mad Descent of one Gideon the Grey’ in which Gideon descends the Nine Hells to rescue a princess. Contrary to the dazzling knight archetype that he inspires in countless other tales, Gideon is depicted as a harrowingly dark, mysterious man haunted by images of his sins in the Material Plane in the Nine Hells. In the story, Gideon endures gross physical and psychological torture as he is forced to confront all manners of beast and abominations, while being forced to relive his descent each death. He ultimately saves the princess and returns her to her father, along with the head of the devil that kidnapped her. The tale of Ser Gideon’s descent is one of regret and endurance, and is utterly fictional as far as the greater realm is concerned.