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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I never actually posted them here, but have the character inspirations for Roving Glen and Gilgamesh (presundering and post Roving for Gilgamesh) One thing I do think I've done differently is that a majority of these inspo's are more thematic inspo's than ones for their personalities

Character Inspiration for Azem (Presundering): John Gaius from The Locked Tomb, Adam Weishaupt from Symphogear, Zenos from FFXIV, Vriska Serket from Homestuck, Palpatine/Sidious from Star Wars, Gilgamesh from The Epic of Gilgamesh, Incubus from Kill Six Billion Demons, and Nicol Bolas from Magic: the Gathering

Character Inspiration for Roving Glen: Dad Egbert from Homestuck, Genjuro Kazanari from Symphogear, Bilbo Baggins from Lord of the Rings, Utnapishtim from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Elwin Rosfield from FFXVI, Persephone from Hades (the game), 10 Vigiliant Gaze from Kill Six Billion Demons, and Kieran from Dragon Age

Character Inspiration for Gilgamesh (Post-Roving): Carol/Elfnein from Symphogear, Zoss from Kill Six Billion Demons, V from Devil May Cry 5, Brain Ghost Dirk from Homestuck, The Pale King from Hollow Knight, John Silver from Treasure Planet, The Doctor of War from Doctor Who, and Vader/Anakin from Star Wars

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not really, no; For Roving, he's content to live out his days on the family farm experimenting with botany and crossbreeding, and Gilgmesh while in the unsundered world - as much as he had the power - never had a true goal beyond showing off and doing what he wanted when he wanted

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Roving doesn't have one, not really; Gilgamesh still existing and the soul-weirdness that caused essentially means Azem *is* that Darkness (or at least was, before DRK influences/personality melding)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Botany for sure for Roving (its practically half his personally lol) but he is decent at most practical dohs (CRP, LTW, WVR, ALC, CUL) just due to living out in a place where most to all basic repairs, crafts, cooking, etc you or your family have to do yourselves

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Roving knows all the folk dances from his home and dances with his family during holidays and occasionally with his wife on their own; formal/court dancing not so much in both cases

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Mulefa Telluri @mulefatelluri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#wolqotd / #wolquestion If your WoL (or nonwol npc you have an ancient counterpart for) suddenly had their original Azem incarnation start talking to them in their head, how would they react? Would the two of them get along? Inspired by my own OCs' situation (WoL Roving and his Azem Gilgamesh)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not a traditional wolship but because of how Roving and his wife met and became friends I feel like they were the sorta couple that were just really good friends for years and then at one point literally either of them could've accidentally slipped out something like 'I love you' or 'love you' and

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think Roving and Gilgamesh together are all about connections and duty, and the lack thereof; they are both on an extreme of the spectrum and make their way to the middle over time: Gilgamesh with his sociopathy, and Roving with his unrelenting and debilitating sense of duty

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On first blush during pre-EnW, I think that would be the closest Roving's gotten to fully crashing out, due to his own experience as a father making Fourch's actions even more despicable. I think after the dock scene he'd... at leadt understand how Fourch felt, but still not respect him as a father

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Considering he has a home, family, and farm to go back to, I doubt Roving would even take up Tataru's offer of the island in the first place; everything it would offer him he already has, and all the NPC visits/cameos would be more meaningful visiting his home and family instead

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Roving would run an agricultural podcast, natch. He'd likely run it from home during the MSQ hiatus after EnW, and host all manner of guests from Gridania to the Studium. It'd be pretty technical so not as widely popular, but definitely listened to by anyone remotely interested in botany or farming

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Roving's old enough that his age doesn't bother him, so he answers truthfully, likely surprising quite a few people expecting THE Warrior of Light to be younger than nearly 60 (as a Roegadyn, at least)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Roving's pretty dang low tech compared to Allag or Alexandria; he was able to operate the weather shield but only because the Leviathan shield used similar tech. Gilgamesh is smart enough to figure out most anything with a bit of fiddling so would be able to (after ShB at least) help Roving out

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does an OC completely unrelated to the MSQ count? Roving's been married to his wife for decades before MSQ started, and she never really shows up; The scions knew of her but only really met her (and the rest of his family) after EnW during the several-year break I have before post-EnW/DT

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Roving's good friends with Fufucha of the Botanists' guild, having shared interests in agriculture and agricultural sciences; she pretty much immediately recognized his experience and talent for botany and thus, along with their close age, saw him as a kindred spirit instead of a student

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Roving is a Heir of Blood, and Gilgamesh/Azem is a Prince of blood! Opposite in terms of class, but ultimately all about their connections and responsibilities... or lack and avoidance thereof in Gilgamesh's case

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still haven't 100% decided on his birth (non eorzeanized) name, but he chose Roving Glen to represent how he carries the memories of his home mountain valley as he adventures; a literal roving glen. Gilgamesh is just because of how much my Azem parallels the IRL Gilgamesh from the titular Epic

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I mean that's basically canon re: G'raha's infatuated hero worship of the WoL while Roving is and has been for decades happily mono married with kids, and he tries his best to redirect that energy while not violently shutting raha down but at the same time sets clear boundaries; married dad vibes

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If we're talking present moment as in post dt pre ec, Roving's doing fine as there's a good several year gap between post ew and dt in his canon, so while getting thrown into another end of the star scenario from a retirement mentorship is annoying, he and Gilgamesh are effectively raring to go

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The only real 'that' for Roving would be if he wasn't Azem's shard which is what subconsciously influenced him into wanting to adventure, but at the same time... if he wasn't, he just never would have left the mountains and never interacted with the story in any way which is kinda boring

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe not among other OCs, but I think in universe he stands out in that outside of active combat and other serious situations, Roving very rarely if at all wears anything other than your average layman's slops (at least until Tataru makes him better clothes, and even then it's very simple fare)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I always try to answer Azem questions because of how important he is to Roving's story... but I'm sorry to say, Gilgamesh wouldn't have given a single shit about the cubus, except maybe as a tool to prove his superiority (killing a certain amount, recreating it wholesale without the concept, etc)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If we're talking most recent point in the timeline? Being pulled back into another world-ending scenario, when DT was supposed to be a vacation for Roving and his immediate family, with his mentoring of Wuk Lamat meant to be exactly that, a mentoring role only... then Alexandria happened.

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Due to their upbringing and livelihood, Roving and his wife definitely are able to physically pick each other up (though maybe with a little more effort on his wife's part just due to the sheer size/bulk male roegadyn have) and likely have many times over the years for myriad reasons

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

idk about fun or silly, but there's a couple superficial lore bits I have, one of which being: because of Gilgamesh's influence in the DRK quests, going into Ardbert's rejoining, the DRK crystal ended up fused to Roving's chest/collarbone

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As much as I the mun personally don't care for the genre, I am not afraid to admit Roving would absolutely be a country artist (and I mean proper country, not idiots crooning about trucks and women) honestly, I could kinda see him with a banjo

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

oh DO I! it's specifically Gilgamesh here, and without getting into literal pages of lore about it, tl;dr robo sphene gets hold of their shared soul and sends it to origenics, Gilgamesh realizes what happened and goes absolute apeshit. best/worst case in reply www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeVZ...

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【FULL】『Senkin Daur da Bláo』— Carol Malus Dienheim — Lyrics[Kan/Rom/Eng]

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If it was related to a responsibility/duty of his, Roving would willingly take it (the right motivation (see: echo and the Scions) could also rope him into taking it willingly); presundering Azem would take it to prove his superiority; current Gilgamesh avoids taking it due to guilt and his past

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

for Roving? very big at this point Biologically he has his wife and kids: one still at home with a spouse, (and potentially kids of their own, I haven't decided) then the Boulder brothers are his second- and third-born kids in my canon for Found, he has Gilgamesh (of course) and all of the Scions

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Due to growing up and living the majority of his life in a remote village where any and all maintenance is on the indiviual/family with no one else to 'call' (except other families, but they have their own stuff) Roving is the ultimate dad figure, being THE 'friend to call' for the Scions

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Does it count that because of the events of ShB causing Azem/Gilgamesh to be able to manifest outside of Roving's body means that he does indeed get roped into Hildibrand shenanigans? because man would he be frustrated by everything that happens there, not the least because of the *other* Gilgamesh

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Roving would be one of Agriculture and Duty, while Azem/Gilgamesh would be one of those that changes, starting as Ego and Power, then due to attempting to defy Fate, transitions to Humility and Redemption

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What... counts as plural? Roving and Gilgamesh share the same soul and thus are two people within the same mind/body, but they are decidedly very different people (with Gilgamesh literally trying to remove Roving entirely before DRK/ShB happened)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Interestingly, Roving is somewhat deliberately several things I am not, and is kinda a way of exploring those things (even though I'm probably bad at it considering, y'know, I'm not those things) while Gilgamesh was (when unsundered) several of my bad traits dialed to their (il)logical extreme

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

if we're talking NPC/non-WoL Roving, it'd be an obscure/unmarked sidequest with something to do with his wine, leading you to travel into the mountains to his home village

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For Roving, it started as just a required part of adventuring, but as he got more invested in his duties as a - then The - Warrior of Light, it increasingly became an integral part of his responsibilities and thus he focused more on honing his skills and abilities

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't think Roving's/his family's wine business would ever get popular/widespread enough to need a family seal, but if they did it would be something he would have to begin since he originated the cultivation of grapes in his mountain hamlet to begin with, let alone the making and trading of wine

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

hmmm... It's not something I've really thought of for Roving (he's my bestest boy who can do no wrong while Gilgamesh/Azem is my punching bag) but due to his age and experience before his time with the scions, he's likely subconsciously a bit patronizing/parenting towards people younger than him

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If we're going off the Scions being British due to Sharlayan translating by the map to England, then Roving, being from the mountains in Eorzea/mainland Europe, would have a Swiss accent, as much as there is one; if I'd have to choose a British accent though, he would likely be Scottish, hilariously

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Does having two people in one head count? More seriously though, the big reason why everything happened the way it did for was that he was a full on narcissistic sociopath combining into serious main-character syndrome, and meant that he took major advantage of unsundered society's passivity

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Azem abandoned the convocation to work on a solution to survive the sundering himself because it was anathema to him that he, the Main Character, could ever become lesser. He failed. ...and thus consigned himself to 12,000 years of excruciating, literally soul-rending pain and suffering

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

After EW, Roving pretty much did retire, back to his family farm up in Abalathia's Spine. His kids and grandkids work the main part of the farm, so he mostly experiments with high-altitude agriculture and adapting other crops to the mountain climes - and after DT, collaboration with the Pelu Pelu

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

can't exactly show as I haven't recreated him in XIV, but Azem's pre-convocation name is Gilgamesh (after the actual historical character, not Greg lol) and what I've pinned down for his look is tall, lanky, and extremely long straight pale blond hair, and he almost never wore his hood or mask

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Honestly? I'd just like to know more about them; unless we get more Azem lore in 8.0, Roving and Azem's story pretty much finished with EW, and everything past that's an exploration of them as characters/people. The two of them have their dynamic, and that's unlikely to change much until Roving dies

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Roving's kept plants alive since he was a child; Azem now probably could just from mental osmosis with Roving; Presundering Azem would learn how to do it just because he's better than anyone else and thus he keeps plants alive better than anyone else- and to show off to/show up the words of halmarut

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Roving never did what he did with any thought to Legacy, only his present duty; now, with the very present knowledge that he WILL have a Legacy, and a big, important one at that? I think he'd try not to muck it up, as an extension of his sense of duty, but also is uncomfortable with (1/2)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Roving is definitely a collector (of a sort) of high altitude crops to try growing at his family's farm (at least post-EW-MSQ, when he has the time to do so) Azem is a collector of pain :) /j

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

ooooh if they were to participate, Roving'd let Azem take over their body and thus 'act' as his wrestling persona, likely affecting (a much toned down/tamer version of) his presundering personality, that of an egotistical/self-centered Main Character*tm* How I'd see it working is as a sorta-- (1/2)

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Roving's great with kids, he'd go easy but fair; Presundering Azem would beat the shit out of the kid and laugh about it; Not too sure about post-DRK Azem- probably would just ignore the kid outright, unless they were related to roving or the scions in some way, in which case... idk, play normally?

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Roving Glen @rovingglen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Funny thing about that... Esteem only existed because Azem amplified the magic to try and take over Roving's body; if it wasn't for the amplified DRK magic backfiring and personality merging Azem to start feeling empathy, Ardbert's rejoining would have led to Azem taking over Roving's body for good

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