Gil

Blue Boy Surfer Boy.

Gil (like a tuna) is a water genasi who enjoys surfing, hearing new—and old—jokes, making friends with puddles, protecting his friends, and introducing himself. He hails from Eyna Ande, a relatively small and deeply isolated tropical land. Rarely visited by outsiders, Eyna Ande is home to a colony of genasi. It is unknown how this colony originally came to be, but the general belief amongst the population is that djinni visiting or bound to the Material Plane left their offspring here as a matter of convenience—a theory supported by the occasional genasi baby found on a doorstep come morning. While the elder genasi hold a more passive attitude towards this abandonment, many of the younger generation have developed a distaste for and bitterness towards their elemental ancestors/parents.

Gil is an avid and proud surfer. A winner of many local competitions against an admittedly fixed and small sample of competition, Gil intended to set out from Eyna Ande to compete in larger surfing competitions. During his trek, and only a couple of days out to sea, a gnarly storm obliterated his small vessel, leaving him for dead until a passing trade ship fished him out of the sea, much to his delight. The ship dropped him off at UrDjerdo, where he came to meet Flames, Daria, and, later, Winnie.

Gil is a Speaker of Waters Shaman, and is a servant of the Tuna Spirits. The Tuna Spirits called to Gil and took him under their shimmering, mystical fins after observing him complete a pretty sick rodeo flip before totally grubbing. As Gil was tombstoning, the thousand bubbling voices of the Tuna Spirits entered his mind, and bid him become their shaman to travel the world and observe, to learn all he can, and to tell them of these secrets that they might bubble about them for all time.