#zerif

Abeke- Confident by Demi Lovato

Conor- Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons

Rolan- Everything Moves by Bronze Radio Return

Meilin- Sit Still, Look Pretty by Daya

Shane- Poor George by James Supercave

Worthy- Ocean Breathes Salty by Modest Mouse

Zerif- Devil's Whisper by Raury (like the first half)

Yes we are very small 😔 BUT WE'RE STILL HERE! Here's some headcanons for you <3 (btw, I wasn't sure what kind of headcanons you were looking for but here's my best guess)

Zerif Headcanons

Before

-Zerif bro. How do I even start this?

-from the start(kid age) he's a very sneaky kid.

-Going by my brain and the information i remember, we're gonna say he's of Amayan and Zhongese descent

-he grew up in a small, poor village that wasn't on the Greencloaks radar (I'm leading into his conqueror days bear with me) so a good chunk of the people had bonding sickness. Zerif watched all these people get sick and go mad. He even watched one person kill their spirit animal to escape.

-So when he isn't blessed with a spirit animal he becomes an aid to the rest of his village

-this is when his crime life begins. He starts to steal little things. Like clothing, food, necessities you know?

-but it slowly grows over time and he starts stealing from the wealthy. He gets caught by one of these nobles and they ship him off to Stetriol.

During

(When I say during, I mean like after Abeke becomes a greencloak)

-So, our friend Zerif is now a conqueror :D

-by the time he meets Shane, he's been wandering in Stetriol for maybe two-ish years?

-skip forward a little bit and he's now a leader among the conquerors

-he's got his little army of kids that go around trying to stop the Greencloaks (Shane and co.)

-He knows he's really working for Kovo but he kinda likes his conqueror buddies and his jackal

-That is, until the Evertree. When he loses his sword in the battle he high-tails it out of there. (Now you see him now you don't 🤷🏾‍♀️) He's not ready to risk his life ok?

-Remember those weeks where that greencloak was chasing him before he found the Wyrm?

-yea, he lost his survival skills. He got too comfy as a conqueror(sorry)

Wyrm Arc

-When he first meets the Wyrm we already know he's disgusted by it. But it's possessed him now so what can he do?

-I feel like the Wyrm basically baited him by telling him that it would give him a lot of power and he wanted what he had as a conqueror back but better.

-He's angry and wants revenge so of course he's gonna do it.

-But as he steals more and more Spirit Animals i feel like there was the itsy bitsy teensy tiniest bit of him that felt wrong about the entire thing

-everytime he doubted the Wyrm would basically increase it's hold on him to whip him back into shape

-by the time he gets to the place of desolation all he's thinking is kill and power.

-When he finally meets the Wyrm face to face he's thinking "what the flip is this scary looking thing"

-but he can't say that so of course he goes "BEAUTIFUL"

-but as the Wyrm seeps into him he's regretting it (probably reflecting on his life decisions too) he's thinking anything would be better than this even going back to his broke little village that's probably long since been destroyed.

-You know how in like books when someone's possessed they can like see but can't do anything? Same goes for him. He's banging on his mental prison walls screaming and cursing but then-he's suddenly back in control of his body

-he's groggy as if waking from a really really long dream but then he gets hit with the pain. He can feel the Wyrm trying to take back control and Abeke screaming at him.

-he doesn't fully understand what she's saying but he gets the gist

-SO, he tosses himself into the lava

-his last thoughts are that "aw man I didn't get to rule anything" but also "finally peace bro"

-and then he's dead 😔

I really don't understand Zerif, mostly because we're told almost nothing about him. He was forcibly bonded to a jackal and came to Shane to give him Gerathon's talisman so Shane could start the Second Devourer War and set Gerathon and Kovo free.

Then, in the second series, we see his thirst for power lead him into the Wyrm's trap. He seeks to control the beast, thinking it will bring him to glory. This was undoubtedly the Wyrm getting in his head with the parasite and choosing him as its host, but I think even if he'd kept control of his ability to make logical decisions, he'd still have chosen to do this, because he is shown to be a power-hungry man.

Although he appeared to be working for the Conquerors, he was working for Kovo himself, probably for power. He also learned the secret of Gerathon's talisman from Kovo.

It's also interesting to me that he chose a jackal as a spirit animal, as they are generally considered to be cunning creatures. This leads me to believe that he wanted people to think him as cunning as a jackal, which worked, given his nickname.

It's also a mystery how he even found Kovo. Kovo is the one that tells him the secret to Gerathon's talisman, who urges him to set the plan in motion which eventually sets him free. Kovo was held at the top of Muttering Rock in Stetriol, which is near impossible to climb with a top that is scorching hot, so Zerif would have had to come to Stetriol and climb Muttering Rock. Before the Second Devourer War, Stetriol wasn't on any maps, which leads me to believe that Zerif ran into it on accident.

So we know two things about him: he's a coward and power-hungry. Both of these qualities, while negative, could probably shed some light on his background. The jackal he was bonded to as well as his light brown skin leads me to believe he's from Nilo. My personal theory is that he was probably from a rich family in Nilo, contributing to his arrogant manner. Then, his family was attacked, leaving him to run away, creating a background for his cowardice. As for his hunger for power, we know that he met Kovo somehow, and Kovo probably manipulated him into wanting power.

As for how he met Kovo, I assume that while he was running away, he stole a boat and paddled into the ocean. According to the map of Erdas, traveling south from the tip of Nilo will lead to Stetriol, so I assume he was somehow thrown off course and ended up washing ashore. Because of the fact that he didn't know anything about Stetriol or the legends about Muttering Rock, he eventually finds himself up there as he wanders the area, eventually meeting Kovo.

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