Meadow's home in Grimney
Hello, my name is Meadow Goblinglitter. You will have to bear with me because I am a hundred years old and my memory is not what it was. In fact I can only remember the last year of my life since I arrived in Grimney. My life before I arrived is a total blank. The residents here seem to know more about me than I know about myself. They tell me that I come from Lymar where I was a city judge. My family were murdered on the orders of the city Governor, Lectus and in revenge I torched Lymar destroying the city and thousands of residents in the process….allegedly! My name was Sharda Lymar then. When I arrived in Grimney I told people that my name was Twyford, I have no idea where this name came from!
My earliest memory is of a voice in my head saying ‘I am Word Wizard, Go to Grimney, you will like it there. Go to Holmes Tavern.’
The next thing I remember I was laying in a dark, wet mire. My head was hurting and I was cold and scared. I shouted for help then I heard someone calling to me to ’Come this way.’ I then found myself in a tavern surrounded by strange creatures. I was very disorientated and the next few days are a bit of a blur. I was nursed back to health by the people at Holmes Tavern and I have been here ever since.
One of the people who guided me here the night I was lost was Philomena Aquitaine. We have been friends ever since. She is a really good friend to me, she doesn't talk behind my back. She often tells me that I am selfish and that is why nobody really likes me. Philomena and my other friends think that I am totally insane and that I need to see a psychiatrist. I think they're wrong about me being insane but I have agreed to see a shrink because it might help me with my memory. I am also good friends with Gwenillian and Tanza. Tanza eats people but, well, we all have our little idiosyncrasies don't we!
Morton the clam arrived here shortly after me. He said that we had been sweethearts in my previous life. I don’t remember that but I did feel a strong connection with him and before long he presented me with a beautiful diamond ring, got down on one tentacle and proposed, what girl could resist that? We drifted apart however, mainly due to the fact that he seemed to prefer hanging upside down in the privy to spending time with me. Since we split up I have discovered that he has been married five times – all his wives were beauty queens and to make matters worse one of his ex wives has turned up in Grimney and I am hearing rumours that they have rekindled their relationship.
One night I was kidnapped by the evil Slayvern Kursk and hidden underground in a mine. It was a strange sort of kidnap because he didn't lock the door and told me that I could leave if I wanted to. I stayed all day because I wanted to play fair but in the end I decided to escape because nobody brought me a thing to eat ALL DAY! I do like my food. Anyway I got a bit lost in the mine and that was when Word Wizard came to my rescue. He has got me out of several scrapes since. I started to fall for the wizard and I thought he cared for me. I made the mistake of declaring my love for him after he invited me into his home and plied me with jelly babies (Well what’s a girl to think!) but unfortunately he didn’t feel the same and I suffered a painful rejection. After that I realised that I was probably meant to be with Morton and settled down to play the role of dutiful girlfriend but as I have already told you that didn’t work out either.
Now Morton’s family have turned up to stay at the tavern but his sister Taite is horrible and she hates me because she thinks I’m not good enough for her brother.
Oh! I forgot to tell you! I am a dragon caller and have two pet dragons that live on the tavern roof. One of Philomena’s ex boyfriends, Vortigern attacked her one night so I set one of my dragons on him and burnt him to a crisp. Philomena took him back to the tavern and nursed him until he recovered. She told him that I didn't mean anything by it so he was ok after that. These little misunderstandings between friends do happen every now and then don't they.
There’s a witch locked in the cellar. Her name is Jezebel Tyne and apparently I made some sort of deal with her in the past and she took my evil away from me – she is a mirror witch. She's locked in the cellar awaiting trial for trying to murder Philomena - an unforgivable crime in Philomena's eyes - I've tried to get Philomena to release her but she just won't hear of it.
Maybe after I’ve had a few sessions with the shrink I’ll be able to tell you a bit more about myself but for now that’s about all I know
Why don’t you come to the tavern and have a drink with me sometime? I love making new friends. Between you and me Philomena’s ok but she’s having a baby soon and I’m sure she’ll be more interested in cooing over that than spending time with me….not that I’m jealous of her or anything, I mean why would I be jealous of the most beautiful woman in Grimney who is marrying a handsome knight in shining armour?