Grimmith Blackflame

Village of Silverkeep
Grimmith was born and raised in a small village in the plains of Eldham known as "Silverkeep". It was a little village based around a silver and copper mine that went deep into the earth. The town was independent, belonging to no nations and governing itself. Since everyone new each other, crime wasn't rampant, or there at all.

The Ravaging Fire
One day, Silverkeep was attacked by a neighboring town known as "Resigon". It was a small village like Silverkeep, but part of a big nation. Resigon could only trade home-grown food to get it's wealth, and wanted the silver and copper mine that Silverkeep had so it could gain more wealth. One of the citizens from Resigon invaded and set fire to the village under the cover of night, burning much of the it to the ground. While the town was scorched, Grim slept peacefully inside his house while it slowly crumbled around him. A burning support beam from the roof of his room fell and smashed down onto the left side of his face, badly injuring and burning him in the process. Grim was awoken and dragged to safety by his father, though his father had inhaled lethal amounts of smoke in the process. His father later died from the carbon monoxide poisoning in his lungs, leaving Grim and his mother devastated in his wake. His mother was later kidnapped by the still aggressive neighbors, though Grim has yet to see her and knows not of her fate, only having a small amount of hope that she is alive. He wears a concealing mask to cover his burned face, making sure no one can get a glimpse of his scar, which he sees as a sign of weakness and tragedy.

Turn To Banditry
After the loss of his family, he began exploring the nearby forests, as nature was the last place he believed he could find solace in. While exploring the dense thicket one day, he came across a group of three other young boys. Grim quickly befriended the group, and soon they began venturing through the forests together. None of the boys had ever really had a home nor parents to give them care, so they had to resort to theft to get the food and clothes they desperately needed to survive. As the group got older and older they grew more bitter towards the world for the unfair cards they had been dealt in life, and once the group was able to steal weapons and armor, they eventually chose to attack and pillage residents in towns they had once only stolen from.

Healing Of The Flesh, Loss Of A Soul
While raiding with his group of friends, an arrow was shot and was sent straight into an unarmored part of his right shoulder, seriously wounding him. Knowing he could bleed out from the wound, he retreated into the forests and ran from the townspeople who chased him. Once he was deep enough into the forest that the pursuers had given up the hunt, he decided to rest in a nearby cave he had found. He bandaged his wound and started a small fire, hoping to fall asleep and wait out the pain. While he rested he noticed a strange change in the atmosphere of the cave, like a wind had picked up even though he was deep underground. A shadowy figure rose from the fire as the winds grew harsher, and once the winds had grown so harsh that the fire was put out he was left in complete darkness. He found himself face-to-face with a pair of crimson red, glowing eyes, belonging to an underworld demon known as "Venandi".

The demon promised to heal his fatal wounds in return for using his mortal body as a vessel to control alongside Grim for the rest of his days, and though he was weary of the demon's offer, he figured he didn't have long to live and accepted the offer. To his surprise, he was healed back to full health within only a couple days, but he didn't see the world around him the same anymore, physically and mentally, the world was in a tint of red. He felt more aggressive towards everyone, the bloodlust of the demon filling his soul. Venandi used Grim's body to fulfill its twisted goals, goals that he hadn't expected to be used to achieve. The demon needed souls to survive, and Grim was consumed by the demon's need to kill, forcing him to need the souls just as much. Venandi could communicate with Grim by just thinking, as they now share the same mind. "The people you slay, and the souls you collect, will be my sustenance. Do not run out of them, otherwise you shall perish along side them, a much worse death than any mortal has ever bore." Grim put his head down onto his bag, realizing what his life will become. Days later he was able to track down his friends and return to him, though he was never the same. The demon within urged him to slay his friends, but he did all he could to resist the need. During this time he was gifted a blade known as the "Soul Stealer" from Venandi, a blade crafted of a strange metal from the underworld. After weeks of this he left the group to keep himself from doing anything he would regret as he slowly molded to the demon's will, keeping his friends safe but isolating himself in the process. He developed a deep fear of caves due to his experience with the demon, making him stay aboveground almost all of the time.

Above The Clouds
Grimmith had headed to the main market of Eldham, known as "Spawn". While shopping around he met the former High Jarl of Rodinnbrok, Sandy Rovin. Sandy had shown him his newest item, two wings connected to one another known as an "elytra", that would let a person have access to the skies. Grim convinced Sandy to let him fly around with it for a bit, testing it out he quite enjoyed the ability of flight. He gave the elytra back to Sandy but asked if he could buy it from him. Grim's pockets were still plentiful at the time, but regardless, Sandy denied the request. Grim kept pushing and trying his luck, and eventually Sandy gave him a quest. If Grim could locate and collect all the possible music disc's in Eldham, he could have the elytra, but it had to be done in under one week. It was a tough challenge, Grim has thought to himself, not only would he have to find the people, but hope they were willing to trade or sell the discs. But he took it, as he could see himself retiring in peace from banditing with it on his back. Grim looked all throughout the world, finding one disc after another, trading netherite ingots, tools, and buying them with cash off of other people who supported the cause. With only a bit over a day left until the hour glass would run out of sand, Grim strolled up to Sandy. Sandy looked in horror as he was shown all of the discs, but he was a man of his word. He and Grim traded items, and Grim jumped in the water, got out his trident and soared above the clouds. It felt as if he was flying through heaven itself, looking down upon the world with a view so few would ever attain.

Peace At Last
Grimmith approaches the village, the moon peaking its head through the cloud's. His eyes darted around, looking for threats as he ran in-between shadows, watching and waiting for a moment to strike. The doors of the town remain locked at night, except for the inn, drunken men and women shuffle out as the Tavern Master announces the bar is closed.

"Perfect", he thinks, a sly grin forming.

"Easy pickings for tonight".

He hides behind a building, pulls out his bow and nocks an arrow, a faint glow appearing from the enchantments placed upon it. A dim, yellow light appears in the midnight sky, as the arrow searches for its mark. It misses, the man jumps back in shock and falls, scurrying away as fast as he can, the unforseen consequences appear within seconds. The walls of the small, thatch building ignite, spreading like a starving dog chasing its prey, enveloping the town in the flames. The crunch of wood falling, the moans and screams of people dying, burning. He runs, an all familiar scene paints his mind, his home, his people dying, the sheer heat of the flames that licked his skin, tainting it red, the coughs from his father, the horrors of the aftermath. Cries for help bring him back to reality, to the dark truth of what he's caused. A young boy, no more then 10, stuck under the burning beams of his home, the place where he now lay trapped, as the flames grew around him. He runs, faster then he ever has, and puts his hands on the coals and the ashen log, trying to lift it. He couldn't. He stepped back, a throbbing in his mind, not from his hands, but in his heart, he grabs his blade,  Venandi knows what he's trying to do. The merciless demon seizes control of Grim, and attempts to will his blade in his sheath, Grim won't allow it, and takes his body back, casting the wicked weapon in the fire. The souls of the slaughtered spill out, and the demon? Vanquished. His deep, red eyes, once meant harm and fear into those who stepped in his way, reverted back to a piercing blue, contrasting his scar from many years ago. A tortured man, now free. He sprints into the forest, running from the ever-growing flames behind him, small tears bead at his eyes, he runs, and doesn't look back.

Hard Times Require Money
Grimmith retired from his banditing lifestyle, he held enough wisdom to realize it had become uninteresting to him, and due Venandi now being gone, he no longer needed to collect souls. But from this choice, arose a problem, no money would be in his pockets. He slowly started to lose more and more money through gambling and bad investments. One day he reached into his satchel and realized there were very few coins left, and thought about how he could get more. He landed upon the idea of making a market for people to come to from all over Eldham to buy items and resources from. All the plans were in order, but he lacked the motivation, time, and materials in which to have it all built. His great plan had crumbled around him, and lost some of his investors vast fortunes.

Ritual of Ratism
Grim was flying through foreign lands, looking for interesting towns and people to look through and meet, when he stumbled upon a giant statue of a rat. He pondered to himself about what kind of humans would make such a thing about a horrid animal that only brought plague and disease ot his kind, certainly they must be ashamed of it. Yet it boasted loudly inside a walled city, for all to see. He flew over the large gate and into the city center, looking around for any other people. A stench was slowly rising from a sewer though, it filled his nose and made him gag, "Such a horrid smell!" he thought to himself. Inside the sewer he saw a large shadow, and then a paw. He jumped backwards in a mix of shock and intrigue as a giant rat had come from the hole.

"HELLO HOOMAN!", exclaimed the rat loudly. "I SHEE JOO HAVE COME TO OUR WONDERFUL CITY!!".

Grim replied with a simple nod, not knowing what to say. He had never seen such a being in all his time, but there was indeed a first time for everything. The rat was known as the 'Speaker of the Rat King', he showed Grim around the city and it's sewers. Grim asked many questions about the culture, religion, and even biology of the rats, as it was fascinating to him. He soon found out there was a whole nation of rats living there. He noticed some of the citizens were a hybrid of human and rat though, he asked why this was and the only reply was about a sort of 'ritual'. At the end of the tour Speaker took Grim down into a cave, Grim was hesitant to go inside, but Speaker had assured him it was safe, and that he didn't have to go in if he didn't want to. At the bottom of the cave was a large iron door, and the room behind it was dark.

"What is it for?", asked Grim.

"FOR DA RAT RITUAL OF COURSHE!", exclaimed Speaker.

Grim went inside the room, as he was fascinated by everything he had heard from the large rodent. They performed the ritual, and when Grim walked out, he could feel fluffy ears and a tail growing out from his head and back. He then went into the church and praised the Rat King.

First Steps In The World
GamingDerp joined Stoneworks on May 7th, 2021. But once 'Eldham' came out he switched worlds permanently. The first nation he joined in Eldham was "Batu", as it was a group of colonizers that came from Bardonia on Rathnir. As he wanted to become a bandit though, he left and join the nation of "RavenGuard".

What He's Done
GamingDerp has been the foundation of many things, from the massive Stoneworks Discord Archive, to The Red Lounge. He was the first player on Eldham to map out the entire world by manually walking it all. He was also a notorious bandit for several months, up until his retirement on January 3rd, 2022. Derp managed to get an elytra without getting it directly from an Admin giving it to him. He has the biggest player-head collection on Stoneworks, which includes StoneyStoner, Moyye, Fluw, Rau_l, SpeakerOfRatKing and many other famous players and staff. He has made a few YouTube videos as well about Stoneworks.

What He's Currently Doing
GamingDerp is currently just selling materials here and there, gambling on /cf, and flying around with his elytra killing random players to expand his head collection. He also canonically did maximo_mine 's mother.