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Girl Genius


Embi is a performer with Master Payne's Circus of Adventure who performs sleight-of-hand, some musical numbers, tells stories... but mostly, is short. During the troop's command performance in Sturmhalten, he does a bit wearing a cat costume and gets chased off the stage in rather emphatic fashion by their host Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus and his Gatling gun.

He is from a town somewhere in Africa and decided to travel the more exotic areas of the world, i.e., Europa. He ascribes , possibly in jest, his great age to a sacred vow he made "to see the world before he died" and which he takes very seriously. How this enabled him to keep himself young through the force of his will, or whether this is due to the agency of that to which he made his vow, is unknown.[1]

However, in the print novel Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess he adds that the individual to whom he made the vow was the Great Devil Goddess, in return for an unspecified boon (unless it is the long life itself). Furthermore, part of the vow was that he was to return to the Goddess to tell her about it.[2] This wish to send someone to find out about the outside world along with the ability to grant extended life suggests she may be an Ancient God-Queen.

Additionally, it is mentioned that he is an expert player of (evidently) some version of the game Mancala.

Evidently he accompanies the rest of the Circus when they decamp to England; we and Agatha see a troupe do a command performance for Queen Albia in which they present a rather creative version of Agatha's previous adventures featuring among other things a fellow who appears to be him playing the part of Krosp... er... "The Magical Wishing Cat."

References

  1. Reddit Ask-Me-Anything, 30 May 2013: 'Phil: We are pretty sure he's old.'
  2. Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, p. 92
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