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#also yeah this would imply the bellman knows warrior bard and alchemist languages
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hey does someone want to know my headcanon about the Bellman?
He's the child of a warrior and an alchemist.
One day, a warrior and an alchemist both found a crack in the wall, which led them both to the bards' floor. They met in the sewer, and intrigued, they kept seeing each other, learned each other's language, and fell in love. At one point a slave found them, and accepted to help them, also starting to learn their languages. Then the warrior and the alchemist had a child, who spent the first few years of his life in these sewers, the slave taking care of him when his parents couldn't be there. Eventually, the warriors found out the truth. They took the child and fixed the crack in the wall. They didn't like that one of them was avoiding her duty to sneak out to that secret lover and child, especially when she dares going where the Chosen Ones live. Yet, a Chosen One helped her and took care of the child, which means it couldn't be that bad (a lot of the warriors felt better realizing that, as it's hard to give a harsh punishment to a friend and a child). So the warrior was put to the lowest grade as a punishment. For the child, it was a whole other deal: no one was expecting him to be strong enough to become a warrior, but they needed to do something with him, especially when he started his life among the Chosen Ones.
The bellman position has always been a strange one; it is extremely important, as the bellman tells the time, but also look for when the Chosen Ones arrive, to announce when they are coming. Unfortunately, it is also a position that goes completely against the warrior's duty; the bellman does not carry weapons, does not fight off the impure, does not protect the Chosen Ones. The bellman simply watches. It's been used as a punishment, but sometimes, it was also a place where to put the ones who simply could not fight.
The half warrior child, who spent the first few years of his life among the Chosen Ones, had no better place to be. Maybe it was why the Chosen One helped the warrior and the child; to give them someone who could ring the bell the day they arrive.
The warrior did not raise her child; the bellman at the time did. The alchemist never saw his love and his child again; when he arrived to their meeting point he couldn't find them, and the servant who helped them told him what happened. They embraced, the alchemist left, and never came back.
Anyway this started because at first I thought the bellman was kinda an astronomist, and then later I had that thought about the awkward position that bellman must be in the warriors' society
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