First appearance: S2E10 — Filicide — Glassy v Thornabub · watch it on YouTube
Glassy (full name Glacia) is the eighteen-year-old daughter of Thornabub. She left the Nine Hells, dyed her hair purple and built a life of her own on the material plane, and she was promised her freedom if she could end her father in the arena. Her bout with him became one of the Void’s great family dramas: sharp-tongued, bloody and absurd. She lost the fight but won over the crowd, and the Grandmaster herself called her an inspiration.
Story
Glassy entered the S2E10 — Filicide — Glassy v Thornabub Deathmatch already at war with her father. Thornabub had come to drag his “Glassy Bear” home to the Nine Hells, where her mother Violtha was “worried sick.” Glassy wanted nothing to do with his “scummy deals” or his soul coins. She now lived in Luskan, had a wizard boyfriend she adored, and had flatly refused the marriage her parents had arranged to Mahadi, a rakshasa with connections to Asmodeus. Her father wanted that match so she could “spawn for me an army of infernal creatures to take over the material plane.” Glassy’s answer was “Hell no.” The Arbiter put his money on Thornabub. The Grandmaster was plainly on Glassy’s side, and she even declared that the new purple hair would help Glassy hide in the fluorescent forest arena.
Glassy struck first and with feeling. Sensing that a great magnet descending from the sky would soon rip away anything metal, she kissed her mother’s necklace and threw it on the ground. Then she told her father exactly what she thought of him and laid a curse on him. She used a lash of lightning, learned from her boyfriend, to yank him across the river, then followed with a lightning bolt. When Thornabub tried to cow her, she shrugged him off so completely that the Grandmaster noted, “She knows who she is. And it’s not Glassy Bear.” Gerald took her side too. Thornabub had sacrificed his blood to the box and then rejected the sword it gave him, so the slighted box spat out the Helm of the Gods for Glassy instead. Her father answered with a brutal flying hammer charge laced with necrotic power, and then a spell that left her blind.
Blind, she kept fighting. She remembered the ground around her, blinked over to a glowing rune and touched it with her staff, which filled her with a translucent blue glow and a fresh burst of energy. Her blasts of infernal magic went wide and set the forest rumbling, so she climbed forty feet up a cliff like a spider and stuck her tongue out in her father’s general direction. When the spiked trees fired their barbs across the arena, she was still sightless, yet she rolled a perfect natural 20 and danced through the storm untouched. She threatened her father with “real Hellish Rebuke” if he ever touched her boyfriend, and corrected him that the boyfriend’s name was Gary, not Jerry. When the magnet finally pulled everything metal into the sky, she chose to ride it up rather than lose her helm. She ended up stuck to its underside seventy feet above a pit that had opened in the forest floor. From there she pelted Thornabub with two bubbles of acid: “I don’t want anything to do with you anymore.”
Thornabub ended it with what the Grandmaster called a game of chess. He dispelled whatever held the magnet aloft and rode it down, and Glassy let the helm go, slowed her fall with magic and rolled free of the crash. As she drifted past, her father caught her with a bare-fisted strike, rolled a natural 20 and poured his last necrotic power into it: “I will see you in hell, daughter!” Dying, Glassy asked for a pact to spare her life. The price was her boyfriend’s soul. Deciding that “Jerry wasn’t that good of a boyfriend anyway,” she signed the infernal contract with her last breath without reading it, and her father healed her. Thornabub took the win and left with the Arbiter for a pub crawl, which included a stop in Luskan to collect Jerry’s soul. The Grandmaster raised Glassy up before The Acolytes, who had cheered her the whole night, and told her: “This is not your last chapter.”
After the fight, the word was that Jerry was “kinda alive-ish” without his soul, which Glassy took in stride: “He wasn’t using it anyway?” Over drinks, Thornabub mentioned the infernal legions his daughter was “gonna give birth to in a few years,” to her open horror. Glassy left with a vow: she would return as a paladin sworn to an oath of vengeance and to the Grandmaster, who promised to be her benefactor.
Personality and Abilities
Glassy is fierce, defiant and very much eighteen. She needled her father about slow dice and stuck her tongue out at him, even while blind. Beneath the sass is real hurt and a hard-won sense of self, and the Grandmaster praised “that tongue you have is fierce with words.” She also likes to think before she acts. She saved her one bit of luck for the moment it mattered and used it to roll out from under a falling magnet.
Her magic comes from two places. Her warlock power is her infernal inheritance, “the magic that the Nine Hells gave me,” and includes eldritch blasts and curses. Her sorcery is her own: acid bubbles, short-range teleportation, spider-climbing, a protective shell of false life and a slow, safe fall. She is especially proud of anything she learned without help (“I’m independent”). She picked up lightning magic from her boyfriend and simply loves transmutation magic. Her hair is purple, which her father finds unacceptable and the Grandmaster finds delightful.
Relationships
- Thornabub: her father, who rules a small demiplane of hell and wants her home, married off and raising his army. She fought him for her freedom and lost.
- Violtha: her mother, who gave her the necklace she threw away in the arena. Glassy believes she would love the purple hair.
- Jerry (or Gary): her boyfriend in Luskan, a “lightning wizard” who may have been just an electrician. She traded his soul for her life.
- The Grandmaster: cheered her on, gifted her a healing potion and called her an inspiration. Glassy plans to return sworn to her.
- The Arbiter: bet on her father and left with him for drinks afterward.
- Gerald: snubbed her father and gave Glassy the Helm of the Gods instead.
Memorable Quotes
- “You’re a stupid, filthy, evil jerk, and I hate you.” (Filicide)
- “Do not call me Glassy Bear in front of these people.” (Filicide)
- “I am not marrying a tiger freak.” (Filicide)
- “I wish I was deaf so I didn’t have to hear you anymore.” (Filicide)
- “Jerry wasn’t that good of a boyfriend anyway. I think he wasn’t really a lightning wizard.” (Filicide)
- “I will not let you down. I will not let anybody down anymore. This is a new chapter for Glassy.” (Filicide)