Gilmore

Gilmore

Hometown	High Mountain
Gender	Male
Race	Celestial/Specter
Family	Mitra (ancestor)
Affiliations	High Flora (temporary)
Enemies	Seren Adversary Maple Alliance High Flora Havoc
Status	Deceased
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	기르모 (Gireumo)
ChinaMS	奇勒摩 (Qílēimó)
TaiwanMS	奇爾莫 (Qíěrmò)
MapleSEA	Guillermo
Voice Actors
GlobalMS	Kellen Goff^[1]^[2]
KoreaMS	Yeongjae Pyo^[3]

Gilmore was one of the last surviving Celestials and a special Specter created to impersonate the Chosen One of the Sun God Mitra.

Story

Fall of High Mountain

Gilmore was a Celestial, a race of winged demigods who were descended from Mitra the Sun God. Ages ago, Mitra and the Celestials seized High Mountain from an evil Ancient God named Tynos, claiming it as their new home. After the fall of the Ancient Gods, the Celestials - unable to return to the heavens - remained trapped on Grandis. In High Mountain, the Celestials awaited Mitra's return and continued to safeguard his relic, the Holy Sword Azor, which could only be wielded by the Chosen One, though the sword had lost its power after the disappearance of Mitra.

High Mountain was eventually attacked by Havoc, the Apostle of Lightning. During the attack, Gilmore fled with his subordinates, Seren and Roland. Gilmore ordered Seren to destroy the bridge in order to slow down the enemy, though she and Roland refused, claiming that the rest of their company would be trapped behind enemy lines. When Gilmore moved to destroy the bridge himself, Roland drew his sword and attacked him. Gilmore reminded Roland that he was in charge and ordered him to step aside. Roland told him that even while knowing that the operation was doomed, their soldiers had rushed into certain defeat without protesting because they knew the importance of protecting Azor, and so he refused to allow Gilmore to sacrifice their lives. Gilmore shouted that sacrificing themselves for Azor was their very purpose, and that to die was their mission. He told them that they had been outnumbered from the beginning, which was why he had chosen to divide their forces. Outraged to know that they had merely been bait, Roland called Gilmore a traitor and moved to attack.

Though Seren tried to break the fight, the two continued in a vicious battle. Between disobeying orders and engaging in outright mutiny, Gilmore asked if Roland even knew who he was pointing his sword at. Roland replied that he was pointing it at a religious zealot and said that if someone like Gilmore was the Chosen One, then Mitra was not worthy to be his own god. Outraged at Roland's blasphemy, the two continued their duel until Seren drew her own sword and knocked theirs onto the ground, demanding that they stop before they revealed their position to the enemy. Gilmore told Seren to stay out of it, warning that he would cut her down too. She once again yelled at him to stop before Havoc found them. Suddenly, their blades began crackling with red lightning as Havoc discovered their location. Roland yelled at Seren to get down, just as a giant bolt of lightning struck down and knocked them out.

In the aftermath of the battle, Seren carried Azor and the swords of her fallen Celestial comrades to the holy city of Cernium. Roland, who lost his faith in Mitra, fled and eventually joined Ebonstar, a group of heretics dedicated to putting an end to the worship of the Ancient Gods. Gilmore was found by Havoc and was presented with the opportunity to undergo special experiments that High Flora were conducting, which could transform one into a special Specter with the power to slay Ancient Gods. Believing that the experiments would allow him to regain his Celestial powers, Gilmore agreed to join them. Gilmore was then fused with countless Specter souls, increasing his power exponentially such that the emblem of the Chosen One glowed in his hands, despite him not being worthy.

Battle of Cernium

After the death of the Black Mage, the Adversary and the Glory Guard traveled to Cernium in order to help Prince Carlisle defend the city against the High Flora. During the battle, Havoc met with the Glory Guard and attempted to trade Gilmore, whom he revealed was the Chosen One, for the Adversary. After negotiations failed, the Glory Guard infiltrated the High Flora encampment and attempted to rescue Gilmore. They then split into three teams and pushed past the Flora soldiers deeper into the encampment. Meanwhile, Seren continued on alone and encountered Gilmore held in a cage created by a spell circle of strange red magic.

Gilmore asked Seren if she had come alone, to which she replied that her allies were keeping the Flora soldiers busy. Because of how brazenly the camp was being attacked, Gilmore realized that she had brought the Adversary, adding that he would have expected that the Adversary would have been the one to lead the rescue mission personally. He then released himself from the cage, with Seren quickly realizing that he hadn't been imprisoned at all. When she accused him of being a traitor, Gilmore clarified that he was merely using the Flora, whom he referred to as ‘low creatures', into helping him restore his Celestial powers by delivering the Adversary to them. He then showed Seren the emblem of the Chosen One and told her that he planned to cleanse the land of heathens and create a true paradise of the gods. Feeling Seren's hesitation, he pointed his sword at her and asked if she remembered what the High Flora had done to High Mountain and the Celestials.

Suddenly, Edea created her own contaminant spell to trap Gilmore and shot dozens of lightning bolts from the sky at him. As the Flora soldiers discovered them, Edea told the Adversary to cover their escape and to get the emblem of the Chosen One from Gilmore. The Adversary and Hawkeye defeated the arriving Flora soldiers and wounded Gilmore, who cursed them and declared that he would soon come for Azor. Before the Adversary could grab the emblem, Gilmore created a protective shield around himself with the same red magic as more Flora soldiers arrived. With no other choice, Hawkeye and the Adversary retreated.

Soon after, Havoc and Avril returned to the camp, where they found Gilmore still within the protective shield. Havoc laughed at the sorry state that he was in as Gilmore dropped the shield down. Gilmore angrily claimed that he would bring the sun's fury upon Havoc after taking up Azor, though Havoc merely scoffed at his words. As the battle of Cernium proceeded, Gilmore arrived at the holy chamber and found Seren standing alone. He looked around and noted to Seren how such a once-illustrious palace had fallen to ruin, with storm clouds blotting out the sun and the High Flora swarming across the land like vermin. Seren asked Gilmore what would happen once he became the Chosen One, to which Gilmore explained that he would begin a great cleansing of the land, starting with the Flora, after which he would remove the heretics and the cultists who had infested the city. Seren told him that the various Orders had finally made peace after centuries, and that she believed that it wasn't necessary to expel them.

Gilmore laughed at Seren's presumption that he would merely expel them and reminded her that every person had the choice to either worship the sun or be destroyed by its flames. As he walked past her to take Azor, Edea rushed in to see Seren. Gilmore drew his sword on Edea and told her that he would destroy her for sullying their sacred ground. Seren immediately drew her blade and parried Gilmore's attack, yelling at Edea to run. Seren and Gilmore's battle resulted in Edea being wounded and Seren's blade shattering. As Gilmore prepared to strike Seren down, Edea used the last of her strength to create a magical seal around Gilmore, allowing Seren to deliver the final blow. Defeated, Gilmore's Specter powers caused him to disappear into thin air.

Trivia

Though Gilmore was killed before taking possession of Azor, the fact that the emblem of the Chosen One glowed in his hands suggests that the sword likely would have worked for him.