Interior Judge Grel – Grell Sutcliff from Black Butler or a Grell from DnD’s Forgotten Realms
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Interior_Judge_Grel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Butler
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Grell_Sutcliff
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Grell
Luigi De Mario is trying to muscle folks like Ned Collie off their land. Townies are running out of Dream Water to sell and are looking for something else to bolster the tourist trade. Luigi is using corrupt Judges to force folks off their land. Interior Judge Grel is one of the corrupt Judges trying to blow up the Collie Ranch.
Interior Judge Grel: “Oh, great… this kid. I’m going to manage the territory of your face!”
Black Butler (Japanese: 黒執事, Hepburn: Kuroshitsuji) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso. It has been serialized in Square Enix’s shōnen manga magazine Monthly GFantasy since September 2006. The series follows Ciel Phantomhive, the 12-year-old Earl of Phantomhive serving as the Queen’s Watchdog. He is tasked with solving crimes in the underworld of Victorian-era London. Ciel has formed a contract with demon Sebastian Michaelis, who disguises himself as his butler, to seek revenge on those who tortured him and murdered his parents. In exchange for his services, Sebastian will be allowed to consume Ciel’s soul.
Grell Sutcliff is a major antagonist in the manga and anime Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji. She appears as the main antagonist in the Jack the Ripper Arc. Later in the series, Grell returns as a supporting anti-heroic character and occasional allies with to Ciel and Sebastian.
During the Jack the Ripper Arc, Grell is first seen as the clumsy and shy Butler of Madam Red, who is also known as Angelina Dalles. Despite her nervous appearance, it is later revealed that she is a fully trained Grim Reaper, also known as a Shinigami or Death God. Throughout the anime and during the Arc, Grell is shown to be ineffective at her Butler job, ruining and messing up the most simple of tasks and continuously attempting to commit suicide. Sebastian Michaelis, the Demon Butler of Ciel Phantomhive, stops Grell from killing herself which allows Grell’s affections for the Butler to increase. Grell later stops the acts when the servants of the Phantomhive Household in the anime hesitate from trying to stop her from killing herself, and usually tries to attract attention to be noticed by Sebastian.
Grell were sightless aberrations that resembled giant floating brains with tentacles and a beak. The wrinkled hide of a grell varied from a pale pink-gray to a faint purple-pink in coloration (with older specimens being darker in color than younger ones) which, combined with its damp skin that gleamed wetly in poor light, made adventurers mistake the creatures for disembodied brains. This skin was actually surprisingly leathery and tough; measuring several inches thick on the upper body of a grell.
After its strange appearance, perhaps the most noticeable thing about grell was their complete lack of eyes, or indeed sight of any kind. However, they possessed two other keen senses that made up for their lack of vision, and these combined granted a grell blindsight. The first was their entire epidermis, which acted as a single “ear”, giving them excellent hearing. The other sense was far more mysterious, and was described as a sort of electroreception; a grell was able to sense the faint electrical stimuli produced by both living creatures and inanimate objects within 60 ft (18.3 m) of itself. This sense was startlingly accurate despite its relatively short range, as a grell was easily able to distinguish between two beings of different sizes, a living and a dead creature, and even tell that two boulders had different compositions. It also allowed grell to “see” even in areas of magical silence.
Grell had two priorities: colonize new lands and feed. Although instinct alone drove grell to reproduce, feed, and expand their territory, their intelligence allowed them to plan their actions far better than any pack of wild predatory animals could. Grell fell somewhere between the genius mind flayers and the crazed carrion crawlers on the scale of aberrant creature intelligence, with an intellect roughly on-par with that of humans, albeit modified by their strange alien motivations. As a race, grell were insular and reclusive, and wouldn’t live with other creatures. A grell might join a fight alongside non-grell if it led to an easier meal, but would quickly disappear with its prize back to its nest or colony.
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