Tormund Ellis

Sir Tormund Ellis^[1] (also known as Tor) is a yellow Lupe knight who prominently featured as one of the two player characters (along with Roberta) in the PlayStation 2 video game Neopets: The Darkest Faerie.

History[]

Tormund Ellis was born in Meridell Acres (a village in the realm of Meridell), to Hubert (the mayor of the village) and Patricia (a gardener). He also has a sister, Lucy, who is a Whinny herder.

When Tor was sixteen, his father asked him to deliver a package to Meridell, and entrusted to him a wooden sword for self-defense. Along the way there, Tor came across an old beggar being harassed by thieves and came to his aid. As thanks for helping him, the beggar gave Tor a mysterious amulet, advising him never to take it off. Upon arriving in Meridell, Tor's package was stolen by a pair of thieves. When he chased them down into an alley, Tor was then ambushed and outnumbered by more thugs. Luckily, a mysterious knight came to his aid, scaring off the bandits and Tor recovered the package. The knight complimented Tor's boldness to fight, despite being outnumbered and encouraged him to become a knight.

After Tor delivered the package, he was presented with the opportunity to become a squire, which he took. After obtaining a new sword and shield and gaining the sponsorship of the Man-at-Arms, When Tor returned home, hoping to convince his parents to sign his paper to become a squire, he learned that his sister (having been upset that Tor got to go to Meridell and she couldn't) had run off to find adventure in the dangerous Shadowglen Woods.

He then ran off after her, finding her in the viny clutches of a Juppie Plant monster. After saving Lucy, when they returned home, his parents, convinced of Tor's maturity and bravery, signed his paper, and so he returned to Meridell and was recruited as a squire. The Man-at-Arms put Tor through rigorous training, as well as set him up for chores around the castle, all of which Tor fulfilled calmly and respectfully. Afterwards, he was given his first mission: saving a nearby village from Ixi Raiders. The knight Tor was supposed to accompany for this mission was more concerned with eating, and the Mysterious Knight appeared to encourage Tor to follow his heart, allowing Tor to find a loophole in his orders; he was never ordered to depart for his mission at the same time as the knight he'd been assigned to.

Tor set out to save the village from the Raiders, and even defeated their chief. Upon returning to the castle, the Man-at-Arms presented his young student to King Skarl, who promptly made Squire Tor into Sir Tormund (albeit a 3rd Class Knight). Tor's grand moment, however, was cut short by the arrival of a villager from Illusen's Glade who was sent to seek help from the Knights of Meridell; the Glade was under attack by the Werelupe King and his forces. Despite not being ordered to go with the knights to investigate the matter, the Mysterious Knight sent Tor off with the promise that he would accompany him shortly.

Arriving at the Glade, Tor fought off Werelupes whilst saving the captured knights. When he made his way up towards Illusen's chamber (where the Werelupe King was confronting her), the King summoned his subordinate Gnarfas, a four-armed Werelupe wielding chains. When Tor began to fight off Gnarfas, he felt briefly overpowered before the Mysterious knight arrived to save him and defeat the beast. Shortly afterwards, the Knight was struck down by the Werelupe King, who then stole Illusen's Charm and fled. Tor went to Illusen then instructed Tor to warn King Skarl of a coming evil before it would possessed him.

Tor returned to Meridell to find purple clouds looming above the castle and Dark Knights patrolling the streets. After making his way inside, he peered into the throneroom to find King Skarl under a spell, with the throne occupied by the Darkest Faerie he'd ever seen, chatting with three other Dark Faeries about her plan. When she noticed Tor, seeing that he was not bewitched by her evil magic, she ordered her three disciples to kill him.

With the help of the Cleaning Lady, Tor barely escaped the castle with his life into a pipeline that went out to the moat, drifting him out to sea. When he came back ashore, he met an Acara named Roberta, who said that she'd fallen from Faerieland, which had been conquered by the Darkest Faerie. They were surprised to see they both had amulets that looked exactly the same.

After they fought of the Darkest Faerie's minions (Tor with his sword and shield, Roberta with her magic spells), they made their way to Brightvale to tell King Hagan (Roberta's uncle and Skarl's brother) about the purple clouds above Meridell Castle, and that their amulets granted them immunity to the clouds' influence. After convincing Hagan of Roberta's skills as a sorceress, the King informs them to find a way to end this threat (with Hagan telling Tor to take care of his niece). In the castle library, the duo learn that the Darkest Faerie once founded a kingdom called Altador, but when she turned evil, aiming to destroy it, she was stopped by Queen Fyora, who used her wand to defeat her, and gave it to an ancient king of Meridell, who, in turn, gave it a place of honour in the Meridell Treasure Vault. However, it was since was lost after a flood.

Upon leaving Brightvale, Tor and Roberta are confronted by an assassin sent to kill them by the Darkest Faerie, but he decides to postpone the deed simply to have more fun, and so he disappears.

The duo overcame many obstacles in their quest while also freeing the realms of Brightvale and Meridell from the purple clouds, gaining tools or artifacts to help them.

Upon freeing Bogshot Swamp, the Bridge repairman repairs the bridge from the Realm of Brightvale to Meridell
Upon freeing Marketstown, the pair are accepted into their guild and given a special treasure
Upon defeating the Werelupe King in his woods, they recover Illusen's Charm
Upon freeing the village Tor saved from the Ixi Raiders, they are given their artifact, the Cloak of Heroes
Upon saving Meridell Acres, Tor's father gives him a gadget to help them climb the trees in Illusen's glade
Upon freeing Illusen's Glade, Illusen gives them a Faerie Globe to enter Meridell, which had been shielded off by a dark barrier

Using the Cloak of Heroes as a disguise, the heroes find a hideout of bandits and thieves, who, in exchange for the Treasure of Marketstown, give them a route to the Treasure Vault beneath the castle. They find the vault and recover Fyora's Wand, and make their way into the castle. They defeat the three Dark Faeries, Vanity, Malice, and Spite, and free King Skarl and Meridell from the purple clouds.

With Roberta's Uni, they fly to Faerieland and fight their way to Fyora's chambers, to find the Darkest Faerie captured and Fyora free. They return to the Queen her wand but it's a trap; the Darkest Faerie had disguised herself and Fyora as each other to steal the wand.

Fyora however easily breaks free of her bondage and takes back her wand, resulting in an intense dual between the two faeries. Fyora instructs the heroes to activate a magical device, which opens a portal, but is captured and sealed inside a bottle.

Tor and Roberta awaken to find themselves in a strange place filled with statues. The mysterious knight appears and reveals himself to be King Altador, the leader of Twelve Heroes who all banded together to save a land from monsters and turn it into the Kingdom of Altador. The Darkest Faerie was a member of these heroes but turned evil. Altador was not destroyed but instead sealed in bubble of slow time, completely cut off from the world of Neopia. The only way to free Altador from the Darkest Faerie's magic was to awaken four of the heroes from their slumber as statues hidden in four separate places in the kingdom.

They succeed and learn that in order for Altador to return to Neopia, they must free Jerdana, another of the Twelve Heroes, and regarded as the greatest sorceress to ever live. They free Jerdana, who is revealed to be the old woman who gave Roberta her amulet, and was the one to send one of the heroes, Kelland, disguised as the old begger, to the twin amulet to Tor. Jerdana then gives them her orb (which was used by Fyora long ago to turn the Darkest Faerie into stone) and returns them to the same moment they left. When they witness the Darkest Faerie use Fyora's wand to cause Faerieland to fall from the sky onto Meridell, the pair defeat her by using the orb to turn her back into stone, and Fyora stops Faerieland and Meridell from colliding using her wand.

Tor and Roberta are honored by Faerieland, Meridell, Brightvale, and Altador as true heroes of Neopia.

When Roberta asked Fyora what became of the Darkest Faerie, she revealed that the Darkest Faerie has been imprisoned in the ruins of Maraqua in the form of a fountain decoration.