GUIBU / GIEVE   Name: Guibu / Gieve Occupation: travelling minstrel Age: 22-23 Country of origin: Unknown Hair Color: Red Eye Color: Grey Known relatives: None First appearance: Heroic Legend of Arislan / OVA1 Voice actor: (Japanese) Yao Kazuki (English) Timothy Bentinck Little is known about Guibu the wandering minstrel. With a smile of derision always hovering on his lips, and the cat-like way in which he carries himself, he always manages to hide his true feelings. His rampant independance making it hard for him to create lasting relationships, he instead chose to revel in the moment, dreaming up as many incarnations of himself as he can, giving others what they want to see. Guibu takes himself very seriously, and even constructed the incarnation we see most often, the traveller wary of the ways of the world and uncaring of anything except himself, or any profit he might make, to hide his true nature. He went as far as to coin a nickname for himself, 'Guibu the travelling musician', but in truth he is a jack of all trades, using the sword, the bow or the lance as well as any musical instrument (or so he says). His tall and slender physique, along with his delicate features bring him womanly praise and manly jealousy wherever he goes. He recites poems, dances, and has gentle manners. Fully aware of his charms, he uses them to get what he thinks he is seeking in life, that is momentary gratification. When the Lusitanians tried to intimidate the defenders of the city of Ekubatahna by torturing the Shogun Shapool, who plead for someone to kill him, and all had given up because he was too far from the walls, Guibu shot him through the heart with an arrow, galvanizing the resistance of the Pars Army. For this achievement, he was summoned to the Royal Palace by Queen Tahamine, who gave him money for his troubles, but also the task of escorting her out of the city, fleeing the Lusitanian invaders. He accepted to accompany her but discovered the 'Queen' was only a foil, a poor chambermaid dressed in her Mistress's finery. He did not want to put his life on the line for the selfishness of powerful people, did not want to put that girl's life on the line either. But it was too late. This only heightened his contempt for the nobles, who used of their lives as if they were worthless. Full of biterness, he left Ekubatahna for the countryside. But Guibu's sardonic vision of the world was to be reversed dramatically. As he fled what he had witnessed in the Royal Capital, he met someone who would change the scope of his life. Her name was Farangis, a prietress of the goddess Mizra, and a woman who seemed genuinely unimpressed by his beguilements. For no reason he could discern, other than the challenge implicit in her coldness to his advances and his poems, or the fact that she was the first to see beyond the fa�ade he offered all to see, he decided to follow her on her quest to find Prince Arslan. Guibu, in his association with Farangis, never did show his keen interest in her situation and her past, though he might have considered that, being a priestess, even a young one, she had nothing to do with love. Their association became open-hearted but remained pure. They knew all of each other, their innermmost thoughts and mutual feelings but have yet to act on them... Throughout he still held in mind his idea of the perfidity of the nobility, staying wary of his companions of quality, but the boredom of staying in one place started to take over. He wanted to see more, to see the country for himself. Yet even though he fled the Pars restauration army, everywhere he went he continued to gather military intelligence for Prince Arslan. Thinking that one day he would go back.