Sticks

Sticks is a high elf and sage whose broad learning, teaching ability, and teleportation make him one of the Overgeared Kingdom's most important noncombat specialists. He spends decades waiting at the contaminated Behen Archipelago for a hero who can restore its role in protecting the world, even while an illness inflicted by the gourmet dragon threatens his life. Grid saves him and purifies the islands, after which Sticks becomes principal of the Overgeared Academy, a royal adviser, and the kingdom's principal long-range transporter. He later develops warp-gate theory with Filewolf, turning a service once dependent on his exhausted body into durable infrastructure. (Chapters 354, 361–364, 624, 677, 679, 816, 1132, 1252, 1257, 1315, and 1550)

Biography

Reidan and the Overgeared Alliance

Sticks first enters Grid's path as the sage said to know a route to the East Continent. In reality, he has spent ninety-seven years around the Behen Archipelago after coming for blue coconuts used to treat the illness caused by protecting the world tree from the gourmet dragon. He remains because the former Hall of Fame has been contaminated, preventing present legends from inheriting the strength needed to preserve world order. Too weakened to clear the trials himself, he watches challengers and waits for someone capable of completing the mission. Grid finds him collapsing, combines a blue coconut with a world-tree leaf, and administers the medicine, turning their first meeting into a life debt. (Chapters 354, 361–363)

Sticks identifies Grid as Pagma's Descendant, explains the Archipelago's former purpose, and accompanies him into the trials. The Nightmare island reproduces Sticks's encounter with the gourmet dragon while suppressing him to his former level, making progress impossible without Grid. His knowledge is considerable but openly incomplete: he does not know who corrupted the islands, cannot always interpret their mechanisms, and must revise conclusions as new evidence appears. That limitation makes his faith in Grid consequential rather than convenient. He entrusts the world's succession system to someone whose decisions can exceed the sage's expectations. (Chapters 363–365, 371–372, 389–392, 395, and 403)

Kingdom Building and the Great Demons

After Grid becomes king, Sticks accepts appointment as principal of the Overgeared Academy. He questions whether placing a sage at the head of a school wastes his broader talents, but does not refuse because Grid saved his life and remains the key to cleansing Behen. He uses his knowledge to guide production quests, advise on magic and national development, and teach students. The work changes him from an isolated observer into a civil servant whose learning is measured by what a kingdom can use. (Chapters 509, 511, 549, 555–557, 559, 584, 598, and 624)

The purification of Behen fulfills the hope Sticks maintained for decades and deepens his attachment to Grid. At the academy he teaches while also assisting with financial analysis and royal decisions, eventually learning greater caution from watching human conduct. The arrangement is not effortless. Lauel and Rabbit depend heavily on him, and shortages leave him teaching twelve classes a day without adequate staff. His complaints show a practical limit that reverence for the “Great Sage” can conceal: exceptional knowledge does not give one person enough time or energy to educate an entire kingdom and transport its leaders. (Chapters 632, 648, 673–674, 676–677, 679–682, 684–685, 687–688, 693–695, 699, 703, 775–776, and 816)

East Continent and Imperial Reckoning

Sticks's presence in the Overgeared Kingdom also reconnects it with the elves. The elders of the World Tree's Forest regard him as an honorable high elf whose mediation could help their divided people, while Grid identifies him as a special friend rather than a captive asset. Sticks's earlier journey to gather medicine and his later service in a human kingdom therefore create a bridge between communities that normally distrust one another. (Chapters 829 and 837)

Within the state, he remains a trusted source for questions that conventional ministers cannot answer. Lauel consults him about the White Dragon's Eyes, and Sticks explains its ability to reflect powers. Grid likewise relies on his transport and analysis during the imperial reckoning. These contributions are advisory rather than omniscient: Sticks can identify known artifacts, cultures, and mechanisms, but the kingdom still has to decide how to act and face information beyond even his learning. (Chapters 869, 971, 978, and 980)

Yangbans, Gods, and New Legends

Mass Teleport makes Sticks essential to rapid operations. He takes Grid and companions to the Sword Grave for Braham's resurrection, repeatedly transfers forces across the Arc Kingdom during the great-demon crisis, and returns Grid to battle after death. This mobility lets Overgeared answer distant threats on a timetable ordinary travel cannot match. It also makes Sticks a bottleneck: close to ten large transfers in several hours leave him dazed and near exhaustion, while Grid's frequent summons interrupt academy classes and prevent stable teaching. (Chapters 1132, 1137, 1216, 1252, 1255, 1257, and 1282)

Sticks begins addressing that bottleneck through succession and infrastructure. He agrees to raise a disciple who can inherit high-elven magic, partly because constant transport duties have exhausted him. At the academy, he and other professors also work on warp gates connecting the kingdom to distant territories. He keeps early progress quiet because he fears that a successful gate will make Grid stop seeking him, revealing that service has become emotionally important as well as burdensome. His analyses also guide plans involving Greed and an aerial fortress, while failed research into Madra's writing demonstrates that even months of study do not guarantee an answer. (Chapters 1229, 1264, 1282, 1315, 1318, 1366, and 1383)

Apostles, Dragons, and the Overgeared World

Sticks retains independent ethical judgment even while devoted to Grid. When a proposal involves deliberately releasing demonic creatures and allowing people to be harmed, he objects that the act violates the order of heaven and earth. The protest shows that gratitude has not made him incapable of disagreement. He serves because he believes Grid protects life and the world, so a method that contradicts that purpose can still draw a firm refusal from him. (Chapter 1458)

His latest documented work turns theoretical transport into a large engineering project. Filewolf explains a more rigorous treatment of teleportation, including the “della” unit and calculations involving gravity, mana's kinetic energy, and bodily transfer. Sticks recognizes the theory's value, collaborates on improving its feasibility, and begins construction of a super-large warp gate with Filewolf. The partnership also humbles the sage: another research tradition can answer questions his own knowledge left unresolved. By chapter 1550, his progression is from personally casting every journey to helping build infrastructure that can outlast his individual endurance. (Chapters 1549–1550)

Appearance and personality

Sticks is a male high elf who initially appears as a young, beautiful man with pointed ears, golden eyes, and a scruffy robe. Illness leaves him sweating, pale, and barely able to breathe; after receiving medicine, his restored beauty is described as comparable to the most celebrated women around Grid. His luminous appearance contrasts with his ordinary frustrations as an overworked principal, when exhaustion and complaints make observers momentarily forget his age and status. (Chapters 362–363, 624, and 816)

He is benevolent, wise, patient, and strongly committed to preserving world order. Ninety-seven years of waiting at Behen show extraordinary persistence, while his willingness to admit ignorance prevents wisdom from becoming a claim to infallibility. Sticks can also be anxious, physically fragile, and comically exasperated by Grid's decisions or constant demands. Over time, his attachment becomes personal: he worries about Grid's life, fears becoming unnecessary, and treasures being sought out. Yet he retains moral independence, objecting when a strategy would deliberately harm civilians. (Chapters 361–365, 395, 624, 677, 816, 1315, 1458, and 1550)

Abilities, classes, and skills

Sticks is a sage whose documented aptitudes span magic studies, art, natural science, elementary science, medicine, engineering, humanities, social science, learning, and education. His highest-rated skills are Learning and Education, followed by strong magical and scientific disciplines. This breadth makes him a teacher, diagnostician, artifact interpreter, and strategic adviser rather than a specialist who resolves every problem through combat. His knowledge can be outdated after long isolation, and some texts or phenomena remain beyond his current ability to interpret. (Chapters 363, 624, 971, 1216, 1264, and 1383)

Teleportation and transport

Mass Teleport moves groups over continental distances quickly enough to return Grid to an active battlefield or carry many participants to a historic event. Sticks can choose destinations, form the magic circle, and repeat the spell across multiple locations. The ability is among the world's strongest transportation methods, but it is not costless. Nearly ten uses across the Arc Kingdom within a few hours bring him close to collapse, and repeated summons take him away from teaching. Range and group utility therefore create a strategic asset whose practical limit is the caster's mana and endurance. (Chapters 1132, 1252, 1257, and 1282)

Sticks later helps convert that personal magic into warp-gate engineering. The work requires calculations involving standard gravity, mana's kinetic energy, and the reverse rate of bodily transfer. Filewolf supplies concepts that resolve questions in Sticks's earlier theory, and Sticks improves the formula's feasibility rather than claiming sole authorship. Construction of a super-large gate begins after the smaller network proves useful. This infrastructure can reduce dependence on his body, though the latest selected chapter records construction rather than a complete unlimited replacement for Mass Teleport. (Chapters 1315 and 1549–1550)

Learning, education, and analysis

Learning and Education let Sticks acquire, organize, and transmit knowledge at an exceptional level. He teaches hundreds of academy students, provides separate instruction to Lord, diagnoses environmental affinity, and produces estimates for large technical projects. His teaching has boundaries: until Grid pressures him to consider a disciple, he shares knowledge and elemental instruction but withholds the high-elven magic and secret techniques that define his personal lineage. A disciple would therefore represent deeper succession than ordinary classroom work. (Chapters 679, 816, 1216, 1229, and 1282)

His analysis is powerful but evidence-dependent. He can identify the White Dragon's Eyes and its reflective property, infer material requirements for an aerial fortress, and judge magical or scientific proposals. He cannot automatically decipher every unknown language, predict every Behen trial, or cure his own dragon-inflicted illness without specific ingredients. The title “Great Sage” describes extraordinary breadth, not omniscience. Collaboration with Grid, Braham, academy professors, and Filewolf repeatedly produces results that Sticks could not reach alone. (Chapters 363–365, 395, 971, 1229, 1383, and 1550)

Condition, progression, and latest state

Sticks's original illness follows his effort to protect the world tree from the gourmet dragon. It reduces his physical and mental statistics and periodically leaves him near death; blue coconut liquid mixed with a world-tree leaf can clear abnormal states and provide emergency treatment. Behen's Nightmare further suppresses his power and reproduces the dragon encounter, preventing him from clearing the island alone. Grid's intervention and the Archipelago's purification free him from the mission that kept him isolated, but the corpus still treats stamina expenditure from teleportation as a real limit. (Chapters 363–364 and 677)

His progression is institutional. Sticks becomes academy principal, broadens the kingdom's education, begins considering a true disciple, and translates teleportation expertise into a gate network. By chapter 1550, he is actively collaborating on a super-large warp gate and remains bonded to Grid as a great sage. The latest evidence does not establish a new combat class or removal of every physical limitation; it shows accumulated knowledge becoming more shareable and less dependent on one overworked caster. (Chapters 624, 679, 816, 1282, 1315, and 1550)

Relationships

Grid saves Sticks's life, completes the mission Sticks could not fulfill, and gives his learning a place in a living kingdom. Sticks responds with gratitude, education, advice, and near-constant transport. Their bond is not purely functional. Sticks worries that a successful warp gate will make Grid stop calling him, while Grid identifies him to the elves as a special friend and relies on his judgment. Sticks can still object to harmful plans, making the relationship one of trusted service rather than unquestioning possession. (Chapters 363–364, 624, 677, 837, 1315, 1458, and 1550)

Lauel and Rabbit depend on Sticks to make ambitious policy executable. They use his academy work, transport, financial knowledge, and technical estimates, but budget constraints and staff shortages concentrate too much labor on him. His complaints about twelve daily classes reveal the cost of treating rare expertise as infinitely available. The later gate program and plan for a disciple are partial answers to that administrative bottleneck. (Chapters 679, 703, 816, 971, 1282, and 1315)

Braham and Filewolf represent peers whose specialized knowledge complements Sticks's breadth. Sticks helps transport witnesses to Braham's resurrection and can provide concealment or analysis around magical events, but he does not supersede the legendary magician. Filewolf's teleportation theory resolves questions Sticks had not answered, and Sticks enthusiastically incorporates the advance. These relationships show his best scholarly quality: he can admire a superior explanation, revise his framework, and turn it into a cooperative project. (Chapters 1132, 1137, and 1550)

Items

No notable items are documented for Sticks in the supplied corpus.