Great General Sherlock
Great General Sherlock is a gnome commander and inventor serving the Yelan Kingdom. Partnered with Great General Watson, he supplies the strategy and technology behind their campaigns, rewarding useful allies generously while insisting that intelligence and preparation—not strength alone—decide wars. (Chapters 314, 318, 321, 325)
Biography
The Lionheart Tournament and the Hidden Domain
Sherlock greets Lux’s mercenaries by demanding that they recognize gnome technology’s superiority, then immediately rewards the politically correct answer with a Pseudo-Legendary Map Projector. Beneath the vanity, his analysis is sober: the Yelan Army is outmatched, faces a time-limited Grand Spell, and must kill the enemy commander to break morale. He approves flexible action, reads battlefield signals, and directs Watson’s charge when Lux’s operation opens the route. (Chapters 314, 316, 318, 321)
Victory does not make Sherlock complacent. He credits Lux’s party, recognizes that Ammarian aggression will continue, and gives the group rare Warrior’s Might bracers to improve their future survival. His parting hope that they meet again as allies reflects a strategist’s awareness that political circumstances can overturn personal gratitude even after comrades win a war together. (Chapter 325)
The Dragon kingdoms and the Abyss
When the Gate of Famine recreates Yelan’s crisis, Lux deliberately searches for Sherlock and Watson because he remembers the kingdom they defended with their lives. Sherlock later arrives at Peyton with ten thousand soldiers, absorbs General Fahad’s report, and turns renewed contact into coordination rather than jealousy over Lux’s growing power. His leadership remains grounded in preserving Yelan’s cities and soldiers through organized reinforcement. (Chapters 687, 694, 702, 712)
Sherlock’s advice continues beyond the immediate campaign. He teaches Lux that Skill Books yield rarer, stronger results when used at higher rank, causing Lux to delay four books until becoming a Ranker. The lesson captures Sherlock’s lasting influence: he treats resources as timing problems and convinces stronger fighters to replace immediate gratification with better long-term returns. (Chapter 812)
Appearance and personality
Sherlock is a gnome nearly four feet tall who wears glasses and habitually adjusts them. He is proud, theatrical, teasing, and eager to praise gnome engineering over dwarf work, yet he readily shares valuable inventions and credits others’ contributions. His humor with Watson coexists with a patient analytical temperament that separates planning from execution. (Chapters 314, 318, 321, 702)
Abilities and skills
Sherlock’s demonstrated expertise is invention and operational strategy. He creates Pseudo-Legendary artifacts, including a real-time Map Projector fueled by high-grade Beast Cores, and carries a flintlock that accepts specialized metallic ammunition. He analyzes terrain, assassination risks, magical preparation time, and morale, then delegates execution to Watson and field units. These mechanics make information, fuel, timing, and cooperating soldiers essential to his effectiveness. (Chapters 314, 316, 318, 321)
His devices have explicit constraints: the Map Projector consumes an Argonaut core in four hours or an Empyrean core in half a day, while his rare bracers exist in very limited numbers. The corpus never states Sherlock’s personal rank or names a signature combat skill, so his battlefield power should not be confused with the weapons, armies, and plans he coordinates. (Chapters 316, 325)
Relationships
- Lux: A valued mercenary and later ally whom Sherlock equips, advises, and trusts to create battlefield openings. (Chapters 314, 321, 812)
- Great General Watson: His command partner; Sherlock develops strategy and Watson executes it with the army. (Chapters 318, 321)
- Cai: A shameless admirer of gnome technology whom Sherlock rewards for telling him what he wants to hear. (Chapter 314)
Items
No individually assigned generated item is recorded for Great General Sherlock in the centralized inventory.