Gallice

"Gallice"

- The Sovereign of Dawn... is awaiting your arrival.

Gallice is a member of the Umbra Hands, also known as Gallice of Ashes due to his flamethrower Artifact. Umbra Hands with white coats, such as Gallice, are combat-types equipped with powerful Artifacts.

Appearance
Gallice wears a black whistle, black Delver attire, and a big white cloak that hides his silhouette. His white mask has two lenses and a white cloth that covers his mouth. On his back, he carries a large sack which contains his flamethrower gear.

Without his gear, Gallice appears tall and thin with sharp facial features and a sharp gaze.

Personality
Gallice is pragmatic and stoic, having no qualms with burning the Garden of the Flowers of Resilience while Peijin, another Delver participating in the mission, was deemed unlikely to safely return. As a member of the Umbra Hands, he is loyal to Bondrewd.

Ido Front Arc
Riko and her companions encounter Gallice at the Garden of the Flowers of Resilience. Gallice returns the Blaze Reap and explains that that Bondrewd is expecting them at Ido Front, before immolating the garden and destroying the local Amaranthine-Deceptor infestation.

Curse Fleet Arc
In the Plummet Pub, Tepaste notes the presence of Umbra Hands in the pub to Cravagli.

As Cravagli takes a glance, the presence of the Umbra Hands, the Subterranean Bandits, and Hablog are shown. Cravagli wonders if "Shroud" are also among them, to which Tepaste points out Gallice is sitting at the leftmost chair. Gallice notices Cravagli and Tepaste observing them which prompts Cravagli to greet them with his personal greeting, "Dyaho-de", to disarm the situation.

14 days later in surface time, at the lowest point of the Inverted Forest, which is the destination of the joint delving project with the Forward Expedition Party has arrived: Hablog as Delve General Leader of the project, Simred as Forward Expedition Party Leader and Gallice as Lead Strategist.

They find themselves before a large, open hole in the shape of a pentagon somewhere in the forest. Simred asks rhetorically that his couldn't have been caused by natural causes, Hablog notes nobody ever having tried for this place before and even the scholars to be excited, and Gallice states that whoever opened this hole must have known of Artifacts existing in that opened section.

As Hablog shines his headlamp into it, he remarks the many Storage Vessels, which would be classed as Second Grade Artifacts. He further notes that something of this scale will surely make it into Delver history and they will need a lot of man power with it at least taking several weeks to recover everything, along with the time it takes to dig routes for the Blue Whistles. Gallice factors this as at least three months in surface time.

Hablog questions Simred about the situation of the lookouts and Simred tells him they have one of the Seeker Camp's big Telescopes set on this location. Hablog further notes he can see no Special Grade Relics as far as he can tell and Gallice notes that whoever made this hole most likely took them if any had been there at all.

Gallice notices fresh vestiges calling it a parting gift and directs the groups attention to something that isn't quite visible for the readers but causes shock to the group. This obscured object for the reader causes Hablog to instruct Simred to tell the Seeker Camp to activate a high Glowstone signal for better visibility and they will need a determination of whether or not this area is prohibited, as well as informing Ozen they will need her help as soon as she returns.

Combat Abilities
Gallice is noted to possess a high combat strength equipped with powerful Artifacts to the point where Riko's group would have been in trouble had he been there during the skirmish at the Ido Front and Bondrewd taking control of him.

Trivia

 * Gallice served as Lead Strategist of the Forward Expedition Party, during the joint delving project.