Nine-tailed Fox Garam

Nine-tailed Fox Garam is a 3-star Water character in Guardian Tales. Nine-tailed Fox Garam's weapon type is Bow and Basket and role is Ranged.

On our Guardian Tales tier list Nine-tailed Fox Garam is A tier, 12th of the 155 characters ranked, from where 13 current tier lists put Nine-tailed Fox Garam.

Other Water characters in Guardian Tales: Beach Racer Rachel, Chosen One's Archpriestess Veronica, Codename J, Dimension Traveler Catherine, Doctor DaVinci, Dragon of the Vast Sea Yun and 22 more.

Appearance

Garam appears as an long white haired adult man outside his Fox form, with his true nature being given away by two Fox-like ears addorning the top of his head and nine tails protuding from his back.

The color of his eye irises are yellow, with pupils similiar to those of an Fox, his tails gradually increase in number through evolution, starting with just one at 3-stars, and ending with nine at his 5-star evolution.

His original costume consists of an decorated dark purple colored Hanbok, an decorated jacket like garment, grey pants, black colored shoes with gold colored designs and black fingerless gloves.

In the Folktale side story however, he appears to wear an simpler, different, completely dark hanbok.

When in his Fox form, he appears as an large fearful or monstrous looking creature, possesing nine-tails, large claws, and an terrifying face.

Lore-wise it's uncertain if Garam can turn into this form at will or possibly only when he is deeply angered.Sprite gallery

Biography

Early Life

Garam is an age old fox who had trained Nari, a budding Fox Sage, who traveld with him for a long time.

Eventually, they met the Sea Witch Ara, who was sealed away by them for causing chaos in a village.

At some point, he and Nari decided to take a nap, but while Nari was still asleep, Garam was awoken by the plight of a little girl, Dallae.

Seeing how her parents were not around, Garam decided to care for Dallae in their stead.

They traveled to nearby villages, helping each one with their plight with three sacred treasures; a well to cure the plague, a magic sack with infinite food for the tigers, and a water stone to create a river saving people from the drought, along with two fairy sisters to protect it.

While Garam loved helping the people he began to notice how greedy the humans have been getting, till one day, their greed grew out of control that they kidnapped Dallae to get him to give up his magic bead in exchange for her life, but due to her resistance, the elder accidentally killed her.

Clouded by sorrow and rage, Garam kills all those in the village that were responsible for her death, and swore to destroy the humans for their selfish actions.

Redemption

A few moments after Nari woke up and witnessed what Garam had gone through, she confronted him about what he was doing and sought to stop him from being consumed by his grief, and sacrifices her magic bead to do so.

She tells Garam that he isn’t wrong about humans being ignorant and greedy, but assures him that not all of them are bad, as was the case with her traveling with the Knight.

She told him that their role as Fox-Sages wasn’t to guide or punish humans, but to help those who are kind enough to truly deserve it.

Moved by her words, Garam claims that Nari is a better Fox Sage than he ever was.

Feeling guilt for what had transpired because of his sorrow, he sought to travel the world to do some Sage training to make up for his misguided actions, alone.

Before he left he assured Nari that her place was protecting the forest, but reminded her that she had friends to help her.

Personality

Garam is a kind soul who sought to help all he could.

This kindness especially extended to a little girl, Dallae, who he had warmed up to since he woke up from his slumber.

Alas, when Dallae’s death came at the hands of greedy humans he was consumed by rage, and sought to eliminate the humans.

Fortunately, it was Nari who stopped him from walking down that path, and after that, he sought to leave the forest and train by traveling the world, hoping to never again let his sorrow get the better of him once more.

Due to living alone for some time, he was out of loop and had no knowledge of modern things such as technology.

Because of this he refers to such things as magic, and refers to people with such technology, like Sohee for example, as sages like him.

Relationships

Allies

The Knight

Nari

Dallae

Enemies

Ara