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Jen

"A wanderer may come. Come from under the mountain bringing murder and birth." -urSu the Master

Raised by the Mystics in their valley, Jen believed he was the last survivor of the Gelflings, a race of fawnlike elfin creatures. But when his dying master sent him on a quest, he discovered he was not alone. The Dark Crystal is the story of the terrors and final triumph of Jen's quest.

He carries a flute on a leather neck-string.  It is an urRu token called a firca.

He wears a pale, creamy colored tunic.  He has wide cheekbones, a small chin, and pointed ears.

Jen, growing, splashed in the waterfalls, learned to draw runes on a black rock, and was patiently corrected by urSu.  In a cave, he helped urNol mix herbs and fungi in a cauldron, which, to Jen, seemed vast.  UrUtt wove a garment and showed him how to work the loom.  Under urYod's tutelage, Jen used an octonary abacus; and, cupped in the palm of urSol's hand, he studied the fingering of his flute.  UrIm the Healer, urAc the Scribe, and urTih the Alchemist -- taught him to pronounce the secret, sacred names and used riddles to impress upon him the symbolism of pentagram and tetraktys, sulfur and quicksilver, while urAmaj and the others at first intrigued him with their obsession to connect one thing to another, and later wearied him with it.  UrZah taught him to listen.

Jen fears the color black due to the Garthim raids of his childhood.

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