Tromell’s wife once served the great leader of the Guado, Lord Jyscal. Even now, she continues to wander through Spira as the Red Elemental. To this day, one question still haunts her:
She believes the Guado may have been cursed since the day young Seymour, only eight years old, and the Queen Mother were exiled to Baaj. Lord Jyscal had ordered her to serve as Seymour’s nanny.
Mixing blood with humans was considered taboo among the Guado. The persecution of young Seymour and his human mother was not something even Lord Jyscal could stop. On that stormy night, they were sent out to sea in secret with only a handful of guards.
Perhaps the cruelest detail is that Lord Jyscal was not there to see them off. While the Queen Mother held young Seymour close against her chest and stared toward Guadosalam for the last time, Jyscal remained behind.
Seymour may have been too young to understand politics or fear, but he was old enough to understand absence.
Tromell’s wife makes me think that there was still another side to Seymour, a side the party never really had the time to see. To them, he became an enemy. But to some of the Guado, he may also have been the child who suffered, the young leader they once hoped for, and someone who could still be remembered with sadness.
After escorting the two to Baaj Temple, Tromell’s wife and the guards sailed back to Guadosalam. However, just as they were about to reach their destination, Sin attacked the ship. It sank to the bottom of the sea, and Tromell’s wife was swallowed by the ocean.
She was never sent to the Farplane.
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