While most of the heroes chose for a different life at the end of the UnterZee, Ermanach and the Robot stayed behind. As the other Heroes ascended out of the Underworld to places unknown, Ermanach knew what he wanted in the end. Saying goodbye he got to meet his chosen final destination.
Erik Olsrud, who portrayed our favorite Irishman for the last year didn’t think he could make it to the last game. Instead he wrote up this epilogue and I thought it would be special to see his ending. Certainly I take it as a pointer that he, Erik and Ermanach enjoyed themselves….
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After hearing the philosophy of the Great Khan and Golden Dragon, who has conquered half of the world and given up on war, and having seen the futility of fighting evil children who cannot die, and seeing the same battleship get stolen back and forth between comically inept navies, Ermanach had a change of heart.
What he had thought were epic struggles of Kings, Queens, and Empires are truly meaningless. All that ever had meaning for the Zailor, he had neglected behind . He sees a parallel in the giantess Glumdalclitch whose size and strength is merely relative, but also useless in resolving her sorrow. He does not want to be famous or powerful; endlessly searching for what he could have had, and neglected.
So, Ermanach consults with the flamboyant Italian of the Khan's court on the best way to propose marriage to a woman. The Italian eagerly offered some songs to sing, and encouraged him to act out his love. The Italian trader tells, him "When your body and mind are in love you will convince your whole self what you feel. She will be convinced by your conviction!" Ermanach takes this advice, and some flowers, finds a small boat stocked with some water and food, and heads back to London.
Arriving home, he cleans himself up and checks in on Mom. Then, he goes for a walk with Emily, and proposes marriage to her. He says, "I cannot promise you the sun, or the moon, I can only promise you the stars". Being Englishfolk, he dispenses with half of the pageantry suggested by the Italian.
Emily accepts, and Ermanach devotes himself solely to keeping her and his mother safe and happy, forgoing all national and naval emergencies.
Over a span of time he constructs / procures a collapsible ladder, some 60 feet high. Also a 60 foot rope with a sturdy iron grappling hook. When this is assembled, he asks his wife to prepare a picnic lunch, a picnic dinner, and a picnic breakfast. Bundling all that in a rowboat, he will row the two of them to the Dubious Lighthouse Island, being careful to arrive when the "lighthouse" is not lit.
He will throw the grapple up until it catches on the 50-foot giant rock. He climbs up then hauls up the picnic baskets. He and Emily enjoy their picnic meals gazing out over the breadth of the Zee, and looking up at the stars, as he promised.
The Last thing Ermanach takes care with on his Picnic to the Dubious Lighthouse, is to bring a over-sized roll of paper. A note written with large letters left behind at the base of the enormous boulder staircase. A note stating: "Miss Glumdalclitch, your friend Mr. Gulliver is alive and living in another faraway land, which he has a knack for discovering. He did not abandon your company willingly. He was caught by a bird in your upper-land which to him was an enormous creature. It carried him away irregardless of his intentions. He enjoyed his time with you and respects you, but does not love you. You must find happiness among your own people."
If Ermanach and Emily have two children, named Elizabeth and Gulliver. The couple repeat the star gazing picnic every year on their anniversary, until the end of eternity.
The End.
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