Glumwaiters

The faer known as glumwaiters have proven popular with the rich for a couple of reasons. Firstly, these adaptable entities make excellent butlers - each one a flexible go-getter capable of carrying out any task that comes to mind. Secondly, the powerful enjoy bossing around anything that looks sad.

Glumwaiter by Zuza Gruzlewska

There's a reason why only the rich have access to these useful faer - namely the cost. Glumwaiters charge a lot as they have a high level of proficiency in every field imaginable - meaning you could reasonably ask one to:

• Prepare you a seven course meal.
• Massage the knots from your lower back.
• Critique your manuscript.
• Solve 80% of riddles, 64% of conundrums, and 98% of quandaries. 
• Psychoanalyse your poodle.
• Manscape you to within an inch of your waistband.

More often than not, though, their rich employers will have them do trivial things like hold ashtrays or collect golfballs. That's because they don't hire these faer for the wonderful things they can do - they hire them so other people can see they can afford to.

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Creation Notes

The genus of the glumwaiters was fairly simple - it's basically just a corruption of 'dumbwaiter' - those little service elevators you get in fancy manors. They also had one in the Home Alone house, although that building was essentially a suburban castle, so of course it did.

Going off the name, it made sense to make them somewhat morose in appearance, so I designed them as froggy, little fish boys. I think there's something else with fishy butlers in, but I can't remember what. I feel like it was either some cartoon from the 60's or an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants. Whatever it was, that's where I stole the idea from, anyway!

See Also

• The Fame Eaters

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