Montblanc "Liar" Norland
Montblanc "Liar" Norland is remembered in North Blue folklore as a trickster who claimed to have discovered a city of gold on Jaya—a story he never recanted, even facing execution. Over the centuries, his reputation was systematically destroyed, transforming him into a cautionary tale: the grinning idiot who cried gold one too many times.
The real Norland was brown-haired with a distinctive large chestnut-shaped mark on his head, a trait that showed up in his descendants. He carried himself well, typically dressed in a black coat and orange scarf. By most accounts, he was genuinely honest and good-hearted—brave, people-focused, and friendly with an almost reckless optimism. The problem was his tendency to act on conviction without consulting others first, like when he cut down the Shandians' sacred trees. He believed he was doing what was best, and he usually was.
But that's not how history remembers him. The folklore version shows a constantly smiling fool who vanished on long expeditions only to return with wild, unbelievable tales. His final boast about an entire city of gold became his undoing—a lie so grandiose it cost him his life. That's the image that stuck: the ever-smiling idiot with a spork-shaped nose, the one you see in every children's book. It's a distortion so complete that the man and the myth barely resemble each other anymore.
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