Griffin Langley

Griffin, a character in The Elementalists series, is a Junior at Penderghast College of Elemental Magicks as of The Elementalists, Book 2. He is one of Your Character’s love interests. He makes his first appearance in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Griffin has black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. He wears a gray hoodie with black sleeve cuffs, waistband, and cords and a pair of black pants.

Personality
Griffin is honest and down-to-earth, as well as optimistic. As he is the first person you meet when you come to Penderghast, he appears helpful and friendly, too, volunteering to take you to orientation and later to your dorm hall. He finds it difficult to lie or keep secrets from his friends. He is hardworking and doesn't seem to like confrontation, as he does extra work for the Thief team despite not being friends with them off the field, and is most self conscious about his work ethic. If he thinks others think he's slacking off, it makes him feel really uncomfortable.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: Open Enrollment
 * Chapter 2: The Exam
 * Chapter 3: Spellbound
 * Chapter 5: Trouble Brewing
 * Chapter 6: Ill Omens
 * Chapter 7: Office Hours
 * Chapter 8: Night Magick
 * Chapter 9: Dark Secrets
 * Chapter 13: In the Dark
 * Chapter 14: Tower of Terror
 * Chapter 15: End Game
 * Chapter 16: That's Amorelia
 * Chapter 17: The Dread
 * Chapter 18: Blood Moon
 * Chapter 19: Daybreak

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: New Dawn
 * Chapter 2: In Session
 * Chapter 3: Late Lessons
 * Chapter 4: Danger and Discovery
 * Chapter 5: The Source
 * Chapter 7: Murky Waters
 * Chapter 8: Shaky Ground
 * Chapter 9: Face To Face
 * Chapter 10: Moving Forward
 * Chapter 11: Family Business
 * Chapter 12: Ultimatum
 * Chapter 13: Into the Woods
 * Chapter 14: Know No Bounds
 * Chapter 15: Squad Up
 * Chapter 16: Unleashed
 * Chapter 17: Ray of Light

The Elementalists: Winters Past

 * Chapter 1: Twas The Night Before Solstice
 * Chapter 2: Can't Beat That Holiday Spirit
 * Chapter 3: Silent Night
 * Chapter 4: Solstice Bells

Your Character
He is one of your love interests if you choose to date men. On your first day at Penderghast, you meet him when he pulls you out of the lake and uses Air magick to help you dry off. After he drops you at the dining hall for orientation, you meet him again outside where you have the option of helping him find his star-tracker.

In Book 1, Chapter 8's premium scene, you are able to kiss him for the first time. In Chapter 13, when you corner him in the dining room, he admits that he is a terrible liar. In Chapter 14, you have the option to spend alone time with him with or without continuing your romance with him (or if you’re romancing someone else, you can have a birthday fling with him). There he tells you that he has missed talking and joking around with you, without worrying about things. If he is your love interest, Atlas tells you there are hearts in his eyes when he looks at you. In Chapter 15, you have the option of becoming intimate with him, even if you are romancing someone else. You can also decide separately if you wish to attend the upcoming gala with him.

In Book 2, you have the chance to support him in his efforts to win the Fortuna Revelry Scholarship. Depending on your choices, either he gets the scholarship or Amy Stevenson does. If he wins it, the committee offers him an internship in Macau for the summer. If he is your love interest, you offer to be his companion while he's in Macau. If Amy wins the scholarship, the commitee offers Griffin the Smithburn Scholarship instead. The latter scholarship will offset some of his Natural Sciences costs the following year, even though it doesn't have any fieldwork opportunities. You can also choose to become official with him and you can confess your love for each other.

Parents
His parents want him to become a professional Thief player and he says that they are his biggest fans sports-wise, but they are not listening to him if he tries to talk to them about getting into natural disaster relief out of his wish to help people. After all, he was talented enough to participate in the World Championships for Thief when he was in high school. He enrolled in Penderghast because of the Natural Sciences program, although his tuition is paid for by his sports scholarship.

Everett Merkseyer
Everett is the captain of the Thief team. He appears abrasive towards Griffin in their first interaction shown together, and Griffin has expressed the feeling that his teammates do not treat him very well. In Book 2, Everett asks Griffin to take over for him as next year's Thief captain. This is also known amongst the faculty as Teddy Jung mentions that Griffin is apparently next in line to be the Penderghast Thief captain.

Pend Pals
Despite being a sophomore and the Thief team's star player, Griffin is immediately accepted into your group of friends. He is unabashed by Shreya openly complimenting his physique or by Zeph's star struck admiration. Except in the dining hall and the roost, he doesn't appear to hang out with Beckett as much as the others. Since he and Zeph had more free time, they helped Shreya with the party preparations. Since according to Zeph, Griffin cannot keep a secret to save his life, Zeph takes it upon himself to place a charm on Griffin to prevent him from revealing the truth.

In Book 2, Chapter 17, he declines becoming the next Thief captain and instead appoints Zeph to the position.

Trivia

 * He is shown on the cover of The Elementalists, Book 1.
 * The name Griffin means "strong lord" and is of Latin origin.
 * Langley means "Long Meadow" and it's of Old English origin.
 * It's revealed in Book 1, Chapter 1 that he is an Earth-Att. He tells you he caused a mini earthquake when he was 5 years old, during a tantrum over dessert.
 * During his freshman year, his Thief captain magicked his clothes to life while he was in the showers. He had to run naked across the lawn to catch them. This anecdote plays a factor in your daydream if you fail to properly make the Daydream potion.
 * In elementary school, he was called 'Griffin, the Almighty Griffin'.
 * He loves musicals. He knows the opening to Legally Blonde by heart.
 * For the summer between his sophomore and junior years, he has narrowed his study options to: a program that goes to Tornado Alley in the central United States, and a program that studies and mitigates typhoons in the Pacific Northwest . By Book 1, Chapter 19, he has decided on Tornado Alley.
 * Although he doesn’t feel ready to become a junior, he is excited to be applying for some exclusive scholarships in the Environmental Sciences department. If he gets the disaster relief one, he hopes his parents will see how serious he is about the field. In Book 2, Chapter 1, he tells you that he has decided to apply for the Fortuna Revelry Scholarship for Disaster Prevention and Relief, which is the most prestigious scholarship in the Natural Sciences department and only given to one upperclassman a year.
 * In Book 1, Chapter 15, he stated that he was originally planning to study abroad in his Junior year, however this year changed his mind and he wants to spend more time with Your Character and the Pend Pals.
 * He was deciding to go to either the Unki Institute in Japan to be near the Ring of Fire, or Saurnest Academy in Germany to increase his Earth-Att potential as it is a major college for mountain folk. He also mentioned he would love to go backpacking in Europe, to see wild pegasi in France and the dwarven city of Kugelforge.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 11, he mentions that he's a fan of the famous attuned artist Jean-Georges Gaustaut who was an Earth-Att and conservationist.
 * Griffin houses his rock collection in The Roost. In Book 2, Chapter 15, he states that he collects them doing his fieldwork missions. One is from the bottom of the Grand Canyon and another is from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
 * On February 1st, 2019, PB did a poll for which of the four love interests players picked to take to the Amorelia Day Gala in Book 1, Chapter 16 and the top 2 were Beckett and Shreya.
 * Duchess Dorothea Halverne mentions that all his professors provided glowing recommendations for him.
 * On February 16, PB linked to a text by writer Chelsa Lauderdale who wrote about Griffin for the Apple App Store.
 * On February 23, 2020, PB released a character appreciation post featuring him for Black History Month and also included the previous link again.
 * Winters Past, Chapter 4 reveals that Griffin's favorite memory is meeting Your Character for first time.

Memorable Quotes
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