All There in the Manual: Much of his background is filled out in Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World.Justified in that despite retaining huge powers, he is too old and weary to run for adventure. All-Powerful Bystander: Nicodemus is still powerful enough to lay a nasty smackdown to more than one Big Bad, but won't because he already laid smackdowns on enough Big Bads in his lifetime, thank you very much.The Ace: He was this in his younger days, being the son of wealthy merchants and a Child Prodigy of immense potential, among the very best students of the best Wizarding School of Allansia, who grew up to be a highly powerful, famous and respected wizard.Totally averted in The Port of Peril, The Gates of Death and the ending of Blacksand, in which he is fully involved in the current crisis, focused and concise.He lampshades it, stating that old age is messing with his memory. To be precise, what ingredients to grind to make the compound that can kill him. In City of Thieves, he might be the only one who knows how to destroy Zanbar Bone, but he forgot crucial details until the last moment. Absent-Minded Professor: Nicodemus is very knowledgeable about many subjects, but tends to get side-tracked.In The Gates of Death, he helps you after you get stranded in Port Blacksand, carrying potions that can heal the Demon Plague threatening all of Titan. In The Port of Peril he is drugged and thrown to jail by order of Lord Azzur, and you must save him and take him with you to help against a resurrected Zanbar Bone. In Advanced Fighting Fantasy he helps you finding Xortan Throg, and later helps you investigate the mysterious rising threat of the Religion of Evil worshipping Elim. In City of Thieves, you must search for him to learn how to defeat Zanbar Bone, who is revealed All There in the Manual to be his old Archenemy. After a lifetime of adventures, he retired to the infamous Port Blacksand, hoping to live his remaining years in peace and tranquillity. One of the most powerful and famous benevolent wizards to ever dwell in Titan, and a former adventurer winning many victories against the forces of evil: Among which preventing the resurrection of three highly powerful necromancers called the Dark Ones. My prayer is that Gunda, who was a good Buddhist, will attain the supreme bliss of Nibbana.Appears in: City of Thieves | Caverns of the Snow Witch (mentioned only) | Midnight Rogue (cameo) | Crypt of the Sorcerer (mentioned only) | The Port of Peril | The Gates of Death | Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World | Advanced Fighting Fantasy: Dungeoneer | Advanced Fighting Fantasy: Blacksand | Advanced Fighting Fantasy: Allansia (mentioned only) Already, two of his students have written heartfelt tributes. Lalitha in Kandy, Arundathy and Selvasunderam in Singaporeand all those who knew Gunda from Matara to Kandycan be assured of our love and concern for them.Īll those who knew Gunda as a teacher and colleague must be remembering him with love and gratitude. Gunda achieved what a university teacher aspires to by becoming a professor. In 1964, when the faculty moved to Peradeniya, he too relocated. He continued to teach at the faculty in Colombo. After completing his studies, he bought a car and drove it from the UKback to Sri Lanka! It was there that he met Lalitha and married her. Gunda went to the UKfor his postgraduate studies. Certainly, Gunda’s example is something our party politicians must learn from and follow. This good example set by Gunda was often cited to us by the University Doctor and Sanghamitta’s Warden, when we were students at Peradeniya. As testimony to his character, Gunda declined the scholarship, saying the award should have gone to the best student in the batch. On the basis of the final year results, he was awarded a scholarship. At Mahinda, there were the likes of my Peradeniya friend Siri Gunasingha and his brother, and my teacher at Peradeniya, Buddhadasa Hewavitharna.įrom Galle, Gunda went to Colombo’s Engineering Faculty. When I was growing up, I heard from my cousin Asoka Devendra, a mathematics teacher at Mahinda College in Galle, that Gunda was his star pupil. Lalitha’s hug at the funeral and her recounting that Gunda was very fond of me are indications of our friendship. His wife Lalitha and my late wife taught English at Peradeniya and our two daughters Arundathy and Malathy attended Girls’ High School, Kandytogether. He was a member of the Engineering Faculty at Peradeniya. We got to know Gunda when we were working in and around Kandy, and met often on several occasions including birthdays, the National New Year festival and Christmas Day. The certainty of death has taken from us our family friend Jaya, popularly known as Gunda.
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