Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn/Histoire

ISGP Exhibition: Spyro 3 Drunk 100 Egg / Drunk 101 Egg
Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn joined an ISGP Exhibition Race for Spyro 3. The goal was just to get 100 Eggs; however, Charity Royall and Dan Davidson had to have two standard drinks before the race start, and one standard drink before clearing each of the Boss Encounters. Gentle got 5th Place, having choked in Icy Peak, Spike's Arena, and Desert Ruins. Unhappy with his performance, he decided to try super hard in Spyro 3 so he would never lose horribly in that game again.

"GARION MODE" was not a concept until after the Drunk 100 Egg race.

Road To SPYRO KINGDOM (2020)
During Road to SPYRO KINGDOM, Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn partook in one race as an understudy for Kolapro in "Speedy Soda with Lemon," temporarily turning it into "Speedy Soda with Garion." He joined forces with DantaFanta against Luminater (luminize and Skater6453). Despite his most valiant efforts in the one Spyro game he wasn't complete garbage at, he ultimately failed the run after stopping to attempt a technique he had no idea how to do ("Coveless"). He went after it, because succeeding at it even once was an alternate win condition for the race.

The GARION MODE of the race was for Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn to free Nestor after completing the other tasks he was assigned ("100% all of the Beast Makers warp room, then beat Gnasty Gnorc") while Danta did the other chunk of the tasks (100% all of the Dream Weavers warp room). Due to the nature of the GARION MODE involved, this specific task type would be henceforth referenced as "The Stinger," used to signal the end of the video recordings on Gentle's perspective.

SPYRO KINGDOM (2021)
During SPYRO KINGDOM (2021), Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn was asked by Charity Royall to be a Tag Team Partner. Together, they formed "King Rover's Royall Court."

He was a participant of only one race. Once again, he found himself against Luminater. This time, it was with Charity instead of Danta.

The challenge was to defeat all Thieves throughout the three games; the division of labour between King Rover's Royall Court was as follows:
 * Gentle played Spyro 1. He defeated all 12 Egg Thieves, and was given the additional task of defeating both of the Burglar Gnorcs in the Artisans Warp Room, both of the Gem Thieves in Tree Tops, and both of the Key Thieves in Gnasty Gnorc.
 * Charity played Spyro 3. He defeated all 9 Egg Thieves, and was given the additional task of completing Frozen Altars Yeti Boxing 1, Frozen Altars Yeti Boxing 2, and Dino Mines Bailey Gang.
 * Both of them played Spyro 2:
 * Gentle collected the Mystic Marsh Spark Plug Thieves and Scorch Flagkeeper Orbs.
 * Charity collected the Hurricos Lightning Thieves, Metro Speedway Cat Burglars, and Shady Oasis Lamp Thieves Orbs.

Gentle's activated GARION MODEs were:
 * 1) All Dragons in Gnorc Cove, Twilight Harbour, Tree Tops, and Alpine Ridge were collected. This was done primarily for pragmatic reasons, as Gentle severely struggled in Gnorc Cove and in Alpine Ridge. The Dragons served as Checkpoints, and therefore were a safety net which helped him not lose the match for both himself and Charity.
 * 2) One of the levels Gentle visited in Spyro 2 had to be 100%'d (Metro Speedway notwithstanding). He originally intended to 100% Shady Oasis; however, because he made it to Spyro 2 game switching after Charity, he was assigned to get Scorch Flagkeeper. After closing a considerable gap between himself and Laura from Spyro 1, he 100'd Scorch instead. This acted as "The Stinger" (or "Second Ending," as Charity put it) of the video.

SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) - Qualifying Round (Group Fujita)
Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn signed up for Spyro Speedruns Cup (2021), despite his outright lack of confidence in himself when it came to Spyro speedrunning. He had intended to go by a variation of his usual handle (Gentle Ironweiss Oathsworn), until he was directly told by Crystal Fissure and Nintendogen64 that his name was too long to write down in the list for his group. Having had to do this before on the grounds of character limitations in various video games he played, he shortened his name to Gentle Oathsworn in the Match Card. In doing so, he prevented typography problems for the SSC 2021 Hosts.

During the Qualifying Round of SSC 2021, Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn was in Group Fujita, alongside TooneySA, liam tbh, Cyreides, Laura, and X-Cal. Initially, he expected to go 0-5 in his group. This expectation was quickly defied in the matches he partook:


 * 1) Gentle v Laura: Spyro 2 - Race To 6 Talismans and defeat Crush (WON)
 * 2) GARION MODE Activation 1: Gentle got the Crush's Dungeon Skill Point (Take no damage to Crush)
 * 3) GARION MODE Activation 2: Gentle sat in Autumn Plains and listened to its soundtrack for more than 1 minute (Time was otherwise indeterminate).
 * 4) Gentle v Cyreides: Spyro 1 - Race to 100% Toasty, Dr. Shemp, and Blowhard (WON)
 * 5) GARION MODE Activation 1: While in the Peace Keepers warp room, Gentle forbade himself from going to either Dry Canyon or Cliff Town.
 * 6) GARION MODE Activation 2: As a consequence of not going to Cliff Town or Dry Canyon, Gentle had to go to Ice Cavern. He rescued All Dragons within Ice Cavern, while using the level to otherwise do "gem cleanup."
 * 7) GARION MODE Activation 3: After 100%-ing Blowhard, Gentle rescued Nestor (Not an intended GARION MODE Activation, but done anyway due to being goaded by Charity)
 * 8) Gentle v TooneySA: Spyro 3 - Race to "Save Sheila, Save Sgt. Byrd, and Save Yourself (Save The Game)" (LOST)
 * 9) GARION MODE Activation: Gentle performed the Swim-through-Air Jutsu at least twice in Sunrise Springs; in each instance, he forbade himself from using it to skip into Sheila's Alp.
 * 10) Gentle v X-Cal: Spyro 1 - MrGamesendy Wheel of Fortune (WON)
 * 11) GARION MODE Activation 1: On the first Wheel Spin (or "Quest"), Gentle chose to 100% Misty Bog and Tree Tops.
 * 12) GARION MODE Activation 2: On the second Wheel Spin ("Quest"), Gentle went out of his way to collect 400+ Gems in Haunted Towers alongside the other Quest components ("Get kissed by 3 Fairies and Defeat All Armoured Enemies"). He messed up, else the GARION MODE would've been to collect all 500 Gems.
 * 13) GARION MODE Activation 3: By this point, Gentle wanted to prove he could still attain the third Quest / Wheel Spin ("Break 10 Strongboxes - Locked Chests count"). He was given a ribbing by some of the co-competitors and almost completed the Quest, but time ran out before he could confirm the Quest's completion.
 * 14) Gentle v Liam: Spyro 3 - MORI CALLIOPE Circuit SIDE A (Starting from a save file in Midnight Mountain with 100 Eggs; in no particular order, complete as much as possible within 35 minutes: 100% Agent 9's Lab, Crystal Islands Plane Thief, Crystal Islands Whack-A-Mole, Haunted Tomb Tanks 1, Haunted Tomb Tanks 2, Harbour Speedway Race, Dino Mines Bailey Gang, Dino Mines Sergio, Desert Ruins Krash Kangaroo 1, Desert Ruins Krash Kangaroo 2) (WON)
 * 15) GARION MODE Activation 1: Gentle also collected the Crystal Islands Slide and End Of Level Eggs. The EOL Egg wasn't intended, but gotten to secure no softlock or crashing.
 * 16) GARION MODE Activation 2: Gentle also collected the Dino Mines Dan and End Of Level Eggs. Primarily, the point was to collect Dan.
 * 17) GARION MODE Activation 3: In Desert Ruins, Gentle performed a Scorpion Proxy once. Afterwards, he secured Desert Ruins Andy and Desert Ruins End Of Level Eggs.
 * 18) GARION MODE Activation 4: As Liam scooped (surrendered) and time was about to run out, Gentle promised himself to 100% Agent 9's Lab at a later point, to finish the MORI CALLIOPE Circuit.
 * 19) Gentle v Max: Spyro 1 - Race to 100% Gnasty's World, Excluding Gnasty's Loot (WON)
 * 20) GARION MODE Activation 1: Gentle completed Gnorc Cove without dying.
 * 21) GARION MODE Activation 2: Gentle completed Twilight Harbour without dying.
 * 22) GARION MODE Activation 3: After completing the goal, Gentle went to Artisans and freed Nestor.
 * 23) GARION MODE Activation 4: After completing the goal, Gentle also went to Dream Weavers and cleared Icy Flight.

Ultimately, Gentle went 3-1 in the Qualifying Round of SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP 2021. Tragically, both of his Spyro 1 races against Cyreides and Mowmowclub2 (respectively) were voided as a result of outside circumstances. Furthermore, this situation happened:


 * Gentle won against Laura, but lost to Tooney.
 * Tooney won against Gentle, but lost to Laura.
 * Laura won against Tooney, but lost to Gentle.

These ensuing results necessitated a Triple Threat event:


 * Gentle v Laura v Tooney: Spyro 2 - Starting in Winter Tundra with All Abilities and Metropolis/Cloud Temples already entered to have their portals unlocked, 100% Metropolis and Cloud Temples. The run's End is determined by completing the Mystic Marsh Pencil Orb. As the outcome of the run determined 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place of Group Fujita, a win/loss wasn't as crucial. (2nd)
 * GARION MODE could not be activated for the following reasons:
 * The race was processed as a Solution X. Solution X-es are a special case in and of themselves, resulting from when races cannot be done live on all runners' ends. Between scheduling complications and the way most Solution X races are formatted/edited, Gentle could not retrofit a GARION MODE without his footage being a liability to the editor(s) of the match.
 * From an energy and mentality standpoint, Gentle himself was operating at "less than 50% capacity" due to work obligations taking their toll on him. Crystal Fissure called it a "GARION MODE Dormant," which stuck.

ISGP Exhibition Championship: Crash Team Racing
Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn joined in on a challenge to race Crash Team Racing. The other challengers were Crystal Fissure, Yogamoanyo, Nintendogen64, Charity Royall, and DessertMonkeyJK. Nintendogen64 spun a "Wheel" to randomly determine which one Arcade Mode Cup to do. It ended up being Wumpa Cup.

The sole GARION MODE Activation was playing as Pura, one of the Handling Class Karts. He was 3rd Place in a close race, with Crystal Fissure in 2nd and Yogamoanyo in 1st.

ISGP Exhibition Championship: HuniePop (Race 1)
Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn joined in on a challenge to race HuniePop. The other challengers were DantaFanta, who was champion at the time, Yogamoanyo, and TOTOzigemm. They had already discussed at-length about wanting to do a HuniePop race for some time, and Gentle agreed on the basis of HuniePop being one of the only games he had any experience with. Yoga was the one who made the race stipulations, calling it "True Homie%." The goal was to seduce both Tiffany and Jessie, in order to "ruin a family" as Yoga eloquently put it.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, TOTOzigemm won.

Due to the goal being fucking asinine to begin with, and additional stipulations already being present within the race, Gentle could not activate GARION MODE at all. Furthermore, despite playing on Easy Mode, he failed multiple dates in a row. Fed up with the shitshow that was the race, he rage quit the call and only came back to give Danta the footage he had recorded.

Recognizing how dishonourable his 4th (Last) Place performance in HuniePop was, Gentle vocally expressed his dissatisfaction with the ISGP Exhibition Championship. He intended to never challenge for it again, upon coming to the stark realization he would be viciously outclassed by every other competitor no matter what game he chose to play for it. Additionally, he resolved to improve at speedrunning HuniePop to put the game to bed once and for all.

ISGP Exhibition Championship: Pokemon - Crystal Version
Despite not actually appearing in this race, Gentle's spiritual presence was provided as a core component of it. Smudgey (under the Smudger60027 or "Smudger" race car) and Al Molloy (under the "Shigarino" race car) both purposefully made their Pokemon Crystal challenge be "Garion"-themed. Initially a simple race to "make Whitney cry" and obtain the Plain Badge, they included 4 "GARION MODE" Activations to their respective perspectives of the run:


 * 1) Smudgey and Al Molloy both named their Starter Pokemon after Gentle, but changed the names a bit. Smudgey called his Totodile "Jarrian," while Al named his Totodile "Jarrion."
 * 2) Smudgey and Al then declared that nicknaming all their Pokemon was in of itself a "GARION MODE."
 * 3) "Frame 4" had to be used.
 * 4) Only 2 Pokemon could be in the party at any given time, the Egg being an egg-ception. Since Smudgey and Al already had their Totodiles, they each only caught one other Pokemon. Smudgey caught a Rattata, and Al caught a Bellsprout.

Smudgey won, but Al was not far behind when he did.

Initially confused, Gentle found this race to be a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Since the entire basis of it was founded on expanding "Garion lore," he included it in this Histoire section to vocally recognize he had a positive impact on the ISGP community.

SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) - Bracket Stage (Austin Block) - Quarterfinals
Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn made it past the Qualifying Round, ending up in the Austin Block.

During the Quarterfinals, he faced off against Keyford in a Spyro 2 race. Having customized the goal to reference a running gag in Games Raced Awfully, Gentle initially agreed to do the NTSC-J version of Spyro 2. However, Keyford wanted to start in Winter Tundra rather than in Glimmer itself. As a consequence, Gentle had to tinker with his "Elora%" goal to be compatible with the NTSC-U version. (WON)

"Elora%" was thus:
 * All Glimmer Orbs
 * All Warp Room Orbs (Summer Forest / Autumn Plains / Winter Tundra)
 * All Speedway Orbs (Ocean Speedway / Metro Speedway / Icy Speedway / Canyon Speedway)
 * 100% Zephyr
 * 100% Metropolis

Because of Gentle's energy being sapped by having to tinker with the goal until it was good enough to be agreed with, and heavy work obligations and scheduling conflicts which resulted in another god damn Solution X, he could not activate GARION MODE in this run. During his end of the race, he vocalized wanting to make some GARION MODEs in honorarium of those who could not make it beyond the Qualifying Rounds of the other Groups.

Disappointed with himself at having to take such initiative to work around a lot of real life complications, and wanting to ensure flaws in ISGP2 were not repeated once more, Gentle refused to do another goal set in Spyro 2 unless it came with the condition of doing the NTSC-J version.

ISGP Exhibition Championship: HuniePop (Race 2)
Having overheard TOTOzigemm was to challenge then-Champion CharmedSky to a race in HuniePop to acquire "All Panties," Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn decided to join the Exhbition Championship Match. He would also be joined by Yogamoanyo. Knowing full well he wouldn't win, he decided to just humour people in the call anyway and go along with the HuniePop ride.

The results of the match were TOTOzigemm in 1st, CharmedSky in 2nd, Yogamoanyo in 3rd, and Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn unsurprisingly in 4th (Last).

In an attempt to make up for last time, Gentle activated GARION MODE six times:


 * 1) Gentle refused to resign, no matter how poorly he did in the run.
 * 2) Gentle refused to reset the game, even without getting a Bag of Goldfish in the Shop right away to trigger Momo's opening dialogue.
 * 3) Gentle attempted to keep his temper in check, and made a GARION MODE to not lose it. This did not mean he couldn't still be majorly bummed out by doing poorly in the race, though.
 * 4) Gentle pursued an Achievement where he would not talk to the girls he was dating ("Buying Love" Achievement)
 * 5) Gentle pursued an Achievement where he could not give any alcoholic drinks to the girls he was dating ("Sobriety" Achievement)
 * 6) After the run was done (in FOUR FUCKING HOURS), Gentle did a "voice dub" of Kyu's lines after he successfully seduced Venus.

SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) - Bracket Stage (Austin Block) - Semi-Finals
During the SPYRO SPEEDRUNS CUP (2021) Semi-Finals, Gentle faced off against Muddy Maestro. The goal was a Spyro 1 "Relic Race" to collect 60 Dragons. The catch was the timer freezing a la Crash Bandicoot: Warped; Green Gems (2) froze the Timer for 1 second, Blue Gems (5) froze the Timer for 2 seconds, and Yellow (10) / Purple (25) Gems froze the Timer for 3 seconds. (LOST)

Eight GARION MODEs Activations were logged:
 * 1) Gentle refused to collect any Dragons in Artisans while collecting the 60 Dragons proper.
 * 2) Gentle revealed that he travelled to The Astral Plane and saw 69,420,025,600 instances of him v Muddy playing out, and claimed he only won in "one." This counted as a GARION MODE Activation, since it paraphrased a Marvel movie quote which wasn't total ass.
 * 3) In honour of Meteora Girl, Gentle made a GARION MODE where he had to collect more than 2144 Treasure (her final Treasure count during her race against MuddyMaestro)
 * 4) In honour of Fromond, Gentle made a GARION MODE where - after collecting all of the Alpine Ridge Dragons without dying, he announced he was "good at Spyro now."
 * 5) Gentle vocally counted completing Blowhard 100% as a GARION MODE.
 * 6) Gentle warped to Dry Canyon from the Magic Crafters Balloonist, which counted as a GARION MODE as it resembled a tactic common in one of the speedrun categories for Spyro 1 (Vortex%).
 * 7) Gentle ended his Dragon collection in Ice Cavern.
 * 8) After collecting his 60th Dragon, Gentle would allow himself to free Nestor in Artisans after the goal was "completed." This marked his 61st Dragon.

ISGP Exhibition Championship: Crash Bash
When Smudgey was last Champion, he had intended to invite Gentle to join in on an Exhibition race to Crash Bash, which Al Molloy had initially proposed. Gentle accepted, recognizing this was one of the only instances where he would ever be able to race Crash Bash against other people. He had beforehand attempted to race against other people in Games Raced Awfully in Crash Bash twice, but each instance he was unable to join because of real life circumstances beyond his control.

The race was to complete Oxide Ride, which first required collection of 22 Trophies, 15 Gems, and 12 Crystals. Gentle activated the following GARION MODEs:


 * 1) Gentle played as Rilla Roo. His mastery of the game comes from playing as the "Hybrid" class, of which Rilla Roo and Dingodile belong to.
 * 2) One of his three opponents had to be Coco Bandicoot. This was mostly a reference to a Running Gag Gentle saw within Crash speedrunners, who liked to include her in their iconography. Gentle did explain, however, that if he played as Coco/Tiny/Dingodile he would have N. Brio be one of his opposition as a GARION MODE, as Platinum Relic Champion Pools included Coco/Brio the least in them.
 * 3) Gentle refused to quit or rage-quit, intending to remain zen. Crash Bash is one of the only games he's any good at, so it made absolutely no sense for him to be anything short of "annoyed" at any aspect of Bash.
 * 4) Yoga randomly asked Gentle to collect the El Pogo Loco Crystal (as a joke, which was not registered as such until he got to it). Gentle complied, getting it with extreme ease.
 * 5) Gentle also collected the Sky Balls Crystal, intending to reference a running gag one of his fellow streamers (Thatonenewtagerplayer) makes. As this was a point of contention throughout the run, Al and Smudgey declared they would scoop/surrender if Gentle got it first try. While he did not get it first try, he got it while only failing thrice.
 * 6) After winning the race, Gentle switched the game to Spyro 2 and listened to the Winter Tundra soundtrack for however long it would take for Al and Smudgey to finish. He could still do stuff, but he needed to stay in the Winter Tundra Warp Room.
 * 7) While in the Winter Tundra Warp Room, Gentle ascended using the Low Momentum Jump Charge to get to where the Ripto's Arena Boss Door was. He purposefull had Spyro stand next to Elora.
 * 8) Since Gentle won the race, he would attempt to keep the Exhibition Championship Title for however long he could. This counted as a GARION MODE, since he never thought he would ever acquire the Championship Belt in the first place.

ISGP Exhbition Championship: Shadow the Hedgehog
Danta Fanta challenged Gentle to a Shadow the Hedgehog race. The goal was to do all 3 of Westopolis' Missions. Mayonnaise Doctor also joined in, and proceeded to win even while crashing mid-Chaos Control Glitch activation. Ultimately, Mayo won, with Gentle in 2nd and Danta in 3rd.

Due to how short the goal was, Gentle could not activate GARION MODE.