Emlis was among the Kerons who greeted Lief, Barda, and Jasmine when they arrived on Keras. He was present for the reforming of the Pirran Pipe, but was aghast when his mother asked for the Belt of Deltora in exchange for the companions taking the Pipe into the Shadowlands. When it was revealed that none of the companions could play the pipe, he offered to accompany them to the Shadowlands—both to play the Pipe and to explore the surface world. Tirral and the companions tried to dissuade him, but Emlis refuses to let anything deter him from fulfilling his dream of seeing the world above.