Grandpa Smurf (Empath stories)

Grandpa Smurf is a Smurf character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. In this series he was the original Smurfling Pan who lived on Smurfling Pan with the Lost Smurflings. During his adventures, he met a young Smurfling in the Smurf Village named Wendy Smurfling and took her to Smurfling Island on various occasions. However, over the years Wendy Smurfling got older and became a parent herself, and Smurfling Pan saw how beautiful her daughter was, he decided that he would be Smurfling Pan no more and handed the role and title to another Smurfling on the island, choosing to live out his days in the Smurf Village growing up and marrying Wendy's daughter, fathering the Smurf who would someday become Papa Smurf.

When Papa Smurf was still a young Smurfling, the former Smurfling Pan set out on a worldwide journey to find the purest sources of the four primal elements to restore the power of the Neverstone on Smurfling Island. This journey would take him 500 years to complete, as he would return about three years after Empath's final return from Psychelia to take the Smurflings on an adventure to restore the Neverstone's power while keeping it out of the hands of the evil Captain Smurfhook, who was still looking to settle the score with Smurfling Pan over the loss of his hand.

About four years after Empath's final return from Psychelia, a multi-colored sky appeared over the Smurf Forest, reminding Grandpa Smurf of something that happened 500 years ago. Without telling any other Smurf, Grandpa Smurf set off in his magic balloon to find where the message he received knitted into a kite came from, and arrived at Castle Captor where he was captured and put into the same dungeon as Nanny. Together the two elderly Smurfs made their way out of the castle and into Grandpa Smurf's balloon, in which they also rescued Papa Smurf, Brainy, Hefty, Sassette, and Smoogle. After returning to the village, Papa and Grandpa Smurf introduced Nanny to the rest of the Smurfs.

Grandpa Smurf's role in the Smurf Village is that of an adviser to Papa Smurf, offering knowledge and wisdom far greater than his son's. Most of the time, though, he watches after the Smurflings to make sure they don't get into any trouble.