About EldrianBackstory:
Eldrian grew up in the elven lands with his rather crazy mother. He was not sure why she was this way. Perhaps it was because his father was never around, perhaps it was because he caused so much trouble, though he never meant to. Regardless he tried to avoid her as often as possible before she commanded him to do another meaningless, pointless and stupid task for her. He would rather be out with his friends swimming or chasing each other into the trees outside the settlement. Other times he would practise with the bow or his fathers old curve blade. He much prefered the bow. He would spend days out of the elven settlement with it strapped to his back, searching for the best wood to craft arrows from. He was learning from the local weaponsmith some woodcrafting. His first proper item that he had been commended for had been the longbow. He took it with him everywhere. Someday he would craft his own Composite bow. Such a weapon took more skill than he had so he bode his time learning from his master. He would sometimes track dire beasts down and report the location so hunting parties could take care of the beast. He became known as one of the best trackers, a natural who learnt every trick shown to him the first time. It wasn't long before he knew most of what the older master trackers could show him. Some wondered if he had some divine gift but when the Finder's came to test him he was found with no such gift, much to the disapointment of his father, who served the Empire himself. Eldrian did not particularly care if he caused his father grief. He hardly knew the man. He was never around. Always doing this imperial business or that important research. They would hardly see each other for more than five minutes in a year if even that. His visits were always extremely short and whenever he left to go about the imperial business serving one family or another, whichever it was he never asked or cared. Again Eldrian made sure to stay out away from his mother for at least several days as the visits seemed to make her worse than ever and she would usually try to blame him.
It was one such trip that he had just returned from to find a human man inside their home. A traveller, likely out of luck and hoping for a few free meals and some hospitality that the elves were apparently known for. Strangely enough his mother seemed to be almost normal around the man, as if a stranger from other lands gave her incentive to be polite and think before she acted or spoke. The man by the name of Gerard was aparently a mundane bard who travelled all over the world gathering stories and putting together the different legends that the people spoke of into exsquisite storytelling to pay his way. He had come across tough times and the elven lands seemed uncooperative to his efforts to produce his way of life. Eldrian thought he wasn't looking hard enough. There were plenty of elven legends to go around. Not two weeks later the man had disappeared again as quickly as he left and his mother returned to her usual ranting self. He did not realise the effect the bard had until months later when she could no longer hide the pregnancy. She seemed to be happy at the chance to raise another child. He wasn't sure how he had survived his childhood and worried that this child would not be cared for properly, so when the half-breed was finally born he made sure he was there to ensure she was properly cared for. The excitement that their mother had for the new child wore off with two years. She no longer had any patience for the childs demands and told Eldrian to look after Ikvvy for her. This he did not mind so much and he practically became her guardian. In her fourth year of life things took an interesting turn, for better or worse he was not sure. Ikvvy began to display rather obvious displays of magical effects on the environment around her. He had never seen such before but he knew what the result would be. The finders would come back at the next yearly visit and she would be found and taken away from him. Their mother went on about how nice it would be for her to be gone and the house back to normal once again. Eldrian did not want Ikvvy to be taken away and hatched a plan. Only months before the Finders would return he was about to go on another hunt. To his great relief he was allowed to take his half-sister with on the reasoning that she could learn a thing or two from him. His mother agreed so that she would be left alone for a time. Usually his trips could last up to a month sometimes and he knew that by the time their mother figured out that they were not returning, their was no chance of them being found anytime soon. Taking all his belongings and even his fathers old curve blade they left, never intending to return. He took his half-sister and they fled the elven lands, making a new 'home' for themselves in a distant forest that did not have a village close by for miles. There they survived on the land. Using his skills with wood he made a treehouse of sorts for them to keep away any beasts at night. Ikvvy grew up and her gift with the arcane grew naturally without assistance of any Imperial wizards to guide her. Sometimes he worried about what this meant for her. Someday they might be found and she would be taken away. He tried not to think what they might do to him for keeping her from them. But it entered his mind sometimes that he might be killed for it given the global importance the empire had put on magic users. He thinks that the empire is responsible for the situation. Taking all the magic for itself and culling it from the population. If the empire fell it would be it's own fault. And perhaps partly his fathers fault too. As the young elf 80ish and his even younger half-elf half-sister 18 or so live their quiet and peaceful lives, swimming in the rivers and pools, practising his fletching and bowcraft and helping Ikvvy to control her talents better, little do they know that the outside world of man would soon come knocking on their door. Eldrian
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