** spoiler omitted **Sorry for the misunderstanding about the short list above. Hope this helps in refining your decisions.
+ I like his backstory. I think he's got a very interesting background, which seems to have a profound effect on his outlook.
- It looks as though he is interested in a "balance". Help me understand why he seeks to aid or fight in defense of a culture that seeks to cast him out?Response:
As an individual who feels lost both from the culture he was raised in and from the one he is tied to by blood he wants to find a way to makes sense of a world that doesn't. His design on Balance is to serve the balance of being both an outsider to his kin and wanting to protect what he sees as the elven ideal by tracking down and dealing with those rogues who tarnish what he innocently and naively sees as perfection in his elven kin. He has no clue how to really think like an elf yet, but he's learning and so he serves the light from his outsider position to balance what he sees as his debt to his blood.
- Is there some history to his physical description?
Response:
I left his physical description and it's reasons intentionally vague. He has dusky skin which makes one think he may be falling to darkness himself, and his eyes are deep blood red due to his elven Keen sight turning to Darkvision by a trick of genetics, and then he has Snow white hair. All of these can be elven traits alone just by a quirk of breeding, but for him it's the fact it displayed in the wrong combo to create prejudice. If you as the DM want to play with it behind the scenes all the better, but I wrote it as a trick of genetics since all elves seem to carry the ability with them. He is not so much a dark hero as one who just got run over by dumb luck.
Overall, well done. Thanks for submitting!
Thank you!!!