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About Sigven Fornheim

Sigven: Born on the 2nd of Pharast in the cold dark morning of a Moonday in Whiterook under the sign of the bridge.
Wholly unlike other Ulfen he was of frail constitution and dark features and being seen as a strange omen so close to darkness. Surviving to the age of eight with no remarkable skills or achievements among his village he was known to wander alone along the Thundering River cutting between the lands of the Linnorm Kings and the eternally frozen Irrisen. One day while walking alone he saw a young girl that had fallen into the river and inspite of his frailty he held no fear and plunged into the ice choked river and succsufully saved her only to find that she was a Jadwiga.
Unknown to young Sigven he and the young girl had been watched, as he was befriending the young girl he was stabbed completely through the chest by a jagged knife belonging to one of the guardian dolls of Irrisen to the horror of the young girl he had saved. Believeing the boy to have been the cause of the girl falling into the river the doll showed no concern other than returning the young Irriseni to her home. Sitting next to his body on the edge of the black frozen river in the ethereal plane for two days, Sigven waited for his ancestors or the Gods to send a Valkyrie to collect his soul to join them in Valenhall.
On the dawn on the third day sitting next to the river a young girl came humming and dancing out of the darkness of a cave he had not noticed before. This girl was clearly dead, missing the majority of her upper torso and bearing horrid teeth marks, she danced her way to him, a simple Retire Devant gently spun in the counter clockwise motion and smoothly transitioning forward on her lifted leg to again preform the motion till she stood before him. Feeling no fear, knowing himself to already be dead, he and the new girl spoke about many things. As the burning red skies of the morning broke over the snow blasted land, Sigven awoke in his fleshly body next to the Thundering River, no one had even bothered to come look for him, no ancestors, no Demons, No Gods... only the spirit of the young girl that he could now clearly see in the living world and knowing nothing else about the time or conversations they had when he was dead but that she had revealed her name to be Elli, and the golden yellow eyes that had watched them both from the deeper darkness in the cave she had danced out from.
Returning back to Whiterook he encountered the departing envoy of Baroness Nadya. Seeing a new and strange magic stirring in the boy she took him back to Irrisen with her to no complaint or word from his village. Being taken in as her apprentice, young Sigven was now living under the harsh teachings of a winter witch and the mother of the young girl he had saved from the River. under the teachings of the winter witch Ladina, Sigven Showed increadble talent for the Necromantic arts and another power that she could not place but was painfully aware of due to the ever increasing oddities around the boy, and the overwhelming fear he caused to well up in her.
on the morning of Sigven's eighteenth birthday his presence and powers came overwhelmingly to the forefront of the Baroness's attention when the witch Ladina exited her home to find it surrounded by nearly a thousand guardian dolls that refused all commands from other Jadwiga and even a cold sister yet all of the gathered dolls bowed to Sigven as he stood in silence at the threshold of the home. When Sigven was taken to stand before the baroness she spoke in a shaky voice about months of prophetic nightmares concerning him, demanding that he leave all of Irrisen for fear that even killing him would bring the direct attention of Baba Yaga to Dalun yet not wanting to risk having the eldest witch bring her fury upon the small village if she kept him as a tool to use against the old hag.
he traveled for many years in Varisia and Cheliax learning from many teachers, living and dead till he came to the attention of the Paracountess Zarta Dralneen and joined the Dark Archive as a means to gain more knowledge, common and forbidden.