Description and Background
Description:
As in the image below. A tall-ish, slim, male half-elf, with a calm, kind of spacey, dreamy look on his face. Copperish-black hair and beard, and a long, thin braid behind his left ear. At the end of the braid are three beads: black, midnight blue and black. A short lemon yellow ribbon passes through the beads projects down about an inch. On his right arm is a tattoo of a cross with a ring around it.
Black leather armor, worn dark blue pants and cloak. Worn soft leather boots. Scimitar and utility knife at his belt. Backpack.
Background:
Of Lothien of Blackacre is the son of a human knight/minor landowner and a elvish mother. He grew on rural Blackacre and learned to handle a horse and wield sword and bow. More importantly to his not-wealthy father, he also learned to handle a wheelbarrow and wield a shovel and hoe. Lothien worked hard on the farm, but he was a dreamy lad. His mind seemed to be always elsewhere. He played with his siblings and children from the village, but he also spent hours alone observing ants, beetles, caterpilars, wasps, birds, deer and such.
When he became a young man, Lothien's insightful elven mother told him and his father that he should go and visit her wood elf kin. He was immediate enchanted with life among the elven folk there. The forest was a dangerous place, with all kinds of vicious and nasty things to watch for, and often fight. But the woods folk did it, while remaining gentle, kind, and gracious.
Once, while on one of woods roams we did with his fledgling ranger cousins and their friends, one of their mentors visited their camp. He was a druid. Lothien kept him up all night, talking by the campfire and discussing the nature of all things. Lothien found that many of the things he'd suspected about the world were right. He was a natural-born druid.
After his initiation as an Aspirant druid, Lothien set off on a Wisdom Quest, seeking through experiences in this world to perfect his knowledge of the Divine. And secretly, though he admitted it only to himself, seeking to find the love of a beautiful elf or human female. |
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