Role

Chapter 5

Aulrathdien was a wood-elf born of a prestigious lineage. His father was the son
of a very old and powerful noble line, one that had endured since the days when
the elves were one people. His mother was a princess of Evermoon Hollow, the
fifth daughter of the king at that time with no hope of being in line for the
throne but a princess nonetheless.

Aulrathdien was inducted into the Brotherhood of the Inscrutable Equinox at a
young age, for his father and his father's father down through the ages had been
members. He demonstrated a remarkable ability to anticipate others in the
sparring ring and an almost as remarkable an ability to fail to understand his
peers outside of it. He had a natural magnetism that made him many friends
despite his relative obliviousness to the desires of others.

He spent decades training at fighting, immersing himself in the study of any
aspect of personal combat that his superiors or others were willing to teach
him. At first, this was simply because he had a knack for fighting and loved to
do it. Over time, this love of battle grew into a quest for perfection with it.
No matter how obscure the technique, he wanted to understand it, master it, and
learn to defeat it. In time this quest for technical mastery in turn grew into
a desire for greatness of the mind or soul as well. He found himself drawn to
the closest surviving wood-elf equivalents of the guild and code of paladins.
These, after so many generations apart, were things lacking in the benevolent
morality of the high elves or even their will to glorify something greater than
the self, but still put their stamp on Aulrathdien. He saw himself as more of
a champion or knight and less a soldier or thug. He wanted to achieve personal
greatness and a legendary reputation on the battlefield.

He felt destined for great things, and was ill inclined to wait in hopes that
the final war would naturally arrive in his lifetime. Rather, he wanted to do
everything he could to make certain it did. His solution to this problem was
as straightforward and as socially unacceptable as anything else in his life
thus far.