Aerimor Lightbringer

[Aerimor]

Character: Aerimor Lightbringer
Age: 115
Gender: Male
Class: Druid
Race: Sun Elf
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Deity: Multiple (Aeridin)

Appearance:

Aerimor is a very small, short elf. His demeanor is silent and appraising. His hair and clothing is worn. His black hair is wild and his green eye intense. Aerimor walks with a limp.

History:

FindarA?to Lightbringer was old in years. His studies of Wizardry never allowed for much else. He took a young wife Nessa and moved to the hamlet of Whorilian off the Northern trade route in Ulam Forrest.

They tried to have a child for several years. FindarA?to retreated to his labs and made potions. None of them worked. Frustrated, FindarA?to approached the Wood Elves, a druid, Master Willowwood, gave him a tea to drink. A year later Verideth, my younger twin, and I were born. The other Sun Elves joked with him that the druid gave him some sap from the Great Oak itself. My brother and I were of slight build, but possessed minds as sharp as that of our father.

As the oldest, I was always promised to return to the Master Willowwood and study the ways of nature and earth. And my brother was to follow after our father's wizardly ways. While my brother and I saw each other every eve, our days were much different. I was wandering the forests, and learning about nature while my brother spent his days locked up in study with out father. Verideth always spoke about how boring his studies were, whilst I described all the new sights and adventures I had.

One such adventure when we were still young: While I was off in the woods, I came upon a panther trapped under a fallen tree. I shifted the tree to release the panther. The panther lashing out in pain and confusion mauled my left hip. But even through the pain I remember marveling at the speed and beauty of the panther's movements. While my hip never healed correctly and accounts for my limp, I was determined that I would help that marvelous creature. So after tending my hip as well as he could I tracked the panther, which was not too difficult. The panther obviously had a broken bone in its rear leg. So I did what I could, catching rabbits and leaving them out for the panther. After a few days of this the panther, Kalesh, allowed me approach. Kalesh even allowed me to tend his wound, which was not as bad as I feared. The leg was not broken; it had a piece of branch piercing all the way through the thigh. Kalesh by this point was tired and worn; he seemed to tell me it was alright to pull it out. I removed the branch and Kalesh only whimpered. Kalesh then placed his head in my lap and passed out. I bandaged Kalesh's leg while he slept and when he awoke he seemed in much better condition. He looked up at me and nudged into me, as if to thank me. From that moment on Kalesh and I were friends. He was grateful to me and I was now forevermore in love with the beauty and sleekness of the panther, of animals... If only I could move like that. I spent many nights dreaming of moving with such power and grace, or flying as a bird. As time went by and I came to know the extent of the damage done to my hip, I spent more and more time fantasying of becoming an animal.

When the time came to start our official training, I left to study under the druid that in his own way helped conceive me. My brother went to test for his training as a mage. I saw little of my brother for the next two years. But on one occasion he told me of his trip to the tower of earth and his foray into the woods. He seemed to have a natural calling to the wild while I just had a natural love for it. In looking back, I guess I spoke of it to Master Willowwood. For latter on, I learned that my master went to speak on he behalf of Verideth with my father. Anyway I learned what I could from my master, but apparently I was advancing much slower that he hoped. He always got a good laugh from my exploits. Like when I confused a fungus with rather itchy spores for one with a healing property. And for as much as I loved animals, apparently I did not even know how to approach those correctly. Master said I needed to loosen up for I always seemed to put the animals on edge. Except for Kalesh, that is, he was my anchor through it all. Apparently teaching me the ways of the Druid was like pulling and elk through a gopher hole. But with that all said, he said he had made druids out of less.

After two years passed I came to find out that through some real magic, father was having another child and Verideth was coming to train with me. Someday I must get the entirety of that miracle. My younger sister Elenna was born and my mother and father were thrilled. I never have got to know my sister well, but she seems happy and the rest of the family thinks of her as their miracle. Once Verideth arrived training went much differently. I was left to be on my own again for many of the days and my brother and I trained with the master each evening. Before another year was out, Verideth had already surpassed most of my druidic training. It seemed that he was a natural. Thank the gods for Kalesh, my constant companion. I have no jealousy in my heart for Verideth, but did he have to make it all look so easy? I spent my time doing what I did have a calling for. I learned to mimic the movements of Kalesh as best as I could. Using the forest to cover my movements and quiet my steps. While the animals had no worries of me sneaking up on them yet. My limited skills did prove to be more than a match for Verideth's dreamy gazes. I amused myself greatly on appearing suddenly in my brother's presence without warning. In a small way, I guess it was a small payback for him being so good at everything else.

The next dozen years flew by and our official training was complete. Verideth completed training with as high of praise as any before him and I was pronounced adequate and well set on the road to druidic mediocrity.

So Verideth and I returned to our father's home. A year of peace and happiness passed.

Then something happened. The Darkness came to an end. Many people stirred. Attitudes changed. Talked was heard of what was happening in other lands. Change did not come often to my people. The Wood Elves may shrug and continue on there way but Sun Elves do not change. I was amazed by what I saw. The next few years were chaotic, not something many were use too.

Riders came into hamlet of Whorilian. Hushed and angry tones were used. Political debate raged. Verideth approached our Father and asked permission to leave Voltrex, father was stunned. Somehow Father agreed to allow Verideth to leave after much debate. That night my father came to me and asked me to go with Verideth and keep him safe. Father always thought Verideth too prone to fancy and knew I would keep him lashed to practicality if not reality. I told my Father I needed the night to think it over. The next morning I decided that a change would be good; I was young yet and had the time to do a little wandering. The day after Verideth, Kalesh and I went to the Wood Elves and sought out Willowwood. We all talked about what was happening and said our good-byes. We three then set out for Sadinia and booked passage on one of the few boats departing.

We arrived on Serinty Bay in Tilmar and I was not ready for what I experienced. It was to dirty and artificial. What the people did, how they lived. They were dirty, smelly, slow witted and clumsy. In the land of elves, I was no longer... sigh... We immediately took the next boat out and arrived upon the land of Mistone, near Fort Vehl. And this is where the rest of the story begins:

Aerimor is a type two druid.

Druid Agreement:

1. I understand and agree to the objectives of being a druid in Layonara.
2. I understand and agree to the rules of achieving these objectives.
3. I understand the internal organizational structure of the druids.

Permission given to Verideth Lightbringer to use Aerimor in his character history.

[orth]

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[Aerimor]

Thank you Orth, that fixed it. Looks like it was the word ' that was the trouble maker.

[orth]

Yeah Microsoft Word uses a custom character for the apostrophe that is not a standard. I am certain I can fix this and have given it many tries but I never found a complete bug free solution.

I know this is not an acceptable hassle and I wish I could devote some more time to it again, but that is at a premium for me now.

[darkstorme]

Approval rescinded. Sorry, I've gotten off the habit of checking.

All druids MUST, mechanically, be some variety of Neutral. (Neutral Good, True Neutral, Lawful Neutral, etc.) Lawful Good is not an option. This alignment must change before this character can be approved.

[Aerimor]

That was a typo. Sorry for the confusion. Change has been applied.

[darkstorme]

*nods* The bio seemed skewed more Neutral than good, at any rate.

Re-approved.

Your character has been approved.

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