AlexandertheSolitary wrote:
Name: Alaric Aelfwinson
Age: 953,057 Telllurian years. (but has moved through time so his actual birth did not take place that long ago from the human point of view; the age is based on his personal timeline). Elven side of his heritage brings immunity from old age, in the event of death in battle or from grief (Elven causes of death according to Tolkien - I am willing to stand corrected) the Time Lord side enables regeneration. Just thought I would clear some things up; for starters 953,057 years ago the ethnic groups constituting his human heritage did not exist!
Races: One third human (Welsh, Icelandic, Finnish, Pashtun, Maori - the Anglo Saxon surname/patronymic "son of the Elf-friend" was assumed after a visit to England in the ninth century AD before his arrival in Gandesha, Alaric was borrowed from the Goth who sacked Rome after its original possessor no longer needed it following his death) one third Eldar and one third Time Lord. (Long story).
Appearance: Dark hair concealed by a hood attached to a monastic robe.
Personality: Well-intentioned, but somewhat riven with inner conflict (well it was until recently; now it's less divided but also less balanced and whole).
Until recently a novice preparing to take the vows of the Scientian Order founded by Prior Knowledge, having previously been a squire in training to become a knight until a crisis of faith (he was not sure about the whole killing thing). He was only slightly less free of doubt during his novitiate, finding the finality of the vows once made gave him pause for thought. During his novitiate he has become fluent in almost every known language spoken by a sentient being in any place or time.
As a squire he had been drawn to a young female warrior named Eledhwen. The feeling was mutual. She was not (and is not) pleased with his new vocation: "Give this up and marry me or I will have to fight you!"
In a moment of intense devotional contemplation he inadvertently brought into existence a being of pure evil from one half of his psyche. Subsequently he decided to combine the violence of his first career choice with the celibacy of his second and join the Shaft'Ur, Gandesha's equivalent of Earth's the Poor Knights of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar (yes I know they were supressed here - we (Earth) still have Hospitalers or Knights of Malta though). This was the point at which he entered Gandesha. His abbot and prior along with several prelates and pontifices followed, believing him to be a dangerous heretic.
The evil side of his character was initially without form and void. He managed to prevent it from assuming his own form (not wanting to confuse people or be wrongly blamed for things he was not directly responsible for - obviously he would be indirectly responsible) through prayer and contemplation, but IT managed to persuade Eledhwen (usually more sensible than this) to lend her body (for possession purposes) in return for offering to help persuade Alaric to leave the Shaft'Ur without returning to the Scientians. Now it's less "Marry me, etc." and more "Bow down and yield to my authority and thou shalt be my consort for EVERMORE. Shouldst thou refuse then thy death shall be sweetly lingering - or perhaps not so sweet."
Under the Shaft'Ur discipline he learnt not only fighting skills but acquired great powers. However his evil alter ego was able to open a portal into the Netherworld, draining much of his energy, also setting in motion a process altering the very substance of the universe - in a century or so Gandesha will be reduced to a point of singularity, drawing all the worlds roaring and whimpering down into the Void.
Having recuperated under the care of the Sisters of the Order of Benevolent Solicitude, he has returned to make haste to prevent this from happening. His evil shade has assumed a new body, leaving Eledhwen under the Adamantine Mountain on the Plain of Granite, using void energy to convert her life force into an infinitely renewable energy source, reordering the carbon from the diamonds of which the mountain is composed and silicon from the quartz together with abundant hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and other elements from the atomosphere and the sea to make carbon-based and silicon based life-forms to see which will be the better minions once they have received souls borrowed from the increasing captives drawn to the light of the Adamantine Mountain.
I cannot believe I was able to bring all that into being. Some additional information. The Shadows of the Archetypes of his Psyche gained sufficient Power to draw the consciousnesses of diverse evil entities into the sphere of Their/ITS influence, causing the Ever-Darkening Lights of the Principalites and Powers, alongside assorted megalomanial brilliant but twisted genii bent on the conquest of the cosmos, the domination of destiny
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12 Mar 2007, 6:42 pm
