Althorin Faelisar

Althorin Faelisar was a 23 year-old Celestial Elf, born in Aurlûnor Velande, who lived in Port Solanaria, Bardonia. He became a follower of the religion Beetriaty and joined the cult name The Sons of the Cauldron.
== Appearance ==
Althorin is quite intimidating in appearance. He does not have substantial muscle but stands at 6'7 with dragon-like red eyes, a shaven head and often has a stern expression on his face. Other features include his pale skin and sliced elven ears, wounds which he gave himself. He most often wears a white cloth around his head to conceal his eyes and ears, and a long dark green cloak with golden trim around its edges. The cloak's length means his hands are typically not visible and it entirely covers his shoes unless he is walking. It could be said that his choice of attire further exaggerates his height.
== Family ==
Althorin was born into a wealthy noble family of celestial elves in Aurlûnor. He was the firstborn to his father Thalion and mother Nalithra. After his mother had an affair with a dwarven man in Port Solanaria, Bardonia, she was cast out from the family. Nalithra became pregnant and gave birth to a son, Jorgel Rykuh, who she left to the dwarven man, Hipps Rykuh. Thalion remarried Althorin's stepmother and the pair had a son, his second stepbrother.
Althorin's blood would be used in the creation of a demi-god child by Cauldrax who would be taken to the new world of Abexilas. The baby shared some of Althorin's genetics and can be viewed as a child of Althorin.
== Biography ==
After the family estate was inherited by his second stepbrother, Althorin was told he must move to the capital Lhûmar with his father, Althorin decided to instead leave his Aurlûnor family and reunite with his mother in Bardonia. He rode away in the middle of night before the trip to Lhûmar and arrived at Port Solanaria two days later. In the city of Solanaria he tried looking for his mother and her family Hipps and Jorgel, but was soon informed that both Hipps and Jorgel had died. He was to inherit Jorgel's house as the locals were unaware of who Jorgel's mother was, but trusted the elf to be his relative. Now he remained in the foreign city alone, with few clues left to find his mother.
=== Solanum Elf Genocide ===
==== Vacy's crime group ====
Althorin's arrival in Port Solanaria was realised to be timed badly, as Dark Shadow Vacy's crime group nicknamed "Demonic Elf Mafia" rose to notoriety after causing rampant chaos. Many of the locals made associations between the group's name and the city's elf population. Port Solanaria already had a large dwarven population with a distaste for elves, and this spike in crime only caused more disarray. The elf hatred peaked after the burning down of an elderly woman's house by the crime group. It was after this that the Admiral Salle Di Italian't gave a speech demanding the elves to be burned at the stake for terrorizing the city, calling on the locals to aid her in killing the city's elf population.
==== The hundred pyres campaign ====
The genocide was named "The Hundred Pyres campaign". Pyres were erected so that elves could be captured and burnt. Only a day later plumes of smoke could be seen scattered across the city skyline. Althorin had to escape without being noticed by the townsfolk on the streets. He would also need to avoid the main gates to escape but knew little about the city.
Fortunately he found his stepbrother Jorgel's journals to teach him more about the city. Jorgel's writings appeared to become more and more demented to Althorin eventually turning descriptions of the horned god in the sea and a creature that lived in a cauldron. But conveniently he did start to mention his ways that he would move around the city unnoticed and escape at night.
He then scouted out a possible escape route whilst concealed by his hood during the day. He saw that it could work and returned to his house, but was caught up in a large crowd on the way back. The crowd was watching as an elf was captured and brought to be tied to a pyre in the main square. The Admiral Salle stood holding a flaming torch as the woman elf was tied to the pyre, screaming. Althorin didn't want to look as the pyre was set ablaze and the fire began to crawl around her, but he felt something familiar about the woman. As the fire burnt her, Althorin caught the woman's eye. Her screams stopped and she instead gave a horrified stare to her son in the crowd.
=== Change of plans ===
Althorin too had realised that he knew the woman, his mother. He delayed his escape plans and was instead hellbent on murdering Admiral Salle Di italian't, his mother's killer. He scoured through Jorgel's journals for information about her but only found the same writings on beetroot gods and cauldrons. But as he flicked further he saw drawings of the horned god destroying boats with its hand and crushing Tuberists under its foot. In his determination to kill Salle he decided to gamble on what appeared to be his brother's delusions and descended into the city's catacombs.
He followed his brother's writings and found where the deity appeared. And as his brother had said, something began to rise from the cauldron. The deity Cauldrax appeared to Althorin and introduced itself, being divine, it knew of him already. The deity commanded him to leave Solanaria to Annunor and gather others to march against it. It told him the city was unsafe and that it would take Althorin's life as it had taken Jorgel's.
Althorin, still shocked that what his brother wrote was true, did as he was told. He made his escape and travelled to the neighbouring city of Virothen in Annunor Bay. There he told the locals about what his brother had discovered in his lifetime. Some of the locals knew about Jorgel and what he had found, they were part of the cult "The Sons of The Cauldron" which had stayed dormant since Jorgel's death. Others shared some beliefs, such as the Beetroot Aethochronists, but all of the residents and religious folk were against the Tuberists in Solanaria. The Annunor province was already arming for a holy war against Solanum.
=== The Tuber Crusades ===
Three battles occured in the holy war between Aunnunor and Solanum. In the first battle of the Tuber Crusades, Tuberist forces were intercepted on their way to burn down giant roots which had grown in the Tuberswamplands. The Aethochronist and Beetrian forces would ultimately lose the battle due to the blindness and confusion inflicted by the roots, but soon recovered their armies for another battle. The second battle occurred at the white cliffs where wooden forts were constructed by both sides. The fight began with a hog charge but the overwhelming forces of the Tuberists caused the Aethochronists to fall back to their fort. They struggled to defend the fort but soon reinforcements, in the form of Dandelists, arrived to cut down the Tuberist forces. The second battle was a decisive victory for the Aethochronists.
In the third battle, again at the great roots, beetroot forces attacked to liberate the roots. But peace negotiations had been underway between the Tuberists and non-beetroot Aethochronists, and the beetroot forces were left alone to defend against the Tuberist army. The battle was catastrophic for the Sons of the Cauldron, fortunately Althorin survived. But he now had few allies and his dream of overthrowing the Tuberists and Salle in Solanum was diminishing.
=== Revenge on Salle Di Italian't ===
The admiral Salle, now 109 years old, had been a commanding officer in the Tuber Crusades responsible for the defeat of the cult at the final battle. With the cult's few remaining members, Althorin gathered them to avenge their fallen comrades and for his own personal vendetta, to avenge his mother. They boarded the flying spudman, the Admiral's ship and largest ship of the Tuberist fleet, without going noticed. Once night had came, and the crew were asleep beneath the deck, they infiltrated the Admiral's quarters where they found Salle asleep. They covered her mouth and dragged her to the ship's plank, she was made to jump. She took long to reach the end of the plank however and Althorin, desperate to see her fall, shoved the old woman off into the watery depths. Some days later she was found dead when her body drifted onto the coast of Port Solanaria.
With the cult's numbers being much smaller, they had to change their strategy for combatting the Tuberists. They worked from inside Solanum to devastate the city and grow their own influence. The cult were involved in gang warfare and smaller skirmishes with ex-city guards and mafia members. After a small battle at the harbour, they captured the boats and goods of a Solanum crime group. The cult created trade routes in an attempt to spread Beetriaty outside of Bardonia and Syltor. But before they strengthen enough to rise against Solanum again, the deity Cauldrax gave news to Althorin.
=== Iristor's Comet ===
Cauldrax spoke of the approaching comet that the gods had noticed. It threatened to stop time and end all existence on Rathnir, but he offered a way for Althorin to ascend. Althorin gave Cauldrax some of his blood, which he was promised would be brewed with beetroot and other ingredients to create an elixir that could give Althorin powers and wings, like those of the gods, to help him escape the planet. But Cauldrax said that brewing this elixir was a lengthy and difficult process, and the drink may not be ready until the last moments of Rathnir.
News of the approaching comet eventually became widespread, and the Tuberists also plotted their escape to reach the new world of Abexilas. The comet's arrival became closer still, and Althorin awaited the completion of the elixir. He grew more panicked and frustrated as the end of Rathnir grew closer and his salvation was unprepared. Eventually the day of the comet's arrival came, the rock now visible in the sky, and Althorin's concern peaked.
=== Cauldrax's Betrayal ===
Althorin rushed to the catacombs after he saw the burning rock in the sky, desperate for the elixir. He rushed through the tunnels until he reached the cauldron room, but as he turned the corner he did not see Cauldrax preparing the drink. Instead Cauldrax stood cradling a baby, with red skin, horns, and Althorin's dragon-like eyes. Althorin couldn't speak, only watch Cauldrax, who looked up from the baby towards him with an emotionless stare. Cauldrax walked past Althorin towards the exit of the catacombs. Althorin overcame his shock and regained his control, chasing after the deity. He caught up outside, grabbing Cauldrax and yelling for him to say where the elixir was. The baby began to cry in the chaos and Cauldrax shoved Althorin away. He fell to the ground and looked into the crying baby's eyes once more as Cauldrax's wings flapped. Althorin watched as the deity took off into the clouds and the bright burning comet became more vivid, realising there was nothing he could do.
Althorin died in the final moments of Rathnir. His bloodline could continue in the new world however, through the child created by Cauldrax using his blood.
Category:Traveler's Era