Valeander Evensong

== Name, Titles, Nicknames & Known Aliases ==
Valeander Evensong; Valaenar, Nandor, Neth'andor; Seer, Secret-Keeper; Scribe of Eldre'thalas; Vale (known to few, told to fewer, accepted from hardly anyone); Posh Git
== Race and Class ==
Valeander is a night elf priest, Discipline/Holy for those interested.
== Guild & Association ==
Loosely, nominally affiliated with A Perfect Circle. While his player serves as a dutiful officer there, he'd never admit to more than casual acquaintance if inquired. They need him, not the other way around.
Another organisation whose name is sometimes whispered in the same context with Valeander's is the Convocation. Nothing more is known of this mysterious number, except by a very select few.
== Physical Traits ==
On night elf standards, Valeander is strictly average height, though it may seem like more due to his notable lack of muscle mass. He has the gaunt face, spindly fingers and lanky, fragile build of someone who vastly prefers the company of books to that of people. His hair is long and silky, extremely well cared for, and dark blue in colour, though the specific shade tends to remind people of ink first and the night sky only long after, for some reason; his skintone is a pale, faded shade of the same. Seeing him with as much as stubble on his smooth, subtly lined face is extremely rare, and overall, he seems the type to mind appearances.
No scars or other markings are immediately visible on his body, but he does seem to prefer concealing clothing, often wearing heavy robes that seem unfit for his delicate form. His clothing follows the dark theme of his natural colours, and it's difficult to remember him ever carrying anything white on his person. Nevertheless, his clothing is often richly, yet never garishly or overtly, decorated, indicating at least a moderate wealth. He frequently wears gloves, though rarely hats or hoods.
Should anyone ever see him less than fully clothed, he is in fact extensively tattooed below the neckline, all in the same dark blue as his hair, with just a few bright red highlights. At first glance, the tattoos do not appear to depict anything, certainly not anything concrete; to certain scribes and those with extensive knowledge in Arcane theory and history, however, the tattoos appear glyphic in nature.
Valeander speaks with a soft, quiet voice which has a way of carrying over even in loud crowds. Some suspect there's a magic to it; certainly the man appears to like the sound of his own voice, using elaborate, decorated and occasionally outdated language. This is especially true for his Darnassian, which is probably best described as "archaic". His Common is much more subdued, and completely unaccented. He also speaks fluent Goblin and passable Trollish.
== Occupation ==
Valeander is a skilled scribe and enchanter, and though his fees tend to be on the high side, the quality of his work is impeccable. He is extremely passionate about his profession, though he would have people think otherwise.
He has been addressed as both astronomer and cartographer, but neither is something he actively pursues.
== Family ==
None surviving. If one were to search any and all existing records of Kaldorei genealogy, they might happen by a mention of his name as far back as the Sundering, but the names of his parents are lost to history, as is whether he ever had siblings. No children of his own are recorded, nor even lifemates.
Long before the fall of the World Tree, he is said to have been friends with Iyokus Shatterstar, and perhaps even more than that with his sister, Illayne.
== Background ==
When Valeander was born, the name "Highborne" was a disctinction reserved for elven nobility, and he was one of the lucky ones to bear it, though he didn't get to enjoy it long. A child at the time of the Sundering, he, alongside with his family, was one of the first to become known as "Kaldorei", Children of the Stars. It wasn't a change he chose, but one chosen for him, and one he later came to resent unlike anything else in the world; that resentment is what has defined him ever since. Valeander is a deeply bitter man, but also deeply driven, someone who has forged his own ideology.
For most of his life, he has been a researcher, and as a result, he is extremely well read. Some would call him a historian, others a magician, still others a heretic. He is a priest, but what of, is uncertain. What is known is that though a healer, being on the receiving end of his spellweaving is rarely pleasant. He treats the art of healing as a science, a craft with rules as straightforward as those of molding iron or drawing maps.
Should one inquire at the Temple of the Moon in Darnassus, many of the older priests would know him or of him, but few would have much more to say than that he was always a dodgy, suspicious one, always better at the theory of things than the practice.
Of course, since the Third War, the world has been a much larger place, and Valeander has had his fingers in a lot more pies. He rarely returns to Darnassus nowadays, or even Kalimdor; it could be interpreted as a preference for human (or, indeed, dwarven or gnomish) company, were it not for the fact that he appears to dismiss other races just as readily as his own. The only race he appears to hold any sort of reverence for are the draenei.
Oddly enough, for a man who considers himself above so many things, it is not uncommon to see him in the Old Town of Stormwind, or the Deeprun stations, or the shabbier parts of Ironforge. The only kind of filth that truly seems to bother him is human; stupidity, the scourge of sentience.
== Family Background ==
Lost in the mists of history, either inevitably or deliberately. Valeander does not speak of his family, not even to those closest to him.
== Criminal Record ==
Though it may be hard to believe at first glance, the haughty, proud, fragile man has actually served time in several prisons and survived mostly intact, both physically and mentally.
He is old, and his criminal record is extensive, filled mostly with titles such as slander, heresy, bearing false witness, offering and accepting bribes, misuse of office, forgery, fraud, medical malpractice and - perhaps oddly - breaking and entering and public indecency.
== Other Notes & Trivia ==
Valeander is left-handed.
He is also quite bisexual.
Were he to stop completely disregarding the gift, he could be a remarkable artist, instilling emotion through illustration.
At the time of writing this, his player was listening to Nick Cave, Portishead and Placebo, if a sountrack is required.
Category:Characters
Category:Alliance
Category:Night Elf
Category:Priest