Jornaal

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==The Beginning==
Jornaal was born in a small dark elf settlement, to his mother and father who were both sorcerers. This settlement was not large enough to be called a village, but it was a rather tight knit group of dark elves none the less. Jornaal was the only child that his parents ever bore, at least as far as Jornaal was told anyway, so he did not grow up having to be jealous of anyone else, because his parents lavished attention upon him. At least, they did this for the most part, when they were not trying to entice him from a young age to learn magic, since they were sorcerers, they had the idea that he would become one as well. 
They encouraged him by teaching him to read and other such things from a young age and did not accept any excuses when he did not want to do this. Overall, his life was not that difficult and he wanted to please his parents, as many people wish to do, but he sometimes did not like the lengths they went through to push him. He never went against their wishes, except that one day, he told them that he did not want to be a sorcerer, but instead he wished to be a wizard. His parents did not like this fact, but they did not express too much anger over his interest in becoming a wizard instead of a sorcerer.
They did; however, know of a wizard in the community and helped Jornaal become apprenticed to the man, so he could learn his chosen profession. Jornaal learned his lessons quickly, because of the training his parents had given him when he was a young child. Of course, Jornaal did have some problems learning to control the elements and his parents could not help him much there, but over the course of the next few years, he had learned to control them and his teacher was proud of him.
==Betrayed==
It took a few years, before Jornaal was done with his training with his teacher, before he was declared a wizard and during this time he had become closer to his teacher than he was to his parents. This was to be expected, because he no longer lived with them as he was being taught and instead stayed at his master's home. His parents did not like this too much, but there was nothing they could do about it, because it was Jornaal's decision and they honored it as best as the could. They would allow their son anything he wanted and he knew that, even if it was not something that would make them very happy. 
While he was under the teachings of his master, Jornaal's parents become more and more secretive and did not have as much to do with him as they once did. This of course, did not bother him so much, but he still loved his parents, because they were the ones who brought him into the world. When he was ready to go back home, Jornaal hardly ever saw his parents, because it seemed they always had something else to do, or somewhere else to be, rather than be around the house. This did not make him feel very good, because it seemed like they did not want anything to do with him. That was until one day, they told him that they followed Arachne and that it was time for him to join them.
Jornaal did not like this news at all, because it was everything he disliked and he knew that if anyone in the community found out, then they would be in trouble and perhaps even be killed, if they were not just thrown out. No, he wanted no part of this and he told his parents how he felt. They of course listened to him and why he would not join them, but what happened next was not something he was expecting. His parents grew angry with him and told him that if he did not join them, then they would have to kill him, because they would not let him live if he did not do as they said. They then told Jornaal that he had a week, before they wanted an answer from him and if he did not agree, then they would have to make sure he did not tell anyone else.
Jornaal then left his home and went out into the village, because he felt he had a lot of things to think about. He could not believe what his parents wanted him to do and he knew he had to tell someone else what was going on, because he did not want to be killed by his parents, but he did not want his parents to be killed either. A few hours later, Jornaal had made up his mind and went back home to tell his parents that there was no way he was going to follow them and what they did; however, just after he got home, a group of armed dark elves and elders of the community stormed into the home and arrested Jornaal and his parents.
This was something he had not thought would happen, it turned out that the elders of the community already knew what Jornaal's parents were up to and they were finally doing something about it. They accused Jornaal of following Arachne as well and sentenced the family to be exiled from the community, with the threat of death if they ever returned. Of course, when his parents heard of this, they accused Jornaal of telling the elders and were very angry at him, no matter how he tried to explain that he did not tell anyone anything. Several days later, Jornaal and his parents were escorted out of the community and guarded to make sure they did not try to re-enter it.
Once outside of the community and free from their bonds, Jornaal's parents killed the guards that were watching over them and then they turned on Jornaal. They said he was a traitor to the family and they did not want anything to do with him, so they tried to kill him. This broke Jornaal's heart and he did not know what to do, other than to try to defend hismelf as best as he could, but how was he going to do that against his parents, who had been practicing magic for many more years than he had been alive. They were powerful and he was not. The battle was fierce, with Jornaal mostly of the defensive, because he was not willing to kill his parents, even if they wanted to kill him.
It did not take long, but Jornaal felt his life was in great danger and with a careless, but effective move Jornaal cast a water bolt that toppled some rocks down onto his parents and as far as he knows they did not survive being crushed by those rocks. This of course made Jornaal sad, because he had to kill his parents after all, at least he had to if he had wanted to live and he did want to live, more than anything else in the world. Once the deed was done, he did not try to re-enter the community, because no one would have believed him, at least he was pretty sure that they would not. So, he decided he would just wander the lands for the rest of his life and not settle down anywhere, ever again.
===Not his parents?===
Not too long ago, Jornaal had the idea put into his head, maybe they people who he thought were his parents were not truly his parents at all. A friend of Jornaal's brought it to his attention that he could have been kidnapped from his true family and taken away from them. He had never thought of this before, but now that someone mentioned that it may be possible, Jornaal thinks that it would make perfect sense that they would want to kill him, if they were not his true parents. He cannot prove this is the case; however, since the ones who may have kidnapped him are now dead, but it is something that he has thought about researching into more, somewhere down the line, when he is not busy being distracted by other ideas.
==Landing==
Jornaal wandered the lands for many decades, because he dared not call anywhere home again. He did not want to have friends, because he did not want to take the chance of being betrayed again. He did not think he could handle something like that, because of things in his past, things which he wanted to forget, even though he was haunted by the nightmares of them nearly every night of his life. It was not until one day he wandered into the Landing, a place he had never been before and somewhere he had never heard of that he decided to stick around for a little while. He knew there might be some use for a young wizard and his supplies were running low to begin with, as was the amount of coin that he had. He decided he would look for some kind of work, so he could eat and buy the things that he needed.
It is interesting how things can change in a short amount of time. He had no plans on staying in this city, because he was not used to city life and did not think he would like it at all. Ever since his first visit to Landing, he had called the place his home, because he found a place for himself, and has made a number of good friends. He does wonder at what fate had brought him to sometimes. He often wonders if this is the way things were supposed to turn out and if the things that had happened to him when he was younger, happened for this very reason.
===Wanderings===
While Jornaal may call the Landing his home, there has been times when he has felt the need to get away and go off and wander on his own. When asked why he wanders from time to time, Jornaal usually replies it is because he felt the need to go off on his own and not be around people for a time, but there are other reasons for it, which he does not speak of, because they are private reasons and he does not want to burden anyone with what these reasons may be. He does; however, always return to the Landing, no matter how long he is gone away. It is his home and it is where his friends are, he knows he will always return, no matter what.
==Misc==
===Issalya===
After his second or third return to the Landing, Jornaal had met a elf wizard named Issalya and became friends with her rather easily, although he did not spend much time around her. That was until she had lost her first guardian and after that, Jornaal felt that she needed to be protected. Since he was friends with her, he offered to become her guardian in place of the first one she had. She accepted Jornaal's offer and from then on, they spent quite a bit of time together, almsot to the point that they were inseparable. It did not take long, before Jornaal began to develop feelings for Issalya; however, circumstances were not right, because Issalya seemed to have disappeared and Jornaal did not know what had happened to her. This led him to believe that anything he loved, or cared for in his life would always abandon him and therefore he once again left the Landing, because he did not know what else to do. He felt as if he would never be happy and that there may be forces working against him to prevent any sort of happiness from ever coming his way.
Jornaal recently returned to the Landing, after being away for several months, to find that Issalya had returned as well and she had not forgotten him at all. This made Jornaal happy, because now he knew what had happened to her and knew that it was not something that he did that caused her to go away. It did not take much, before Jornaal began being seen around Issalya, both of them taking up their relationship with one another from where they had left off. It was almost as if they had never been apart and secretly Jornaal is hoping that it is the truth this time, that there is nothing that will keep him and his love apart, ever again.