Aquano Silfedis

### Relatives

Tom Silfedis (Biological father, Deceased), Kayla Silfedis (Biological sister, Deceased), Satirrian (Wife)

### Current Occupation

Fateweaver of Protection, Druid of the Underforest, King of Sanctuary (Former), King of the United Sanctuaries of Orelisle (Former)

## Physical Characteristics

### Appearance

Tall human with wolven ears, usually seen wearing a crown and an elaborate necklace

## Common Knowledge

Aquano was one of the Binturians who participated in the Fel War, where Xaoc was deposed and killed in K’Vesten. Inhabitants of the United Sanctuaries of Orelisle are familiar with Aquano as their country’s founder and former king, and may even have met the man himself. Denizens of Amerale or the Amrali Provinces might know him as the son of Tom Silfedis, the most ruthless man in criminal history and former head of the Silfedis Mafia.

## Further Description

Aquano Silfedis is a former member of the Binturian Party, as well as the former king of Sanctuary and the United Sanctuaries of Orelisle. His current status is as a celebrity to the U.S.O., but more importantly he is a fateweaver to the Elder Goddess of Protection and is the druid guardian of the Underforest below Binturia. Aquano also acts as secret head of the Silfedis Mafia. He is one of the most powerful mortals living on the Material Plane, and a master of Elemental magic.

Among the Binturians, it is known that Aquano has a reputation for dangerous rituals, dying, and cheating death. Despite this, he remains beloved by his comrades within the party.

## Early Life

### Birth

Aquano was born in Amerale to Kaitlyn and Tom Silfedis, a formerly renowned healer and gang leader, respectively. At the time of his birth, Tom had nearly secured his mafia’s place in Amerale. Often he would be walking home from his tutor to see one of daddy's friends mug a passing traveler. It would not be strange for Aquano to enter the house to see either the dining room all bloodied and his mother desperately struggling to mend daddy's wounds or see his father drinking himself to a shamble and beating his wife or if she wasn't around him. As Aquano turned 8, his father's behavior miraculously improved somewhat. This was around the time Kaitlyn was to have her second child; Kayla Silfedis.

### Attempted Patricide and Departure from Amerale

When Aquano turned 15 he concluded that he was sick of his father's expectations for him to grow up to be the next exemplary Mafia member, and seeing Tom's harsh treatment of his 7  year old sister. Tom already decided Kayla was to be married off to strengthen the Gang's bonds with a prospective trading partner. Disgusted that his sister would never be able to realize her dreams of becoming an adventurer or having any sort of freedom over her life, Aquano decided to murder Tom.

In the thick of the night, the plan was enacted, and Aquano silently entered the warehouse where his father spent his nights planning and attempted to slice his throat with a dagger. The plan failed when a bodyguard spotted him and Aquano was forced off into the wilderness, fearful of what would happen to him if he were to return.

### Training and Adventuring

For roughly a month Aquano struggled desperately to survive. He almost resorted to banditry when his tutor came along. His tutor revealed his true colors as a druid and took Aquano under his wing out of pity. It was for the next 5 years that Aquano learned the arts of nature and found his most trusted companion, Guthan. After fulfilling his tutor's tests he set off to adventure across the continent and after his first party disbanded on bad terms (to be more specific, a lycanthrope member of that party ate the heart of Aquano’s girlfriend, also a party member) he decided to start over in Binturia.

## Time with the Binturian Party

### Founding Sanctuary (10,016 A.B.)

Through a ritual of his own design, Aquano beseeched the Elder Goddess of Protection to create a space where none could be harmed on the ruins of Fort Veridae. Protection, miraculously, agreed, and granted his request. As a consequence, she took all Aquano’s worldly possessions and bound him to be her fateweaver. He gained some of the benefits of being a fateweaver at this time, such as a direct line of communication to Protection, but would not attain the full power of a fateweaver until later.

### Acquiring Lycanthropy (10,017 A.B.)

While on an assignment to protect a were-wolf settlement in the Wolven Forest, Aquano disenchanted the leyline surrounding the same settlement to keep his own personal enchantments. As a consequence, the were-beast hunters who assailed the village did not have their silver weapon enchantments dispelled, and killed many of the settlements’ inhabitants. Though the Binturians fended off the incursion, Magnus von Ulver and Esilm Moonscale forcibly gave Aquano lycanthropy as punishment for the massacre. Though Aquano had many opportunities to have the curse removed, he deliberately chose not to.

### Usurping and Reforming the Silfedis Mafia (10,018 A.B.)

After a long time away from his old life, Aquano returned to Amerale and with the help of his sister deposed Tom Silfedis as don of the Silfedis Mafia. His sister then turned around and betrayed Aquano, having him killed and his body tossed into the Amrali River. Aquano survived, of course, and went on to kill his sister and take the Mafia for himself. He then directed its most corrupt members to go to K’Vesten for the coming Fel War.

In the months following the change of power, Aquano restructured the Mafia to be somewhat beneficial to Amerale itself, spread out into other places, and to conveniently divert funds and resources to Sanctuary.

### Fel War (10,018 A.B.)

Aquano participated in the Fel War, and successfully ousted Xaoc from his position in K’Vesten. He also directed a substantial portion of Sanctuary’s resources towards the war effort, as well as mobilizing roughly two thirds of the Silfedis Mafia towards the same goal.

### Agricola, Greater U.S.O., and Becoming a Fateweaver (10,018 A.B.)

Aquano would govern Sanctuary as a benevolent ruler, though its sphere of influence was only the mile surrounding Fort Veridae’s remains. As time passed, Protection approached Aquano with a sacred duty: a redwood ent named Agricola, whom she had placed in the world long ago to protect a region of woods, had become corrupt with age. Its domain was now a realm of tyranny, and she wished it removed. If Aquano completed this task for her, she would bless his nation’s constitution and give him the land in Agricola’s domain (though it would not carry the same protection as Sanctuary’s capital in Binturia).

Aquano and his wife Satirrian infiltrated Agricola’s realm, and dispatched it. The United Sanctuaries of Orelisle was born, now including the land Agricola once protected and the dryads, spirits, and beast-folk it once ruled.

After handling some of the logistics of the U.S.O., Aquano travelled alone to the Elemental Plane for some time. During this interlude, he trained to become a Fateweaver and presumably spend some quality time with Protection. At the end of his stay in the Elemental Plane, Aquano emerged a full fateweaver, with all the powers that entails.

## Current Life

### Diplomat

As a public figure, the United Sanctuaries of Orelisle occasionally calls upon Aquano to act on their behalf at diplomatic assemblies. Aquano is known to have attended Cathais’ de-isolationist ball, and is responsible for the U.S.O. 's participation in the first meeting of the modern United Orelisian Council.

### Druid of the Underforest

Aquano has the responsibility of guarding the Underforest, an underground deciduous wood miles below the Binturian Forest. Aquano keeps the monsters native to the Underforest from escaping into the Underdark and the rest of Orelisle, but also prevents anyone from Orelisle from entering the Underforest and potentially dying (or worse, finding the Conduit and the Beast Below at the Underforest’s heart).

## Further Information

* Amrali Republic
* Binturia
* The Binturian Party
* Cathais
* The Conduit
* Elu
* Fateweavers
* Humans
* Lycanthropy
* Magic
* Magnus von Ulver
* Protection
* Silfedis Mafia
* United Orelisian Council
* United Sanctuaries of Orelisle
* Were-Beast
* Wolven Forest