Elyiaes

### Background

Elyiaes Fabbro’moro was born in Nov Romara. He never knew his mother. His father was old enough to be his grandfather. He lived with his father in a small pawn, buying and selling different oddities, including magical items. His dad brewed his own homemade health potions, an item that garnered most of their customers. He was happy helping his father’s alchemical experiments, and also repairing damaged magical weapons and armor. Elyiaes had a knack for tinkering. He often improved the items’ so they could be sold for a higher value. However, his father never overcharged or marked up prices on his inventory. He always offered fair deals, and even provided good discounts to most of the townsfolk.

Eventually, madness took his father. Elyiaes thought his father was a beloved Edwed in their town, but soon learned that no one actually cared about their wellbeing when they needed help the most. Elyiaes struggled to maintain the shop, but since he was too young to take care of his father and the business, something had to give. There was no cure for his father’s malady, and soon it took his life. The regular customers no longer came. They would not do business with a boy. The local town’s authority soon seized his home after he was unable to pay the property taxes. For some time he was homeless, and was reduced to begging. Eventually, he was old enough to join the military and leave his town behind.

He was sent to Jvar VunGal to take part in Nov Romara’s Great Expansion. He wasn’t much of a fighter. Instead, he was positioned as part of the medic support unit. Thanks to what he learned from his father, he was a valued asset on the battlefield. He did what he could to keep everyone alive, but was a pacifist at heart. His whole squadron almost got wiped near the border of Oakinesh. Retreating through Bor Bor, Elyiaes got lost and was alone in the desert.

A traveling caravan of Borians and Jvarians found him starved and severely dehydrated. They nursed him back to health. Even though he flew the colors of the invaders, they treated him with kindness. Over time, Elyiaes learned about their culture and thought he found a home with these people. He even fell in love with a young Edwone. Despite how open the tribe seemed to be, the relationship could not be accepted. Although he learned of their traditions and customs, he was still an outsider and would not find safety in the places they intended to travel towards. Furthermore, she could not come with him to Nov Romara for there would be no warm welcome for her. They decided to flee to Faltus to be free to love each other. They had a daughter and named her Ilyfae, after her mother. Unfortunately the birth was hard on Elyiaes’ wife and her health deteriorated. She passed shortly after.

Elyiaes pressed on, putting his specialized skills to use in Faltus. His talents had him recruited by the Matriarch of Science, and in the House of Science, he found steady work as a blacksmith and engineer building the infrastructure surrounding the Spire of the Goddess. As Ilyfae matured, she grew to be a popular member of House. With her brilliant mind, innovative projects, and her very public philanthropy, she rose through the ranks and became the new Matriarch of Science. Then she was murdered.

For Elyiaes, her death changed everything…