Solcion Ka'Ahmros

Solcion Ka'Ahmros in his 660's

### Affiliation

Order of the Ten Arcans, Raean Saints, Healer's Guild of Telvimbror, Arcane Instructor's Guild of Telvimbror

## Solcion Ka'Ahmros, or Solcion the Red and later Saint Solcion the Red, was a High Elf Arcanist and one of the first Red Arcans of Dorhaun.

### Early Life

Solcion Ka'Ahmros was born to itinerant merchants in the Hedge Row sometime in the mid to late Age of Veradorianis, and lived until the mid Age of Sistona. His lineage was unusually fecund for the Vin'are, producing nine aunts and uncles on his father's side and eleven siblings of his own. Notably, Solcion was the seventh son of a seventh son, which made him lucky in the human and Okk'are beliefs of the time, so his family was more readily welcomed on their travels in the north. He discovered potent magical gifts early, specifically a talent for arcane healing magic. His ability to erase minor illnesses and mend broken bones smoothed over a lot issues in their travels.

#### Wandering Mystic

When he became an adult Solcion set off on his own. He discovered various permutations of his abilities that made him difficult to harm, and discovered a talent for spirit-calling similar to Shamanic arts, making him dangerous on the road. He also became expert at high ritual magic and pact making, gaining gifts from both Dmalthtome and Telshara. Eventually he reached the town (later mid sized city) of Alvestrin, where his studies pushed the boundaries of what was possible for an arcane healer and put him at odds with the Church of Night and Day, who considered him heretical more for his choice of patrons than for his pacts or rituals. Despite opposition in the form of attempted eviction and public censure by the Church, he persisted in his work, developing more and more methods to heal. In this time his previously blond hair and green eyes lightened and lightened until they were white and the palest blue respectively, and his skin bleached to bone white except where blue veins could be seen. His voice also grew softer and softer, though it remained audible even in the loudest rooms, and barely any fat would cling to his body. This made him seem frighteningly ghost like to some, but angelic and soothing to others. Eventually he devised a ritual to help the mayor's son, twenty-eight at the time and born blind, to see. He was honest about the odds of success and the risk of side effects, but the mayor was insistent and offered a heavy commission that could buy a lot of medicinal herbs and focal crystals. His real reason for agreeing was that the young man was kindhearted and a lover of books and scrolls, and wished to be able to read without aid. He enacted the rite, and it was a success, but the cost was high. The boy gained the ability to see, but also memories of a very different version of his life. He remembered a version of himself not born blind who had been a true hellion, a rapist and murderer in addition to other crimes. Solcion theorized these were events that might have been due to any number of differences in his life that would have come with sight and that they young man was in no danger of performing these acts. The lad later hung himself from guilt anyway. The peasantry blamed Solcion, "The Mad Mage of Alvestrin," and enacted mob justice. They hung Solcion and burned his laboratory and research. Solcion was very hard to kill by this point, however, and simply dug himself out the shallow grave he'd been afforded and went to Telvimbror.

##### The School of Prudence

Solcion quickly became a celebrated teacher or minor magics in Telvimbror, working mostly with children. His particular style of instruction and technique became known as the School of Prudence. His lessons emphasized not only the theory and practice of magic but its ethics as well. He taught his students to first ask not "can I do it?" but "should I do it?" When the city was attacked by a flight of powerful dragons, he distinguished himself among the wounded, treating wounds with medicine and magic as needed, pushing himself to the limit over days and nights of work, saving possibly hundreds of lives. For this he was made Red Arcan and allowed to found the Healer's Guild of Telvimbror. Later, while on loan to the Iludin in Helestor, he worked tirelessly along side priests and healers to tend the sick during the Great Plague, nearly dying himself several times due to repeatedly contracting and removing the disease from his body. He settled in the city as an honorary Petty Officer of the Order and conducted his research there for the next century, performing his duties as Arcan by correspondence and spell sending. He refused to leave until the last of his old human and halfling patients died of old age. Then he returned to Telvimbror, where he remained until he finally went into meditative trance one night centuries later and never returned. His body did not decay, but became desiccated, mummifying itself due to his long mystical studies. Some insist his spirit is wandering but he is not truly dead; only meditating still. He is preserved in a small shrine underneath the city.

Sainthood

In Sistona, where he was remembered of old by descendants of those he saved, some said he never really died, that he could not truly die, and that he merely slept. Others insisted he had become some form of angel in the heavens and watched them all. Anxious to settle the argument over the folk hero before things could escalate to violence, the Church added him to the canon of saints. Over the centuries many acts have been interpreted as miracles due to his intercession with the gods of Fate and Blood. Unbeknownst to most, there was some truth to both perspectives. On death he spontaneously elevated into a Bright Soul, and began to wander Eranos, using his gifts wherever they were most needed. When canonized he gained the ability to hear prayers for his intercession, and he will aid those he can, though he prefers not to draw attention to himself as he fears it would encourage people to rely too much on saints and not enough on themselves.

A Stain on His Legacy

While his workshop in Alvestrin was destroyed, some of his notes were recovered from the wreckage and were traded on the arcane black market for an unknown period of time before making their way to Telvimbror after his death. There, Cayelle Kaliymour acquired them shortly after her father's death, and studied them before her disastrous, if partially successful, attempt to resurrect him. While they were not the only source she drew upon in her researches, their influence on her conception of the body's relation to time contributed to her work notably. Solcion's spirit continues to experience shame and guilt as a result of his indirect effect on the creation of Nostradus Blackheart.