Alcaeus Galadher

## Appearance

Alcaeus is a natural-born elf with fair skin and hair as white as snow in which it is highly noted by his family that he had suffered a "hereditary disease". His hair, however, is tied in a half-ponytail most of the time and lets it down whenever he wants to. Alcaeus inherited his eyes from his family members, however, they are in a shade of pale or dull blue in color whereas his family have natural and properly colored sky/ocean blue eyes. Standing at 6'1 ft. tall, Alcaeus is slightly tall than his brothers and has a lean, muscular body, however, despite his healthy physique, he suffers a couple of wounds around his torso, mostly when engaging in a battle between the undead whenever he encounters one.

Alcaeus often dons a dull greyish-blue jacket and what seems to be a greyish-cyan chestplate underneath it accompanied with a belt. His pants are ombre-blackish in color whereas his pair of boots are colored in black. He is usually seen wearing a pair of black gauntlets on both of his hands and frequently wields either an iron sword or a dagger on his main right hand. Alcaeus has a deadpan look on his face and is sometimes seen as very tired-looking (mostly because he has been living as a nomad for quite some time now).

## Character Traits

Alcaeus is depicted as a quiet, mysterious, and calm man by most of his family members and acquaintances before his departure as a nomad. He is often seen as a man with a unique sense of humor despite his signature deadpan look on his face. He is very mature, brave and is unafraid of the unknown, however, he is still wary of the dangers lurking all around him during his journey as a nomad in Iteria. Alcaeus' presence may be quite intimidating to others but so far, he frequently emanates a benign aura to let others know that he is no threat to them. Alcaeus has a natural soothing voice and during combat, his voice would often have a sharp tone to it, especially when he yells in which he rarely does it so. Additionally, he speaks in a very formal manner and seems to find informal words fine to him and cares less of it.

Despite his calm and mysterious features, he is often seen as a serious man, especially in combat. Having no knowledge of magic nor had he ever taught himself to cast a simple spell, his acquaintances see him as a valiant warrior fit to be a guard for the royalty however, Alcaeus avoids being in a business with a monarch and prefers to be himself. This shows that despite his bravery and excellency in combat, he prefers to live in solitude and survive by himself in such a harsh world filled with unique wonders. In combat, he has precise movement and does not act in a barbaric manner, he is keen in his surroundings and to his opponents, watching them like a *predator hunting its own prey* without having to act like a savage.

Even as a noble-born Elf, his interests are captured when it comes to unique architecture and structures built by any being or entity in Iteria. While being a noble, he is surprisingly not finicky to others or to the artifacts he has collected and prefers giving them away just in case. When storing artifacts that are no use to him, he either throws it away or leaves it in an abandoned chest, hoping for someone to make use of the artifacts he has never used very much.

## Backstory

Alcaeus [pronounced as **al-SEE-yus**] Galadher was born to a noble family somewhere in the distant lands of Iteria and was the youngest son of the House of Galadher to ever inherit the noble bloodline. Often shunned by his own flesh and blood because of his lack of interest in magic as well as his own hereditary disease, Alcaeus was more of a man of combat, frequently seen by some of his family members whenever he is practicing his swordsmanship with his acquaintances. With his family being renowned as skillful casters, they were also known for their great skills in combat, in which some of his family members often find Alcaeus as not much of a disgrace to his own family as he was able to learn the basics of combat with ease. Hearing this, Alcaeus cared less of what his family had talked about him and decided to follow his own path in honing his skills in battle.

Upon his training, he was greeted by his aunt and his father's sister, Hortensia Amatheldir (*nee Galadher*) after her engagement with the heir of a different noble house. During their meeting, she tasked Alcaeus to travel all over Iteria to find a great teacher who was skilled in magic just as what his father had told him years during his training at the battlefield in which Alcaeus knew as to why he was coerced to his departure. Due to his lack of interest in magic, his own parents would soon grew worried of their youngest son's future and how it may affect the noble reputation of the House of Galadher should he not listen to their advices, especially his father who, despite being concerned of him, was revealed to be a strict parent to his own sons. To Alcaeus' annoyance, his father would soon make a decision several days later that his son shall depart from his homeland and travel all around the outskirts of Iteria to find a teacher who is skillful in magic and casting spells. Should Alcaeus fail, his father would warn him to never return back home if his only skill was to simply fight with weapons. Alcaeus did not seem to care much about his unfortunate fate of what would happen to him and to the House of Galadher, he accepts his father's decision and began his departure in the cold, dark, winter evening without even saying his own farewell to his family.

Many years have passed, his family has not seen his presence return and assumed he would never come back not unless he was able to train himself the basics of magic but, in truth, Alcaeus spent the entirety of his life living as a nomad in the outskirts of Iteria while his skills in combat still remain in him. Even as a nomad, his noble surname would remain visible in the public eye for the rest of his life, knowing that any inhabitants of this place would care less of where he came from and his origins as the son of a noble family.

## Current Events

### Life as a Nomad (meeting Voldonaire)

After Alcaeus' departure from his homeland, instead of paying heed to his family's advice, he sought to travel in the outskirts of Iteria by himself and lived for the past few years as a nomadic elf. He made sure he wouldn't return back home should his father made that very decision of coercing his own son to seek for a teacher to instruct him the basics of magic, in which he intentionally failed him. As of now, Alcaeus continues to travel in the outskirts of Iteria and was able to see different structures, abandoned villages, encountered monsters he fought by himself, and most importantly, arriving at Hiraeth by accident in which he assumed that the place was already abandoned. Upon his close inspection at that very place, he begins to meet a stranger named Voldonaire in which he seemed to have no interests talking to him that much, however, his interests would soon spark as Voldonaire took him to a place he had never traveled before: **The World Tree**. There, he was brought to a place in which he had stumbled upon a dead entity of a demonic bloodline in which he was told that this being was powerful, yet, had died due to the crystals that would emerge from its body and the Tree itself. Strangely enough, he finds himself sympathizing over a powerful entity he has not known much in his life, yet, at the same time, he would care less of it and hoped that any brave or valiant warriors all around Iteria would stop the plague of crystals emerging all over the outskirts of Iteria.

Alcaeus and Voldonaire returns back to Hiraeth in which they would soon share their farewells with one another, hoping Alcaeus would one day meet him again, unaware of the stranger's odd nature. Before they left to travel all the way back to Hiraeth, he was given an Ominous Horn and a strange compass that acts as some sort of radar in which it would let him know if there are any people near him. Unfortunately, in the midst of his long journey, he happens to lost the artifacts that were given to him, in which he was quite disappointed of it. Even until now, he would still think of the artifacts on where they're at, hoping he would find them someday. After the events that occured to him as a nomad, he and Voldonaire had not crossed paths with each other again in which Alcaeus assumes he left for his own important journey...