Lea Silveray

*"I don't usually say this to people, but it was nice to meet you."*

The Elven Forester

## History

Born at the embrace of the Darkwoods, in an isolated shack nearby a waterfall, Lea parents started to teach her the basics of survival and elven weaponry as soon she began to walk, alongside the arcane knowledge they had to share. Thanks to her inherited intellect, she was able to learn fast what they had to pass down even as a toddler.

The isolated lifestyle, with minimum contact with strangers even their kind, Lea had little else to do apart of learning and helping with the shores through her childhood.

As soon she was able to carry her own backpack and endure the trails, they began to wander to avoid being found. By who though Lea would just know later.

Even with all the care, the elven lifespam is too long to be safe without a place. Before Lea had completed her first half-century they were found by their enemies: mage hunter vampires.

She lost her mother first, and her father soon later. Alone and orphan, she spent the following decades surviving as she was taught, wandering from forests to woods and back, in the hope to stumble on others of her lineage, as their parents had told existed, before being found by the mage hunters.

With the years, Lea grew closer to the wild life than other humanoids, and for a while forgot about everything else. But with the age came also the desire to know more, and her dreams was once again filled with the imagery from the myths her father told.

Praying for being prepared to the world, her time of isolation had came to an end.

## Appearance

Living all alone at the wild woods, vanity is not something she developed. Instead, Lea preffers utility over glamour, only wearing and carrying what she needs to survive.

Her short hair doesn't takes dry leaves neither flags her position at the wind. Her shabby leather vests protects her from most physical threats and environmental hazards. And the furs keeps her warmer at the colder nights.

This taken and combined with her slender body, Lea is usually confused with an elven boy when saw by non-elves strangers, and even some elves, which she is glad to happen.

After all, her piercing amber eyes and silvery hair already brings enough unwanted attention...

## Personality

Living most of her later childhood at the forests and isolated from civilization, Lea developed a very reserved and quiet personality.

Loner but not lonely, she enjoys the company of the wild animals and vermins, treating them as a new family. Towards other humanoids although she doesn't have any experience in how to act yet.

Very observant and cautious, Lea takes her time instead of acting impulsively, knowing that one mistake may be fatal, even if it may cause her to hesitate when she shouldn't.

## Family

The Tyelphay family, or Silveray in common, was a long and ancient lineage of pure-blood elves dedicated to arcane pursuit, their branch separated from their more forest wanderers cousins long before the Great War. As focused wizards and arcanists, they were an important piece at the pre-war harmony between the races, even if just to make things work towards their own interests.

When the war befallen at the world, the Tyelphay first fought to defend their vampiric allies, but didn't took long to them decide it wasn't their problem and shelter themselves at their own arcane palaces. Little they knew it would seal their destiny.

With the Vampire Lords victory and the world embraced by the eternal night, the Tyelphay was one of the many victims of the magic bane. With their magic diminished, it didn't took long for their former allies to take vengeance at their betray. The Tyelphay that escaped the onslaught fled back to the forests of their ancestors, the sight of their dead siblings and their fortresses turned to dust tormenting their minds for the next centuries.

Scattered, the Tyelphay lineage was reduced to less than a shadow they once was, living in secrecy, avoiding to gather together even with themselves to not be targeted. Their arcane teachings kept alongside with the skills to fight and survive, and their past kept alove as a myth of another age and world...

## Loves

The birds songs at the clearer part of the dusk; the sound of the rivers, the waterfalls and the rain raining over the leafs; the feeling to wander and bath fully naked when possible; the curiosity of the little animals; the fresh strawberries at the spring; the fresh blueberries at the autumn; all the natural life that does their best to keep surving through the eternal night.

## Fears

To be found by the mage hunters; be emprisoned and tortured as her mother described some of their family members was; to have her gut eaten alive; and the moon be vanished from the sky with the stars.

## Hobbies

To watch the birds and cute vermin to find and take the seeds and berries she left for them, and to carve the fallen wood pieces and treat the leather of dead animals to make new things as her criativity and necessity drives her.

## Friends

Apart of the little animals of the forests, there is no one she may call a friend. Yet...

## Enemies

The mage hunters and everyone else that holds a grudge of her lineage and may recognize her as well.

## Aspirations

There are knowledge that her parents never had the opportunity no share, mysteries at the world around her and wonders carried with the tales her father told so far. And, after all the hiding, Lea's young heart is driving her to seek all these open paths at once...