Elnor

## **Appearance**

Tall, willowy, extremely physically fit - a trained swordsman and fighter; tan skin, brown eyes, nearly waist-length brown-black hair. At the time he comes to Wall, he's wearing a nondescript dark grey robe and loose-fitting pants with leather boots and belts. Has on him only his sword (functionally, a kodachi) and scabbard.

## **Powers**

No supernatural abilities; he's a skilled martial artist, so he's strong and flexible, with excellent balance, and deadly in armed or unarmed single combat. As a Romulan, he's sturdier and longer-living than an average human, with somewhat more physical strength, but he'd probably be of slightly below-average physical strength among other Romulans, it's just that he knows how and where to hit a person effectively. And also how to swing a sword.

## **Talents**

Besides his martial training, Elnor is a talented gymnast and acrobat, and has even taught himself to juggle. His training with the Qowat Milat involved some intense asceticism, so he has quite good physical control of various kinds - can meditate and fast for long periods and has a high pain tolerance. Adherence to the Way of Absolute Candor - the Qowat Milat lifestyle - has made Elnor quite naive but extremely attuned to others' attitudes and tells; he has a heightened sense of when others are lying or dissembling, but by the same turn, can't bluff to save his life. Truth is all he knows and all he tells - all the time. He also has quite a nice but untrained singing voice.

## **Interests**

Elnor is always interested in improving himself, physically, mentally, spiritually, and he's hungry for new experiences. His life on Vashti was pretty secluded and unvaried; he was in many ways sheltered, so anything new, weird, educational, or fun is extra appreciated. He's an avid reader and journaler. He wants purpose and a goal, and he's spent years as a public servant on Vashti as a protector in the rough colony streets, so he feels compelled to defend the weaker in the community when possible.

## **History**

Elnor was raised by the Qowat Milat, a Romulan order of warrior nuns, on the planet Vashti in the relocation colony for the survivors of the destruction of Romulus. Orphaned in the fallout of the disaster, he was placed with the nuns as a temporary arrangement that later became permanent when the relocation efforts failed and the Federation abandoned the colony. Elnor stayed with the Qowat Milat, but he was never really one of them, being a boy. He was, however, trained in their martial arts and their Way of Absolute Candor: a lifestyle in which a person makes no attempt to hide their thoughts or emotions, and speaks only truthfully and forthrightly at all times. This made him an outsider both in the Qowat Milat, and to other Romulans in the colony; as such, he had an isolated and lonely childhood of physical training and mental conditioning, punctuated only by occasional visits from the man who saved him and relocated him to the colony, Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Elnor came to see the captain as filling some of the hole left from losing his parents and his homeworld. No sooner had he begun relying upon Picard, however, than the Federation, and Picard, vanished from Vashti, and Elnor has spent the last 14 years coming to terms with that abandonment and the loss of the future he imagined for himself - one in which, just maybe, he would have gone with Picard to have adventures in Starfleet.

Since then, Elnor has put away those old dreams and applied himself to training and study and helping to make the colony as safe as possible, as law and order began to break down and the streets became more violent. As part of the Qowat Milat, he served the people, protecting them from thieves and from gang violence as racial aggression mounted between the Romulan colonists and the original human settlers. He came to learn the colony like the back of his hand, and most of its permanent inhabitants, but he was always regarded as a bit of a freak, even more so than the rest of the nuns, and never really welcome anywhere. In the order, however, he had friends and allies; his foster mother, the order's leader Zani, and many of the other nuns loved him as much as they loved each other, and protected him from some of the galaxy's ugliest truths, even while being absolutely candid about his reality. He was not a true Qowat Milat and never could be, and they could love him, but they had never intended to keep him. He was particularly close to one girl a bit older than him, Nara, who he came to think of as a sister, and in whom he could confide some things. But mostly he told his truths to his journal, and constructed truths for himself from the books he read and the people he met - even those who thought him strange and frightening. Perhaps especially from them.

Elnor is a ravenously curious, almost childlike personality with deadly talent, who has been kept at arms' length by nearly everyone in his life since he was just a child. He is hungry for knowledge, for adventure, for a place where he isn't quite so different, and maybe can find how he's meant to fit in.