Hadrian

Hadrian the Half-Elf is the bastard of an Elven lord and a barmaid from the Summer Isles. The ignoble union responsible for his birth occured sometime during the joint campaign between the Elves of the West and the Northborne Men against the cruel nation of men to the South, which sought to take what land it could. When the war ended, no word from his father found the lowly barmaid from the Summer Isles, and soon Hadrian was born.

As befitting his mother's station, Hadrian, too, took to the lifestyle granted by tavern-work, ferrying kegs of ale, filling pints, and learning the secrets of a good brew for many years. Even during the bleak times after the war, the pub-owner looked kindly on Hadrian and his mother, never turning away their labor. Naturally, Hadrian grew close to the old man, finding in him the father he never had.

One day, Hadrian found himself in the upstairs office of the tavern, where the owner often stayed. There he found several tomes written in languages strange to him, complete with simple translations written in the owner's hand. In the dusty dark, Hadrian whispered the words of an ancient tongue. A bizarre light poured into the room, as every mote of dust glistened as though under the watch of a star, and the pub-owner was revealed at his side. That day he discovered two things; that the drunken owner of the pub on the Summer Isles was secretly a Mage, and so, too, was he.

Under the secret master's tutelage, Hadrian poured himself into the arcana of ancient texts and the mysteries of spellcraft in the off-hours of his days. As the years slipped by and Hadrian fell into adulthood, he found himself an unlikely student of magic. However, this hidden potential came with a spate of questions, and when his master gave in to his old age, he could not ignore them. What would he do now? How did he come to posess these magical gifts? But, cheif among these inquiries was the question of his father. So it was in this question that he found his purpose, his drive, and come the morn he set out with a staff and a tome of the spells he had mastered in his bygone studies, to find his father.