:NAME:
Weylyn D’Amill
: SPECIES:
Human, Drow
: AGE:
107 (around 26 human age)
: GENDER:
Male
: ALLIANCE:
Neutral
: APPEARANCE:
6’4”, 210 lbs. Wiry yet solid frame, he is much stronger than he appears. Dark brown tanned, bordering on light black skin. Shocking light blue eyes and pure white hair and beard that give him the appearance of an old man. He wears his hair about the length of midback. His beard is full, with enough length to cover half his neck. He has a disarming smile and many crinkles around his eyes and mouth from laughing often. He has hard square facial features and ears slightly pointed, as well as slightly angular eyes (noticeable only on close inspection)
He is very seldom dressed in anything but the deerskin and fur clothing he makes, and wears moccasin type boots with intricate beadwork. His hands are scarred and calloused, and his skin has an almost leathery quality to it. He has various scratch marks on his body, as well as bite marks along the back of his neck from his earlier days as a child. Inside his clothing he wears a pendant of the brightest silver and purest gold, with flowing elven script winding towards the centre, seeming to swirl deeper into a vortex out of view. The whole is overlaid in jet black engraving, with en elegant style reading “D’Amill”
A sword is strapped to his back, hilt extending past his right shoulder, ant the tip coming nearly to his knees. It has a multi-hue to it that is ever shifting along the different curves and lines of the blade, depending on how you are observing it. The hilt is wrapped in black leather, with a blood red jewel inset on the counterbalance. A bow of beautiful jet black wood is strapped horizontally across his back the other way, top left to bottom right, over top of a soft deerskin quiver of black arrows, blood red feathers for fletching. A skinning knife is sheathed along the back of his belt, horn bone handle and dull grey steel blade.
Tamaska is a grey/black wolf that stands nearly 4' tall at the shoulders. Fierce looking and beautiful, he is mostly harmless.
: PERSONALITY:
Calm, caring, and laid back he seldom raises his voice or shows hash emotions. He laughs often and jokes with all he comes across, giving him a trusting and calming presence. In the tensest of situations he is calm, collected, and never off his sense of humour. In the fiercest of battles he maintains a state of calmness that unnerves many regular people. He would rather make peace with and for the ones around him than fight, though he has no fear of rising to a challenge that refuses to go away.
: ABILITIES:
He is one with the ways of the forest and the creatures inhabiting it, able to befriend and communicate with even the most simple of creatures. He has incredible stamina, allowing him to jog for days on end with little or no exertion, and can run at a flat out speed for hours on end.
He carries a long broad sword strapped to his back of rare stone that absorbs magic. Any missiles, spells or other that hit him leave him unaffected. If he walks into an AOE type spell, he is not affected, as well if any barriers are set up, he can destroy them with the sword. The sword is perfectly sharp, able to slice through flesh, bone, even chain mail. Though the sword appears to be big and awkward, he can wield it with a speed that matches even the most capable duellist.
Excellent marksman with the bow, able to shoot accurately at ranges up to 80 feet, with a max range of around 200 feet (simple limitations of the bow, though accuracy sharply drops off after 100 feet, turning all shots into "hail marys").
Can call upon the pack he grew up amongst to aid him in times of need. Travels with a bigger than average wolf (around 4’ tall at shoulders) named Tamaska that is considered a brother to him. Hunting partner, travelling companion, and guardian.
: DISADVANTAGES:
Being so in tune with nature, the plague of large cities and modern civilization shakes him to the core whenever he is near them.
The sword that he carries prevents him from using any magic, or receiving magical healing and/or benefits of any kind.
His bow is useless at short ranges, and is his only other weapon save his sword, giving him a severe disadvantage were he to lose even one of his weapons. Additionally, he wears no armour, only the leather clothing he has acquired from the forest, and of that all is soft and supple, not the fire hardened version seen in cheap armour set ups.
Travelling with a wolf means he needs to hunt regularly to feed the both of them, and can be scented by those with a keen enough sense of smell.
: FAMILY/FRIENDS/ENEMIES:
Family-Father is dead, mother suspected dead. Kin to a wolf pack, and travels with his wolf brother Tamaska.
Friends-Friends to all he knows and tries to make more everywhere he goes.
Enemies-The drow elves of his fathers homeland hunt him, though not actively enough to garner constant pursuit.
: HISTORY :
His mother was raped by a drow elf. Fearing the persecution and possible death he would face growing up in human civilization, she prayed to the spirits of the Dark Forest and abandoned him in the woods. Taking pity on his soul the spirits delivered him to a wolf clan that raised him as their own, treating him as their own, for many years.
He learned the lessons of the wolves and became savage as they were. Fighting with tooth and nail, and receiving culling by tooth and nail. This earned him various scars along his body and bite marks along the back of his neck whenever a fellow playmate got the best of him, but also honed his body to perfection. The tireless hours of running with the pack gave amazing stamina and an intimate understanding of the forests.
After reaching the age of 55 and witnessing many passings of clan alphas, the forest spirits returned to set Weylyn on the path to learning his heritage. They told him nothing of his mother’s rape, or exactly what the drow were, for he would have understood none of these concepts anyways. They told him only where he could find either one of his parent’s, whichever one he wished to pursue first. Understanding nothing of the differing life cycles of humans and elves, or the cruelty he would face at the hands of the drow, he first set out to find his father.
Weylyn’s father, Ca’rist, had changed in the years since the rape. Seeing the flaws in the way the drow lived and conducted their lives, he sought change for himself yet was trapped within the strict confines of drow society. Upon finding the drow, Weylyn was nearly killed for no other reason than the fact he was not one of them. The spirits that had looked over and guided Weylyn for so long found Ca’Rist in his dreams one night. Revealing to him exactly who this wolf boy was, Ca’Rist found his opportunity to change not in himself but in the son that was still so pure. After much subtle manoeuvring and mind games, Weylyn was finally put under the charge of his father in the role as a slave.
Weylyn lived under the guise as his father’s slave for 45 years, for if the drow had found out who he truly was he would have been killed. In this time Ca’Rist taught him various languages of the world as well as the many races and peoples inhabiting the world. Ca’Rist also instilled in him a strict code of honour, good naturedness, and respect for all living things that he found so wrong in drow society. Above all other lessons though, Ca’Rist taught him how to fight.
Training in various weapons, Weylyn did fairly well. Ca’Rist presented Weylyn with a darkwood bow one day, made from the wood of the Elttiseer trees of the drow underworld. The jet black wood was remarkably light and supple, yet had a deceptive strength to it. Weylyn became a true marksman with the weapon, steadily increasing his accurate range of attack. Only after picking up Ca’Rist’s sword one day though did he find the true weapon for him. The stone blade was awkward, and for but a few, too heavy and cumbersome to use effectively in combat. The many years of honing his muscles in the wild allowed Weylyn to effortlessly swing the blade with a speed matching that of the best drow duellists, and the amazing stamina he had acquired let him fight for hours on end without tiring. Ca’Rist allowed Weylyn to train freely with the blade, replacing all other weapons with that one single sword, for it truly belonged in Weylyn’s hands And yet, Ca’Rist never even hinted at any intentions of giving the sword to his son. In his mind though, Ca’Rist had passed the remarkable weapon. The blade came with an added benefit. It was made from a rare multi-hued stone called Tasaral which absorbed all magic in and immediatly around the user, protecting the user from magic attacks and effects, but also preventing teh wielder from receiving magical healing and benefits.
After 45 years of servitude, Ca’Rist knew in his heart that his son was ready for the world. He also felt it was time for the boy, for he was still a boy in drow standards, to depart the evil world and strike out on his own, seeking whatever destiny that still lay before him. Leading Weylyn on a desperate escape one night, his Ca’Rist knew that Weylyn, and only Weylyn, would be allowed to escape the clutches of the drow, for he was still viewed as a slave and nothing more by all that surrounded the two and so was considered worthless.
Upon departing the dark underworld that had been his home for nearly a half century, Weylyn nearly collapsed with joy at seeing the wide night sky so full of stars which he hadn’t seen it what felt like eternity. Through the tears in his eyes Weylyn looked back at his father to see if the same joy lived too on his face. Seeing only a look of grief, Weylyn was confused. Focused solely on the son who had solidified so much change inside of him and brought happiness to the dark despair that was drow society, Ca’Rist first removed his family medallion from around his neck and handed it to his son. Then, with a slow and deliberate ceremony, he drew his sword and presented it to Weylyn. Few words other than those of instruction and fewer still emotions had passed between the two over the years, and yet this single act showed more to Weylyn of his father’s love and pride than any words could ever hope to achieve.
Ca’Rist then turned back to the tunnel, once again entering the darkness that was the underworld without so much as a single word to Weylyn. To have shown weakness then would have been to go against all the strength he had hoped to instil in Weylyn, the sword had been gesture enough. Hoping to stall pursuit for long enough for Weylyn to escape, he vanished into the tunnels, choosing a place to make his final stand against that which had poisoned his soul for so long.
Upon seeing his father’s departure, Weylyn too simply turned and started off at a lope towards his homeland. He did not hear the clash of steel on steel, but he felt the flare of sorcery, and knew what it mean, for his father had given up his sword to him. His quick tireless pace set him well ahead of physical pursuit, the sword shielded him from magical detection ad so once again in many years, he was free.
Journeying for many moons, stopping only to occasionally rest and feed, he finally came upon his homeland of Dark Forest. Weylyn easily located his old pack and without much surprise, he was not recognized. He did not feel badly at this, for he had been away for along time, and had come back a different person. No longer was he the naked wolf boy of a half century ago, but a drow warrior. He had strange smells about him, bore strange weapons, and was clothed in drow rags.
Not forgetting his past though, Weylyn stripped himself of all things material, right down to the medallion his father had given him, leaving them in a heap on the outer ring of the den. He challenged the alpha then and there, the way he had been raised, tooth and claw, and he won. At the moment when he was most victorious, when he himself had the alpha’s throat in his own jaws, he simply released his grip and backed away. Weylyn had not come to rule the pack, he simply came to be amongst them, and the recognition he now saw in the alpha’s eyes as one of their own was all he had required.
For seven years he lived with the wolf pack, exploring the surrounding area once more and becoming acquainted with the surrounding folk as well. He had never donned the clothing of the drow again, instead preferring to wear the furs and hide of the animals he killed. Finding Tamaska as an abandoned pup on a hunt one day, he saw an opportunity to bestow the mercy which was given to him as a child. Letting his own blood for the wolf to feed on when other wolves refused to support the runt, Tamaska soon grew into a giant of a wolf, and has been considered a blood brother to Weylyn ever since.
: ANYTHING ELSE?:
Don't wanna take away from everyone's fun, but if any of the shapeshifting is considered magical, I'm sorry? Same for your ring/swords sage. No offence, but really, I can't fly, I can't perform magc or be healed to speak of, i have no armour, and I only got one life to live man, I'm just tryin to live it lol... If you guys feel some things should be allowed can you let me know? Just asking so nohting unexpected pops up in the future and bam, I'm suddenyl dead

: IC ENTRANCE:
The water splashed around his moccasins as he crossed the stream, now entering the final leg of his journey. His white hair flowed out behind him as he continued on his jog towards the inn, moonlight glinting off his sword and making his eyes flash. The deer carcass resting across his shoulders started to grow heavy as his trip went on, but he knew Renegade would be counting on him. His breath started a little laboured as the exertion took it's toll on his muscled body. He had been travelling for the better part of the day with the meat, hunting well beyond the range than was normally required. Damn, but his last delivery had been over two weeks ago, it must have run out by now.
Something dark has entered the forest. Laughing out loud to himself for a moment, Weylyn glanced over to see Tamaska regarding him oddly. Padding along silently beside him, Tamaska's grey and black mottled fur seemed naught but a shadow in the moonlight.
"Don't give me that look, I was just thinking. Something dark has entered the Forest, I can feel it's presence, and the lingerings of magic is in the area... Odd though isn't it, that something dark would enter the Dark Forest?"
Once again laughing to himself at his own joke, Wylen D'Amil padded on through the Dark Forest, growing ever closer to The Dark Forest Tavern, where he could finally lay down his burden and take a well deserved rest.
"Maybe we'll find out what's been spooking up the wildlife and pushing the game so far too." Weylyn said once again regarding Tamaska. No reply was forthcoming, no reply was ever forth coming. Just the regard of those deep brown eyes, seeming far more intelligent than they should.
Weylyn D'Amil, drow hunter and wolfkin to the ark Forest Clan, took comfort in the added weight of the sword on his back.