A bumbling alchemist. My favorite character.
Likes: research, the outdoors, time alone, helping society
Dislikes: crowded places, attention, adventures, other elves
Good qualities: friendly, well-educated, humble, open-minded
Bad qualities: bad at talking, clumsy, cowardly, scatterbrained
His spectacular medicine bags packed full of dues ex machina.
Ernest Wilkes was born in a village on the coast mainland Grimnard. His parents were elves from the foreign land of Tearengarde, where they had been persecuted as monotheist heretics among the polytheist elves. In human lands, they happily embraced the more accepting Grimnard culture and gave their son a human name; Ernest, the name of the ship captain who had transported them away from Tearengarde, and Wilkes, after the town they settled in.
As a child, Wilkes spent many hours wandering about the forests of Grimnard, which his Wood Elf parents thought perfectly normal. He became affluent with the flora of Grimnard, and at some point aquired an interest in alchemy. At the age of sixteen, he went to the monostary of Duchran to study alchemy. At twenty-one, he became a paying member of the Alchemists' Guild and opened a shop in Duchran.
Wilkes often felt out of place among the humans of Grimnard, and eventually decided to visit his parent's homeland of Tearengarde. After spending two months there, he returned, but would not discuss his experience with his friends other than saying that he was "disgusted." From then on, he refused to identify himself as an elf.