Starsworn (prime)

Starsworn Race Half-elf Culture Sylvankind Profession Empath

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Lore

[An Ancient Library]
You find yourself surrounded by a library of age beyond compare. its towering shelves are packed with dust-choked tomes and crumbling scrolls.  The air smells of old paper and candle wax, and shadows cling to the narrow aisles between the shelves.  You also see a worn lor table with a lit candle votive, a mourning token of raven black hair, and a jeweled periapt on it. 

>look periapt

This faceted cabochon of black jewel is clutched by a desiccated hand of carved lor with verdigris claws, its fine details depicting the stage of rigor mortis.  Finely etched inscriptions engulf the facets of the night-dark gemstone, the alchemical designs traced in a faint wash of metallic ink.

>get periapt

You pick up the jeweled periapt. 

>wear periapt

As you don your periapt, a wave of dreadful cold rushes through your very bones.  A sense of utter emptiness overtakes you, extinguishing your spirit like a firefly vanishing in the night.  The vast cold rushes out of you as the image of a rotted lich appears beside you, and you feel yourself again.

The lich extends the tome towards you in a silent offer, and you accept. 

>read tome

The adventurer known as Starsworn was born as Kaydrin Wintervale in the year 4,867 to a Sylvan mother and a Human father. The union itself was unremarkable by the standards of both peoples, but the child was not: he exhibited true chimerism, with one side of his body developing along clean Sylvan lines, and the other wholly human. Each ancestry saw only the other's half, and the child was carried into the wilds and left exposed and unnamed.

He survived long enough to be found by a scout from a Vornavian border settlement. He was kept as a matter of practicality rather than good will, and raised without sentiment to make himself useful to them. His predilection for magic emerged in adolescence, uneven and instinctive. In time, he left the settlement and made his way south, making good use of the various skills he was taught through childhood.

Later records place him in the Landing environs, where he entered service at the Temple of Love casting defensive spells to protect the temple's acolytes. There he met a mage of the faith who would become his wife. Through her love, he refined and expanded his spellcraft until his talent became formidable.

That period ended with the corruption of the temple by Lyendra and Ivas. His wife was lost along with the acolytes, her body corrupted into a nedum vereri and her spirit severed, torn loose to wander Elanthia, left unmoored without burial rites. Yet, her spirit remains bound to him, manifested in whispers whenever he casts a spell, or physical form to assist him in combat.

After the Temple’s fall, Kaydrin abandoned his given name and took the moniker 'Starsworn'. This was a vow as much as a title, describing his commitment to wander beneath the open sky until he could reunite his wife’s spirit with her body and grant her the burial she was denied. In pursuit of that goal, he has aligned himself with Zelia, Arkati of the moon and madness, seeking clarity within the hopelessness of his mission.

>remove periapt

As you doff your periapt, a hollow moan echoes in your mind like the creak of some timeless glacier.  A wave of dreadful cold claws its way into your bones, then rushes away.  For a moment after, the periapt feels cold to the touch.  The tome, and the lich, are gone. 

Contributions

Guides

• Starsworn's Ebon Gate Guide
• Starsworn's New Player Bullet Guide
• New and Returning Players' Lich Guide
• Experience Guide
• Guide for the Recently Departed
• Comprehensive Gear Guide - WIP
• Introduction to Spirit Beasts
• Bloodrune Holder Guide
• Enable the Wizard FE Theme Song in Wrayth
• Grit Explained

Worksheets

• Enhancives Parser
• Gilded Locus Builder
• GSIV Tracker
• WPS Cost Calculator
• Starsworn' Enhancives Master Sheet

Charts

• Summary of Ranger Lore Benefits
• Ranger Lores Build Comparison