<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/88/Ad085dd8e20c1a29a2a961113e95aa12.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Alni Savund</span>(https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1543402)<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Alni is on the shorter side for a male human, standing just shy of five and a half feet. While he's lived mostly in seclusion, he puts a great deal of effort into his appearance, keeping himself well groomed  often using various lotions to keep his skin feeling soft and smooth. His piercing blue eyes have an almost eerie glow to them, something that he simply waves off as 'a family trait' to any that bother asking. Alni spends most of his time indoors, a preference that's made obvious with his pale complexion and lack of any definition. In fact, the only 'wild' thing about the boy is his thick, black hair, the only thing about his appearance that doesn't seem to have every minute detail completely controlled by him. His wardrobe consists of mostly exotic or just simply expensive outfits, not a single wrinkle to be found on any of the fabric, though he does have a few less extravagant options for when he has to travel for whatever reason. While his eyes reveal a great deal of intelligence, they also show a lot of inexperience, the boy being too young and too much of a shut in to fully understand how the world works. That being said, his lack of experience in dealing with others and feeling of superiority over people he considers 'duller' makes him a rather bad conversationalist, at times ranging anywhere from rude to just downright awkward. Despite this, he does genuinely try to better his attitude around others, at least, when he's not being too stubborn to admit to his mistakes.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Alni grew up in a small house outside the walls of New Stetven. He was raised alone by his mother, Velya, who was the self proclaimed healer of New Stetvan. His father, having left before he was born, was rarely mentioned by Alni or his mother, the boy being perfectly content with his single parent. Alni had fond memories of his childhood, remembering his mother as being very caring, if not somewhat overprotective. Anytime Velya had left the house, she would encourage Alni to stay inside, bringing him a wide assortment of books to tide him over until she returned. While he enjoyed whatever she brought him, reading them all several times over, he held a particular fascination for ones that dealt with that involved arcane or fantastical subjects. While the books managed to keep him preoccupied for the most part, he would still occasionally sneak outside when he thought his mother was gone, but always ended up getting caught and scolded, resulting in the attempts to explore outside his home becoming less and less frequent.<br/><br/>While most of Alni's childhood remained relatively simple, one day, when Velya returned from one of her trips, something about her had... changed. She was still the same doting mother she had always been, but she seemed far more unhinged, Alni often catching her muttering to herself or dancing around outside at night, completely naked. She had also begun to bring strange men into their home, all of which seemed to disappear without a trace after a few days. She changed physically as well, her appearance looking far more youthful than he had remembered and her eyes changing from a deep emerald color to a piercing blue. While he did his best to ignore these changes and pretend like everything was the same as ever, he couldn't help but feel afraid whenever she was around. Even though she didn't change how she treated him, Alni began to avoid his mother more and more, even beginning to sneak out while she was still home.<br/><br/>Shortly after he came of age, Alni decided he couldn't stand living with his mother anymore, the woman being barely recognizable as the person who had raised him and even starting to look at the boy with contempt, as if he was becoming a burden on her life. Shortly before he acted on plans he had of leaving however, his mother had suddenly vanished, without a trace. At first, he thought she had just left on another one of her trips, but as days turned to weeks and weeks to months, Alni realized that she wasn't returning. She hadn't even taken anything with her, all her belongings remaining exactly where he remembered, completely untouched. Despite the strained relationship they had in more recent years, Alni couldn't help but feel sorrow at the disappearance of Velya. She was still, after all, the woman who had raised him, despite all the dramatic changes she underwent.<br/><br/>A few years after Velya's disappearance and Alni was still living in their home. He decided to take on the role of a healer in her stead, though his knowledge in alchemy was far more lacking and he had trouble making enough to live off of. One night, while he was asleep, Alni was visited by a vision of a strange being in his dreams. It told him that it knew his mother and that it agreed to look after him once she was no longer able to. It told him that he could have whatever his heart desired so long as he did 'small favors' for it. When he agreed to do what it asked, it even told him a great deal of secrets it knew. When Alni awoke, he was greeted to the sight of his first gift for his compliance, a small greensting scorpion waiting patiently right next to his head. He felt no fear as he stared curiously at the poisonous insect, fully aware of the magical link he had with it. When dawn broke,  Alni set off to do as the strange being asked, collecting various ingredients that grew nearby, his new scorpion companion riding along on his shoulder. The task seemed rather mundane and he couldn't understand what it would want with what he was collecting, but he did so without question, eager to see just what his new 'friend' was capable of. Returning home with what he was asked to gather, he slipped the flora he collected under his pillow, Sure enough, when he went to sleep that night, the vision greeted him once again, pleased that he had done as it asked. In return, it told him more of its secrets and gave him exactly what he asked for: gold.<br/><br/>Things continued this way for quite some time, with Alni doing some seemingly mundane task for his mysterious benefactor and it rewarding him with more secrets and more of whatever the boy desired. As time went on, Alni's appearance began to change, his emerald eyes become bluer and brighter with each passing day and his overall features becoming more feminine. He hardly noticed, however, being far too preoccupied with all of the new stuff that he had been given, his small home becoming more and more extravagant with each request he fulfilled. In addition, the strange being's secrets allowed the boy to grow more and more powerful, learning magic that would take some years to master, in mere days.