<div class="floatright">(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag94/Autocad-E/high_elf___sketch_by_aurora_stylus-d4z4qd2_zps927a9d73.png)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Evelynn Anastasia (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=92442)</span><br/>High Elf Wizard</div><br/><strong>Quotes:</strong><br/><br/><em>"Once upon a time, in another lifetime, I dealt in the finest silks and spices, to those with the most refined tastes. Today, I deal with the most faithful servants of Tenebrax, in the most exquisite means of death and destruction."</em><br/><br/><em>"Hark! One last banner unbowed in the sky.<br/>So long as Eagle sings his freedom cry,<br/>For this eternal truth we fight and die -<br/>Dulce et decorum est pro lux mori!"</em><br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong><br/><br/>Centuries ago, a young elf fled home and signed up aboard a merchant vessel. Over the years she worked her way up, under different traders and different vessels, from a lowly cook's mate, to ship's officer, and finally to captain of her very own ship. She finally saved up enough gold and gathered enough financial backers to strike out on her own as an independent trader, dealing in the trade of exotic goods between shores near and far. There were a few setbacks along the way, but she recovered from each one the wiser from the experience, and eventually managed to form her own trading company with her own modest fleet of merchant vessels.<br/><br/>With wealth came the ability to pursue a hobby, and Evelynn discovered natural philosophy. As company owner she no longer needed to take to the seas personally, having captains to sail her ships, but still she would travel along on voyages of commerce to distant lands, where besides the business of buying and selling she also studied and made extensive notes of foreign flora and fauna.<br/><br/>Then the terrible day of Lux's fall came, though Evelynn was fortunately away from Latun on voyage at the time and managed to escape the worst of it personally. The writing on the wall was clear to her, though - long decades of trade had given her the ability to predict future prices, to an extent that seemed almost clairvoyant to the layman, and she could see that under Tenebrax's regime life would be cheap and mercy unable to be bought, not even for a mountain of gold. The elf still had many years of natural life ahead of her, and even if they weren't cut short, living them out in unending darkness was definitely not on her agenda, she decided.<br/><br/>In her voyages she had met many foreign merchants, many of whom had a trick up their sleeve she had not seen before to come out on top in a transaction - tricks which she had learned and applied herself to great effect afterwards. The minions of Tenebrax were no different, they had ways, powerful ways indeed, to overthrow the forces of light, but their methods could be learned and turned back against their own. Capturing monsters was an expensive proposition, and maintaining their imprisonment even more so, but she viewed it as a worthy investment. After three years of study into the evil creatures' ways, utilizing all the tools and skills she had acquired from dabbling in natural philosophy, Evelynn finally did it - she could wield Tenebrax's own weapons against his servants, the power of arcane magic at her fingertips. It was costly, a single ship remaining of her fleet, the others sold off over the years to fund her research, but such was the price of power.<br/><br/>Now she only needed to find others like herself, who were willing to do what must be done, to defeat Tenebrax, restore Lux, and return the future to the land...