Sylas Kierkegaard

Bio
Born to a family of lorekeepers and sages, Sylas spent a large part of his youth studying magic - a skill which he did managed to hone over decades of practice, but it was clear he was hardly a natural talent. While others around him were able to simply place their hands to the earth to nourish the soil, the young wood elf could scarcely manage a single blossom without intense concentration.

Concerned that their bloodline may be deteriorating in magical power, Sylas was largely pushed to the outer edges of the regular family curriculum; especially in regards to presentation skills as they tried to keep him out of the limelight when interacting with the other great elven families. Trained instead to function more as a warden for the accumulated knowledge of the ages, his job was to learn and preserve teachings rather than to preach them - simply told to live his life in accordance to the tenets of those that came before, and to only dispense said knowledge in the event that not doing so would cause it to be lost forever.

Many of the teachings handed down through the Kierkegaard family came through one figure in particular; a planar entity said to have consorted with their ancestors many eons ago - considered by many in the Kierkegaard family to be the factor which separated them out from the other magical families. Though no natural talent in the magic of druids and wizards, Sylas was born with an uncanny propensity to manifest powers associated with this entity... And as a warden of knowledge he was taught how to best use them to identify and eliminate otherworldly threats.

Many details of the elven campaign waged against dragons in the previous millennia have been either deliberately withheld or simply forgotten, but there still ended up with distinct camps for and against the act amongst the elven families, and Kierkegaard came down very much in favour of banishing the dragons due to the risk they posed to all other life. With this in mind, the call to battle has been made to defend the world against those same foes - all the validation Sylas needed to join the cause.

Over the course of his studies he had at times felt sympathy for the draconic cause... But now there were to be no gray areas. It was a just and proper war against an evil foe, and to hesitate in resorting to violence might in turn cause suffering to befall the innocent rather than the cruel.

He couldn't afford to miss.