¶ Half-Elf Sorcerer
Affiliations: Strakamir Revik, Virris Revik, Finch Sabic, Edwin Aaronson, Red Stone Mercenary Company
Home Region:: Kingsmark
¶ Story
Kester and his twin brother, Virris, were born in the city of Zoryn in Essodan in 79EA. Their earliest memories are not of their mother, but of their father, Strakamir packing them and the few belongings they could carry into a wagon, hitching up horses, and leaving Zoryn by the light of the red moon. Until recently, Strakimir has never said more about her than that she was a beautiful elven girl, one whose arrival in his life was the result of his unusual luck, and whose disappearance was the reason they left Zoryn.
Thinking that the most opportunities lie in the booming frontier town of Kingsmark, Strakimir moved the family in 92EA. Restless teens of 13, the twins found the town of Kingsmark much more suitable to their disposition, especially Kester. More charismatic and wayward, Kester was frequently the one to find trouble, always to the chagrin of upright Virris and to the amusement of their father.
About ten years ago, the brothers had followed the river the few miles downstream toward the wastes, and set to climbing an old ruin they had often scaled in their youth. By the time they climbed down to the valley floor again, three men waited for them. Their leader introduced himself as Assalka Khoulah. They paid the twins well to bring supplies, though Virris was soon drawn to their strangely-accented words about religion. One day soon after, the men departed, and Virris announced his intention to travel to Assetallis to study with someone.
Separated from his twin, Kester's time became increasingly restless, and he found himself resenting his brother’s study in the temple. He continued his work for his father but grew increasingly troublesome and troubled. He began to sense something more was on the horizon.
Word came that a small group of Seers of Eclasia would be arriving, the astronomers that track the movement of the moons and adjust the calendar of the year. This would be a significant event, and it was learned that the reason for their visit was to observe an extremely close pass of Anemus, the Blood Moon. They had calculated that the closest passing was in the Shadeless Wastes, and while they dared not go down into the badlands, they intended to monitor it.
Kester managed to sneak out well into the wastes ahead of the Seers, brazenly hiking out several miles on his own in the pre-dawn darkness. As the great red moon rose over the northeastern sky, he was suddenly struck by its power and proximity. With frightening quickness, the earth rumbled, and the moon crossed from northeast to southwest, bringing an intense red glow like the seeking eye of some evil beast. When the full Blood Moon passed over him, he felt some latent power in him crackle to life, a spark he had always felt but could not understand or properly channel. He knew instinctively that the red moon had not caused it, only activated it, but it began his exploration of his powers as a sorcerer.
When Virris returned in early spring of 112EA, the tension between the brothers and their differing ideas continued to grow. That seemed to be pushed to the back when they were drawn into the tragedy of Ksenja Bravich and the unplanned life as members of the Red Stone Mercenary Company that followed.