Aldremar

An ancient Cevallan mage and founding member both of the Aethenmoor Institute and of the Circle; his contributions to the fields of enchantment and metamagics are valued, if unrecognized, by mages across the world to this very day. Though he is best known as the father of the Aethenmoor Institute he has been involved under one name or another in many of the Gloaming Crusades, at the behest of and in opposition to his childhood friends Celia and Morwen. Of particularly modern interest is his role as arcane advisor to the young and ambitious King Thomas of Cevallan, whom he mentors under the name of Talles.

Aldremar was born a peasant in primeval Cevallan during the legendary [War of Roses], in which Fae of the Bright and Dark Courts struggled for dominion of the spiritual essence native to the land. As a child, he grew familiar and eventually friendly with a pair of half-fae children named Celia and Morwen, respectively born from human unions with Bright and Dark Fae. His refusal to partake in the dark bargain that later chained both Courts within the devilish anti-Ring, the Shackle Stones, would not be enough to spare him from the millennia of conflict that followed, as his immortal childhood friends vied against each other in the interminable Gloaming Crusades.

His relationship with King Thomas of Briroa began when the latter claimed the enchanted sword Mithrend from its resting place in Athlmark. Since then, the enigmatic wizard Talles has attended to the young king, guiding him toward a destiny few yet may comprehend.

Mortal Life
The age in which Aldremar was born was one of strife. Well before the Godspact sealed all foreign Powers away from the terrestrial sphere, Cevallan was the site of a mystic conflict between the Fae of the Bright and Dark Courts and a cabal of devils patronized by the Prime Evils of Envy, Deceit, and Spite. Most humans of this era were little more than chattel, bound in servitude to either Fae or fiend.