Kellis Loraevre Elarmiel

[Kellis Loraevre]

Kellis Loraevre Elarmiel

Age  30

Gender  Male

Origin  Devahni/Elf

Occupation  Physician/Healer

"Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling
Do not cry and I will sing a lullaby"

Selena Raukoeur, Kellis' mother, did not become a mother because she wanted to be one. Nor, was the choice to become laden with child made because she wanted a child of her own. Her child was conceived (on her part), with the intention of allowing her to give birth to the ember that would start the inferno intended to burn the life, wealth, power, and reputation of a certain elven lord to ashes.

This was, of course, in the time before she had taken the position of Archdruid of The Druidic Circle of the Moon Mother. She, like the son she would come to bear, did not wish to take the place of Archdruid from her mother before her. Selena did not feel her mother, or their circle, did enough to protect the wilderness that they worshiped and called home from the hands of those who wished to tame and capitalize it for their own gain. Her mother wanted to talk to the people felling trees for lumber and trapping animals for their fur. Talking was not enough for Selena. She did not want to wait for the rich and powerful to take pity on her circle and on nature. She wanted to strip them of all they held dear, their wealth and reputation, just as they had stripped nature of its innocent kin.

Selena found her revenge beneath the sheets with an elf named Anarion of the Elven High House, Falwing. She did not know why he allowed her into his bed, as he had a wife of his own and a handful of children, but alas, they spent the night together. Selena did not expect the elf to keep her around, nor did she want to be delegated to a life as Anarion's secret mistress, so much to his delighted pleasure, she was gone before he woke the following day.

The plan had been to conceive this elf's child and expose him, not only as unfaithful in marriage, but as someone who would stoop so low as to bed a non-elf and sire a bastard, half-blooded child. This remained Selena's plan for most of her time carrying Kellis, but a little over half way through her pregnancy, her mother was mortally wounded during an altercation with the same people with which she insisted upon peaceful communication and had no choice but to step down as Archdruid and expected her daughter to take her place. Selena reluctantly accepted her mother's position and learned what she could under her mother's direction and wisdom in order to lead their circle.

Unfortunately, Selena's mother did not live to see the birth of her grandson. Kellis had been born a moon after his grandmother passed and for whatever reason, she kept him. Maybe this was due loneliness at the loss of her mother, guilt for the time she spent butting heads with her, or simply the chance to keep the memory and spirt of her mother alive by being for her child what her mother had been for her. She could not help but love him, despite the sting in her heart that a new battle would lay over the horizon due to both his half-elven ancestry and the fact that he was male in the position of being next in line for leadership in a matriarchal druidic circle.

"Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling
Do not cry and I will sing a lullaby"

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While Selena did all that she could to raise her child with love and in the spirit of her circle, Kellis' gender remained an omnipresent issue that began to sever the circle in two. There were those who, while uncomfortable with the idea of the Archdruid's sole offspring being male, were resigned to embrace this change out of loyalty to Selena, as she had proven to be a skilled druid and leader. At their opposition were those who threatened to leave the circle due to the feeling that Kellis' birth was an ill-omen and a sign from the Moon Mother that Selena was not fit to be Archdruid. The circle was, in a sense, asking Selena to choose between her people and her child. It was a choice she could not bear to make and so when Kellis was seven years old Rimpira, the circle's Second Druid, made it for her, and stole Kellis away.

Anarion had not been idle since his night with Selena. He had continued to collect and build upon his power and wealth and for that reason, he found himself in an extremely difficult when Rimpira sent a message to him, informing him of his half-blooded illegitimate child. She gave the elven lord a choice. Take Kellis in and raise him as his own, without seeking out Selena to return him or she would expose the fact that he had a bastard son to all who would listen within Harannossë. Anarion chose the former choice and reluctantly took the half-blood in, although not without ensuring that his son would always know how little he meant to him.

"Boy you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time"

Since that day, Kellis has been raised within the walls of his father's home. A being of nature, constantly pruned of any behaviors seen as too wild or unbecoming of a young elf. He is expected to carry himself in a way which does not allude to his mixed heritage, lest he make his father look imperfect to the rest of elven society. Anarion wants nothing more than for his son to suffer, less so out of hatred for him, but out of spite and animosity towards Kellis' mother.

For as much time as he has been able, Anarion has sent Kellis to any place other than the family home that he can manage, whether that be boarding schools, far off study, or familial tasks that require him to be spending the majority of his time in inns. The only constants for him being his animal companion, Cherche and his voracious desire to study and learn all that he is able about healing, medicine, and magic.

"I never give you my pillow,
I only send you my invitations
And in the middle of the celebrations,
I break down"