Leiven

Leiven is a formerly Desh'niri elf from the Forgotten Stretch, but has since become an Ethereal with the Tranquil Order. He is played by Drew Z (drewberry).

His birthday is the 14th of Long-Dream.

Early Life
Leiven was born in the Forgotten Stretch to Alyssandri, a translator between Common/Elven and Rok, and Quintus, an author. Overall, his childhood was a fairly lonely one. His parents had a tendency to get absorbed in their work and without many other children around, he would instead entertain himself with books and exploring the world around him.

However, when he was about 14 years old, he witnessed something that nothing he had read thus far could explain. He saw someone ripped apart by time. He didn't help them and he became fixated on this one moment. He searched through every book he could get his hands on but nothing could explain what happened that day. It was a turning point where his normal curiosity turned into an obsession with knowledge.

Several years later, his lust for knowledge not abated in the slightest, he attended University to study Natural Science, a passion that had more to do with his childhood than anything else. He desperately longed to understand the world around him, and therefore studied until he received his doctorate in the subject. He worked for as a researcher at the same University for a few years, but eventually grew bored of Academia and made his way off into the world at the age of 38.

He wanted to learn on his own with no code of ethics to tie him down and slow him down. Luckily for him, he ended up traveling around Fayeer during the big war on the continent. He won't talk much about what he was doing during that period, but he made several discoveries with the help of some people who conveniently went missing during the war. Among his discoveries was the antidote to a common poison, and a thorough study on how the poison affects the body. He spent about 150 years as a rogue scientist.

It was at this point he met Lavenza, a natural scientist and a member of the Tranquil Order. Leiven was fascinated and slightly envious of her existence as an ethereal. She and him became decently close friends, and it was her influence that led Leiven to returning to academia.

Following advice to spend a bit of time teaching to prove he could behave himself, he began teaching natural science at a University in Skjern. He and Lavenza remained in contact during this period, and she eventually suggested that the Tranquil Order allow him to join. He was ecstatic, and subsequently joined the order at the age of 311, working under Lavenza

After working his way through the ranks of the order, he eventually was given the option to become an ethereal and did so at the age of 452. He has spent the last 400 years rarely leaving Astraria and working in his own lab with his own assistant, a half elf named Elena.

At 856, an arcane biologist named Vizeer asked him to investigate a purple drake in Heimhall, believing it to be the one stolen from him years ago. Leiven, hoping to curry favor with those above him, and because Vizeer was a friend, decided to go and so departed for Heimhall.