Rowan



Rowan, simply named Rowan due to his lack of family, is the last surviving sorcerer in the realm, or so he is led to believe. He serves as a wizened seer and advisor to King Talfyr II, as he served his father before him.

History
Rowan was born in a town he cannot remember, to a mother and father he has since forgotten. At a young age he had a vision, one that told him to wander away from his home, to seek the Seercull, a collective of men and women that possessed abilities that many did not. The Lord-Seer saw that the boy had a gift, and took him in for training. By the age of eighteen, Rowan had honed his abilities; capable of tapping into both the future and the past, amongst other powers. He was one of the few to ever possess the powers of a sage; those who were wizened beyond their years, as if they had lived a life before. Only the Lord-Seer and three before him had ever had such powers at his age. The Lord-Seer suggested he use those powers for the good of the realm, and Rowan travelled to the capital to profess his service to King Talfyr I. The king took him in as an advisor, and it was Rowan who helped capitalise on enemy weaknesses in the wars that followed.

When King Talfyr fell in battle and his son took his throne, Rowan served him too, now even older and more wise. But King Talfyr II saw something more than a sage in Rowan; he saw a wizard, a man with magical blood flowing in his veins. Though, wizards had been eradicated a hundred years before, and it was said their kind was extinct. Still, Rowan's curiosity had been perked, and he left the capital for a decade in search of ancient tomes and scrolls that would allow him to truly see if wizard's blood flowed through his veins. When he returned to the capital he was no longer a seer, nor a sage, but the last and only wizard in the realm. He served for twenty more years before his highnesses children were kidnapped, and he was sent along with Thalrick on his quest to bring them home.