King Rowendar



Rowendar is king of the Court of Stars, and is the liege of all eladrin. He has subordinated control of his military troops to Queen Ravaella Forgedawn of the Sharonallel resistance.

Background
Born in the far reaches of the Feywild to a noble lineage in the year 120 DA to a Winter Fey Marquess and Marquessa, Rownedar began playing the lute at a very young age, and when his parents' vizier informed them of the power of bardic magic, they very quickly had him trained to weave his natural eladrin arcane prowess into various songs, compositions, and pieces.

By the age of 25, he was set to a post in the Dalelands of the Fey, where his prowess in battle magic quickly earned him a military rank to match his noble one. His practice of chess, combined with his racial adeptitude for teleportation magic, drove him to manipulate battlefields to the rout of his foes.

However, at age 57, as Brigadier General for the Winter Fey army, he suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of drow invaders from the Shadowfell, who wielded a brand of magic so steeped in necromancy, some speculated that it could only have been manifested by a dracolich. To escape infamy, he faked his death and ran off into the wild, communing with nature in anguish and finding solace in natural magic, developing some skill as a warlock. Before finally seeing fit to return to society some 50 years later, he deliberately scarred his face, in the hopes that age and deformity might conceal his identity. He changed his name to Mindartis in the interim.

During his absence, his parents underwent a horrific encounter when, as part of a peace treaty between the drow and the eladrin, Rowendar's father, Marquess Jacobe, had no way to circumlocute his cultural translations of various exclusively eladrin concepts without having to speak the Vowel of Derangement. Halfway through the negotaions, he sprouted wings, and few minutes later went into a berserk rage, killing his wife and three foreign dignitaries before hemmoraging blood from his pores and dying. Needless to say, war continued unabated for several further years. The memory of this haunts Rowendar to this day, and he has a blood-thirst for any fool who dares to speak the close, front, rounded vowel.

As a long-lost Marquess of The Court of Stars, he succeeded to the throne in 232 DA, and continued to grow wise in the ways of arcane might. He eventually attained interplanar fame as both a king and an archmage.

Appearance
Though his face bears horrific scars, Rowendar is still fetchingly handsome and slightly effette. His hair is pale purple, and his eyes are a vibrant shade of sapphire. He always carries a sitar, and he pretends to rely upon his staff to walk--when in fact it is a powerful implement of arcane energy, and he is exceptionally spry.