Tethir

Species: Elf
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Height: 4'02"
Weight: 80lbs
Build: Athletic
Hair color: White
Eye color: Yellowish
Sexuality: Straight

(the picture is just a ref to give bit idea of what he looks like as seems some want a picture :P )

Appearance:

Tethir is a dark skinned elf, with white shoulder length hair. He has yellowish eyes, his pointed ears stick out almost straight as if someone had pulled them. He has a very young close to childish face, with a bit of a short nose. He has an athletic body from hunting often, though his height and face make people think he is a kid. He normally is wearing loose elven style clothing, while caring a hunting bow and arrows on his back, with a short dagger on his hip. He sometimes is wearing leather shoes or no shoes at all, as he does sometimes like to feel the bare dirt under his feet. His ears have few piercings, left has one, and the right has three. He bears a tattoo of a spiral with fins on his lower back, as a symbol that he was cursed by a monster.

Background:

Tethir hails from a tribe of elves that are skillful trackers and hunters, as well as skilled with marksmen with the bow. They would send young elves to seek out a prey to kill alone, as a rite of passage. Tethir was sent on his at a young age of fourteen, when normally they would have sent him when he turned sixteen, but he had shown great huntsmen skill for being so young. He sought to bring back a great beast, but instead what he found in the dark forest was a monster, that his tribesmen had always warned to stay away from. He was frozen with fear when he saw the monster, but he had his bow drawn and ready to fire. When the beast had moved a bit towards him, he panicked causing him to release his arrow. The arrow found a mark, right in the beast's right eye enraging it. He tried to run from the beast, but it was much faster than him. So, as he ran through the trees and undergrowth, he readied another arrow, when the beast pounced at him, he let the arrow fly. The arrow found its away into the beasts left eye, but seemed to have gone deeper than the first one, causing it to frail its head about giving Tethir a chance to run. He ran from the beast, but didn't see its tongue lash out though he felt it when it struck him in the lower back. He fell to the ground, rolling off a near by ledge out cold. He had fallen into a small river, that brought him to a path that his tribesmen normally travel, which is how he was found. The hunters took the young elf back to their camp to be treated by the elder and shaman, but the two became aware of what was wrong when they saw a finned spiral on the young elf's lower back. They did what they could for him, but the mark would not disappear.

When Tethir had woken, after a few days of being out, the shaman informs him that he had been cursed, when he questioned what the curse was he only got silents. He did receive some good news, which was that he passed his rite, though he didn't bring anything back, it seemed living after seeing that monster was good enough. He went back to his normal life, now as a full fledged hunter of the tribe. As time passed, the effects of the curse became clear as his body had not aged since the attack. This had left him being much shorter than his fellow hunters, but he dealt with it as his size did allow him to be bit more nimble than the others, as well as get into smaller places that they could not. He did enjoy the places he could get too with his size, which caused him to go exploring any time he was out on a hunt. He was even happy to trade with traders that were walking through the forest for items that his tribe did not have. He was amazed at many of the things that he had found, enough to make him choice to leave the camp for good, when he had brought this up with the elder he agreed. Tethir was mostly in shock by this, but was happy none the less, soon he packed his things that he believed he'd need and set off on his adventures outside the forests that he knew.

Skills:

Marksmen - He is skillful with a bow and arrow.

Hunter - He was raised most his life how to be a skillful hunter.

Herbs - He knows few herbs that work well for healing.

Personality: Friendly, bit shy, and adventurist

Likes: Adventures, outdoors, hunting, making friends, interesting things.

Dislike: Being treated like a kid, unnecessary destruction of a forest


Tribe
Tethir's tribe lives in forests, they don't go by any form of tribe name, but other call them forest elves. The tribe is made of crafter and Hunters normally open for trading the wares they make. They are skillfully using bows, short swords and daggers to get their prey. They don't hunt for sport or game, they hunt for what is necessary. The tribe is normally in small number, and are either slender or athletic in their builds. The tribe lacks magic expect for the elder and shaman who pass their powers to the next while the rest can't use magic. They are natural ageless immortals some stop aging after become full grown while some still age a bit more before stopping.

The young are raised in a whole by the tribe, though their parents teach them the basics of life before the whole tribe takes over training them as hunters.

They believe in many of the elven gods and pray to them, more so after they make a kill, or pray for forgiveness if they must do something that would damage the forest such as chopping down a tree.

The tribe holds a rite for all their young hunters to bring back a kill, or a piece of it. After one has passed this rite they are considered an adult and given more stuff to do around the camp, as well as to keep training. Also after the rite allows them to pair with someone, if they choose.

They have sensitive ears, both in the fact that they can hear real well and to touch. Their hearing helps if they are tracking a prey, of listening for possible dangers around them or to the forest in which they live.

They are weary of non-elf species, though that does not mean they will not be friendly, just careful of them, though being in a forest they only know stories of other species, they normally only see other elves or humans.

Curse Monsters

Curse Monster of beasts that give people curses, there are few different kinds, but Tethir only knows of one. There is not yet a way to remove said curses.

Immortal Beast - Is the name of the monster that cursed him, this monster curses a person with immortality, though they will still suffer from death they shall reform in another spot with slight pain from cause of death. This beasts mark is that of a spiral with a finned spine.


Info

Was knighted by Ven_Grit and made into a guardian of the forest, though it is little different than what he used to do back home, he doesn't mind it.