Spirits of the Earth

Name Ewan ap Rhys
Age 10, formerly 25
Sex Male
Species Human
Ethnicity Serenian
Height 4'6"
Occupation Streetsweeper for the Friends
Residence Zantaric

Physical Description
Ewan is a small and scrawny boy with fair skin, big blue eyes, and a shaved head. Since being kidnapped to Zantaric, and later pressed into joining the Friends (a street gang), he's been made to blend in. Mostly the boy wears a ragged tunic sinched about the waist, and has exchanged his wizard's staff for a broom.

In the past he wore a loincloth and floral cloak, chest and forearms painted with fey sigils.

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Awesome Art by Eckhart_von_Musel (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=14737)

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/268154784513654784/457337526244474930/Ewan_1_small.png)

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Personality
Ewan has conquered aging, and death itself, and thus considers himself Le'raana's greatest wizard. He can blather for days about alchemy and cryptozoology, and has a great fondness for large and fearsome predators. Having been transformed into child he has the foresight, patience, and willpower of a 10-year-old. The boy is fiercely is competitive, easily excited, and endlessly curious. "Why not?" is always the question.

Ewan doesn't mind his condition much, and rather enjoys the attention and deferential treatment it brings. His ego is nonetheless very fragile, and the little wizard does not take kindly to jokes at his expense...

Magic/Abilities
Ewan is overflowing with life-giving magic. Simply being near him makes plants grow bigger, wounds heal faster, and blemishes disappear. A clever mage might tap this excess power for their own use.

The boy is an exceptional wizard, though his powers are now stunted and chaotic. He requires a wand or staff to work spells properly. Otherwise he might manage to turn himself into a dragon for some fleeting moments, or keep a dying man alive until a healer arrives. A singular act of magic will exhaust him for days.

Relationships
His family lives on a small estate in Ravensway.

After being saved from Slavers he has joined the Friends, a street gang in Zantaric

History
Ewan was a mage born to an old family in Ravensway. He was a boastful young apprentice, known for frivolity and showmanship.

He journeyed to Niahi to brew a potion of eternal youth, a formula stolen from the fey. In a two year journey fueled by his family's fortune he sought to create it. He gathered dryads' acorns, wyverns' venom, dew-drops of the fey realms, tears of fire giants and much more. The week he spent preparing the potion was all a haze. Ewan awoke in a smoking ruin with his equipment, reagents, and texts turned to ash. His body was all wrong, too. In a shattered mirror he saw a small boy, naked and covered in soot.

Ewan tried to reverse the spell. He knew who he was, but memories of magic and alchemy were fuzzy at best. The remnants of his work made little sense. Hunger getting the best of him, he departed his ruined study in search of civilization


Current Threads
Underfoot (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=23863.0) - Back north, Ewan has stuff stolen by a gang of hooligans and makes a new friend.
An Assassin in a Haystack (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=26161.0) - Ewan has been with the 'Friends' for a month, and has fallen into a routine with the street gang. Some mysterious visitors arrive at the City.

Complete Threads
Humble Beginnings (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=19648.0) - Ewan meets Aliki, a prophet of the child-goddess Zyra. Aliki is looking for eternal youth, and Ewan a home and way to restore his magic. Ewan now dwells in Kishahn.
Maladies Most Unusual (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=22814.0) - Ewan goes in search of a rare book, and encounters a fellow mage.
Urchins (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=22655.0) - Ewan is captured by slavers on his way north. He and Cara, a strange elven girl, are taken in by a witch in Zantaric.
Addicted to Adventure (http://www.spiritsoftheearth.net/smf/index.php?topic=24286.0) - Ewan escapes his captors, and finds shelter in a street gang.