Name: Alaric
Gender: Male
Race: Winter Elf
Age: Middle-Aged (~300)
STAFF Major: Mage/Arcane
Familiar: Hoarhound - An Ice-aspected wolf-like creature.
Appearance: A youthful-looking elvan man with long, thin features and wavy mid-length black hair. His eyes are golden, and his skin pale. His lips are thin, but have a feeling of warmth when he smiles.
Personality: Somewhat aloof, but with a warm heart, wanting to genuinely help students. Still, sometimes it's difficult to discern his caring through his sarcasm and witty remarks.
Bio: Alaric was raised with the intention to guide the next generation in the art of magic. Even in his youth, he dedicated his life to studying magic and became quite proficient. Around the age of 100, he had finally mastered the Arcane arts, and was accepted by the Academy to teach the subject.

Name: Emiimmi (Em-ee-iym-me) Goes by Emi

Gender: Female

Race: Beastfolk / Fairy

Age: 35

Major (Primary/Specialization): Mage / elemental

Familiar: Hummingbird (Female). It has a blue head that transition to green down its body, white underside. It can sense distress among animals and plants, as well as teleport very short distances.

Appearance: As a fairy she is about 5 inches tall. She is capable of changing her size to be around 3 feet, though she isn’t able to freely fly in that form. She is of slim body shape resembling a teenage girl. She has red hair that turns lighter near the ends and purple almost blue colored eyes. Her hair reaches her upper back. She usually doesn’t do anything special with her hair outside of putting in a ponytail. Her wings are swallowtail shaped, mostly transparent with sparkled blue veins. She normally dresses in a leotard like outfit with a low cut back for her wings and a short flared skirt. She is usually barefoot, but will wear flats on occasion.

Bio: Emiimmi once lived in a large colony of other fairies deep in a vibrant forest filled with ancient and young trees alike. This forest originated and continued to branch outside from where the wood plane was created. The colony of fairies lived in one of the larger ancient trees, one that grew immensely over many of the others. By no means was it the largest, but it was large enough to carve homes into it and for it to still thrive. It was known as Everbole.

The fairies there tended to the plants and animals, cultivating new sprouts so they could compete against the larger established woodland, and keeping the grounds clean. They also tended to the dead so that nature would be given back which it gave. Those who did not fly the forest made homes of Everbole, or taught young fairies and told stories of the world. The colony’s claim to fame came mostly from their medicine. From salves that could repair damaged plant life to serums that cured infectious diseases within the wildlife, many of the fairies of Everbole would even make

Emiimmi was a wandering spirit. She would have rather play than to assist or learn. Yet despite her aversion she was curious, especially towards the world outside of the forest. She played her part when it came to gathering or treating the injured, but most of the time she would be seen darting around different parts of the forest along with one of their hummingbirds, used to help keep an eye out for any distress. The hummingbird had taken a strong liking towards Emiimmi and she had done the same to it. They would have plenty of fun racing each other and drinking nectar. She fondly refers to it as Mimi.

During one of these play sessions, they were racing through the trees when suddenly Mimi suddenly stopped and darted towards the upper canopy. Emiimmi took notice and chased it up there. Once she got through the initial branches she was met face to face with an elf. She had no idea he was there at all. Startled by the sudden appearance of a face larger than her body, she momentarily forgot how to fly and fell. The elf caught her, apologizing and inquiring her condition. Regaining composure, Emiimmi demanded to know what was he doing there. He explained to her that he was chasing a cause for a blight that had infected part of the forest. She had been aware of the blight being told it was isolated to a clearing. The elf explained that it was not. Still resting in his hand, he climbed a bit farther up over the trees and pointed west. From up here she could see Mimi hovering in place looking directly towards the direction of the clearing. Several of the trees that surrounded it had blackened as though they had been burned, their leaves shriveled, scattering in the wind. The elf further explained that he was not sure exactly what was causing it, but had several theories of its origin. If all went well, his theories would be correct and he could stop it. He carefully placed Emiimmi on the branch next to him and he departed. Taking flight once again, Emiimmi watched the elf quickly dart from tree to tree towards the blight.

Several weeks after her encounter, the blight had been cured and the surrounding area restored. For the moment, things seemed peaceful, but soon that blight reoccurred. Emiimi learned through the grapevine that the elf had come from central Alveos, the heart of the world in which the forest grew towards. She wondered if it would be possible for that elf to come back to cure the blight once again. She was told that the elf was an adventurer. He had come on his own merits to help in the time of need, no one sent him. She was also told not to worry, that elf was not the only one. Others like him have learned, grown and adapted to lend aid to life of all kinds. The world is much larger than just the forest. A time would come where if needed another would come to lend aid.

This information had changed her perspective. She had only known her life in the forest, and had not given a thought about what lay outside of it. Thoughts of her encounter with the elf, the blight, and the wonder of what exactly is out there and what she can do flooded her mind. She started to take the lessons she was taught to heart. She would listen intently to the stories the elders had about encounters with humans cutting timber, sylphs flying adventures, and the elves helping to keep every living being at peace.

Finally she thought it was time for her to see it for herself. Several times since then adventurers had gone through the forest for one reason or another and Emiimmi felt it was time to join them. She had never really heard of a fairy leaving the forest to attend the academy, but she was sure many have before her. Adventuring was not something one would advertise, as least so thought Emiimmi. For once she had an interest over playing around.

Personality: She is very playful to a point where she can come off as a little annoying. She does not have a strong sense of personal space. One of the more annoying things she does is making off with small items that belong to others either to be playful or out of curiosity. She is easily amused. She is a little on the naïve side trusting everyone she meets instantly until they prove to be untrustworthy after the fact, and even then is quick to forgive.

Name: Daria daughter of Mikhai and Polina, Pet/Bodyguard (depending on who you ask) of Eliyen
Gender: Female
Race: Beastfolk - Leopard (I'm going to include my interpretation of the bonuses and maluses this confers in Daria)

• Pound for pound, leopards are the strongest big cat. Daria is no different. Despite standing only at five foot six, she has explosive strength of someone much larger. Although not wielding supernatural strength, she can run, jump, punch, and lift like the best of Olympians. While not as short of endurance as her larger cousins and able to walk long distances, going at her max for over a minute exhausts her and she would be on the ground wheezing after three. Additionally, she has a rather long recovery time compared to normal humans, so even if both parties exhausted themselves it is unlikely . An intelligent opponent will exploit this by forcing Daria to exhaust herself before reaching them.
• Among big cats, leopards are the best climbers bar none. They even haul prey animals up to three times as heavy as they are into trees with little effort. Daria can grab a fully grown man in one hand and use her legs and her other hand to climb like she's in Assassin's creed - and even be somewhat quiet when doing so.
• While leopards aren't the least social animal, they certainly aren't pack animals like Lions. Daria typically chooses a few, close friends, but begins to become confused as that social web grows and starts to become defensive. She wouldn't really ever be able to understand ideological issues and tends to just go along with what her friends say. If Daria and her ancestors had grown up in complete isolation, it is unlikely they would be able to sustain civilization or build cities.

Age: Late Teens
Major: Warrior (Green "Knight", combines nature abilities with her combat)
Minor: Mage (Summoning, although primarily ties in with Green "knight")
Familiar: Snowy, a small, white butterfly.

Appearance (Pictures and/or descriptions are acceptable.): Standing at five foot six, Daria's figure is lean, fit, and slightly muscular. With white hair and slightly tanned skin, the only things normally revealing her beastfolk origin are her two leopard ears distinguishable by the black spots on them, her golden feline eyes with slit pupils, and a tail waving behind her. It's not unusual to find her in simple, if not dirty dress, faring more simple and tough materials like leather over cloth, although she does wear a decorative collar with house Patris' coat of arms upon it. In battle she will normally wear half-plate, and if she stays in a fight for a while her features being to look more ... beastly.

Bio [may fill in later]: Daria was born into a small northern tribe, in the outskirts of the Ice Realm where the fields are snow for most of the year. With her parents, she stalked, ambushed, and hunted her prey. They would contact civilization mostly to trade, offer up their own services as mercenaries, and to report issues noticed on the outskirts. She celebrated, trained, and practiced with her tribe, and expected them to take care of her when her parents left for their adventuring missions. The pair of them dealt with an ice ghost along with a few other adventurers, and apparently they rescued a fairly high profile diplomat by the name of Faeylen Patris. He was so impressed that he requested they send someone to guard his daughter soon after she declared her (perhaps naive) desire to adventure.

With a daughter around the same age, Daria's parents recommended her and soon had sold her to the diplomat for a rather substantial sum of money and a guarantee of good treatment. Daria was surprised by the news, but really was more annoyed at being pulled away from the tribe than an ideological discomfort with the idea of technically being a slave - it wasn't uncommon for parents to get rid of their younger children among the tribe in a similar manner when it had grown a bit too large, and ultimately the funds would help the tribe continue in the future.

Daria met up with Eliyen about half a year before leaving to allow the pair to adjust to eachother, and then the two of them headed towards the academy. Daria finds herself respecting Eliyen as the leader, even if she is concerned abouthe girl's lack of experience.

Personality: Proud, if not extremely so. She likes to be well dressed in her own barbarian fashion, as if always prepared to fight those duels that make her (literally) chirp with excitement - though she has recently picked up an interest in more fine sorts of dress and makeup after spending time with her mistress. She isn't a social engineer and she knows it - she trusts the friends she has to not misdirect her, although she probably wouldn't really understand if she was. When she's uncomfortable or upset, she tends to climb up to high places and treat them like her own private security blanket. That security blanket is employed virtually every time Eliyen finds another beastfolk thats just a bit more furry than she is and steals all the attention from herself - Daria would never admit that it bothered her, though, if she's even aware why.