Name: Solai
Gender: male
Race: Eylnian
Age: "30"
Nation of Origin: Ignis
Type: Flame
Job/Role: Former botany professor
Appearance:
Minus the bloodied aspects, of course. He carries a primitive stone-tipped hoe everywhere he goes.
Personality: Serious, solemn, but passionate. He will fully devote himself to whatever he has decided to do with his life, and so threw himself into the study of the plants of the world. He is peaceful, and so may or may not be able to survive in this aggressive new world.
General History: He was the most respected scholar of the Ignis Botanical Institute, before the world collapsed, that is. He was once famed for his research on the growth habits of wild plants and how they seemed to feed off sunlight in a different way than the Eyln. Determined to resist the dissent into madness, he fled all known civilization to hide in the wilderness, and try to come to work with his plants to provide food, and perhaps unlocking the mysteries of how they still are able to harness the light's sustenance. From his experiments, he come to realize something incredible: One could eat some plants and obtain the energy they obtained from light! What's more, he came to realize that plants could be perpetually killed and reborn using tiny things that they produced, that contained within them an infant plant! Instead of using the energy from the lighthouses to grow, these plants could use water, soil, and any form of light to grow and become strong, and could continually renew themselves to live once more. This discovery was incredible, and Solai wanted nothing more than to share it with all the world, but he knew he could not face the dangers of the cities any time soon, so he stayed in his small clearing in the woods, tending to his plants, and trying to keep the fruits from the trees rationed for himself until new plants sprouted from the earth. He was not starving, but he was eternally hungry, and as much as he wanted to work all day and night to grow his plants, rest forced him to stop. It was one such night when the Tenebrae came to him. three shades, and fear washed over Solai for the first time in a very long time. He begged for mercy, offered them what he had from the plants, and a bargain, barely, was struck. The terms are ambiguous to say the least, but each side appears to obtain something.