The Legacy of Solmar Starshade
Arc I: Birth & Early Life
Arc I: Birth & Early Life
Important Appearances:
Perathis Starshade (Father)
Eiria Undvaldsdottir (Mother)
Undvald Undvikson (Grandfather)
Ysalaine (Obstetrician)
Acilato (Priest of the River Village)
Marilus (Ealdorman of the River Village)
Perathis Starshade (Father)
Eiria Undvaldsdottir (Mother)
Undvald Undvikson (Grandfather)
Ysalaine (Obstetrician)
Acilato (Priest of the River Village)
Marilus (Ealdorman of the River Village)
Some years ago, a man called Perathis Starshade fell in love with a woman going by the name Eiria Undvaldsdottir. Because they made for a strange couple, what with Perathis being of elven descent and his wife being a human woman of Kendovian descent, they decided to settle down in the River Village. Being a small town surrounded by rivers and forests nearby, the villagers usually did not care all too much about oddities such as an elven man who had married a woman that arguably had more muscle than he did. Needing to make a living for themselves, Perathis became one of the local fishermen while Eiria used the skills she had learned from her father Undvald, thus becoming a hunter. Being a quick study, Perathis made special lures to help the locals draw in more fish to catch, making more money off of the lures than he did of the actual fish he caught, though that was fine with him. While Perathis focused himself on his fishing and the preparation and sales of his lures, Eiria was the one that brought in plenty of food from her hunts. Knowing how to place string traps for rabbits and hares and hunt deer with bow and arrow, she brought in the meat and the pelts.
Making money off of selling pelts, meat, fish and fishing lures some claimed to be magical in nature, the two were doing incredibly well for themselves. This made the news that Eiria was expecting a child that much easier to deal with as they hadn't a single worry or trouble in the world. Going about their business normally as Eiria's belly grew, she eventually had to stop hunting until their child was born, though she had made sure to leave plenty of food for a while. Still preparing pelts around the house, she did not feel like being the kind of mother that just sat around doing nothing while Perathis was the only one hard at work to provide for her and her soon to be born child. When the baby was finally coming, the town priest and ealdorman had come along with an obstetrician called Ysalaine in order to bring the child into the world. During the birth, the sun started blackening until it was entirely covered up, throwing a shade over Earthland by the time the child was born. While Perathis and Eiria were incredibly happy to know that their child was healthy, they did notice that he was incredibly pale. While the young parents were happy, Marilus the ealdorman and Acilato priest were not.
Claiming that he was a child of the eclipse, they believed that a demon resided within the child, as was the case with other children that had been born during an eclipse. Claiming that these children often went insane or had to be institutionalized, Perathis and Eiria did not want to believe in this kind of poppycock. Considering them to be no more than old wives' tales, they continued about their lives normally, caring for their child like any parent would. As was quite normal in the River Village, the young boy named Solmar was mostly home-schooled, learning a lot of different things from his mother and father, but also being taught by the ealdorman and learning some from the priest. In so doing, at a very young age, he was taught how to fish by his father, as well as how to skin the pelt off of a dead animal by his mother. Though Perathis was originally against letting the kid use a knife, the boy seemed to have an affinity towards wielding the bladed tool, picking it up faster than he did fishing. When Eiria first took the boy hunting though, it seemed that he did not have this similar affinity towards using a bow and arrow. A shame really.
Meaning they would not be able to go out hunting together, Solmar and Eiria would still be able to have some mother-son time when skinning animals and preparing their pelts, or by preparing dinner. While it was his mother that taught him how to build a fire and spit-roast meat, it was actually his father that told him about proper seasoning and what to put on which types of meat. Where his mother would take the boy into the forest to hunt, his father would actually take him for a different reason. While some would consider it stereotypical, Perathis had a great fondness for nature, something which he really wanted to impart on his son. Thanks to him, Solmar learned that animals were more than just a source of food and pelts, that their lives had value to the natural order of things, had value to nature. Learning a great deal about the local plants, flowers and trees too, he was taught which plants he could eat from and which could make people sick if they ate or touched them. More than that, he was taught how the plants and the animals kept one another in check, and that human intervention was rarely ever needed as it often made things worse.
In the years that followed, Solmar became quite skilled at skinning animals, curing pelts, preparing food and learning his way around the wilderness, something that was unheard of from most six year old kids. One odd thing about him that was first brought up by the local ealdorman as he taught the boy about magic and the ether was the fact that Solmar seemed to not really possess any magical prowess of his own. Given how both of his parents both had strong magics, it seemed that Solmar's affinity with knives and him being a quick study were his only redeeming qualities as he could never become a mage, which was what most of the people of Fiore were these days. Calling the time they lived in to be one that was filled with large quantities of "ethernano", which he explained to be what mages used to cast spells and use their magic, he found it odd that Solmar did not have any of his own as this was rarely to never the case with children born to mages. Not really caring a whole lot as he had no idea as to what he was missing, the boy was content with the life he was leading as he was hardly ever bored, and he had parents that loved him.
