Name: Vareth Dralyn

six: Male

Age: 156

Race: Dark Elf (Dunmer)

Appearance (including clothing, height, weight, eye color, hair color, hairstyle, etc): Vareth stands at roughly 5 '10. A medium height for a Dunmer, albeit with a wiry and frail build. His facial features are sharp and angular, as with most elves. His gray skin contrasts with his gleaming red eyes. His long jet black hair is often let loose to draqe over his shoulders though is tied into a neat knot during formal occasions and gatherings. He is often wearing his dark mages robes.

Magical Major (only one allowed): Destruction

Strength Major (only one allowed): Athletics

Stealth Major (only one allowed): Speechcraft

Rank: Wizard

Personality: Vareth, though sarcastic and arrogant, is actually a very knowledgeable and powerful mage. Being skilled in both destruction magic and speechcraft, he has reason to be proud. Quick to blast someone with a sharp comment, he is known to share his controversial views with his students. Vareth can be compassionate at times, and may soften under the right circumstances, but his general aura is that of an intelligent, but pompous dunmer mage. As a professor, he seems bitter to his students, however he cares highly for the betterment of the guild, and its students. His arrogance is reserved for outside the lectures.

History: Born in his native land and raised to learn destruction magic from a young age, Vareth migrated to Cyrodiil and practiced magic in solitude, living in the wilderness and only often taking trips into towns and cities. He spent many years delving into certain forbidden forms of magic, and had used his powers to his benefit (and to the detriment of others) fairly often, until he joined the guild. His history is in large parts unknown to the guild, however, and only recently have his old practices sprung into conversations at the guild in the form of rumors. Some untrue and some true. He now mainly spends his time teaching as a professor in the guild and though he seems bitter,

Motives/Agenda: Vareth wishes to further his influence to meet his own ends. He feels a position as Master Wizard is guaranteed, as a result of the old Arch Mage disappearing, but he wishes to exploit the confusion in the guild as much as possible. Once his power is furthered, he would use the guild resources to research into the forbidden forms of magic he had once practiced, including necromancy, and spread his views throughout the guild.

Name: Karich Invel

six: Male

Age: 32

Race: Imperial

Appearance: Karich has a reasonably imposing Colovian build, standing at around 5’11 and heavyset, with, a broad jaw and slightly crooked nose. His eyes are a pale, watery blue with the slightest hint of crookedness, and his hair is a slick mane of almost colourless platinum blond, swept back from his face and then allowed to hang freely down to his neck.
He typically wears plain blue knee-length robes (think Snape’s coat/robe combo…) over loose black leggings with a pair of fine leather boots. At times he will don a hooded black cloak. At all times Karich carries a finely-forged Colovian gladius on a simple leather sword belt, and he typically carries a black satchel filled with assorted notes, potions, books and the like. On formal occasions, he often wears a Colovian leather briastplate over his robes.

Magical Major: Mysticism

Strength Major: Blade

Stealth Major: Sneak

Rank: Warlock

Personality: Karich Invel is a quiet man, the “strong silent type” perhaps. His naturally commanding form seems to fade into the background in most social situations, only to emerge when he wants to put a point across. He almost never raises his voice, but has a deep, commanding voice that sounds authoritative even in a whisper.

He is quite an effective debater, assuming his opponent does not steamroll him with charisma or sheer force of personality, and has a powerful command of logic and theory. If he can’t get what he wants this way, he has no qualms about calling in favours to get it for him, or even going as far as to blackmail, cheat and steal. He doesn’t see this as an inherently immoral action, rather a necessary aspect of life among mages, all to the general benefit as long as it helps his work.

History: Born the younger son of a minor Colovian nobleman, Karich was destined for the gentry. As he approached his teens, however, he began to experience visions and even predicting insignificant events. Had he been born in the East, this latent magical talent might have propelled him upwards, rather than downwards, but the Invels were at a loss as to how to deal with their son’s abilities. Eventually, they sent him to the local Mages’ Guildhall, from whence he was quickly transferred to Leyawiin, where the Guildhall was more equipped to train the budding mystic.

His visions were nowhere near as intense or overpowering as those of Dagail, the head of the Leyawiin Guild, but her somewhat addled tutelage and the help of the other mages were sufficient to develop them to the point where they could be reasonably well-focused and occasionally useful. Of course, his training went beyond this, and he displayed a considerable aptitude for mysticism magic, and reasonably quickly, he proved himself suitable for University study.

The nobleman’s son adapted quickly to life at the Arcane University, his natural perception and early training in politics and diplomacy preparing him well for the unspoken rules of engagement that ran always in the background. Resisting, unlike some, the temptation to be entirely swept up in this cutthroat underworld, but having the good sense not to ignore it, Karich has successfully divided his attention between his studies in mysticism and his talents of intrigue.

Motives/Agenda: Karich has no desire for the position of Archmage, or for any position much above his own; from Wizard upwards one seems to be drawn into the limelight all too often. Instead, he hopes to remain, as he always has, in the background, and make use of the current instability to ensure that the next Archmage an ally, allowing him to exert pressure or call favours as an éminence grise at the highest level.

He does have a genuine concern for magical study, and his politicking is never more than an intellectual pursuit or a means of getting his way to research grants, facilities, assistants and other resources. It is to this end that he hopes to use his powerful allies more than for any other.