Prologue

They have come to call me Caspian Thorn the Sun Elf but really my taken surname among those of the Realms is actually not my true last name. I chose Thorn originally due to the fact that I was what you might say always a literal thorn in my family’s side. If you catch my drift let us say while I learned how to keep my place in my family being the fourth child of seven did not really give someone with my obvious gifts the opportunity to shall we say shine.

Now my family the ancient and noble Sun Elf House Durothil known for our Wizards and Fighters and who often take pride in the fact we can trace our line all the way back to the Crown Wars before the Drow were turned and the Seldarine sundered. But there is no need to brag perhaps its better if I just move along with my tale about myself. So that being said I will ignore the majority of my family and the other royals and focus really only on myself and my twin sister Caspia. Suffice to say that my sister and I are of a similar vein in personality and disposition and in truth the formality of Evermeet was never really our style.

So when we became aware late in our eighth decade that the Wizard Savaras Durothil a high ranking noble of our house was heading back to the mainland to settle and begin training Wizards in Cormanthor as the Retreat as it had been called was officially over we put or name on the list the first chance we had. This is of course led us to Cormanthor and the Dalelands our new home away from home as we like to say. Now obviously there was more to Savaras than met the eye for while like most Sun Elves he paid homage to all of the Seldarine his patron was the very Deity who soon became our as well that of Erevan Ilesere patron of mischief and Rogues.

Now of course Savaras once he was established in the Dales began to shall we say begin operating clandestine operations in the name of the Sun Elves. It was during the decades spent with our Elder and Master that we learned of his true nature. To put it mildly it changed us and I would say even between Caspia and I were we to say for better or worse we would have to flip a coin. To say that or personalities splintered would be putting it mildly. Now I realize that many might call me insane on a bad day but in truth I am just being true to my patron Erevan Ilesere. For in all honesty I have learned as my sister Caspia did as well that we can only be true to each other.

To others they may have to deal with other sides of my personality let us call them Kas, Asp, and Mister Thorn. Now regarding the name Thorn it just seemed to fit and in all honesty as my sister and I were not actually trying to bring shame to our House or our Patron it seemed fitting to use a different last name to add a little flavor if you will. Regarding Kas consider him the Light side of my personality generous and courageous and unless there is a Paladin or someone from our House around you don’t often see him. Then there is the loquacious and know-it-all Asp a regular snake in the grass willing to do anything to insure our survival. But the most feared and strongest of my facets would be Mister Thorn the cruel perfectionist. No on my own I suppose I can be a little hard to take in being bisexual and all but the way I see it what is decades of life without a little fun and games.

So let us move ahead to how I ended up in Waterdeep the City of Splendors and making my way to the Pantheon Temple of the Seldarine. Well to begin with what is now Waterdeep once belonged to the Elves and the only sign that remains of a once vast Elven Realm resides within the Pantheon located in the City of Splendors in a place they call the Castle Ward. Now of course as part of my training included painting, cartography, bookbinding and exotic languages I was well placed to be selected to head to the South Ward of Waterdeep to investigate rumors of Shar involvement in Waterdeep.

End Prologue