Alvaraz Van Molta

Alvaraz Van Molta is my first 4e timeline character and I made him not too dissimilar to how I generally make my characters. He is in a new life and looking for a sense peace to himself that he sees no other way of obtaining. His back story actually kind of reminds me of Malendore, only Alvaraz is not as evil and not as emo. Alvaraz Van Molta is a character that was created and played by Davy.

Description
Alvaraz is dressed in light armor and desert attire. He appears human with pale grayish skin. His eye brows look as if they float off from his his like a storm cloud. He has no hair and often wears a head piece like a turban. His arms are partially covered, but on his arms you can see a scar that shines bright blue in battle or near anything infected by the spell plague. He often has a face of discomfort and appears irritable at all times.

Personality
Alvaraz is not a bad person, but he is learning acceptance. For most of his life, humans were slaves and he had it easy. He lives a different life. Alvaraz still has a very cold personality, but he is no longer evil. He tries to care about people and their problems. But on the inside, Alvaraz still misses his old life of leisure. He does find that he does not have any problem talking with competent adventurers, but he hates peasants. He sees impotence as inferiority. People that are inferior to him have no business as his equal.

Since he lived most of his past life as a noble, Alvaraz is used to being respected. He must come to terms with the fact that most other people in other races will never treat him the way he was raised ever again. This often makes him feel like everyone that talks to him disrespects him at all times. He learned that this is to be expected, but he especially detests when other nobles seek respect from him. Who are they to demand respect when he gets none himself.

He is the true definition of unaligned. He does not believe in good or evil. Rules and laws are limitations. He acts how he sees fits and he justifies his own actions with his own personal motivation. He does not follow moral righteousness nor does he believe in a different code of values. He believes that following a set of beliefs limits one's thoughts and actions. People that do this limit their potential and are often considered ignorant and stupid. Alvaraz does not know sympathy. After being eternally scarred and losing his family, he sees his enemies as capable of anything. He knows that he must capable of anything as well to not to have the disadvantage.

When angered or betrayed, he often stems back to his routes. He will tend to be more vindictive, especially to humans and other non-genasi humanoids. He will see them as less than dirt and be willing to do any horrible form of physical or emotional torture to console himself. When faced in this mood, he feels no sympathy since none of them were really his equal.

Family & Relationships
His family was a noble group of Genasi killed by plague changed from a group of slaves infected on its way to Calimport. All of his family died there. He often sees the Order of the Blue Fire as his second family for saving his despite the fact that he was a Genasi that enslaved humans.

Character History
Alvaraz was born into a noble family in Calimport. His parents were originally elite soldiers released by the events of the Spellplague under the direct order of lord Calim. Alvaraz's family is now made up of nobles that helped coordinate the major events in Calimport where humans slaves would do battle with each other and other threats from the elemental chaos. Alvaraz and his family lived an easy life with many human slaves. Most of the Genasi showered families like his with many gifts and riches. Alvaraz's father was a war veteran and an old general in the continuous battle against Memnon. He had taught Alvaraz how to use the sword, but he had no intent to bring harm to his own son. He had Alvaraz far removed from the lives of other Genasi. Aside from heroic war stories between Lord Calim and Alvaraz's fathers battles with the forces of Memnon, Alvaraz knew nothing of the terrors of this war. His life was very peaceful and removed from the constant strife and warfare between the two powers.

Alvaraz was the youngest in his family and the most naive. His family always taught him that the Genasi were superior humans and that it was simply a Genasi's place to determine a human's destiny. Alvaraz never questioned that and that teaching still persists in how he talks to people. Alvaraz was not cruel to the slaves, but neither did he have ambitions to set them free or see them as his equals. He would often play tricks on humans, like human children might have done to pets. He lived his life distant away from all races except the Genasi.

The Effects of Spell Plague
Alvaraz never saw the Spell Plague as a threat and only heard rumors of its ability to change and deform creatures. This was a threat that no one expected to be a risk for their slave trade routes.

Karma would hit the family when they found a contaminated slave shipment. His family only ever received slaves from the north. Alvaraz's family had countless riches from Calimport and have many corrupt business partners. They spent good money to make sure that they could get slaves from the north, but this specific shipment was intercepted by the Order of the Blue Fire. The humans were plague changed in captivity while being shipped to the south. The humans seemed mostly fine, but the slave trade convoy was a trap. Alvaraz's whole family was attacked by plague changed creatures from the slave trade and others that ambushed them. The body guards with the family were killed as well as Alvaraz's parents and siblings. By this time Alvaraz was still an adolescent, and did not know what real combat was like. He was knocked unconscious with little chance of survival.

A Second Chance
Alvaraz soon woke up to realize that a group of people had saved him. Everyone in the group wore a symbol of an eye covered in blue fire. He was surprised to see that this group was mainly made of humans. Several of these people had scars that shined. He looked down on himself to see that his arms were cut apart and had similar scars. The scars hurt tremendously and remain a constant reminder of what had happened. Though, maybe Alvaraz was the lucky one after all.

The group had introduced themselves as the Order of the Blue Fire. Alvaraz had been saved and taken by the group. Alvaraz thanked the group, but he wanted nothing more than to return back to Calimport. The High Accordant in the group told him that he was not accepted as he was. He told him that the guards did not want to accept him as a spell scarred while he was still unconsciousness. Alvaraz was in disbelief, but he trusted this man's words since they were the words of the person who saved his life. Those that are ignorant of the spell scarred often are afraid that it might be contagious. (The High Accordant lied to make him stay in the group.)

He traveled with the group for a years since he had no other place to go. He had realized that not all humans were necessarily inferior to all genasi. Alvaraz did not wish to join the Order of the Blue Fire, but he did feel the need to repay them for saving him. He spent the next six years with the Order of the Blue Fire; atleast until he thought he was self reliant enough to make his own life.

Move East to a land of new Opportunities
Alvaraz wanted to move away from the west where he knew that the Genasi were seen dictatorial slave owners. He knew that he could not return to his life style, he decided that he would accept humans and fey as equals and try to live among them. Alvaraz moved as far east as he could move before he ran out of supplies from the Order of the Blue Fire. He was able to make it to the Lake of Steam. Alvaraz found himself traveling with a group of people that were moving from the north east towards the Border Kingdoms for an opportunity of adventure. The group also had escaped miners from Memnon. This was the first time that Alvaraz denounced his previous notion that humans were meant to be slaves. After his time in the Order of the Blue Fire, he believed that humans deserved better and he apologized for the actions of his kind. Alvaraz meant his words, but he still believed he was better than most humans. He did not want to enslave them, but his apology was pressured in the group by those who had suffered loss of their loved ones in the mine of Memnon. Alvaraz knew he wasn't directly responsible for their pain, but he could relate the pain of lost ones and understand that they needed closure to what happened.

Alvaraz did not know what he could do for a living. He did not learn any useful talents in his noble life, and he spent most of his time in the Order of the Blue Fire traveling with an adventuring group of Spell Scarred. During those years, he learned how to make use of most skills, but he thought of himself as a warrior first. Alvaraz saw this as an opportunity to make a living for himself. Alvaraz did not respect most people, but he saw adventurers as the people who were strong and the people that took charge. This was the work that he thought was the best for him since he believed this is what the best people did for money and respect. Alvaraz had learned to respect some humans, but he still has a strong sense of pride. He refused to take any job that any of his slaves did for him in the past.

In Derlusk, Alvaraz found himself among adventurers. He noticed that he was looked at. He was not sure if it was because he was a genasi or if it was because he was spell scarred. He felt ostracized, but he got no warnings to leave. As much as he hated it, he knew that he deserved it and decided that work through the pain.

Current Whereabouts / Activities
Alvaraz is now one of the Adventurer's Guard. He sees his boss as an incompetent fool but he looks rather intrigued about his fellow comrades. Alvaraz is not one for justice, but the reemergence of the Spell Plague gives him a chance to make sure others do not share the same fate. If nothing else, this allows him to empathize with other beings and races.

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