Ebinir Riston

Summary
Ebinir Riston is a former librarian now wild magic sorcerer. He is a stickler for rules and assumes everyone should respect his authority. Ebinir is played by Orion.

Character Biography
Ebinir Riston is the ugliest half elf you have ever seen. The child of an Elf father and a Human mother, he seemed to inherit the worst traits from both sides of the family. He is short, standing only 5’6”, his skin is pale and splotchy, and his ears are so pointed they would be extreme if he was full blooded elf. In truth, Ebinir more resembles a Keebler Elf (the derogatory cartoon elves drawn by a group of Half-Orcs named "The cult of Grant"), than elf, human or half-elf. His personality did not help. As oppossed to most half-elves, Ebinir lives to follow the rules. He lives his life according to logic and the laws (he knows ALL of them). This can make Ebinir cold and harsh, and in truth his only soft-spot for his younger sister, Allana. For whatever reason, Allana is the only one who can make Ebinir laugh and smile. But as soon as Allana has leaves his presence, whatever heart he had is soon covered by his icy cold stare.

His family history was mostly ordinary, growing up in Breland. His father Ulthne, an elf entertainer/spy employed by House Philran, had three sons by his first wife, who died many years ago of disease. He remarried a human woman, named Esmerelda, a skilled dancer also in the employ of the house and had two children together, Ebinir and Allana. There were the normal tensions in the house, but generally the family was quite nice. It's actually a bit scary to think how Ebinir would have turned out if he had any childhood trauma. His three older brothers went on to become entertainers (Cord became an actor, Oarson a fiddler, and Teesen a mime). Allana would make her family proud by becoming a bard.

As an adult, Ebinir become a librarian. He lived alone in Sharn, and works at Morgrave University Library where he worked the front desk. Even though Ebinir did not in herit the charm of his family, he had learned how to strike fear into any who would return their books late. Many first-year students were warned not to run afoul "The Scary Librarian". Ebinir was proud of this nickname. This was Ebinir's life until 6 months to the day after his 41st birthday.

The University of Wynarn, always trying to improve its reputation, managed to purchase a very rare book titled "The rhymes of Xoriat" from the Korranberg Library. Among the many strange properties of the book, it could not be transported by teleportation, and so required a party of guards to accompany it by land. As part of its journey, someone at Morgrave University managed to bribe the guards to do a "public exhibition" at Morgrave's Library. Sure enough someone checked out the book, and then disappeared with it. Wynarn was furious and demanded it be found. Neither The King's Citadel, nor adventurers could locate it. Ebinir, however found the criminal den where the book was being smuggled, walked in alone, and shamed the criminals to tears before walking out with the book.

When the story of the books recovery, the University immediately offered Ebinir triple his salary to accompany the book back to Aundair, and then work form them. Ebinir was unsure (what was with their stupid accents), but the logic of more money compelled him to accept the offer. And so he journeyed with the book to the library and was put in charge of the rare book section. The nickname of "The Scary Librarian" followed him to the University of Wynarn. Ebinir worked there for 6 months when the incident happened.

After some mysterious incident, Ebinir began to manifest spell like abilities, particularly fire spells. Given the challenges to learn to control such magicks, Ebinir was moved out of the rare book section, and given the task of tracking down missing books and delinquint students who owed fines. He was given a red book with 150 names. Some of books that were missing and who last checked them out. Some of them students who owed late fees (plus interest). Some of the entries were over 75 years old. It would seem an impossible task.