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| - Alvar is a half-grey elven warrior from Bloodfall. He is a usually easygoing and down-to-earth man. He has had training in elven as well as human martial skills and tactics, making him a fierce yet disciplined warrior. His skills and accomplishments have earned him some fame in his home town. It is known that Alvar worships ‘heretical’ elven gods and it is rumored that he is a favored one, having extraordinary magical powers. Alvar usually neither confirms nor denies this rumor, since he does not publicly advertise his worship in his home town. As a second generation half-elf Alvar has less clear elven physical traits than most half-elves, and the less observant will easily mistake him for a normal human. Perhaps because of that, his mixed heritage puts him in a strange position among the men of Bloodfall: not quite an outsider, but still the odd one of the community. As a young man he was often the target of mockery and jest, bad as well as good-natured. In later years, some have also shown envy for his apparently eternal youth. Both sides of his mixed heritage have influenced Alvar equally. He is not as uncompromising or rigidly traditional as most Bloodfall men. But even though his mind tends to be more open, he has been fed the ideas and mentality of Bloodfall all his life and often finds them hard to disagree with. Much of Alvar’s character is shaped by this paradoxical mix of elven open mindedness and Bloodfall rigidity. As a result, his convictions are not very strong, and he often seems to hesitate and change his mind about things of importance. He unconsciously tries to see the world in terms of black-and-white and becomes confused and doubtful when confronted with shades of grey.
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