The Iconoclast

A Child is Born

In the year AH 1733, Fildarae and Avourel Orizana followers of the Way of the Acestic had a son, their firstborn, whom they named Feyrith.  This young man distinguished himself amongst his contemporaries in feats of physical prowess and intellectual and magical accomplishment.  As he approached adulthood, he left his local tribal community and began a journey across the world of Arrhynsia seeking for a philosophy that would satisfy the structural problems he perceived in his people.

A Path to Self Reliance

His observations led him to be deeply pessimistic of the dynamics of societies and the advisability of aligning oneself within a world order with community determined standards.   Instead he formulated a philosophy of his own that taught self reliance to an extreme, coupled with a self serving and transactional approach to relationships with minimal emotional entanglements.  He personally eschewed hedonism, for aesthetic and health reasons, but in direct contrast to his upbringing, allowed and even promoted hedonism if it could be enforced and sustained within one's power without compromising one's self sufficiency. 

A Reluctant Messiah

The Iconoclast did not intend to become the originator or leader of a religious movement, but his practice of his new philosophy was noted, and his ideas began to spread amongst the elves of the southern end of the Echovad Forrest and from there, out to the coastal regions where rugged individualism and self reliance was already a way of life.   He eventually took the name Iconoclast, and established a school where his philosophy and the physical, arcane, and intellectual skills he prized were taught.  Today, the Iconoclast is revered by a number of major elven tribes, although he would personally repudiate the idea of being a leader of any structure of people groups.  He and his followers are disinclined to cooperate with outsiders or even most other elves unless those interactions are perceived as in some direct way beneficial to him, and then always bounded by strict scope and time limitations.