Elijah Slaine
Father Elijah Holmes Slaine
Elijah Holmes Slaine was the schoolmaster of Slatewell, with very little money, and as a result, the ladies of the town take care to feed him in the evenings, during which he is happy to listen to their tales about supernatural events in the settlement. Elijah is said to have carried a copy of History of Witchcraft, and a cigar box filled with candles.
Physical Description
Body Features
Elijah Holmes Slaine was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow sunken shoulders with long arms and legs. His boney hands dangled sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels. The children of Slatewell say Elijah looks like a goofy, old scarecrow.
Facial Features
Elijah's head was large, and round, with large ears, deep stone gray eyes, and a bulbous nose.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Elijah was a conscientious man and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, "Spare the rod and spoil the child". Elijah's scholars certainly were not spoiled. He administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burden off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong.
Social
Contacts & Relations
He was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for the comforts of the cupboard. With these he lived successively a week at a time, thus going the rounds of the neighborhood
Elijah was a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood. He was peculiarly happy in the smiles of all the country damsels. How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Jaday; gathering flowers for them from the wilds, reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones.
Hobbies & Pets
Elijah carries the whole budget of local gossip from house to house so that his appearance was always greeted with satisfaction. He had read several books and was a perfect master of the History of Witchcraft, in which, he most firmly believed. He took pleasure in reading tales till dusk after school. Moreover, no supernatural story or superstition was hard for him to believe. Another of many in Slatewell his greatest pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, roasting apples, and listening to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins.
Wealth & Financial state
The revenue arising from Elijah's school was small and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread. To help out his maintenance, he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed. , All his worldly effects could be tied up in a cotton handkerchief.
Current Location
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Headmaster
Date of Birth
11th of Narcisseae
Year of Birth
1875 ES
45 Years old
Birthplace
Lane Castle
Children
Gender
Male
Eyes
deep stone gray
Hair
Short ,salt and peppered
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Dry and cracked with a yellowed tint
Height
6' 6"
Weight
134lbs
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