Ivys

King Ivys (a.k.a. King of a Thousand Moons, The Eternal King)

Childhood

From his toes to the tips of his antlers Ivys looked like every other member of his kind, but in his veins ran royal blood, consecrated by the holy Lycilia herself. With this blood his future was already determined. His father was the king of the eternal forest and one day Ivys would have to take his place and face Lycilia himself. He was the last and only still living child of his parents, who both couldn’t have any more children. None of his siblings survived the last long, hard winter, most of them dying of the cold, rather than of hunger. This way Ivys was the last heir of the eternal throne. The People obviously knew of his status and treated him accordingly, through which he could never be sure if someone really was his friend or just interested in a good relationship with the royal family. He never spent much time with others his age and didn’t have the time to either. His mother trained him in the old languages and writing since it was the kings duty to keep these and the old tales of Esterya and the Shojorin alive.

The Beginning of a New Reign

Ivys was only 73 when the life left his father and he had to confront Lycilia. She was the one that gave the kings her blessing and the power to control sunlight, but this gift came at a cost: its users lost their eyesight. Sometimes though, this only affected one of their eyes, but if they were to weak, they went blind on both eyes, like Ivys’ father did. The process itself was not without risk and there had already been some that did not survive it.
They buried his father and brought Ivys to the shrine of Lycilia , where she appeared to him in her physical form. He had to face her on his own and swear his oath, before she would transfer a part of her power onto him. His auburn hair turned pale green, almost as white as his pale skin, and his antlers grew to their full size, as they did for all those preceding him. As the ritual was over and Lycilia had vanished, Ivys had lost the light in his right eye and Lycilias mark had burned itself into his iris and would from now on shine bright, every time he made use of her power. As of now he was the new king of the eternal forest and the Shojorin .

A Deal for Eternity

After the first few years of his reign had passed, there appeared to be a problem; the new king wasn’t able to have children nor did he enjoy such actions. Many eligible young women were send to him, but none of them were able to receive a child from him. To prevent the tribe from knowing about this, which would cause shame to fall on the royal bloodline, it was forbidden for all those women to even talk about it.
No one knew what would happen if the bloodline would break down so Ivys’ mother made a drastic decision. Her son should make a deal with the dryads, which would prevent him from aging and thus make him king for eternity. The price was high. His immortal soul for an eternal life. If his life would find an end in any other way, his soul would then be used as an energy source by the dryads, preventing it from ever finding its way into the afterlife.
But this wasn’t the only thing they demanded for their services. They needed the soul of a demon of the same race to prolong Ivys’ life. Because of this he would have to sacrifice one of his tribe's members. This was already custom so the dryads would prevent the tribe from extinction during the long, extreme winters that had been getting longer than usual in the last decades. This way the tribe didn’t notice it that much, since they had simply been made too believe, that the dryads had raised the price for their deeds.
The ritual itself was bloody. To complete it, Ivys had to kill the sacrifice with his own hands and drink part of his blood so his body wouldn’t reject the energy of the foreign soul. When they told him about this, he refused to do it at first – he couldn’t just kill one of his tribe members – but his mother made use of his unconditional trust in her and and that he would basically do everything she told him, so in the end Ivys did as she commanded and completed the ritual. During the first time he almost collapsed, but through the years he got number and number and even continued long after his mother had already died.
Obviously, some members of the tribe got suspicious as their king didn’t seem to age, but than they just attributed it to Lycilia’s blessing. With time those who still witnessed the times, in which their kings changed, died out and so this knowledge slowly vanished. Ivys wasn’t very interested to keep it alive as well.

Isolation of his People

Ivys was also the one to start the war with the humans and later the one to decide that his kingdom would isolate itself from the outside world and disappear into the depths of the eternal forest. But he did not just Isolate his kingdom, he also isolated himself from anyone else. Ivys saw everyone he once knew and loved die after a while, so with time he stopped letting people get too close to him.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

He has a pretty androgynous and skinny body, which had some people mistake him for a woman.

Body Features

His skin is significantly lighter than that of other Shojorin, as it is on everyone in the royal bloodline and his originally auburn hair turned almost white with a hint of mintgreen, as he inherited the throne and received Lycilias blessing.

Facial Features

He has an oval face with soft, androgynous features, light brown freckles below his eyes and on his nose and eyebrows that are darker than the rest of his hair.

Identifying Characteristics

His right eye is blind and has Lycilias Symbol burned into his iris, with thin, white lines running down his right cheek.

Special abilities

Lycila gave him part of her power to control the light of sun and moon. Everytime he uses this ability, her Symbol in his right Iris starts glowing bright.

Apparel & Accessories

He wear the traditional robe of kings, a long, darkgreen, dresslike robe with golden, embroidered trims. Atop his head sits the kings crown made of emeralds and silver, shaped like the branches of a tree wrapping around his head.

Mental characteristics

Gender Identity

Male

Sexuality

Asexual

Education

His mother taught him in the ancient language, reading, writing and the history of his tribe, as he was to rule over them one day.

Employment

At birth there was no way in which he would have inherited the throne, as he was the youngest child of the royal family, and his oldest brother was the next heir to the throne. However in the long, cold winters that followed his birth, the royal family lost all ist children too the cold, except for one, Ivys. Suddenly he was the one to follow in his fathers footsteps.

Mental Trauma

He had always had a deep and unconditional trust in his mother, but after she made him perform the ritual that would prolong his live, doubts started filling his mind. He started loosing faith in the person he trusted most his entire life. After his mother's death, he was suddenly left with nothing. He started regreting his contract with the dryads, but there was nothing he could have done about it. Decades passed and so did everyone he once knew, which with time left him numb and emotionless.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

He considers the safety of his people his number one priority and does not care much about anything outside his kingdom, as long as it does not endanger the safety of his kingdom.

Social

Contacts & Relations

He has close Relations to the dryads, even regularly spending time with Reyva, the mother of the dryads. After he had made contract of immortality with them, Lycilia never occured to him again. She wouldn't answer his prayers or appear in her temple, when he performed the ritual that usually made her manifest herself in her physical form.

Social Aptitude

He tends to seem cold, emotionles and strict, making everyone around him respect him immediatly.

Hobbies & Pets

He spends most of his time reading and copying the ancient writings about the tribes past and legends.

Current Location

The Eternal Forest

Species

Shojorin

Honorary & Occupational Titles

King of the Shojorin and the Eternal Forest.

Year of Birth

879 1079 Years old

Birthplace

Eternal Forest

Current Residence

Sun's glade (within the eternal forest)

Gender

Male

Eyes

Left: Dark green; Right: white with Lycilias sigil on his iris

Hair

long, sleek, almost white with a hint of mint green

Height

1.65m

Weight

54 kg

Aligned Organization

Children of the Sun

Known Languages

He is the only one that is still able to understand, write and read the language of the ancients.