Kel'a Bron
His Serene Majesty, Autarch Kel'a Bron
Kel'a Bron has reigned as Autarch of Naru for 126 years. He is widely considered the most powerful Elf in Thrae. He is immensely strong, his martial skills are without match and his knowledge of magic and arcana have been honed to an immeasurable degree. He has walked the earth for more than 1,100 years and over that span of time Bron has aquired abilities and skills unimagined by most of the world.
He has vowed to follow in his father's efforts to make right the wrongs done by his people against Halflings and Gnomes for centuries: slavery and genocide. His entire reign has been dedicated to eliminating past prejudices against the "little people", but to only limited effect.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Thin and lithe, but strong in a way that is almost unbelievable to other races. Long, dark blonde hair that hangs to the middle of his back. Pale blue eyes, long thin pointed ears, an unsmiling mouth. No visible scars or blemishes to be seen. Bron has an ability to balance himself to a degree that borders on levitation.
Special abilities
Kel'a Bron has mastered the magical ability to detect lies and deceit from anyone he communicates with. His will is strong enough that he can easily utilize the three magical Seeing Stones he has in his possession to view people, places and events across thousands of miles. Because regular use of the stones, even by the strongest and wisest of Elves is known to carry great danger, Kel'a Bron rarely utilizes the Stones. His martial skills are without equal and he has dedicated (literally) centuries of his life to training and honing his fighting skills so that he never has to fear or dread the end that his own father found while fighting the Orcs in the Ten Winter War 126 years earlier. He is, without question, one of the greatest swordsman to ever have lived. He has mastered every sort of weapon and fighting style currently known (and some that have disappeared over the ages).
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Kel'a Bron has been “King of Elves and all of Naru” for 126 years. He took the throne when his father Kel'a Thron was killed in a battle with an invading Orc army and he has made sure the process his father had started in ending the slavery of Gnomes and Halflings was completed across his Kingdom. He is ancient, strong, incredibly intelligent, often cold, always urbane and he has extensive knowledge of magic and its uses. He is so old that even when he speaks Common with foreigners, he does so in a manner so archaic that it can sometimes be hard for people unused to speaking with him to understand him all the time. He has referred to himself in the plural (nosism) for more than a thousand years, and that is a practice that very few still use in the world.
Bron was born before most of the nations that exist today were founded and several of the most common languages that are spoken today hadn't even developed when he was a child. He has seen countless petty kingdoms and city states rise and fall over his life, and only the Elven Realm has endured through it all. During the last several centuries, he has seen even his beloved Realm suffer great change and upheaval with the decision of his father to end the persecution and subjegation of Gnomes and Halflings by the hundreds of thousands. Tens of thousands of his fellow Elves left Naru before and after his father's sweeping changes, and Elven society was changed forever... for better or worse.
Intellectual Characteristics
Whether by his great age or his vast experiences, Kel'a Bron presents as a very urbane and refined monarch that many (both within and from abroad) see as aloof, cold and uncompromising in the extreme. He is committed to seeing his father's vision completed across his land but seems unable to understand that large segments of his fellow Elves have dedicated themselves and future generations to opposing him at every turn. Even the thousands of Prosk'aNara that made an exodus from Naru centuries ago refuse to heed his calls and edicts even though Kel'a Bron is trying to complete what the Prosk'aNara wanted done all along.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Driven by a deep personal need to succeed where many feel his father, Kel'a Thron failed. He is passionate about making right the wrongs done by his people to the Gnomes and Halflings during the centuries of persecution Elves visited on those races. He is utterly confident in the superiority of the Vytuian model of cultural and social structure and thus often is blind to where the disparity in authority and control negatively impact much of the Elven people of Naru.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
While Bron is supremely confident in the functional efficiency and effectiveness of Vytuian society as a whole, he has become so isolated from the vast majority of his subjects that he is almost completely ignorant of the level of disconnect and even resentment that dominates so much of his society. He seems to have allowed himself to be convinced that nearly every single Elf in Naru thinks and feels as he does, and the only opposition or resistance to his policies and vision are in the details of application and not in the substance or fundamentals of the visions themselves.
Likes & Dislikes
Bron is a staunch traditionalist when it comes to all things cultural or social in the higher strata of Vytuian society, and he detests any attempt to bring new thoughts, customs or (especially) language into the inner workings of the ruling classes of the Realm. He insists on operating the governance of Naru in exactly the same manner as it has been operated for the last 2,700 years... even though what he sees and understands as "traditional" only dates back to his earliest memories and not very far beyond that.
Social
Reign
Autarch since 108 AF
Contacts & Relations
Very close to the Archon of Taesirion, the city of his birth.
Social Aptitude
Supremely confident in all he does, Bron exudes a grace and presence that is undeniable wherever he goes. He is gracious, urbane and extremely civil to all that come before him, but he is also often described as cold, uncaring and distant when emotions are high.
Speech
Habitually uses nosism (referring to himself in the plural) when speaking in the Common tongue. His archaic vocabulary is sometimes difficult for other races to understand. He is renowned for his stubborn insistance on protocols and archaic etiquette, even amongst non-Elves.
He has shown a real lack of patience with the relatively recent development of linguistic changes in the Vytuian language as it is spoken in the more rural and distant regions of his Realm. Servus Elves of the Broken Plains have seen subtle but measurable changes develop in their vocabulary and diction over the course of the last five or six centuries and these changes have worked their way into the higher castes through simple common usage. This is true in the far south To hear these terms used or even uttered in his Court is to invite his royal ire and is not a means of gaining favor with the Autarch.
Wealth & Financial state
Unimaginably wealthy. He literally has the ability to take as his own royal droit every single copper coin or precious gem in the entire Elven Realm whenever the need should arise.
Species
Honorary & Occupational Titles
King of Elves and All Naru, Autarch of Vytu
Currently Held Titles
Age
1,132
Birthplace
Taesirion
Children
Current Residence
Vytu
Aligned Organization
Ruled Locations
