Nilaradra Snécsír

Nilaradra Snécsír also known as Nirara Neikishi, is a High Elven Magician.

Life
The High Elves are among the world’s most beautiful people. At least that’s what they say, so it must be true. I think things can only be true if there is an explanation. Off course, I often break this „rule” by using magic.. But I bet you didn’t come here to know about my life’s philosophy, but to hear who I am, and how did I became WHO I am. Let’s start at the beginning..

My people, clan or family, (I don’t know how to call them, since we were few) was a wandering class, whose life is about hunting and inventing new spells. During one of the years however, the clan’s lifestyle changed.. They were hunting near the Rodiou shrine, in Dragoc. The clan noticed a band of thieves. As they noticed it, the thieves were robbing the shrine of it’s expensive belongings. My family, being good-hearted, stood up against the thieves, and returned the relics to the druids. One of the shrine’s guards asked them to settle down there and join the shrine’s clan, since they were so few and the shrine’s defense needed a large amount of manpower. My family accepted the honorific offer, and from then on they abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and settled down, founding a family..

I was born in South-west Dragoc, near the Rodiou shrine. My family hasn’t used magic for more hundreds or even thousands of years. If I wanted to find a magician among my ancestors, I wouldn’t be able to find one. A long time ago my family had a branch which excelld in magic, but ever since that branch’s headsman lost in a fight for a shrine, she has been exiled. My relative got infuriated, so she stole the whole family’s books, items, so that their descendants wouldn’t be able to study magic from the same books she studied from as a child. There is an ancient saying among the generations, that once a special child will be born, whose hands will emit light and hapiness. My ancestors knew that that child would be the reincarnation of the magician, so they swore that once she’s born, she’ll be killed. Yes, it does sound horrible at first, but it was rightful, since the legend was hiding something else too. The old tales also said that once that child is born, he or she will be responsible for the exile of the Snakeseer clan, and they will be forever banned from entering the shrine. From that point on, the family did not let any child near the shrine, just to make sure it won’t be that child who will bring eternal suffering upon the clan. At that time, I wasn’t alive yet… I was born a hundred year later, and I brought a lot of hapiness to the family. It’s been a long time since a girl was born into the family, so they were happy. All my siblings were boys, and unfortunately my other relatives too. This is why my father taught me everything he caught by brothers too. Forgery, tracking, smuggling, stealth, hunting, archery. He made me into a real little hunter, but for some reason, I did not like this lifestyle. When I reached the eight year of my life (counting in human years), on my birthday, a wanderer came to our place of living. She claimed to be a wandering merchant, who sells weapons and traps. I asked for a little bit of money on my birthday, because I really wanted to take a look at the shop. When I came down to the merchant, it turned out that she is a high elf woman too. I found her very familiar looking, but I did not know why. The woman let me inside her shop, and lead me around. There were horses, swords, bows and arrows, but none of thme inspired my fantasy. When I was about to decide not to buy anything, I noticed a book „swimming” in light. The title was „Snécsír magical practices”. I was surprised, so I asked her where did she get the book.

-E-excuse me. Why is Snécsír written on the book? That’s the name of our clan. –I asked her with a confused smile. –Good remark. Did you hear about the history of the Snécsír family? That there once lived a woman here who could use magic, but she was exiled.... –At that point, I was starting to guess what happened. She was the woman who got exiled from the clan a hundred years ago. The history mentioned a child for whom the magician will come from. At that point, I was starting to think I was that child.

-Nila. You can feel the flowing magical power in your veins, right? You are my successor! Come with me, and I will teach you to all the secrets of Light Magic! –Said the woman trying to convince me, and what can I say, it was convincing. I found out that what I was missing from hunting all along was magic. I agreed to her offer without question, and we were heading to her house. Under ten years, I became a master of Light Magic, I was speaking ten languages fluently, and I had a limited amount of knowledge of Dark Magic as well. When my birthday came again (the age of 9 in human years) my master pushed a book into my hands, which was the Snakeseer secret spells. After she gave the book to me, she kissed my forehead, and her body turned into gold dust. The wind blew away the gold dust into all directions, and I realized that her time was over. When I opened the book, I found a letter in it.

"Dear Nila! I know, it isn’t very appropriate of me to ask this of you, but go back to the shrine, and fulfil the prophecy! Take revenge for my and your honour!"

At the end of the envelope was my beloved master’s letter. After I read the letter, a tear fell to it, which wasn’t forced out by sadness, but by love. I decided to go back to the shrine, defeat everyone else and regain the honour of magic. When I was arriving back, I noticed that my parents and brothers were being exiled. They were caught practicing forbidden magic. But how? I thought my master took away all magic power from them.. I did not understand it. While the guards and hunters were preoccupied by arresting my family members, I sneaked into the house to look what happened. My odl room was full of black books, which were about rescurrection. I realized that my parents thought I died, and they wanted to bring me back to life.. The profecy was right. I indeed was the one who brought doom to them.