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Magical Ability:

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Ives has a peculiar power. One that he had since birth. A blessing, many would call it. In reality, though, it is a curse. One that would plague him for his entire life, and will, eventually, lead to his death.
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He has a strange magic that lets him absorb information from plants. Plants, tree life, anything that is within a range around him. Some would call it a connection to the Great Forest, but no one really knows how exactly he absorbs this information, not even he himself. All he knows is that at random times, he will stop for a moment and see something. Perhaps not just see something, but feel, hear, or smell. Depending on what it is, he sometimes will only feel one sense or other times he will feel more than one. It is often times that he will stop in mid-place, unable to respond until the vision is over. But the fact is that he is unable to control how much he sees or feels at what time he sees fit. It occurs spontaneously, which is something that is a form of weakness. For absorbing information from plant life comes with a price.
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As the law of nature does not let someone take something from it without taking something in return, a form of equilibrium cycle is of course including this power. For every time information from a plant is taken, that particular plant grows towards him, as he is the source. The longer or more detailed the vision, the longer the branch or leaf extends towards his direction. It does this because as he is taking information, the plant in return drains his life in exchange. For every time his power is used, days, weeks, months, to years is taken off from his life. The longer or the more detailed the vision, the longer amount of his life is drained from him. Although it does not drain him physically at the moment, it is taking time off from his life left to live.
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The senses he feels during his visions are random as well, they can be scenes from the past or present. Though likely the older the plant is, the more likely he will see a vision from the past. There is no specified range from which plants he can see the visions from, but they are in the near vicinity, as none will connect with him if they cannot drain his life source.
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His parents both had magic relating to plant-life, but this is the first time anyone in the family had such a peculiar magic as long as they could remember.
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Appearance:

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Often looking very prim and proper, the Lore Keeper wears his usual black suit attire, almost always accompanied with tall black boots. When not on duty Ives sometimes wears a loose white long sleeved shirt with similar kind of clothing and brown boots. The elf himself has curly blonde hair and blue eyes. He usually appears formal most of the time, always standing with a straightened posture and walks around with an authoritative air about him. Books and quills can often be seen in his hands as he walks about the library, always seeming to have a task at hand.
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Personality:

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Strict and proper, Ives acts like a typical librarian. He knows every volume in the library, and will often find one for someone if needed as he knows where almost all of them are. Although he would like to read, he is usually more busy working than he does having any free time to read. As he is a recluse, he is more used to elves than other races, making him kind to his own but not to the others. Even though the library can look chaotic due to the many plants that cover it, he is very orderly and often tries to tidy up the place. He gets irritated if anyone makes noises in the library, and sometimes he might try to throw a book at them if that is the case.
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History:

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Hailing from the mountains, Ives was born to the family of Beaumont. As a little boy he would always see things, hear things, that weren’t always there. Often times, it would come from the flower in the vase that sat on the dinning table. It would always grow when he was around. He noticed this as he would see reflection of himself and his family eating at the table from where the flower sat. When his parents discovered his power, they were in amazement. Finally, they could make good use of their son after all. With his power, they figured that he might be the next lore keeper, since the current one did not have an apprentice anyway. They trained Ives to use his powers to its fullest extent, especially his father. He would take him out into the forest, demanding his son the recall information from one of the ancient trees. But the boy could not do it. Instead, often times he would see visions from the ground or somewhere else, some vines or weeds growing towards the duo. It became obvious to them that whenever a plant grew it was when he stole information from it. His father and mother grew angry at him over the course of the years of his childhood. They thought that he could not harness his powers because he did not study hard enough, no matter how much he tried. But they did not realize that the spontaneous nature of his powers was not something he could control. They also did not know about what his powers did, slowly taking off his life. It was not something he would find out until much, much later.
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Eventually when he was a teen he began to make better use of his powers. He decided to follow the path of what his parents wanted him to do, for it was all he had ever known. And it was something that he had studied for very much, and did not want his childhood to go to waste. Also because he knew that his parents would not let him do otherwise. So in order to prove himself that he would make a good apprentice to the current lore keeper, he would make good use of the information that he was given to with his magic. He would collect and write records of what the plants saw, heard, felt. He would sometimes put them all together to make a full picture of events that had happened in the far past or present. At first he was rejected because he was too young, but with determination, later on when he became an adult, in his later years, he was accepted.
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As an apprentice, he fell in love with the library. It was very tidy and well kept, very orderly and clean. The library was far removed from the mountains from where he came from, and was near the center of the Dryhtwood Forest, somewhat closer to Aelfmenn Kingdom. This made him live far away from his parents, which made him glad. The library was his new home, and although he was the lore keeper’s apprentice, their time together was usually cut short, and so he did not spend much time with him other than running tasks for him. After a time he became the new lore keeper, the old one passing his role to Ives.
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The many years spent in the library kept him secluded, isolated from the other lands and races and events happening outside of the Dryhtwood Forest. Majority of his time was spent with elves that frequented the library. So when he had heard word that the war ended, he felt nothing in particular about it. Except for the fact that he knew of their barbarian ways, he knew it all too well from the plants. The other races were fond of war, and not only that they liked to cut down trees and plants and devastate forests around them. They were not peaceful and connected to nature like the elves.
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But as his powers continued, the library became covered with vines, trees, other plants, all growing towards the center where the lore keeper usually sat. What was once a clean, tidy library was now once that became infested with plants, the chaotic vines scattering books across the shelves. But Ives continued his work, keeping and storing records of elven history, taking in the visions that he saw whether he liked it or not. One day, he discovered something. He always had taken his powers for granted, always thinking that he was just gifted with random information at random times by plants, but he never knew the cost.
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One night, he visited a temple, praying to his ancestors in the stars. It was there he encountered an old woman. She was the only other one at the temple that night. She had an unusual magic, one that saw into the powers of others. She had asked him if he was afraid to die so soon. He asked what she meant, and she told him that she assumed that he knew already. He didn’t know what she was talking about, and she told him of the price his powers pay each time he “takes information” from any one of the plants. She told him that this was not just limited to the Dryhtwood Forest, but all plants in general. And each time takes a bit of his life away. She could not tell how much time he had left though, she told him. She told him to enjoy life, and not keep his nose in the books all the time before she left the temple.
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Thinking that the elderly woman must be lying, he sought advice from anyone and anything that would prove that this was not to be true. He read every book in his library that pertained to magic, sought out other elders, but alas, none of them knew. However, an elf that often came to the library advised him that there was an magical artifact that was recently uncovered that he should seek out. It was a mirror that reflected the outcome of one’s powers. Though this would not be use to many, as most knew the nature of their powers, it would be incredibly useful to him. So he came to where it was held, and discovered that the elderly woman had been telling the truth.
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More reclusive than ever, Ives continues to be the lore keeper in the library, now almost completely covered with plants, sometimes making it difficult to open the doors to the library because the vines grew so thick. He did not heed the advise of the old woman. Being lore keeper was what he studied for his whole life, and, if his life was the price to pay for the information he was given, then he thought that he should put it to good use. He feels that he is growing weaker because of his curse, but is physically fine otherwise. He has come to terms that he doesn’t know when he is going to die, and he knows that fact appears to be fine with it. He also became more dedicated in his worship of the stars, as he knows that he will become one some day.
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Recently, Ives had begun to develop a relationship with Rook Thriasi. There is a dangerous plant that is slowly infecting them both, which they are trying to find a way to destroy it. But strangely, Ives stopped getting visions when he was infected with the plant...
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Miscellaneous:

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He goes traveling every once in a while to collect information about the elves in other lands
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His parents are still alive, living in the mountains from whence he came
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When he has his “visions” he will stop what he is currently doing and freeze in place until it is over

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Arlyn

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OOC Notes

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HOW'D YOU FIND US (1st only)