Shadow No More

A curious and charming outsider of the residents of Gleanhold, Valice piqued a particular interest in the common folk when he became a citizen with his Wood Elf step-parents, Tenzen Mohren and Vivia Skaal. The two farmers were veterans of the Amber Coast military, one a Monk and one an Arcane Archer, the two raised Valice to be a functioning member of the surface world that Valice had been conditioned for 30 years to hate. Unable to enjoy the social delights of the cold and crowded world due to extreme light sensitivity, Valice could only step out at night, and thus got accustomed to the worst of the denizens of the city: the Criminal Underground, Gangs, Thieves, and Brothel-goers. It was there that he found himself befriending the local beggars, and getting protection from the local gangs of the area.

As he started to apply his skills to be swift, deceitful, and a brilliant entertainer that conned Red Light visitors out of money, he happened upon a mysterious man that saw potential in him. The man was, in fact, Fransir Runkin, the Director of the Illusion School of Magic from Oracle University of Sagecraft and Wizardry. Valice could not fool him but instead intrigued him. Fransir taught him the Minor Illusion and Friends cantrip, and told him to raise 300 copper in the next month by applying the spells to his street performance. By the end of the month, Valice doubled the challenged income, and learned the Darkness spell from his Drow Ancestry to escape those who did not take a liking to his con art. Fransir then took Valice in under scholarship to study at the University, the first act of good fortune to befall the Drow boy. There, he studied Illusion Magic at Night School and soared up the ranks as one of the most cunning, elusive, and devious students of the craft. Staying indoors during the day, he studied the magic all day and then applied out in the world at Night when he attended class. Essentially, he devoted his life to the craft. Additionally, he took a keen interest in alchemy, in which he excelled greatly due to his early Drow-born upbringing. When he was older and fought a glass ceiling that was set due to reasonable discrimination against his race, he managed to become a Teacher's Aid and then a substitute teacher for Night School.

However, while he was teaching a class at Night School, Drow Assassins found his family home and murdered his parents trying to find him. He returned to an ambush by the Drow, but the Djinn Nocturne arrived at the scene and swiftly controlled the battle with its magic. Together, the two of them slew the assassins quickly.

Riddled with grief and emptiness, Valice respectfully retired from his position at Oracle University. He now maintains his connections to the faculty of Oracle University, who helped him through many loops and hard work, open up his own shop, called Twilight Concoctions, where he could pursue his specialty in alchemy and market it off to the people of Gleanhold. He began investing back in the communities and poor that co-raised him in his childhood, and became a local philanthropist and safe-haven for those afflicted by cruel disadvantages in the Red Light and Port District of Vyscaria.