Greendalf

High Mage Greendalf

Greendalf is a sorcerer and high mage of the Arcane Order specializing in plant-based magic.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Greendalf is in surprisingly good shape for a man of his age. Special elixirs created by him, from various unique and secret plants, he raised, have slowed the worst side effects of the aging process. How powerful these elixirs are and how long they will last is something that not even Greendalf knows for sure.

Facial Features

Greendalf has a long white beard with some green laced through it. Close inspection will reveal this to be moss.

Physical quirks

Greendalf is surrounded by the smell of fresh flowers at all times, a minor magical effect he has cast on himself.

Special abilities

In addition to being an high mage, as ranked by the Arcane Order, Greendalf is an accomplished sorcerer, with the ability to understand and control plant life.

Specialized Equipment

Greendalf used to carry the Green Staff, a 6-foot-tall rod of wood that was enchanted with minor plant-based magics, allowing Greendalf to concentrate on memorizing more powerful, and useful to his research, spells. Greendalf gifted this staff to Sprout and Mine Terzo for their help in defeating the maddened dryad that Greendalf had in his lab.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Greendalf was born with a gift to hear the whispers of the plants. This gift was nurtured by the sorcerer Halfdane, the Endless Zephyr, but, as their magic styles were incompatible, Halfdane eventually sent Greendalf to the then newly-established, Arcane Order. At the time, Greendalf was the oldest apprentice taken on by the school, being an adult at the time.
At the Academy, Greendalf's skills flourished, with the regents and teachers taking an interest this rare form of sorcery.
In due time, Greendalf graduated from the Academy and became a full guildwizard. It was at this time that Greendalf struck out on his own, earning money as am herbalist and teacher, funding his real goal to catalogue the many different plants in the world and their unique properties.
As age took its toll on the wizard he eventually settled down and founded the Flowering Tower, a massive collection of vines and plants shaped by magic into a humble living quarters around which he planted a garden of unique, and occasionally dangerous plants.

Education

Trained by the sorcerer, Halfdane, the Endless Zephyr, and further educated in magecraft at the Arcane Order.

Employment

Self-employed, Greendalf spends most of his time lost in his research. However, he does take commissions for healing and other plant related issues that might crop up in surrounding baronies.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Graduated from the Arcane Order of Magecraft and Wizardry.
Cured the plague of Rondellshire.
Successfully neutralized the magical poison infecting Count Orilus Tremician.

Intellectual Characteristics

Greendalf is often lost in his research and can be a bit gruff when interrupted but is otherwise amiable.

Morality & Philosophy

Greendalf believes that plants hold the future for mankind. His experiments mostly focus on fortifying the healing and other properties of plants, increasing crop yields, however, no avenue of plant-based research is beyond him; he has made some incredibly virulent poisons, for example.

Taboos

Greendalf is a vegetarian, believing that all of a humanoids needs can be met through various plants. He has even grown foodcrops

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Greendalf is obsessed with plants, discovering and cataloguing them, all their mystical and mundane properties and seeing how far he can manipulate these through magic.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Greendalf is an expert on all things plant related.

Social

Contacts & Relations

As a member in good standing of the Arcane Order, he may call upon an extensive list of other guildwizards for help and advice. Additionally, he has the good will of many others he has helped throughout his career.
Greendalf has an apprentice named, Ontio.

Social Aptitude

Greendalf is not the most socially skilled of wizards, but is friendly. He usually lets his apprentice, Ontio, handle dealing with the public.

Hobbies & Pets

Greendalf has a familiar made from a mandrake root, named Sprig.

Current Location

The Flowering Tower

Species

Human

Honorary & Occupational Titles

High mage

Age

Old

Eyes

Green

Hair

Bald

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

White

Aligned Organization

Arcane Order of Magecraft and Wizardry

Known Languages

In addition to the common tongue, Greendalf can speak a smattering of other languages. Greendalf also has an empathic link with plants, feeling their emotions and being able to speak with them in a surprisingly complex manner.

Ruled Locations

• The Flowering Tower