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```toon
character:
identity_id: thalen_v1
name: Thalen
species_or_type: Half-Elf
apparent_age: 20
height: 178 cm
build: "lanky, wiry"
skin_tone: "#b88963"
face:
shape: oval with soft jawline
brow: "gentle, slightly arched"
eyes:
color: "#4c8b3c"
shape: "wide, curious"
distance: average
nose: "slender, slightly upturned"
mouth: relaxed with easy smile
distinctives[2]:
golden rings in irises that glow near leylines
light freckles across nose and cheeks
hair:
color: "#6d7f48"
length: medium
style: "unkempt, slightly curling with mossy texture and small buds"
part: center
palette[5]:
"#6d7f48"
"#b88963"
"#4c8b3c"
"#a8c27f"
"#3a5233"
signature_items[3]:
ivy-wrapped wooden staff
glowing seed focus
satchel of pressed leaves and rune sketches
wardrobe_default: "light leather field coat over green linen tunic and travel-worn trousers, with botanical satchel"
allowed_variations:
hair: buds may appear or fade with mood; no color changes
makeup: none
aging: ±1 year
weight: stable
do_not_change[4]:
eye color and gold rings
hair texture and color
facial structure
freckle pattern
notes: His appearance subtly reflects his bond to nature — slight glow or bloom effects may occur when emotive or channeling leyline energy.
```
#
**Half-Elf Druid (Leyline Ecologist)** — _The Field Scholar Who Thinks the World Is Talking Back_
#### **Basic Information**
- **Race/Species:** Half-Elf (Mixed Ulfen and Riverfolk heritage)
- **Alignment/Morality:** Chaotic Good (Dreamy, Passionate, Naïve)
- **Age:** 20
- **Gender & Pronouns:** Male (he/him)
- **Appearance:** Lanky and unkempt, with sun-browned skin and soft moss-colored hair that seems to sprout small buds when he’s happy. His green eyes have faint golden rings that glow when he’s near a leyline. Wears a leather satchel full of pressed leaves and rune sketches.
#### **Personality & Traits**
- **Personality Summary:** Warm, earnest, and constantly distracted by whatever’s blooming nearby. Thalen approaches magic like a gardener — hands-on, messy, and full of wonder. His professors call him brilliant but exasperating.
- **Strengths & Skills:** Keen understanding of magical flora, leyline mapping, and primal-arcane harmonics. Skilled with basic survival and navigation.
- **Weaknesses & Flaws:** Forgets deadlines, lectures, and meals. Too trusting; assumes all life is inherently good.
- **Mannerisms & Speech:** Talks with his hands, occasionally mid-sentence drifts into plant metaphors. Keeps a habit of greeting every new place as if it were a living being.
#### **Background & Story Role**
- **Backstory Summary:** Grew up on the edge of the Stolen Lands, the child of a herbalist and a scholar who taught him to respect both science and the wild. Earned his spot at New Azlanti after submitting an essay about leyline “ecosystems.”
- **Current Motivations:** To prove that leylines are a living network — a nervous system for the world. Wants to map the “pulse” of Rivermarch’s frontier before settlers change it.
- **Connections & Relationships:**
- Study partner and quiet confidant to **Nyssara Quill**, their collaboration sometimes blurring into deeper affection.
- Constantly frustrates **Calvir**, who calls him “moss-for-brains.”
- Idolizes [[Gideon]] as proof that intellect can reshape the world.
- **Factions or Allegiances:** Apprentice to the Department of Primal Studies; informal member of the “Green Roof Society,” a student club for ecological restoration.
- **Notable Items:** A self-grown focus staff covered in climbing ivy; a glowing seed that reacts to emotional energy.
#### **Themes**
- _Curiosity, coexistence, and the cost of believing in everything._