Davyd is Olyn, one of the elven people of Olyr who live in the unexplored southeastern-most region of Aeniron. They are a race of what Men call "black elves" -- a people distinguished by their ability to tap into their lifeforce, or spirit, through sorcery. To do so, however, is to drain oneself of the energy needed to live, which --unlike Men -- the Olyr cannot produce. Without a living heart, they are doomed to only a half-life, an existence unchanging and endless like ghosts.
Born to Sibel and Sorae Dyrkaan in the 2nd Age of Forgetting, Davyd was not raised in a happy household. His mother, Sorae, was never meant to bear a child, and so his existence was called, in a word, "insufficient." He grew up physically strong, but uncontrollable and hungry, a mark against his father's nobility and the source of his mother's constant illness,
Sibel, ever controlling, sought to cure him, searching back into the records of his people for an answer to his "mistake," and discovered that consuming a life, in its entirety, from a strong bloodline, might offer such a possibility.
And so Davyd went in search of the Brimmen daughter.
