Rowan

Rowan is my character. He dwells with me.

Age: 109 HUMAN years.

Character Type: Rowan is a Wood Elf. He came as an ambassador from the elven race, to negotiate with us [about our disrespect for the Surface Trees*]. Wood Elves live somewhere deep within the Earth that they call Eden.

Abilities: Nothing too drastic, but Rowan will turn into a tree if he stays on the surface to long. Therefore, every month he makes a regular voyage home.

Most Prominent Trait: Where humans would have hair, Rowan has something that resembles leaves.

Other Traits: Rowan talks way too much! He can [and will] go on for hours and hours. However, this rarely is a problem, because Rowan has a great sense of humor. Granted, his jokes will get old. Rowan has a very serious case of Lachanophobia [the fear of vegetables]. Not when they are fresh- of course. Only when they are cooked. Luckily for him, he never gets anywhere near cooked vegetables, due to the fact that Rowan does not eat like us. Instead, he literally goes out for an hour each day and soaks up the sun. Actually, not the sun, but the thermal energy it puts off [don't worry, there will be more on this in a later blog]. Rowan writes music, and has sold his songs to several popular artists that I am not legally allowed to list here.

What He Looks Like: Rowan is very hard to physically describe. We will start with the mental image of a tree. Now, [I know this is hard], but bend this tree into a human body-like shape. Stay with me. The tree now has a human face [ complete with eyes, nose, mouth, and ears]. The leaves soften out a bit, but not so much as to resemble hair too closely. There you have a generic Wood-elf. Rowan, however, when coming as an ambassador, also went through the process of “loosing” his bark. It wasn't actually lost, but it became more of a clothing than a shell. Obviously, he has changed out of the bark since then. Most wood elves have Dull green or deep black eyes, but apparently Rowan is a special case. His left eye is blue, while his right eye is grey.

Always Wears: Rowan doesn't have any article of clothing or accessory that he is particularly attached to, but, when he underwent the bark loss sequence, something went wrong, and there is a patch of bark remaining on his left cheek.

Quirks: As I previously mentioned, Lachanophobia. Other than that, Rowan has no quirks.

*I can not put the entire history of the elves into a singular note at the bottom of Rowan's description. I CAN, however, write it later in a separate blog. To answer the questions you probably have right now [briefly]: Surface Trees are just what we call trees today. Long ago, in elven History, it is said that the Earth was flat, the Core of it in the smack dab center, and all the continents orbited around it. The elves thrived on the surface. Then, the sun was born. It's light energy literally paralyzed the elves so unfortunate to not be close to the Core. The earth dried up and twisted, becoming round, and all of the elves lucky enough to live near the Core where swallowed up in it's depths. The paralyzed trees became today's Surface Trees. I understand that this is confusing, but, I PROMISE that I will explain it all in detail later.