"Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large a lovely

fowl His bill, his gallant bill had changed him quite, To sooty blackness

from the purest white."



Tuesday, October 4, 2011




Rokh'odin Fey is a Corvus lumenus, a now rare species of plumage-changing Raven since the range of 900-1200 AD, having been known to exist in the Northern Balkans and Romanian mountains and forests of Transylvania since the beginning of time. No documented facts however are recorded down, and mostly only through oral history and sightings of Visigoths, Huns, Lycans and other tribal inhabitants of the region.

Their steady decline in existence often had to do with their white plumage phases during a full moon, heightened with a slight light source within the genes. From this, tribal humans sought the tail and contour feathers for spiritual superstitions and from rumors, as well as wealth. Most Lumenis Ravens sought protection within dense feral wolf and lycan territories, relating to their unexplainable natural alliance since the dawn of time. Often adapting cultural changes from other white-covered birds, though most being from Owl and Hawk nations, naturally enemies of the Corvus, it was difficult for them to exist anywhere.
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Rokh'odin, (Fey being the one of seven last known Lumenis Raven ancestral bloodlines) had spent most of his upbringing and early life in the homelands of his birth in the Romanian forests. Having never known the isolated yet grand "political" kingdoms of the Ravens, most raven-aerial empires had fallen to rival Eagle races and other competitive avians. Raven nations themselves often had no special opinions of the Lumenis breed, or if they did it was an outcasted and negative one. Most saw them as outlanders to the greater Raven race, a sovereign breed "holding precious skies to themselves" dubbed by most. Factoring in Human and Dragon wars, most Lumenis Raven families were driven deeper into our out of the Northern Balkan wilderness.
Rokh'odin in his coming of age sometime near 1249, deserted his homeland. On the contrary to political and family pressures, he had nearly fallen in love with a feral wolf, an impossible match, and abomination by either race. She was killed in the plight of fur hunting and lycan-changeling persecution. Rokh'odin, after that, had traveled most remote areas after, never attaching or really detaching from those he met or places he left. Nearing his culturally "adult-elder" status back home, he's rejected most Raven culture, helping only those he wishes (In most cases being wolves or wolf-people).
Aiding help to wolven races in regards to The Sight, a near-strictly Corvus lumenus trait. The Sight implies a chosen individual, the more ferally wolf-related or intune the better, may use his eyes as their own. Other powers relating to The Sight include replaying events visually captured in his experiences new and old. For individuals to gain this power, one must gain the raven's trust for compliance, or be gifted a lumen-activited feather. Lumen feathers are only useful within the short span of a peaked full moon, when Rokh'odin transitions to a full white plumage.
Rokh'odin traveled to the Mystara island among a migrating flock mixed of Fish Crows and European Starlings. Since having disconnected with the migrating group, he has taken refuge in Mystara.