Pied Piper

The Pied Piper was an elven troubadour who wandered Fatherland and Nalké during the First Age of Eden. In the year 127, during a visit to the village of Hamelin, he rescued 130 children from a famine brought on by Cherno’s Curse.

Appearance & Personality

The Piper was a strikingly handsome man who dressed in patchy, multicolored rags to diminish the effects of his supernatural beauty. He was a generous soul, overly fond of human beings and their more passionate approach to life, and he gave of himself with no thought of reward—a true Child of the Sky in every way.

He was also a profoundly sad person, plagued by bouts of melancholy, who struggled to understand why the Sky Father granted his kind immortality but denied that gift to every other sapient species in the universe. Though he put on a good show when performing, those who truly got to know him knew what a struggle it was to keep a smile on his face.

Biography

The Pied Piper was born in the year 1878 of the Earth-666 iteration of reality. A Calamity brought him to Eden at the age of 34. And for the next thirteen years, he wandered the banks of the Oadü as an itinerant entertainer.

In 127, just as a year-long famine ended in neighboring Motherland, towns in Fatherland began to report their own cases of Cherno’s Curse. Some understood that the magical blight was caused by abuses of power amongst the upper and ruling classes and immediately called for reforms and/or elections—stopping the disaster before it could truly take hold. Others, like the village elders of Hamelin, dismissed such notions as poppycock.

The Pied Piper, who had seen the effects of Cherno’s Curse up close, pleaded with the town council to take the blight seriously. But when they didn’t—when they wouldn’t—the Piper saw it as his solemn duty to do something about their inaction. And so, he enchanted his pipe, played an intoxicating tune, and led the children of Hamelin away from the danger before it was too late.

A fortnight later, all but a handful of the townsfolk were dead—either from starvation or as the result of an armed insurrection.

Meanwhile, the Piper led the children upriver to a small hamlet on the border of Fatherland and The Highlands. And it was there, as his adopted children grew up and intermarried with the established families of the village, that the Piper finally settled down. He remained a fixture there until the end of the Second Age, watching over his children and their descendants until the universe outside of Eden was reborn.