Noar Geffray was the only child born to Elora, an acolyte at the remote Mountain Temple who refused to name the father. Some murmured that Noar was conceived through Elora's commune with ancestral spirits rather than carnally.
As a boy Noar wandered the brooding peaks around the temple, learning the runic language of the elements from his mother. Elora nurtured her son's psychic talents, but also imbued in him a reverence for the sanctity of life and wisdom of balance.
When Elora perished from fever, sixteen-year-old Noar was accepted for training under the battle magi of the Ashen Circle. Here he mastered both martial discipline and lethal shadowmancy, earning the right to forge his enchanted black steel glaive Oblivion.
But Noar questioned the Circle's harsh codes and absolutism. After challenging their doctrine, Noar was banished as a heretic. Now he wanders as a renegade warlock selling his deadly skills, yet bound by his vow to fight oppression and greed.
Even as a child, Noar could intuitively sense the energy currents running through the natural world - ley lines linking earth and sky. He learned to harness these currents to augment his physical abilities, moving invisibly fast or hitting with lightning force.
At the Ashen Circle, Noar mastered techniques for manipulating shadow energy into weapons and bindings. He could warp darkness into projectiles harder than any steel, immobilizing foes with smoky tendrils. His glaive Oblivion channeled these powers to inflict wounds that burned with black fire from within.
Noar also developed psychic talents for communing with animals, especially corvids like ravens and crows. Linked to their keen senses, he can see through their eyes across vast distances or receive auguries of possible futures. The birds act as both his watchers and oracles.
Some whisper that Noar knows the secret language that shaped creation, allowing him to influence reality's woven threads through words of power. His low chanting has been known to still storms, splinter stone, or paralyze attackers completely.
Yet Noar tempers these frightening abilities with his mother's teachings of balance. He avoids destructive magic when possible, preferring diplomacy and compassion. But those who threaten the weak quickly learn why common folk cross themselves at Noar's passing, murmuring warding prayers against evil spirits.
Ravens and crows seem drawn to Noar, nesting in the frayed hood of his cloak. Their dark presence elevates his own mystical aura. Noar's somber, scarred visage belies a contemplative soul - he writes elegiac poetry and crafts small tokens he leaves at shrines.
Though feared by many, Noar will defend innocent wayfarers from bandits and beasts. Some whisper Noar is a vengeful specter punishing the unjust. But his regret is allowing bitterness to poison his heart after his mother's unjust fate. He yearns to live by her loving example.