Forfax was born the only son to Emperor Voriun and Empress Aelsara, rulers of the mighty Nocreovan Empire. From a young age, he was groomed for one day inheriting the Ruby Throne and the heavy mantle of leadership over Nocreovan's vast realms. His instructors were the most esteemed scholars, strategists, and archmages the empire could provide.
Forfax exhibited an insatiable thirst for knowledge, quickly mastering not just statecraft and economics, but also the advanced magical arts. By his 16th nameday, the young prince had already developed considerable skill in enchantments and hypnosis, able to subtly influence and bend minds to his will with but a few subtle gestures. His true passion, however, lay in the forbidden art of biomancy – giving him the incredible ability to transform his corporeal form into any manner of exotic substances or gasses.
Incredibly handsome with his strong jawline, piercing eyes, and thick beard, Forfax cut an unmistakable figure of intellectual regality. The people adored his confidence, curiosity about foreign cultures, and ferocious devotion to the diverse citizenry of Nocreovan's member kingdoms. By the time he reached maturity at 25 years old, Forfax was already being hailed as the most promising heir the Ruby Throne had seen in generations.
As was tradition, Forfax's transition to manhood was marked by his father, Emperor Voriun, arranging a marriage of allegiance to Princess Valaria of the neighboring Skylander kingdom. While a politically savvy match that helped secure varunaite mining rights, it was an arranged couple destined to remain little more than amiable partners. For Forfax's true heart belonged to another - the beautiful Greenwood half-elf Aya, whose folk skills in archery and forestry he had long adored from afar.
Nevertheless, Forfax accepted his duty with stoic poise. Over the coming decades of his royal partnership with Valaria, he remained a doting father to their three sons - Princes Jevard, Halron, and Vitren. Whenever not attending to affairs of state, Forfax could be found sparring with the young princes or imparting important lessons about ruling with wisdom and compassion.
Yet even as he carried out his obligations to perfection, Forfax still harbored his two great secrets. The first was his unique gift of mastering the Dream Realms - strange metaphysical dimensions existing beyond the material plane that he could willfully project his consciousness into. It was here, amidst the breathtakingly surreal alien vistas and entities, that Forfax's intellect and magical talents found true fulfillment.
The second closely-guarded truth was Forfax's acquisition of the ancient spellbook known as the Urodrran Codices. This legendary grimoire, containing archaic biomancy rituals from the long-vanished Uurdr'r'illithid race, had been discovered by sheer happenstance during one of the prince's Dream Realm sojourns. Ignoring the grave risks, Forfax covertly transcribed pages of utterly forbidden transmutative magic - spells that could unmake and reshape living matter itself with a mere utterance.
When the insane biomancer Odran the Oathbreaker discovered this unspeakable violation, he retaliated by enacting a horrific curse upon all of Nocreovan's agricultural realms. Crops withered to husks on the vine while warm-blooded livestock fell dead in waves as their cells impossibly unraveled into viscous ooze. The great empire was brought to the brink of famine and ruin within mere weeks.
Only through leverging the Codices' most arcane rituals and plumbing the Dream Realms themselves did Forfax develop countermeasures to Odran's necrophages. In a climactic confrontation spanning thirteen harrowing nights and days, prince and biomancer fought a contest of wills to reweave the cosmic riptides of life itself. When at last the sorcerous dust settled,, Forfax had reformed reality into submission while Odran's decrepit husk crumbled into spent animus.