Blacksteel Baelfyr

Lore

Granted Faefire by Starsage Zeruiah, Baelfyr leads the humans of the Central kingdoms in war against the Voidborn invasion alongside the Fae. A cunning and charismatic man at home on both the political and physical battlefields, Baelfyr trailblazed equality for the common people; far fewer, however, knew of his underhanded practices. Zeruiah's decision for the leader of the human kingdoms to wield such a divine force was not an easy one to make—she saw in Baelfyr a hungry, burning ambition, one that aligned with mankind's inherent destructiveness. Someday, the guardian of the Vale feared, she would stand before this wolfish rogue not as an ally, but as an enemy. In his bid for mankind to ascend to the status of gods, Baelfyr would steal the blessed Faefire and harness its power to raise empires of mythical blacksteel. Indeed, Baelfyr had argued that in order to tear the Voidborn corruption from its root, Faefire must be fused into mortal metal to create weapons of cleansing fire. His conviction was overwhelming, logic sound, and yet Zeruiah was made uneasy by his hunger for power. Perhaps these are the unfounded worries of the great Starsage, for even the gods can be paranoid...but much like Baelfyr's blacksteeled visage, scarcely anyone can predict what lies beneath his wolfish smile. Perhaps, among humans, everybody wants to rule the world.