[spoiler]The official record of Corvus' life is a clean, tidy document. In it, he is said to have been born a printer's son, his mother and father working a press they owned, and raised to follow in his father's footsteps. However, when he was 20 years of age, quite young for an elf, his skills with reading attracted the attention of an arcanist who worked with his father's printing press. His father thinking of the potential for his son's future agree to have the boy apprentice as a bookkeeper and personal librarian, and so Corvus was accepted. However, his skills at maintaining, preserving, and acquiring books for his master were almost as good as his ability to intake large amounts of information. And due to a slower aging process, and his human masters business with semi-legal monetary acquisitions, he spent about 25 years learning about magic, as well as pretty much everything else under the sun, via his master's library.
At some point, after 45 years of loyal and excellent work, his master was working on an experiment, and he needed an assistant. Naturally, this fell to Corvus, and lucky for the master that it did; the alchemical formula was incorrect, and had Corvus not noticed this and corrected his master, they both would have been killed by the ensuing poisonous smoke. Surprised and impressed by his student's ability, Corvus caught his second break, with his master's offer to train him. After a quick 5 years of study, Corvus was quite the impressive apprentice wizard. After seeking a letter of recommendation from his master, Corvus joined the Inverted Pyramid, pursuing his studies further, and while mastering illusions there, he was recruited to the libraries of the House of Black and White. He has been studying the books and keeping them at the House for the last 60 years, out of sight of the public, and has instructed in illusion-craft and divination to less experienced wizards and sorcerers since.
What the record omits is the name Narcion Dorrenhan, the wizard who trained him, who was arrested and executed by the City Watch after they found evidence of his involvement with the rebels. It omits the record of the Inverted Pyramid's acceptance of Corvus Suvroc, and details of his life there (50 years of time, for which there is no record of him finding lodgings or accepting assignments). Almost nothing from the House of Black and White ever makes it out, as psychotic about records and secrets as they are. Nor, upon severe inspection, does it appear that an Elf with the surname Suvroc ever owned a printing press before his birth; in fact, while a record for a press exists, there are few jobs taken under the press' name, and it appears to have been created around Coron's 30th year. Still, his record as presented is unblemished, and has never provokes paranoia as to instigate a further in-depth investigation. Coron lives a quiet, clean life, and as far as anyone knows, always has.[/spoiler]
Totally thought I'd posted this earlier. Well, here it is! Nitpick away, can't wait to get this underway!
