Biography & Lore

Erren Serris was born in Elbion to Roderik Serris and Paola Serris, (nee' Wellock), as the youngest of two brothers. As a very young child, he watched as his brother Leos excelled within the College that both of their parents had also attended before marrying. Leos was the pride of the Serris family: and extraordinary mage, a wonderful man, and a doting brother and son. No matter what happened, he was always there for his family, and Leos was Erren's hero.

One day, however, Leos stopped coming home. Erren had been to young to understand what was happening, he only knew that his parents were despondent, weeping day after day for what must have been months. So too did Erren weep. With time though, he would eventually grow to be curious about the circumstances in which his brother had vanished. Often he would ask his parents, and never would they give him an answer. It grew to the point that bringing up Leos's name at the Serris home would earn you only sharp looks and a scolding.

Life moved on without his older brother, and eventually the time came for Erren to follow in his brother footsteps and apply for enrollment into the College of Elbion. Initially, Roderik and Paola seemed reluctant to allow their only remaining son to participate in arcane studies, but Erren persisted. He would be accepted, and attended his first class at the College at age seventeen.

Eager to learn, certainly, but also with his own agenda in mind. Serris had resolved to become a powerful user of the arcane, to gain status and power within the College and use that status to learn the truth about what had become of Leos all those years ago.

Initially, Erren stumbled through his studies clumsily, showing very little of the natural skill that his brother and parents had. Even five years after his enrollment, the teachers and the Foard had deemed him to be nothing more than a mediocre academic with less-than-average practical ability in magic.

It was that sixth year that got their attention.

Realizing that he was academically faltering, Erren began to work on a unique area of study that began to draw eyes to him. While only average at most forms of magic, Serris developed a method of using the arcane to manipulate the properties of chance; the art of Probability Magic. Through this method of magic, one could shift the odds of nearly any event, albeit only to a point. The unlikely result of a scenario would become more likely, and vice versa. In this school of thought, Erren excelled like no other.

With the success he began to have with probability magic, his performance in other areas began to increase as well. Finally hitting his stride, and making up for the years he'd lost to mid-level performance, Erren was accepted as a Maester of the First Order at age twenty-eight, and then rose to the Second Order at age thirty-eight. It was expected by many that this rise would continue in another ten years, as well.

Alas, only a year after rising to the Second Order, Erren Serris was stripped of his title and authority within the College. In lieu of being completely outcast, he was instead assigned to Artifact Recovery and Magical Disaster Investigation. Two unenviable, often dangerous jobs. Erren and The Foard would refuse to make any comment as to a reason for the demotion, but whispers would travel that Serris had perhaps learned something he shouldn't have, and being given a life-threatening job while also not being removed from the College entirely would allow him to be observed, and perhaps even taken out of the picture.

Of course, those were merely rumors. Surely there was nothing that nefarious going on within the walls of the hallowed College, right?