Nivalis is the Elder Guardian of Ice, and one of the main power-figures of the Warfang Council alongside Amberius, Arcadier, and Terrenus.

History

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Nivalis was born in the, at the time, middle class family of Northwind, a family of Ice and Wind dragons, as the grandnephew of the current family elder. Due to his unfortunate coloration, Nivalis faced many challenges due to others suspecting him of having 'tainted' blood (dark blood). One of the first challenges was being the cause of his Northwind mother's Divergence. He and his siblings were targeted by other children in the family, and pushed to the side by the adults who feared for their standing as a Guard-trade family.

As Northwind could not afford Temple education for all the family children, Nivalis and his siblings only received private education at home, which they balanced with extensive chores.

At age 23, Nivalis was sent on an errand into the Underground City. Here, he was attacked by a radical group who had taken it upon themselves to remove dark blood from the Warfang gene pool. Not fancying themselves murderers - but rather righteous, devout, and merciful - Nivalis was not killed, but instead restrained, cut into while conscious, and sterilized. Healed with crystals before he could bleed out, he finally lost consciousness, and awoke dumped in an alleyway.

Deeply traumatized by this, Nivalis lost control of his previously Class Three element, and dared not leave his family's small estate alone. The family decided against subjecting him to the military conscription, which, at the time only demanded a percentage of each family in active service.

As his family could not help him regain control of his element, Nivalis spent two years barely able to summon his Ice. In an attempt to accustom him to being in public once more, the family had him accompany them to public gatherings for higher society. This was detrimental to him, however, as his trauma and fear bled into the energy of his element, it allowed him to be honed in on by someone powerful enough to sense it.

There, Nivalis was approached by the Ice Guardian of Warfang City...