Tovan Frostfawn

From Mizahar Lore

Tovan Frostfawn

Avian Expert of Avanthal
Race	Vantha
Date of birth	456 AV (aged 56)
Place of birth	Avanthal
Title	Seller of Birds in the Menagerie
Skills	Falconry 55 Animal Husbandry 50 Birdkeeping 60 Wilderness Survival 20
Gnosis marks	Morwen 2 Eywaat 1

Physical Description

Tovan is on the shorter side in Vantha standards. standing at about 5'6. His hair is snow white due to his older age, and is kept somewhat short. He likes to dress warmly and is rarely seen without his eagle, Solas.

Tovan's skin is tanned and a bit weathered with age. It is not without it's many wrinkles but the man does not mind. He knows all must grow old someday and embraces his age with pride.

History

Tovan, as well as the rest of the workers in the menagerie is from the Frostfawn hold. His father taught him about birds from a young age. On his sixteenth birthday his father gave him his first eagle. He named her Lunna and he learned all about the art of falconry with her. He even mated her a few times. He felt more attached to that bird than he did with anything else in the world. He trained with her tirelessly but he loved every moment of it. With her chicks he started a store in the menagerie. With the help of his father and brothers his stock grew into the wide range of birds he has today. By the time Tovan was thirty-one Lunna was reaching the end of her life. Tovan was devastated but he knew that Lunna had lived a good life. He released her into the wild to live out the rest of her days in freedom. After a few weeks Tovan decided to keep one of Lunna's chicks. He could not live without a bird by his side. He named this bird Solas in contrast to Lunna's more moon sounding name. Tovan still has Solas to this day and she sits on a perch next to him while he works. Tovan is the oldest of the vendors in the Menagerie at the age of fifty-five. He is very kind once you get to know him but to someone who has met him for the first time he seems a bit cold due to the fact he is so quiet.