Meren T. Young

Meren Thaddeos Young is a human male of Lordaeronian and Gilnean descent who currently serves the Magus Senate of Dalaran as a Senior Senator. Identifying himself as a magus in the purest regard, he has traveled across many worlds as a scholar, an artisan, and an adventurer. Deeply devoted to the virtues of the Holy Light, Meren has lived his life to the best of his ability and has never striven to do less than he is capable. Though owning more to his dedication than his blood, Meren does indeed share some linage with the elves of Quel'thalas that has aided his magical and education development. Of his skills that are most known, are that of his deft hand in tailoring and his near obsession with a sub-school of Conjuration/Transmutation that involves the creation and most efficient use of mana-crystals.

Appearance
Standing just about 10 inches past 5 feet, Meren is an obvious descendant of the Kingdoms of Gilneas and Lordaeron. Thick, dark hair populates his head and a usually pale complexion blends almost flawless with his hazel eyes and strong, Lordaeronian jaw. Believing in keeping not only his mind in tip-top shape but his body as well, well developed muscles permeate his body and allow him to remain a formidable combatant in any situation.

Even when not appearing so, Meren is always prepared and well defended where ever he goes. A multitude of spelled-gems underneath subtly enchanted cloth always dons Meren, a practice learned more from many past-grievances than fool-hardy paranoia. When dressed for combat, this magus is exquisitely equipped with the best enchantments, inscription, and mana-gems that he himself can make out of his cramped, but very homey, workshop in the Wizard's District. Though not the most powerful of wizards, nor having the most plentiful of mana-pools, Meren does believe in coming to everything prepared and has found much comfort in relying on many mana-crystals that absorb ambient mana from Ley Lines, ally's spells, and the general magical-charge in the air. So much in fact, that many of his spells and abilities come from pre-programmed enchantments and runes that continuously allow Meren to remain a reactive participant in any situation!

Early History
Around the time of the first opening of the Dark Portal, Meren was born in Ambermill to the tailor Lindsey Couture and the mage Joshua Young. As the youngest child of the family, he was constantly over-shadowed by his exceptionally talented older sister, Prudence Marigold Young, who got into Dalaran's Academy of Magical Sciences with an almost full scholarship despite ill-relations between her father and the Academy. Meren resigned himself for years in his studies under his father, a renowned instructor of conjuration, and his work with his mother to pay for his sister's tuition. Hoping to get a similar admiration from his strict father, Meren became a carbon copy of his proud Lordaeronian father as well as the target of bullying by the Gilnean-aligned children. Years of such abuse didn't bode well with the family as Meren became more and more ostricsized by his peers and constantly bringing home the negativity to the already finicially stressed house hold. After a certain amount of time the Lindsey and Joshua tried having another child to try to mend relations, but after a heart-shattering miscarriage within the last weeks of her pregnancy finally drove the family out of Ambermill. Rumor has it that it was the dissatisfaction of bringing another Lordaeronian into the community that made it impossible for Lindsey to have her third child, giving her such grief that she was the one who prompted their immediate leaving of her home village.

The promise of a more Lordaeronian environment for their son drove the family to move to Brill, a place where they believed their education and fine-end tailoring could provide more reasonable funds than the quaint town of Ambermill. Although financially a success, Meren kept to his reclusive ways and studied onward with less issue with his peers, only going so far as to befriend the more educated children of Brill than the hardworking middle-class that was better suited for his beliefs.

Education in Dalaran
At some point Joshua noticed his son's blossoming grasp of the arcane and tried to cultivate this practice in hope of instigating a more promising, and less depressing, change in his son's development. Pulling the last of his favors in Dalaran, both familial and professional, Joshua got his adolescent son into the fabled city of magi in a way that suited his intense focus. Under the tailor Guliver Spellthread, who was also as a modest enchanter, and the on and off tutorship of the Quel'dorei-relative Emiline Sunborn, Meren was able to get through the first several years of Dalaran unscathed. After presenting the boons of his labors to a council of instructors, Meren was given oppertunity to attend one of Dalaran's Academies as a regular student.

Security in his education and general admiration allowed Meren to finally feel appreciation and yearning to venture forth as a more ambitious magus. Admiring the technicality of transmutation and conjuration, Meren went through a number of apprenticeships with various masters until he discovered a love for the ebb and flow of magical-systems.

((So much more to come! All written dirty and ready to be edited!))