PCs:Aneirin Menelaos

About

Characteristics

Aneirin stands about 5 foot ten, he has a slender build, long darkish hair with a trimmed beard and mustache. striking hazel eyes peer out from under the broad brimmed hat. The leather coat he wears appears old but very well maintained. Around his neck is a holy symbol of Vorin. At his waist is his Grandfathers Sword "Harmony" and over his shoulder the greatsword "Spirit of the Phoenix". Though accomplished in many instruments he prefers his old guitar which he will have with him at all times.

Demeanor

Aneirin is lighthearted in spirit with a dry wit, and somewhat sentimental. Curious by nature and not the least bit introverted he will happily insinuate himself into a conversation if the topic sounds interesting and it will bring him knowledge he didn't have before. While he has built something of a reputation as a performer, he does not fancy himself a great songwriter and would be the first to admit that he has great trouble with writing, especially on demand, so he very rarely takes commissions.

Aneirin would explain that any reputation as a performer was purest luck, he did not perform in Kuras at all, except for perhaps the occasional busquing outside the family library and its only since his arrival in the south that he has taken it up.

While performing has become his surprise talent, His first love is knowledge, especially that which is stored in books. At home in Kuras he ran his family's small library until the terrible accident that caused its loss, he now operates a similar Reading Room in Elysia so he is always on the lookout for new tomes to add to its collection.

Known Affiliations

• The Shadow Harlequin - House Bard
• Avlis Tower University
• Academy of Bardic Arts, Visimontium - Notable Member, Director of Performance & Dance
• Menelaos Reading Room - Owner / Proprietor
• Guild:Lorewardens_of_Vorin

Known Biography

History: Kuras

Born and raised in the Capital City of that ancient empire Aneirin never travelled far from there prior to his arrival in the south. He comes from a long line of Bards, his father, his fathers father and his father before him were also Bards. His Grandfather Cercamon having the highest repute in the family.

The Menelaos family has also been adherents of Vorin for as long as any in the family can remember. In Kuras they operated a small library open to the public. The goal of the library was to provide knowledge and education to those who couldn't otherwise afford it. Aneirins job after reaching the age of 16 was to run the library and run it well he did.

It was early in Aneirins seventeenth year when a High Priest of Vorin visited Kuras and heard of the tiny library, he visited and bestowed upon Aneirin and his father the title Lorewarden for their efforts in collecting and disseminating knowledge.

Fire

About six months after the High Priests Visit came the event that changed Aneirins life forever. The block in which he lived and in which their Library was located, like in many cities was made up of many dissimilar buildings built immediately adjacent to each other. Next door to the Menelaos Library and residence was a well regarded local Bakery.

Early one very cold morning a fire erupted from the bakery, to this day Aneirin knows little of how this happened, he was told by friends that it was nothing more than a horrible accident. Regardless the fire spread through the block and the ground floor of Aneirins house was lined with books. The books erupted into flame and it spread quickly through their three story home.

Aneirin slept on the highest floor and was awakened by the sound and the smoke, which was already dense in the hall outside his room. He fled to the attic, in the attic many things were stored including a chest of family heirlooms. The smoke though chased him even into the attic.

Through a Dormer window he shoved the chest and he followed, hoping to move along the rooftops to an adjacent building not yet engulfed where he might reach the street, but the cold morning had left frost on the rooftop and the chest slipped from his grasp falling to the alley below, he clung for what seemed an eternity to to him, to the edge of the roof before he too plunged to the alley.

It was lucky for Aneirin that the fallen chest, broken open from the fall had attracted the attention of a pair of footpads who were quickly collecting up the contents. Aneirin landed on the relative softness of the two and while the fall knocked him out cold, when he awoke, the fire raging around him the family heirlooms were still there. He collected them up and favoring a leg he tried to pull the two away from the blaze. Unable to move the two burly men he was forced by the fire to leave them behind.

He made his way to the home of a family friend, a blacksmith who lived not far from the library. there he recuperated from the leg he broke in the fall.

It was not long after that recuperation that he begun his journey south.

List of musical works

• 12 Bar Blues - A.Menelaos
• Adventurers Blues - A.Menelaos
• After all - A.Menelaos
• Arc of Madness - A.Menelaos
• Arcane Refresher - A.Menelaos
• Bravely Bold the five - A.Menelaos
• Dragon Rider - A.Menelaos
• Dragon and Butterfly - A.Menelaos
• Dryads song - (author unknown)
• End of the line - A.Menelaos
• Fly to me - A.Menelaos
• Following Song - A.Menelaos
• Forest Girl - A.Menelaos
• Forest Green - A.Menelaos
• Go Away with the Fairies - A.Menelaos
• Green is the colour - A.Menelaos
• I Believe - A.Menelaos
• Ingoren Awakes - A.Menelaos
• Its all for Her - A.Menelaos
• Kissed me Today - A.Menelaos
• Laughter is Catching - A.Menelaos
• Loves Embrace - A.Menelaos
• Maiden wine - A.Menelaos
• Never Again - A.Menelaos
• Nothing at all - Cercamon Menelaos
• Now I Rise, Like a Pheonix - A.Menelaos
• Ode to Ferrell - - A.Menelaos
• Our Little E - A.Menelaos
• Solstice Star - A.Menelaos (performed at the Solstice dance in Nor'seer)
• Success - A.Menelaos
• Swimming through Zvidureth - A.Menelaos
• Take My chances - Lyrics by Shaenyn va'Serah Music by Shaenyn va'Serah & Aneirin Menelaos
• The Bells of Kuras - A.Menelaos
• The Dawn - A.Menelaos
• The Grey (a song for Ari) - A.Menelaos
• The Library - A.Menelaos
• The Message - A.Menelaos
• Tricksters, Hucksters and Scamps - A.Menelaos
• Truly Sweet - A.Menelaos
• What Does it mean to be Fey - A.Menelaos
• What is to come - A.Menelaos

Lectures

• The art and Architecture of the Chordophone

Plays

• State of Grace - written & Directed - A.Menelaos
• Personae Dramatis - role of Char'eth