Biography Variant 1 (ZBT).

The young son of Zachary, a famous warlord of the Imperial Knights, has made his strength known to everyone even since childhood. He once chopped off the head of a bear who broke into the village by mistake. It was even said that he could throw large boulders as a toddler. Though he is skilled at using bows, he prefers to use large swords that are even larger than he is. This preference may be derived from his father.

Biography Variant 2.

Zachary’s adopted son spent the first several weeks of his life under the care of a pack of wolves following a battle in which his parent’s village was presumably destroyed. Now an accomplished 12-year-old hunter and well trained in the arts of the Snow Savages, a traditional tribe on the northern steppes in whose care Zachary entrusted the young boy upon noticing and rescuing the very unusual member of the “wolfpack” on one of his frequent return visits. The boy, whom Zachary named Elson, has spent considerably less time with his adopted father than with the Snow Savages clan that has since raised him, but in many ways continues to look up to Zachary as both father figure and male role model of his life, and in whose steps he is eager to tread as Elson embarks on his own set of adventures following his impending coming-of-age ceremony.

The young Elson quickly grew with a strength and stature that surpassed many if not all of his peers and was reportedly able to throw boulders of considerable size even as a toddler. A master hunter, Elson is quite proficient with the use of the bow, but prefers large, even oversized swords, a preference he may have inherited from his adoptive father. Elson has also developed a reputation as a somewhat ill-tempered youth, particularly living up to the “savages” part of his identity such as in the slaying of a small herd of wild bears on one occasion who stumbled dangerously far into the village’s grounds.