Imralis Silvarel

Imralis Silvarel is an elf of the Starsong academy of magic in the Mürekkep ve Çelik ("Ink and Steel") campaign. Old records still list him as a Seeker; he has only lately risen to the higher rank of Starseeker. Though called a young elf, he is some two hundred and sixty years old, and he has no great deeds to his name yet.^{1 2}

Family

By the family tree in the Archon's library, Imralis is the nephew of Lord Fangol Silvarel, leader of the elven federation of Dafat and a hero of the Dwarf Gate. At the battle there, Fangol had come out of a passage among the trees at the head of some thousand elven riders. Lord Fangol is remembered among those whose names Victory Day made immortal, and he is one of the elves who still carry eternal life.^{3 1 4 5 6}

The thesis board

By custom a guest from Starsong sits on the board that hears a candidate's theses for the mastery, and Imralis came as an observer, with Horus Maxwell and Marnor. He thanked Castor for writing his thesis in Elvish, which Castor hoped would also be read at Starsong. He disagreed with much of the second thesis yet found it innovative, and spoke of the work on the Lore Master's path being done at his own academy.^{7 8 9 10}

Blue's seat

In the four months after the new emperor was crowned, Imralis filled the empty council seat of Blue until a new appointment was made, a rare but not unknown gesture; he was not thought a stronger mage than the Archon's grandmasters. In that role he went down with Horus and Marnor to the sunken city of the master's exam, looking about as if for the first time. While the others slept he went into the elven trance, and in the morning he had breakfast ready. He insisted that the creature which guards the city be thought of not as its host but as a tenant, allowed to live there in return for its service, and said that keeping the city as it is had cost Herrenhal dearly.^{11 12 13 14 15}

When Castor returned from the exam, Imralis congratulated him and said they had watched every step through scrying, and had especially liked his diplomatic answer with the sea elves. He hoped they would meet again in the elven lands.^{16 17}

At the palace

Imralis came to the emperor's ball in the Marble Palace under the banner of the Dafat Federation, with an elven retinue and an ambassador. When Castor called him one of his teachers, he corrected him: his place on the board had been a political one, that of an observer, and Castor had not disappointed. He invited Castor to visit his family at Mel Lasta, and said his uncle had wished to come too but was kept away by separatist troubles in the Federation.^{18 19 20}