Eileifr Ælfsige
Sobriquet: Lord Aelfsige
Appearance: A beautiful male elf, with fine skin and a feral face. His hair is dark, and while not evil, he leaves those who meet him unsure of what that concept means, really.
Behavior: Lord Aelfsige is very direct and proper. He can not lie, but that doesn't imply that he tells the truth. Most of his words have double and triple meanings. Promises are oaths, and he will always, exactly keep his word.
History: Eileifr Ælfsige is an elf Lord from beyond the Hedge, the cold, luminous boundary where the dreaming rubs shoulders with human reality. He has stood longer than any map remembers, an ancient hinge in a world that forgets its own edges. Tall as a lamppost in memory, his hair is like river-silver and his skin carries the pale sheen of moonlit bark; his voice prefers consonants that cut. Bound by oaths older than any law on stone, he is sworn to keep the dreaming whole and to shelter the scattered Alfar who cling to the twilight spaces of the London area—gardens, overgrown churchyards, forgotten stations where the Tube tunnels breathe like sleeping beasts. He keeps his watch with a patience animals would call cruel, for the oaths bind him tighter than any chain: no bargain with men can undo the wards he set at hedge-root and cellar-door, but they demand he act in ways that men call inexplicable.
He is not human and makes no pretense to be, caring little for humans beyond their usefulness as bargains, bridges, and occasionally, instruments of reparation. Where mortal city-dwellers sleep and dream, Eileifr plays the Game of Names as a master, calling true names like keys and accepting favors with the careful cruelty of a ledger-keeper. To name is to command, to strip a memory, to bargain a favor for a life's thread; he trades in syllables the way others hoard coin, and long experience has taught him which names are worth a life and which will later must be repaid. In the shadowed alleys of London he is both rumor and law—an inexorable guardian of the dreaming, a lord who keeps his promises because breaking them would unmake the things he was sworn to preserve.
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