Aldren Vaust

Early Life and Career

Aldren (58 years old) grew up in a normal merchant family in the city of Korint. He did not care about buying and selling, but he loved the travel that came with it. Because of this, he trained to map land and became a successful cartographer (mapmaker). Merchant companies hired him to map roads, rivers, ports, and land. People respected Aldren because his work was always reliable and accurate. He lived in Korint his whole life.

The Coastline Discovery

Aldren’s most famous work happened at the Korint harbor. He was hired to fix mistakes on local sea maps after different ship captains gave confusing reports about a dangerous shallow area in the water.

While working on this project, he met an Elf named Lethariel. She was hired to read and translate very old sea diaries written in an ancient Elven language. The two worked together for weeks:

• Aldren measured the current coastline as it looked today.
• Lethariel studied what the coast looked like hundreds of years ago.

When they finished, their maps did not match, and they argued about who was right. After a long debate, they realized a surprising fact: they were both right. The actual coastline had simply changed shape over hundreds of years.

Personal Life

Aldren and Lethariel did not have a typical, dramatic romance. Instead, they fell in love because they truly enjoyed thinking, arguing about facts, and solving problems together.

They later got married and had a daughter named Ycre, who is a half-elf.