Arthion Perros ❖ 28 ❖ Elf ❖ Drug Dealer ❖ Living in Abdera (temporarily) ❖ FC: Nicholas Hoult ❖ OPEN
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Biography:
Arthion Perros had a relatively normal childhood. He was born to a pair of middle-class parents who had money, but not an absolute fortune. When he was very young, his father died and within a year his mother had met and married her second husband, Alastair Perros, a member of the prestigious and wealthy Perros family. At first things went well. His step-father treated both Arthion and his mother like royalty and they wanted for nothing. His mother gave birth to his half-sister, Natalia, and the four of them became one happy family. But then Arthion’s mother realised that her husband was using his wealth to make her a kept woman. He loved her and allowed her to buy whatever she wanted for herself, but she had to approach him first and request the money. She had always been an independent woman and so the realisation that none of her husband’s wealth actually belonged to her infuriated his mother. She decided that she wanted to earn her own money so that she was not completely reliant upon her husband and she enlisted her son to help.
Whilst reading some old history books in the library, his mother had come across a potion. It had been created centuries ago and had hallucinogenic properties. Whoever drank the potion would see a vision of what their heart truly desired and the vision would be so realistic that they would feel as though they were actually there and it was happening to them. But the popularity of the potion led to it being abused; people had become addicted to living their heart’s desire and would take the drug in huge doses so that they never had to leave their fantasy world. Unfortunately, this led to people becoming comatose and when the potion eventually wore off, it had numbed their body so much that they could not move. Abuse of the potion caused comas and paralysis that there was no cure for, and people’s organs started to shut down one by one until they died. It was a horrible way to die, and because people found it so hard to resist taking more and more of the potion to make their visions last longer, it was banned. Every book that contained the recipe was burned, every workshop that manufactured it was burned to the ground and anyone who continued to brew it was imprisoned for life. Eventually, there was no one left who remembered how to brew the potion and it was forgotten about. But according to the book his mother read, there was one book left in existence that contained the original recipe for the potion and it was kept in the restricted section of the Royal Library of Abdera.
His mother instructed Arthion to hide his ears and disguise himself as a human in order to steal the recipe. The restricted section only had one guard, and when Arthion realised that Edmund Drayton was homosexual, he set in motion his plan to seduce the guard. But the man was not as easy to seduce as he had first thought. He had originally intended to bed him and then steal the key to the restricted section as he slept, but Edmund was a man of honour and principle, and whilst he was open to small gestures of affection, he refused to go to bed with Arthion unless they were wed. Arthion was forced to play the long game and had to pretend that he was falling in love with Edmund so he could win him over. It was a whirlwind romance as Edmund believed that he had found true love, but Arthion just wanted to win his trust so that he would be allowed access to the restricted section. When Edmund proposed, Arthion was taken aback. They hadn’t been a couple for very long and he didn’t even really love him, but he was forced to say yes in order to make Edmund believe that he was trustworthy. And yet despite them being engaged, he still refused to grant her access to the restricted section. Arthion was starting to panic and thought that he might actually have to marry Edmund, when the night before their wedding, he handed him the key that unlocked the door to the restricted section of the library. Edmund told him that he knew how much he wanted to read some of the oldest history books in Nysa and that this was his wedding gift to him. As long as he was careful with the books and didn’t tell anyone, it was fine for him to take a look and he waited outside whilst Arthion explored the restricted section. It didn’t take long for Arthion to hunt down the book he was after. He couldn’t steal it, but he flipped through the pages until he found the recipe he needed and then made two copies of it. Stashing the parchment in his pocket, he returned the book to the shelf and left the restricted section, giving the key to Edmund so that he could lock up. Edmund kissed his fiancé and promised to see him in the morning at their wedding, having no idea that this would be the last time he would see Arthion for years.
Arthion never showed up for their wedding and Edmund was left standing pitifully at the altar for three hours before he finally gave up. He went to the room at the boarding house he had been staying at to try and find him, but instead found a note addressed to him on Arthion’s pillow. The note apologised for leaving him at the altar, but said that he could not go through with the wedding and had returned home. If Edmund had any love left for him, then he would not come after him or try to contact him, and he would simply move on with his life. In one short note, Arthion broke Edmund’s heart. Arthion has not kept up with what his ex-fiancé has been doing all this time, because he knows that if he allows himself to care about his ex-fiancé then he would only dig himself into a hole that he couldn’t get out of. He had the recipe that he and his mother needed and that was the important thing; Edmund was just a casualty that had happened along the way. Now that they had the recipe, Arthion and his mother set to work gathering the ingredients they needed to brew the banned potion. It was much more complex than either of them had anticipated and once they had managed to gather all of the ingredients, it took hundreds of batches before they finally managed to brew the potion correctly. Now that they knew what to do, they took it in turns to brew and bottle the hallucinogenic potion and to subtly spread the word around. Once they had enough batches and prospective buyers, Arthion and his mother started to sell the banned potion for a huge profit. Over time, they were able to expand, and hired people to brew and sell the potion for them whilst they relaxed and raked in the profits. They kept their business a secret from his mother’s husband and his half-sister and claimed that the sudden amount of wealth was due to good investments and an inheritance that they had only just been able to claim. It has been eight years since Arthion and his mother first started their business and now their potion is being distributed throughout all of the kingdoms, with the exception of one. With the success going to his mother’s head, she is determined to get the drug onto the streets of the human kingdom, and has demanded Arthion go undercover there again to act as their distributor.
Connections:
Natalia Perros - Half-Sister. Arthion does not have much of a relationship with his half-sister. Although he loves her and would protect her from anyone who tried to harm her, they just aren’t that close. Arthion does not trust Natalia with his secrets because he knows that the daddy’s girl would immediately tell her father and then there would be hell to pay.
Edmund Drayton - Ex-Fiancé. Edmund thought that he had found true love in Arthion, but he was just using Edmund in order to get the recipe for the potion his mother wanted to produce. He feels guilty about leaving him so abruptly, but tries not to dwell on it because it will only make him start to question everything. Now that he is back in the capital city of Abdera, Arthion is terrified of running into his ex-fiancé.