Dantés Zen-Vespera

Dantés Zen-Vespera (Born 4-21, 947 AF) is a Strezan Genasi historian, archaeologist, alchemist, and adventurer. Dantés' main body of scholarly work focuses on The Imperium and its artifacts. He is perhaps best known for his translation of the only known, extant Draconic text detailing the fall of the Imperium and the war against Tiamat.

Biography
Dantés is a Genasi born to noble human parents in the city-state of Streza in 947. Though almost human in appearance at birth, he developed signs of his elemental ancestry as he aged. By the time he was 12, his skin had changed from the olive tone typical of Strezans to a deep copper, and he began to display szuldar --intricate patterns of glowing elemental energy visible through the skin, unique to every Genasi.

Though his house includes the name Vespera, a Great House of Téoren, his own lineage is far-removed from the Téoren ducal house, having been formed centuries ago by the union of a Vesperan baroness and a nobleman of House Zen (now extinct.)

Dantés took to scholarly pursuits at an early age, displaying an aptitude for history and language, as well as the arcane and alchemical sciences. He took a particular interest in stories of the rise and fall of the Imperium, which eventually grew to consume virtually all of his academic efforts. By the time he reached adulthood, he grew restless of the Streza Academy and its libraries, longing to strike out into the world and study in the field. In 969 he left Streza for Téoren, settling in a tiny rowhouse in Vale, from which he conducted numerous archaeological expeditions to several nearby Imperium ruins --though he has yet been unable to gain access to the forbidden Old Capital-- often with the aid of hired adventurers.