Alistair is a man who looks weathered by the elements. He has deep set eyes, a high forehead, and a thick beard shot through with grey. He wears simple, heavy grey robes stained with ink and mountain dust. He carries a gnarled oak staff topped with a glowing blue quartz.

Alistair is soft spoken and prone to long pauses where he seems to be calculating the physics of the world around him. He values logic and empirical evidence over emotion or tradition. He is rarely surprised, as he believes everything has a predictable cause if one looks closely enough.

For nearly thirty years, Alistair Vance lived in a high altitude cave within the Cloudpeak Mountains. He was not hiding from the world but studying the resonance of the weave as it interacted with natural ley lines. He spent decades mapping the subtle shifts in magical energy, living off the land and his own survival skills. His isolation was broken when he uncovered a specific sequence of arcane vibrations that suggested a coming fracture in the local weave, a discovery he calls the Loom Collapse. Alistair realized that his mountain home would be the first place to crumble if his calculations were correct. Realizing he could not stop the event alone, he descended into the civilized lowlands to seek out peers and gather the resources necessary to stabilize the region. His years of solitude have made him somewhat socially awkward, but his sense of urgency is palpable to anyone who listens to him speak about the stars or the wind.