A lean male fire genasi with ember-red skin, bright copper eyes, and dark hair that always seems a little windblown even indoors. Faint warmth rises from his skin, and when emotions crest, thin orange tracery glows beneath his collarbones and wrists. He wears humble robes over practical adventuring gear, with a prayer cord wrapped around one wrist and a polished crystal focus hanging at his chest.

Patient, earnest, and quietly stubborn. He is kind to the point of self-sacrifice, but beneath the gentleness is a scholar’s pride and a sorcerer’s flashing confidence when the moment turns dangerous.

Born in the narrow streets behind a riverside temple, Saren Voss was the kind of child the locals whispered about, a fire genasi with a voice like a struck bell and temper enough to scorch a prayer candle. The priests who took him in expected a difficult foundling, but found instead a boy who listened better than he spoke, and who copied sacred texts with obsessive care. In the temple scriptoria he learned that faith was not only hymns and incense, but discipline, mercy, and the decision to stand between suffering and the urge to look away. He served as a copyist, bell ringer, and errand runner, until one winter night his magic answered a collapsing brazier and saved a room full of frightened petitioners. That moment revealed that the fire in his blood was not a curse to hide, but a gift to be guided. When his temple was later shaken by disputes over doctrine and the city’s growing cruelty to the poor, Saren discovered that devotion alone could not mend every wound. His prayers began to surge in ways the senior clergy could not explain, and the old records he loved so much started to glow at his touch. The priest who had raised him sent him into the world not as a punishment, but as a lesson in motion. Now he travels as a novice sorcerer with ink-stained hands, a holy symbol, and a promise to use his unpredictable power for protection rather than pride. He believes mercy should be active, visible, and sometimes a little dangerous.