Elian is a man in his early forties with kind, weary eyes and salt-and-pepper hair. He wears heavy chain mail under scholarly blue robes, with a thick book always strapped to his hip.

He is soft-spoken and remarkably patient, preferring to observe and understand a situation before intervening. He speaks with the cadence of a teacher but carries himself with the quiet resolve of one who has seen great tragedy.

Elian Vance spent the better part of two decades within the dusty halls of the Silent Archive. As a sage, he was content to catalog ancient medicinal texts, until a sudden plague swept through the neighboring slums. When the professional healers failed, Elian found that reciting the ancient prayers in his scrolls produced tangible miracles of light. Forced by his conscience to leave the archive, he now travels to provide care to those in the darkest corners of the world. He believes that knowledge is the greatest shield against suffering, and that his newfound power is a tool to be used with surgical precision and immense empathy.