Alistair Albrite, Half-Elf Wild Sorcerer and Exiled Noble

Character Name: Alistair Albrite, Half-Elf Wild Sorcerer and Exiled Noble
Alistair was born the third son of a wealthy family. Both his human father and elven mother came into their marriage as owners of prominent businesses. His two twin older brothers became the heirs to the family as they took over the assets of one parent each. Their parents tried for a daughter, which led to Alistair being the disappointing first result, before they succeeded with his youngest sister. Alistair’s parents doted on his sister and raised her to be their pedestal child.
Though Alistair wasn't treated badly initially, his had his schooling focused more on general education and social quirks. He was taught good etiquette, charm, manners, and how to play instruments; traits that would make him a charming and silver-tongued young man, perfect for using to marry into another wealthy empire.
Since Alistair wasn't taking the time to be educated as extensively as his brothers and wasn't attending parties and outings along with his sister, he had much more free time, during which he collected and read books. He found books of magic and mages the most riveting because they portrayed magic as a power that enabled someone to do anything. So he wished to practice it.
However his parents quickly dismissed any attempts for him to learn magic as too expensive and frivolous to be bought for their...less important child. So by the age of twelve, he had mostly given up on the idea of learning magic but still enjoyed the stories.
One day, he decided to traverse the woods of his family estate only to eventually find something he had not expected. A fairy. He began talking to her, visiting her whenever he could during the next year. She could cast magic and show him a great many things, and she seemed to enjoy his company. But one day she said she would be gone a long time and that it was unlikely they would meet there again. He was devastated and pleaded for her to stay. But before she left, she gave him a gift. With a kiss upon his forehead he found himself capable of doing magic.
Alistair was overjoyed, and kept his magic in private as to not alert his parents. However, sudden surges of his magic would burst forth out of his control which would alert his family to his abilities. His parents demanded he stopped using magic, but if he did so, the magic surges only worsened.
After repeated accidents occurring, his parents enacted a cruel form of punishment on him. They had commissioned iron coins they would call "good child tokens". They would give Alistair one such token each time he would perform an act the way they expected or went a day without performing magic. These tokens would control his basic needs. Getting to eat for each day costed tokens, being allowed out of his room to play costed tokens, sleeping in his bed costed tokens, and so on. They used this cruel punishment, hoping to choke out his magic, and thus the accidents it caused. Failing that, they thought of a new tactic. They filled a sack with all of the 250 good child tokens and handed it to him. In the seemingly most supportive way, they told him they decided to give him a chance to prove that his magic was useful and not merely destructive and troublesome. He had to go out on his own and replace each of those iron coins with a platinum one. Only then would the parents support of his magic and he could return to home. With that, he was removed from his family estate as a fifteen-year-old boy and thrown into the world on a task that was quite unlikely to ever be finished.
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