Eiolrin Alfein

Backstory

Eiolrin Alfien was born to Irish wixen Siobhan and Ronan Alfein in 2001, just three years after the second wizarding war had ended. Her father died during his work as an Auror when Eiolrin was just one year old, so she grew up in the hills of Northern Ireland with only her mother to care for her and no siblings. Siobhan never remarried. Eiolrin grew up in a quaint cottage in a quiet muggle town, where she and her mother unofficially gained a reputation as the town witches due to their large garden and her mother's reputation as a healer. While Siobhan never broke the statute of secrecy to do magic in front of the town's muggles, she was very talented in herbology, potions, and healing and knew how to use muggle plants as well as any magical ones to heal. When the town drunk needed a pick-me-up, Siobhan gave him a tincture made of peppermint and coffee grounds. When the local children fell and bruised their knees, a salve made from honey and cloves had them right as rain the next day. 

But when the full moon rose or the wixen holidays arrived, Siobhan also taught Eiolrin the traditional ways. The Old Magic. She taught her of the importance of the solstices and the equinoxes; of how the veil between life and death was thinnest on Samhain; of how magic was more than something you could summon with a wand and a bit of good intent. It lived in the earth, in the herbs, in the air, and in themselves. Siobhan taught Eiolrin that magic was not inherently good or bad; it simply was. She ensured Eiolrin would not be afraid of her own dark magical core or her Sight and gave her the tools to survive in a world that regarded her kind of magic as wrong.

As the years wanned and her eleventh birthday grew nearer, Eiolrin knew she wanted more than her mother's quiet life in a quaint little town making muggle money off of muggle herbal medicine. She wanted adventure, power, and knowledge. She wanted an era of magic that thrived for both the Dark and the Light. She wanted the world to know how beautiful Dark magic could be and that it didn't have to be conflated with an agenda against muggles. Her mother always told her she was more like her father in that way. So, it was no surprise when Eiolrin sorted into Slytherin--her late father's own house. As she grows into her power, Eiolrin hopes to rid the world of the scars the previous Dark Lords have left and help magic thrive.