#in my first drafts Raz' elemental half was Magic but I decided against it because I am still on the fence should it be an element in itself

[times-of-drought]

Storyteller Saturday - in the Firstborn.Prince story, how did Razareth come to be half elemental, half human? Was it a simple matter of breeding (one human parent one elemental parent) or was it more magical? And, for Razareth's elemental half, which element is it?

Yep! His mother is one of the elementals that were not bound, as she was hidden away before it was discovered she was born. She lived a relatively human-passing life, as she was proficient in taking on a human form. I am... not exactly set on the element she embodies, at first I thought about simply Magic, but that seemed too... bland. I have also thought about Life, like the lifeforce, but recently I have also been debating the element of Love itself

I have always liked the idea Empedocles had, that beside the 4 passive classical elements there are 2 active ones, Love and Strife. Love is the force that keeps matter together while Strife tears it apart. If I decided that she embodies Love, it would be fitting to make the Glass Demon an elemental of Strife hehe

Anyways back to genetics, she went on and fell in love in the king, whom she married, still under the guise that she is human. Even though he discovered her... quirk, he accepted her and helped her hide her true self. They really did not expect to have a child, it was unheard of, or at least not documented. He was born peculiar, with white hair and white eyes clearly indicating his non-human origin, but they concealed him for a few years. Unfortunately his mother was discovered by one of the servants and a manhunt commenced. She had to abandon her life and run away, leaving both her loving husband and unaware child.

The official story was that the elemental bewitched the king, the marriage has been nullified and any knowledge of Razareth limited only to trusted confidants of the king.

Technically, as Razareth is not a full-blooded elemental, he himself doesn't have a concrete element he embodies. If he was, however, he would be a Love elemental and it shows fdskgvfdjn