Ivanor Bellsmith

Ivanor Bellsmith is a 61-year old ex-bellsmith born in Pass in 1430, now living in Casm.

Early Life
Ivanor was born outside his ancestors’ bell-smithy in the merchant town of Pass in 1442 AA. He came from a long line of bellsmiths, usually estimated to about 83 generations. His family had been making the finest bells in the Peninsula since before the fall of Amertod. Ivanor enjoyed his profession, and he was happy. He married a woman named Çelinda Chulassu.

Accident and Journey
When Ivanor was 36, a huge bell that he was working on fell on him, costing him his legs. It took him several years to recover physically, but his mental condition went downhill and only started slipping deeper. The loss of his legs caused him to spiral into a depression. He gave up his bell-smithing job. At the age of 48 he left Pass forever, only taking his clothes, a few tools, and his 2-month-old son, the only things left to him, his wife having died during childbirth.Bellsmith headed East, and walked, hardly stopping, for ten months. He walked beyond the borders of the Peninsula, across the Great Plains of the East, whose name rests still unknown, and only stopped at a city called Dras.

He believed that he could find a life there, perhaps settle down and resume his career as a Bellsmith, to forget about his tumultuous past and make a better life for his son Numanor Bellsmith. Unfortunately, he was very wrong.

Adventuring
Having been immediately labeled as an adventurer by the factions of Dras, Ivanor was knocked out at an inn late at night and brought to a room upstairs where he woke up two days later alongside an elvish newcomer who had also been labeled as an adventurer. He found that his son Numanor had been taken from his back, and that a letter had been left on the bed stating that the ransom for Numanor’s release was the destruction of the city’s temple to Erlind, the local religion of Dras, which included practices such as ritual sacrifices of locals’ limbs. The Erlindans hated Ivanor from the moment he set foot in the city because of his efforts to replace his lost legs (according to the Erlind religion, lost limbs are a boon and should be embraced and cherished), and as humans will, Ivanor hated Erlind back. But he would not go so far as to destroy a cathedral.

At least, he would not have if his son had not been kidnapped by the rebels.

With the help of Indafinicks, the elf who Ivanor woke up next to in the tavern, Ivanor destroyed the cathedral and was reunited with Numanor, although the destruction of a major religion, apparently evil as it was, only worsened his mental state.

Return to the Peninsula
In 1489, a 59-year-old Ivanor and his now 19-year-old son traveled back to the Abar-Neridic Peninsula, under the pretense that Ivanor wanted to show Numanor the place of his ancestors before he died. Unfortunately and under a cruel twist of fate, Numanor joined the Cult of the deep canna upon passing Casm. Losing his son was the final step in reducing Ivanor to a shell of a man an in Casm he stayed, waiting to die and begging for money from the miners.