Lasaro:

- Age: 109 (apparently 19)

- Gender: male

- Race: Elf

- Hair: blond, a bit spiky on top, but long enough to surpass his back length. He usually has it tied in a ponytail, but sometimes he braids it.

- Eyes: Lime green

- Home Village: Sílthrim

- Parents: (father) Ainion & (mother) Alya; both elves

- Siblings: Aatto (younger brother) (appears 5 years old)

- Skills: his most remarkable skills are probably his speed and agility jumping and moving from a tree branch to another remaining unnoticed, and his keen sense of orientation, but only in the forest. Cast this poor elf in the middle of a big city and he will be absolutely bewildered. In the forest on the other hand, there are no mistakable trees or clearings for him when navigating through it. In fact, he actually can use trees and plants easily creating a sort of mental map which he uses to guide himself.
Spear is on top of his fighting skills. His first experience with something close to a spear were the long tree branches he sharpened with a blade-like stone and were used in hunting heavy prey like deer for instance. Once he found Atalanta, he had the opportunity to get a real spear and increased his aiming and fighting skill with it.
Fist fighting and the bow and arrow are also options when it comes to battling.
For spending so much time in the forest alone, he has also developed his senses of hearing and smelling.
As he sometimes need money and can’t earn it, he became an expert in pickpocket and secrecy. Although he had already stolen weaponry and money, and even mugged incautious travelers in the forest, most of his “profit” consists in food.

- Personality: Lasaro’s an outgoing, light-hearted and laid back guy who only thinks about eating, drinking and enjoying life. He’s also pretty unaware of the mess with Galbatorix… or at least he pretends to. And boy, he sure does not know when to keep his mouth shut sometimes =.= in fact, he runs his mouth off quite frequently as he fires up quickly, but that aside he has a big golden heart and really cares for the ones who might possibly need a hand from him… but he won’t ever say no to a food gift in exchange.
Other thing he won’t ever say no is to a challenge, especially if it has to do with fighting or any other form of physical strength. Then again, it seems the only thing he can do is talking big (also comprehensible if we have his looks in mind… he’s not all that muscular), usually saying things like: “I don’t need to act tough I AM tough!” to someone who remarks it when he seems to be bluffing.
He’s rather introspective when he is left alone for some days. Living in the forest has made him capable of great introspection as well as great eagerness of interacting with other people, ending up talking too much sometimes and acting like he’s full of himself. The fact is that he never had many opportunities to put his strength (here I mean many types of strength) to a real test.

This fellow sure has a lot to grow up, but they say losing it’s all part of it, right?
He also seems not to have much on top, but most of the time, he’s only being as naïve and grumpy as a child. He may hesitate sometimes but never loses courage, is a loyal friend and a passionate fighter if he truly has a reason to. He his more emotive that he thinks and together with the fact he is not very disciplined at first, it makes easy for any experienced rider to reed him like a book.
He seems not to get along very well with Atalanta or other dragons first sight because of his lack of trust in the magnificent beasts, but together, he and Atalanta can work as a comic relief for some rp’s

- History:
Lasaro was born to a loving couple of wood artisans who owned a small shop of music instruments and other wood artifacts in Sílthrim and Lasaro grew up with his brother in an ambiance of music and beauty.
But soon after the battles among dragonriders, and Galbatorix has risen as king, destruction and famine had their way, spreading throughout the region faster than the war itself. In Lasaro’s home, which even among elves was not the richest, they had come to a point in which even something as basic as bread was missing.

After discussing it painfully, Ainion and Alya came to a decision: they had to abandon Lasaro in the forest if they wanted their youngest son Aatto, that time a newborn, to survive. They took him to Du Weldenvarden as deep as they could reach, kissed him goodbye and pretended to go work cutting some trees, leaving Lasaro alone. His parents had a slight, yet possible hope, of him getting through the forest unharmed and find another village in which he could be adopted and nourished.
Instead of that, the worst almost happened. Not knowing how to feed himself from the forest while wandering clueless, Lasaro began to starve. He didn’t quite had to deal with the famine because his parents kept struggling to put always the same normal amount of food on his table.

Then, one day, he found a fresh killed bird near the place he slept the night before. On the next day, a rabbit, and on the third day, a deer. Along with every single kill he also found a brown black-hinted feather. But as the size and weight of the prey was increasing, a big delicate and shiny yellow scale was often near the fresh meal instead of the feather. Even not knowing how that would be possible, he could regain his strength with that food, and using some sharp tree branches he was able to build some traps and caught several rodents, frogs and other small animals he started to make his diet of. Still nowadays he is always very afraid of being hungry because of those days when he looked death in the eye because of it.

The time passed by and he survived until the age he is now. His parents knew nothing about him or his whereabouts. Lasaro on the other hand, learned how to orientate himself in the forest and eventually discovered Sílthrim again. But never came back. Deep down in him, he forgave his parents, but he wouldn’t stand to look in their eyes again nor live with them. He says it would be a waste of time.

- Weapons: a dragon bone tipped pine spear, with several rune shaped ivory and amber inlays and garnished with two colored feathers. As far as it is known, it has no magic powers. He knows how to wear the bow and arrow but is not carrying one at the moment.
Somewhere ahead in the story he’ll get a plain boomerang blade, made of light steel.

- Likes: food; nature and to be within it; is very attracted to music, and a soothing melody is a very good way to catch his attention; to have someone he can talk about himself… ok not just himself, but he would start by that subject maybe; friendly competitions; doing nothing for long hours… ok, being lazy is the expression.

- Dislikes: anyone who wins a challenge against him; cheaters; ladies (well, not exactly, but he dislikes very much the way one can make him feel uncomfortable when trying to seduce him or such)

- Animal Companions: (to be) Atalanta the dragon.

- Physical description: Tall (1.85 m) and slim, not too muscular. His skin was quite fair as all elves’ by nature, but he got quite tanned when he lived in the forest for some time. He is considered a good-looking elf, but still has no love interest… after all, he maybe too dense for that subject anyways. About clothing he usually wears a lot of leather he got from the forest animals he hunts, but those are just his default wardrobe, nothing sticky ^^ Whatever he uses must be light so he can still move swiftly.

- At the moment he carries: his spear; a small leather bag attached to his belt with a package of an ointment he made for lacerations, a bamboo flute his father gave him, a seashell and some coins.

- Dreams for the future: to gather the courage to meet his family again; (this is a deep deep secret) to find someone he can admire and to follow as an example, a rider most likely; to be served and eat the biggest deliciously ever cooked meal; to have someone he can cherish, elf, man or beast; to see the ocean.

- Reason for dreams:
He had always wanted to make up with his parents, and more important, with himself; Everyone has to have heroes, right? Even the big-mouthed like him;
…no need to explain, right?;
he is quite sociable, so he feels alone and lack of human/elf-warmness. He was always been curious about dragons, despite not being very certain of what it means to be a dragonrider;
Like most elves, Lasaro is fascinated with the stories he heard about the ocean and the seaside. Once His father had to travel to Teirm in search of a cargo ship that would bring tools and other goods he needed to buy for his craft shop. Before he left, he said Lasaro he would also bring him a gift on his way home. When asked about what he would like to have, the little elf answered “Bring me something beautiful and that I have never seen before! I want to know what is beyond the forest and mountains!” His father nodded and when he came back, he gave him a plain seashell he had found in the beach, explaining him about the ocean and how beautiful it was, since then, Lasaro’s been dreaming about it.

Alignment/Side: Good, although sometimes he claims to be a bully.

Fears: Death of his family; Fire in the forest or other kind of menace to it; to be hungry.

Just in case you care…
Here are two pictures of him and an instrumental piece I picked as his instrumental theme.
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Author’s note:
Lasaro's original story (as Atalanta's, Ariston’s, Ainion’s and Phoebe’s) is a bit different from this version which I wrote specifically for the use in eragon related forums. They have a history of their own, I’m still writing and rp“ing”, but some of its principles are against some of the Inheritance world’s “laws”. Anyhoo… hope u like him anyways

Author's note 2:
There are some aspects of Lasaro's and Atalanta's histories and personalities I'm planning to develop in a fiction which link I'll post here when it's ready ^^ It will have two more detailed prologues (one for each of them, and a small fiction from where I'll get to start my roleplays)
Even if the characters get accepted before the fiction is ready (I expect it won't take too long to get it written), I won't start roleplaying until I get it done. Why?
Because it will be easier for you guys to understand important parts of the story Atalanta and Lasaro will start together (you'll see they'll have a very awkward start), understand their personalities even better, as well as many other details I'd like to develop, like Lasaro's parents' death or the kidnapping scene of Atalanta by her father, among others... well, you'll see there will be plenty to explain.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I'll enjoy writing ^^

wow...... I think it is awsome, a few spelling and grammar mistakes but other than that I luv it. Good job, I'm sure when Shade gets back it will be accepted.

Wow thank you so much!
I've already corrected the spelling/grammar mistakes I could find