Emery

A young Zephyrian from Mirel, able to control the weather.

He was still learning to control his abilities, much as Taara had been during her own training, and the two became close. They spent much of their time together in the woods of Naaru: Taara practising with her bow, Emery experimenting with small clouds, gentle rain, brief gusts of wind.

Since

Sometimes, even centuries later, Taara still thinks of him.

Whenever a storm rolls across the sky she finds herself watching the clouds a little too long, hoping that somewhere, somehow, it might be Emery.

She knows it isn't.

But she still hopes.

Emery was inside the barrier when Ether froze. Per Ether's Flame, frozen is not dead — a heartless body in cold is preserved, not killed. If the Heart is ever returned, the storm she keeps looking for is a thing that could actually arrive.

Handle carefully: this is the single cheapest lever in the whole Ether backstory, and it belongs to the endgame, not to a mid-campaign beat.