Anelvus

"It was not until the late Third Era that Anelvus' name became a reason of concern to the Empire. He was an extremely powerful and old battlemage, famed as "Master of Ten Thousand Spells."

- Unknown author

Anelvus, also known as The Ancestor, Grandmaster, Warlock, The Ascended One, Overking, and his most known nickname, Nomad, was a powerful battlemage who betrayed the Empire during the Third Era and founded the revolutionary order known as The Ascendants. As the last known survivor of the Old Ehlnofey, he was a very old one, born sometime during or prior to the Dawn Era, and played a major role in helping several powerful and very famous wizards, such as Arch-Mage Shalidor, who would later build the College of Winterhold, Loreth, a powerful enchanter responsible for creating the Staff of Chaos, the Underking, supposedly the Imperial Battlemage of Tiber Septim himself, Vanus Galerion, the founder of the Mages Guild, as well as a number of Dragon Priests, including Miraak, Ahzidal and Vahlok, three of the most powerful among them. As the last survivor of the Ehlnofey, Anelvus was both very respected and very feared for his power and bloodline. He was very proud of his heritage, even arrogant, to the point there was a running joke among the Legion about that. Though he did not consider members of other races inferior to him, he despised the way most High Elves act, claiming they had no right to claim godhood cause they were but a tainted version of the Aldmeri race, who in turn Anelvus claimed very also a tainted heritage of the Ehlnofey. This made him somewhat unpopular in the Summerset Isles, though he was one of the founding members of the Psijic Order. He also despised the "gods" of the Altmeri, the likes of Auri-El, Xarxes, and others. At some point during the Second or Third Era, Anelvus founded the Ascendants with the goal of bringing back the Ehlnofey race.