| Rowan Calenangol |
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| Rowan was born on the last full moon of the year 1050, to Taurandil, an elf, and Bridget a human. Taught through her early years, the skills of her mother, she took on some of her mother's duties as village healer, yet her skills were limited to minor wounds. She also held honour to her mother's beliefs in retribution and ultimate justice, choosing to honour Nemesis as ancestor, just as her mother did and her grandfather before that. Rowan had a love for growing things and was blessed with skills in magic, she always wished that she could learn more of her father's kind. Her father tried his best to educate Rowan on her elven heritage but the elven kingdom in the forest where she lived was secluded, refusing entrance to most, unless they had to. Rowan and Taurandil had to live to see Bridget age. Rowan had not yet reached adulthood by Elven standards, and was only 25 years of age. It was at this time, a strange and un-natural plague befell the villages surrounding their home. Many villagers came to Bridget for healing, she was able to help, but as the illness had an un-natural cause, the work of a dark alchemist, it took all her healing strength to release the villagers. One by one the villagers were struck down, until Bridget healed them. Bridget, however, sacrificed herself for healing the villages and her health began to fail. Taurandil took Rowan deep into the forest to live with his elven kin, to spare her the torment of seeing the last days of her mother, as was the curse of her un-naturally long lifespan. However most elves found her brash and irrational on occasion, and couldn't fathom her reluctance to part with her ideals retribution and her honour of Nemesis. Taurandil saw Bridget to the end of her days nursing her for 5 years, until on the longest day of the year 1086 she died, then with a party of elf-kind, found the alchemist who had caused the plagues. They took him deep into the forest, to the elven kingdom to keep him prisoner, magically bound, unable to practice his works. Rowan lived in the elven kingdom, for 29 years and it was here that Rowan was schooled on spellcraft and fighting. However she was never able to perform well as a fighter, she was held back by the lack of elf-like dexterity that she envied in those of her elven kin, but gaining in human courage she was able to hold her own in battle. At 50 years of age, she joined a scouting party, as it was rumoured that there was a band of Drow searching for the captured alchemist, A party of Elven warriors and spellcasters went searching for them. Their search lead them into an ambush. All the elven men were slain and the women were taken prisoner, Rowan was among those captured. During the journey back to the Drow camp, a small group of fighters attacked the Drow, the group that they had come across was The Order of Nemesis lead by Malekai Ebonblade. Rowan returned to the elven kingdom with this group, carrying the injured elves. But on arrival to the kingdom, a fearful sight greeted them. The slain bodies of Elf-kind lay strewn around there were Elves dying all around her. Rowan found the body of her father among those dying, as his last words to her he confessed that he is not her biological father. Knowing her real father abandoned her, she cares little for his true identity, and instead has cast aside most of her Elven side. The Order of Nemesis holds Nemesis as ancestor, as does herself and her mother, taking this to be a sign of her true path. Rowan formed friendships within the band of people, many of who had suffered similar losses to herself. Later discorvering the drow that had caused her pain were also drow of the House Amroth. |
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