Elräen Naïlo

In the marble streets of Ilmäre in Ilsworth, Elräen was born into a wealthy family of high elves. He was raised with strong national values, and with his father a master sage and his mother a warrior, he had a strong education in both academics and fighting. He developed talent with a bow quickly and it soon became his weapon of choice. 20m. 50m. 100m. Elräen continued to improve his archery skills to that of a professional, at such a young age that his bow was stretching well above his height. He gained a low level of fame in the higher echelons of Ilmäre as an esteemed archer and fighter. With a grand ceremony, Elräen was gifted his mother’s sleek longbow once she became more focused in commanding leadership roles in the High Elven Council.   He was brought into the army at a young age and quickly excelled. He was amid the Ilmären infantry at the start of the War of the Eastern Front, still a child but strong in his values to protect the city and people he loved. He fought in many major battles during the war, losing close friends and celebrating victories. One fateful day, he was stationed outside Ilmäre ready to march out and face the enemy, when loud booms echoed from behind the army, as the grand walls of the city cracked and its towers crashed into the ground. The soldiers of Ilmäre were quickly overrun by the sudden destruction of the city combined with the ensuing orc ambush, a massacre that would leave its horrid mark on history for centuries. Elräen - older now but still too young - ran back to the city despite the danger in search for his parents. Surrounded by chaos, he found his family home razed to the ground, blood pooling around it and came to the despairing revelation that his family was gone. In one of the most scarring moments of his life, Elräen turned in horror to see the high orc commander Ugrash Earth-Scorcher, the silent brute of the 3 brothers that ruled the orc battalions of The Eastern Armies. The orc held his menacing warhammer - the source of Ilmäre’s destruction - and slammed it into the ground, splitting the earth.   Elräen barely escaped that day. He ran through the battlefield into the wilderness, and wandered for weeks across Ilsworth and past the border into Vashnir, where he arrived at a small town just outside the city of Ravadesh, dehydrated and malnourished. Collapsed at a shopfront awaiting death, Baron Vilkrest found Elräen and nursed him back to health when others ignored him. Baron took him back to his home on the outskirts of Sareth, where they’d reside together for years with Baron attempting to get Elräen to open up about his emotions to no avail. He thought about returning to Ilsworth many times, but couldn’t find the strength to face his fears. Thankfully the destruction of Ilmäre was the final major loss of the West, and the Eastern Armies were soon defeated in the coming years, with their major leaders slain and the 3 Brothers left scattered across the lands of Malodor and Sintar with only scraps of their power remaining.   Elräen struggled to adapt to civilian life once the war was over, seeing threats at every corner and left unable to cope with his grief. If not for Baron, he likely would have ended up in prison or dead. He found some comfort in hunting deep in the woods, reliving the adrenaline of his army days. With his mother’s bow still at his side, Elräen has fought smaller threats on the edges of Sareth (Bandits and lingering orc fugitives), but now as the flames of war begin to blaze once more, he fights alongside a group of adventurers to prevent the fate that befell his city and his parents from repeating itself.

Elräen is still haunted by his past, and can't connect with his ordinary life in the rural town of Sareth. He was only a child when his city, Ilmäre, was brutally destroyed by the orcs and he has been scarred because of it. Despite several attempts by his mentor, Baron, to bring him back to reality, Elräen can't escape the adrenaline rush and control that fighting gives him. He finds it highly difficult to make connections as others can't sympathise with his grief causing him to lose more of these relationships which, despite his surface-level abrasion, he desperately desires.