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  1. Ravandil Eldenkin – Bryce Chitwood
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  3. Raised in the quiet Reikwald Elven village of Gladebrook, Ravandil Eldenkin was always different from his peers, fitting in with neither men nor Elf. Born to Riellys Blackwood and her husband Cael-a-Drir, scion of the wealthy Altdorf trading house of the same name, Ravandil always lived in the shadow of his brother Hithlos, who as a young man disappeared whilst traveling through Nordland. This drove Cael-a-Drir to drink, turning in his anger and grief to his wife, then pregnant with their second child. Following a particularly violent episode she left him and moved back to Gladebrook, though her health steadily declined and, in time, passed away. On her deathbed she imparted to Ravandil the reason he was so different: he was not one of the City Elves, not truly, nor even a High Elf. Instead, Riellys revealed that she had merely been adopted by Blackwood family as an orphan, her real last name being Eldenkin, marking her- and by extension him, as of Athel Loren.
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  5. As she lay dying, his mother told of how Ravandil's maternal grandmother was slain by a creature of the Wildwoods, and stricken with pain, his grandfather had joined the Wildwood Rangers, leaving Riellys all alone. Not at home between the trees that took both of her parents, she fled through secret ways between the Grey Mountains to dwell in exile in Reikland and attempt to start over. Riellys passed away bidding her son to reclaim his heritage, a charge that would burn firmly in his heart. Striving to grow lithe and strong with the help of the Blackwoods, Ravandil gradually came to yearn for something greater, and when he was of age, he departed for Athel Loren.
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  7. After a long and perilous journey he reached the boughs of his ancestors, only to be turned away by scornful sentries. Ravandil found himself labeled too alien, too “other” to be entrusted to enter the ealm of the King in the Woods. Seeking to prove himself, he turned instead to Altdorf, there to confront his father, now a drunk disowned by his own family. Meaning to kill him for his many sins, Ravandil stayed his hand at the last moment, finding himself unable to strike his own flesh. But Cael-a-Drir knew no such restraint, and cursed his mother to Ravandil's face. Enraged, the son slew the father, symbolically purging the High Elves from his lineage. Fleeing from his past, Ravandil now wanders to prove himself to any who would question him and, perhaps, rejoin the hallowed boughs of Athel Loren.
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