Aidana Darccangel

The circumstances surrounding my arrival in Crossing were hardly happy ones, but despite that and my somewhat unorthodox childhood, I grew up happily enough. My mother, whom I do not know and never can as she is long dead, brought me north from Shard to save me, as it was soon apparent that I was to have hair as dark as the night sky. As you may or may not know, Elotheans children with black hair and pale eyes often die within two years of their birth or are thought to, though many believe they are taken by the Melyo Rensh'a to serve with them. It was probably with this in mind (even though my eyes are amber and not so much pale) that my mother made her decision to bring me north and away from the city of Shard, to prevent any untoward accidents.

Unfortunately, she survived only long enough to make it to a forest outside of Crossing where one of the women who adopted me, Faida, found both her and myself. As she lay dying from her wounds, she made known her concerns and wishes, and so Faida took me as her own to raise. The woman, dead within minutes, was laid to rest in the forest under a cairn of stones gathered while I lay sleeping under a nearby tree. Returning with me, Faida set out to raise me with the help of Tzigane, the other woman married at the time to Kainan, a highly charismatic Elven Thief.

Why, I do not know, but Kainan was convinced of Tzigane's infidelity and left his wives shortly after I was introduced to this rather odd family, though how an Elf could produce a fully Elothean child is beyond me, or even hide a pregnancy for so long. It was not until much later, when I was in my twenties, that relations with my adoptive father were renewed, and we remained cordial if not always affectionate until he walked the starry road while exploring Ratha.

Others also adopted me into their families over time, but I have always remained closest to Tzigane and Jaimus of all of them. Though I grew up in the care of a Bard and a Thief, I chose another path for myself in life. While I enjoy the intricacies of traps and music, the sky and its mysteries drew me more strongly, and I found myself standing before Kssarh and asking to be admitted as a student in the Moon Mage Guild.  From then on I have walked a sometimes lonely path, furthering my studies and learning always of the ways of magic and of the mysteries of the sky, but always a path of excitement and wonder that I could not imagine leaving.