Sanlin Shadowraiser

Born in the year of the Bronze Wyvern, 330, Sanlin Shadowraiser came from simple beginnings. He spent his childhood in his birthplace, Arthe Dale, and was raised by a loving community full of joy, beauty, and life.

A precocious child, Shadowraiser was well educated in his youth by the elders of Arthe Dale. He soon became bored with simple education, and although he continued his schooling, Sanlin began to push himself to learn skills and trades that might help him more throughout life than booksmarts. He became an expert horseman, a charismatic speaker, and was the most agile Olvi in Arthe Dale as a young man.

As Shadowraiser grew into his adolescence, he began to work as a courier for the Tanglefoots of the Dale. Carrying letters and messages of official business throughout the provinces and boroughs of Elanthia, Sanlin became well acquainted with the dialects, races, and customs of different locales.

This era in his life brought him the street smarts that would be so important to him farther down the road. He returned to Arthe Dale more often as his romance with his employers daughter, Penelope Tanglefoot, blossomed into love. Soon after Shadowraiser had returned permanently to the Dale to live with Penelope, the Gorbesh army came from the Nordlands and began its southward invasion of Elanthia that winter.

Sanlin was called to arms for the defense of Arthe Dale and was wounded terribly by a Gorbesh archer's arrow in the ferocity of the battle. As Penelope attempted to drag his unconscious body from harm's way, she was slain by the Gorbesh soldiers who had penetrated the gates of the once peaceful Olvi city. He bears her mark upon his back to this day.

Years of mourning led to reclusiveness and Shadowraiser became less interested in anything around him until Jeremiah Tanglefoot, the uncle of Penelope, visited him one day. Jeremiah gave him direction and showed him how to channel his anguish by staying busy with charity, and to this day Sanlin Shadowraiser is a proud member of the Lorethew Mentor Society. The Society is a necessity to him, for he can only help himself through giving to others.