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Born 230 years ago to unknown parents, Caellana Merathiel spent most of her long life in the woods in seclusion. In fact, she was given her name by passing elven traders who took her in briefly after she was assailed at a young age by bullies. It was in those early days that she learned she was an elf, as well, for she had no idea until those bullies hurled racial epithets at her that she didn't understand.
 
She spent only a few years with those traders before growing tired of the abuse she suffered from them and the community, and pursuing the warm embrace of the wilds she initially grew up in. There she found kinship with the animals and fae creatures that inhabited it. She played with wisps and cared for wounded birds. She would disrupt hunters and helped tend to the trees. She quickly found she had some latent capability to heal and breath life into the wilds that gave her so much in return. She wouldn't push herself but she accepted her gifts comfortably.
 
She would only briefly venture into the world of men, and very rarely at that. The stone walls and pathways confused her and the air was unfamiliar. She couldn't communicate with anything in the way she could in the woods.
 
Then the war came, and with it, the twisting of her friends. The fae creatures she once claimed as kin became cruel and anguished under the banners of the Autumn Queen. She withdrew further into the wilds to avoid the conflict.
 
It was during this time that she encountered a lone creature that seemed to be both a cat and fox at once, with sharp red eyes and bushy sheath of fur. The creature spoke to her and identified himself as "Wren," and the two became fast friends. Wren, similarly, felt cast off from his animal companions for being too strange a being.
 
Many years would pass, the war ended, and while the woods twisted and corrupted around them, Caellana and Wren tended to a small grove deep within the Rylan Woods. For almost 200 years that grove would go largely undisturbed by the world around it, as Caellana and Wren worked tirelessly to misdirect explorers from it. Thanks to Wren's unnaturally long lifespan (a fact that didn't bother Caellana) and a latent magical ability Caellana had that she didn't quite understand, they were very successful at this for a very long time.
 
Until Caellana felt the tug of wanderlust. While Wren would caution her not to leave her grove, after over 200 years of tending, and so many seasons that passed by in a blink of an eye, Caellana was beginning to feel that call to explore beyond her grove. She wanted to understand what happened to the world and her former friends beyond those tortured boughs. She began to engage with the explorers rather than chase them away, and would offer them aid, directions, and supplies. Eventually she made a name for herself and began work with the Westbound Star Company ... and was about to take the journey of her lifetime.

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