Elijah was born outside the walls and protections of Havenhold in the recovering town of Ebbingdon, being born later into the rebuilding some of the resentment of the larger city festered its way into his childhood, however it was short lived as he developed a crush on one of the city merchants daughters that would visit from time to time when her father would do business.
After many rejections Elijah gave up his pursuits setting out to make a name for himself searching out better trade routes between the villages and cities around Havenhold. The first few years were hard on him wrought with failures and loses the undead and bandits plagued his ventures.
Elijah recruited some mercenaries to help clear the roads he was working on rising to some fame through the groups successes. Several members of the group moved on after to chase more money elsewhere, Lobar the Wolf went into hermitage in an old forest, Jacob Van Braam retired to Havenhold to open a smithy, lastly there was Marcella Autumn well Rand after the wedding at least.
For 8 happy years the couple adventured occasionally but spent the most of the time living in an orchard on the outskirts of Ebbingdon till one fateful night when the dead became restless and moved to attack the town. Rallying those who could fight and mounting a defense through the night casualties were low as Elijah and Marcella had weathered the brunt of the battle. Then struck the worst of fortunes to befall any man Elijah could only watch as a vampire sunk its fangs into his wifes neck.