Danaris grew up on the outskirts of Sandpoint society in a family that was always on the verge of starvation. His father tried several fields–farming, timber, fishing, manual work at the docks–but, due to his poor luck and too readily embrace of the bottle, those schemes always failed. Though his father would regale his many children with stories of their family's history as important Chelaxian settlers, few in the family could ignore their desperate situation: a turn of bad luck could doom them all to starvation.
When a local cleric of Erastil noted Danaris' talents and offered to bring the boy up in the church, Danaris' family leapt at the chance to have one less mouth to feed.
Danaris didn't blame his family for sending him to Erastil, recognizing that it was the best choice they could make in the situation. Instead, he blamed a society that allowed some to become rich and powerful, while other families and communities had to struggle and scrape just to survive.
Though Danaris is fiercely loyal to the Church of Erastil, he sometime bristles at their more conservative tendencies. He agrees that communities and families need protecting and conserving, but he wishes the Church would take a more active role in fighting oppression.
In Sandpoint, Danaris currently works at the Chapel, alongside Abstalar Zantus, aiding and comforting the sick and the poor. He also checks in, from time to time, on his surviving family members: two brothers, who both take after their father; a sister, who has married an industrious and hardworking farmer; and his mother, who survives by doing odd jobs such as sewing, washing, watching children and through the support of her grown children, including Danaris.
