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About Derfell

Appearence: Tall and slender, Derfel's deep blue eyes accentuate his sharp features. His pale skin is marked by decades of growing in the wild forests of Ansalon. His blonde hair, adorned with the bones of small woodland creatures, is tied into a braid that reaches the middle of his back. His dark green cloak drapes over his crimson clothing and dark leather armor. A wide belt with a heavy steel buckle holds his tunic tight around his waist, his dagger conspicuously hanging by his thigh. Derfel is a thing of the forests and wildlands and looks the part.

Personality: Derfel is soft spoken and thoughtful by nature, rarely revealing what he's truly thinking. He is suspicious of new people but once a friendship is formed it is to the death for Derfel. He loathes slavers and war mongers, and will often go out of his way to offend and destroy such people.

History: Thorsten was a great warrior of a barbaric mountain tribe. He warred with his neighbors and took slaves of all who were as unlucky to be caught. On one raid he took an elven girl slave; she was forced to tend his garden, care for his legitimate children, and warm his bed. On her third spring of this degrading enslavement she became pregnant. Already with many mouths to feed Thorsten fell into a rage when he discovered and swore he'd kill her and the bastard. To her luck he was too drunk and slept before he could fulfill his promise. That night she ran to the woods and took refuge in a dank cave. From her cave she scrapped by; surviving the wilds, avoiding bandits and worse, and gathering enough food to support herself and the growing baby inside her. In the fall, alone and cold, she died giving childbirth. The child would have died too if a passing hunter hadn't heard the it's cries. Sigfel was the hunter, a forest warden and skilled tracker. He and his wife Hild raised the child as one of their own, naming him Derfel, and he became the youngest of four. They lived deep in the forest, seldom seeing other families. Only when they would go to the surrounding settlements to sell furs and coal would they emerge from the dense forests. In his youth Derfel learned to hunt, to survive, and much of the natural world. Though Derfel always knew he was different from his brothers, he only learned of his origins when Sigfel told him the tale after he had become a man. Driven by restlessness, undefined questions, and anger Derfel left his forest home to seek adventure and himself.