Character's Full Name: Ja'd El'rein'te (Jade)

Character's Race: Elven (Forest Elf)

Character's Homeland: My parents hailed from the deep woods of the Arcane forest, but I was raised in an inn on the main road that runs through the V'galda Pass before going to live with the forest elves in the Arcane Forest.

Character's Special Weapons and Such: Hand carved Ebony bow given to me by my mother.

Character's Special Abilities: I have a small bit of the elven resistance to magic, but I began to develop it too late for it to be of much good. I do however have a knowledge of the forest and am good at healing and tracking, as well as plant and animal lore.

Character's Weakness': I have always been told by the elves that I "think too human", which may not sound very much of a weakness, but in an elf it is a disgrace. I can be entirely too emotional and I form human attatchments that are very unlike a normal elf. I also have a deep fear of lightening. When I was a small child I was out feeding the chickens in the Inn's yard, when a storm blew up. I finished my chores as the first drops fell, and as I was racing back, lightening struck a tree very near to me. I have never forgotten the noise, the smell, and the fear I felt as the tree exploded with light and burst into flame. At the first rumblings of thunder, even after 140 years, I still feel my stomach knot when a storm is brewing.

A brief Story of your character: My real parents were Elven Archers, scouts for the T'sel Aran band to which we belonged. My time to be born came upon my mother too swiftly for her to get back to the woods for me to be born. As is the way of elves, she was still carrying out her duties, and my birth was a hinderance; the scouts were deeply involved in following the movements of several bands of orcs that were traveling over the V'galda Pass in the direction of the Arcane forest. She was afraid that her few hours away from her observation post had already allowed the enemy to slip by, and if she took the time to abandon her post all together and take an infant back to T'sel Aran'ta, it could mean a great amount of harm. Finding an inn, she persuaded the innkeeper and his wife to care for me for a few days. They agreed, and the days stretched into weeks, and then months. My mother would come to the inn whenever she was in the area scouting, but she could never quite find the time to take me back to her home. I was safe, I was cared for, and I was no more than a passing thought. The innkeeper and his wife however loved me. They had 3 boys of their own, and I grew up surrounded by a family who loved me and accepted me. I was as much a daughter to them as I could have been. My pointed ears and silver-green hair never seemed to make much of a difference. I knew my mother when she came to see me, but the humans were my family.

I never realized the difference my being an elf made, until I realized how humans aged, and I did not do so, my brothers grew older and older, and moved away, had families of their own, and my "parents" grew older and more feeble. My "father" died when I was nearly 50 and my "mother" just 4 years later. I, however was still a child, and my real mother came and finally took me back to her people.

There I did not fit in, and I caused much grief to my real parents. I met my father for the first time, and it was 40 more years before he would even look at me, let alone claim me as his child. My mother was more understanding, but she was always gone, scouting and tracking. I saw her even less once I lived with the T'sel Aran, than when I lived at the inn. I tried to learn all I could and be a good elf, I learned the language, and I learned to scout, as my parents did. But I spent most of my time, very humanly, trying to gain approval, I learned what I did, and tried to gain the love and acceptance I had felt with the humans. It took me a long long time to realize elves do not feel those emotions. Elves have duty, elves have clan, the do not have family.

I realized, when I was 140 that I would never fit in. I had found no mate, and I did not wish one. To elves, mating and children is a duty, they do not love or form bonds. I knew I could not face that, and I left T'sel Aran'ta. I did not know what I was looking for but I found the Frost Knights, and eventually the love and acceptance I was looking for, when I fell in love with one of the humans I met at the Valentine's Day Ball there.

I still have my sense of duty. I am a good archer and scout, as I have been trained to be, and so soon after joining the Frost Knights, I quested to become one of the Dragon Guard. It is a true honor for me, and I know that I have found my home and my true duty.