Ehlonna Palanram

Ehlonna Palanram (Longreach) is a legendary Elven archer who lived in northern Faerinwold in the time of the Second Conclave of the Seven Kingdoms. Her Totem was the hawk, and it’s said that Hawk imparted to her incredible sight and a fierce nature. Ehlonna lived in a yew grove in Neldorin and learned to make her own bows and arrows of yew wood when she was quite young. She also displayed a knack for magic, which brought her to the attention of the Elven Wizard Melf. Over a century of practice, she blended his teachings with her peerless archery skills, becoming the first known Arcane Archer in Tol’s history. These skills stood her in good stead during the War of the God King, a conflict that instilled her a strong dislike of Orcs.

She liked to travel light, and she designed the idea for a magic-item to hold many bows and arrows. With the aid of her wizardly mentor, she was able to craft the first of its kind, and, although many have now copied the idea, they are always referred to as Quivers of Ehlonna. She was a tireless foe of the depredations of the Far Realm, rooting out its unnatural emanations wherever she suspected them. She was also a friend to the Dwarves of Kurdenheim and the Hastane of Norhast, and she would raid with the Hastane on the Giants of Jotunheld, crossing the Frozen Sea in Hastane boats and slaying many with her arrows and magic.

She was offered the position of Shaiiahan, but she declined, preferring to travel and explore Aldorath and beyond. Her journals indicate that she traveled to Keshwan and Velnar, exploring many distant lands before returning home with her treasures. She also returned with a Human husband from Bedourin, Falmir al Jadad, a swashbuckling Rogue with a daring streak to match her own. As relationships between humans and elves often must, theirs ended in sorrow. Falmir did not live as long as Ehlonna, and, where she buried him, two yew trees, twined together, grew with surprising swiftness, forming Ehlonna’s Sorrow (called by some the Lovers’ Bower).

After this, Ehlonna threw herself back into adventure. She sailed south to Golognoth, leading raiding parties through Turkhast and Kyask, slaying orcs and Gnolls in great numbers. Her final whereabouts are unknown. According to legend, she heard rumors of a land with beasts like flightless Dragon that lay through the ice to the far south. She set out with a company to explore, and she did not return. Calls to various powers to reveal her fate have met with silence, leading many to think that either she lives now in a land where magics cannot reach, or she met an end too terrible for the Gods to speak of.