Celefindal

The Minstrels Tale

• A Bard's Beginnings

  Her parents were among the first to awake beside the lake at Cuivienen. Gentle elvenkind, they took solace in one another beneath the dark night, protecting each other from the dark rider who plagued them so. And it was not long before they welcomed a son into their tribe of elves who remained in the forests near the mountains. Many years passed before they welcomed another, the hardships of life for a poor elven family making survival far more a necessity than the growth of their tiny family. Their second and last child was a tiny thing, with hair almost white and eyes made of liquid gold. Quiet and timid, she was a peaceful child, a boon to her gentle mother and pensive father. Quiet save for in song, where her voice ever carried in melodies of her own making.
  
  The centuries passed in their tiny village in relative obscurity, too small a pocket of life to be noticed by the enemy and too poor to be much of a prize to bandits or raiders of any kind. So their life was peaceful, simple, but painfully limited in ambition or events of any kind. So as Celefindal, their youngest child grew to the 300th year of her still young life, she and her brother set out to make a path of their own in the world. Her brother wandered south and was never heard from again. This pained the young Celefindal, who felt many things keenly, even if she so often remained silent. It was a wound she would never be rid of, for fear of forgetting the brother who had once made up the majority of her small world.
  
  She continued to wander, moving from town to town as she offered her music in exchange for coin. Her reputation grew as a skilled musician and lovely singer. In this manner she supported herself easily enough, though she was never much sought- for Bard’s were a copper’s throw from any tavern and easily enough to come by. But she made her way anyhow, and though poor beyond measure, she was still gifted enough to never go hungry...and even if she had, the adventure of the world at her feet more than made up for it.

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