Erianneth Wraithlock

Early in the Age of Days when the Deathless Empire made war with the Realm of Ardan, an Elvish philosopher named Erianneth Wraithlock came to prominence, and caused great scandal by advancing the idea that Humans have spirits the equal of any Elf’s and that peace and accord should be reached with them. Active in the Elvish Church of the All-Father, Errianeth left it after the Elves unleashed the Blood Curse upon Ardan and reduced Humanity to brute savages, enslaving the entire race.

Errianeth came under hostile scrutiny from King Giliander himself, and was to have been punished for sedition until the Queen Neloriannen, on a whim, granted him leave to prove his strange theories. The wraithlock and his disciples were granted an isolated abbey where they raised a number of Humans, teaching them to speak and read, and raising them as they would their own children. Alas, Errianeth’s charges turned on their master, killing him and fleeing into the wilds. Eventually they met the Centaurs, and so were planted the seeds of the eventual Human slave rebellions and the great strife that dominated that age. Errianeth’s followers, led by Tophalion his Loremaster, went underground. In all the ages since they have worked to aid humanity and blunt Elvish avarice and ambition however they could.