Arrec (prime)

Arrec Winter is a half-elf ranger who has in recent years come to call Solhaven home. He maintains a modest cabin in Cypress Walk in Marshtown.

Hailing from Bourth, Arrec was born in 5052 to Dea Tallhart, human daughter of a Gallardshold innkeeper. The product of a single night's passion between the young woman and an elven trader from the Wyrdeep Forest, the half-elf grew up knowing nothing of his father save that he never returned again to trade in Gallardshold.

Outwardly, the family wore the single hawk feather that signified support for the elves. In practice, this was little more than a business maneuver; the inn's proprietors cared little for elves but loved coin, and their location meant that it was frequented by elves and Falcons. Still, though the same could not be said for the rest of his family, Arrec was loved by his mother. In his early years, Dea saw to it that he was educated and well-read. In his adolescence when he'd taken to disappearing into the wood seeking solitude for days at a time, she was his sole comfort. Were it not for her, it is likely that he would have left Gallardshold long before.

In the summer of Arrec's nineteenth year, Dea took ill. The nature of her sickness was unknown, but no treatment alchemical or empathic proved effective in combating it. When she succumbed to her malady the following winter, her grieving family seized the opportunity to drive Arrec out.